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and verfification do credit to Mr. Upton 
as a poet in this clafs of Jyric compo- 
fition. ; 
Monopoly, a favourite Comic Song, fung by Tr. 
Quick at Weynouth. Written by C. Dibdin, 
Fun. 3s. Longman, Clementi, and Co. 
This is.a new fong toan old tune. In 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE 
Monthly Retrofpect of the Fine- Arts. 
[Sept. I, 
the words we find a vein of much whimfi. 
cality. They comprize five ftanzas, each 
of which poffefies fome lucky turn of 
thought, and the whole forms a ftrain of 
temporary humour, which cannot fail to 
amufe either on the ftage, or in private 
company. 

ARTS. 
The Loan of all new Prints and Communications of Articles of Intelligence are requefied. 

CHINA. 
HE firft accounts of China were 
brought into Europe by Marco Polo, 
a Venetian, who had travelled into that 
country through Tartary in the year 
1295; yet, long as is the period which 
has elapfed fiance, cur information concern- 
ing the jocal cuftoms, habits, aits, &c., 
.&c., has been vague, uncertain, and im- 
perfect. From the literary enterprize, and 
prevalent cuflom of introducing prints for 
the illuftration and elucidation cf books of 
travels, we have avery fair profpect of 
becoming better acquainted with the exte- 
rior at leaft of this great empire. Three 
‘quarto volumes, each of them illuftrated 
with numerous engravings from defigns 
taken on the fpot, are publifhed, and pub- 
jifhing in numbers, on this copious fub- 
ject. The firit was brought out in twelve 
numbers, at ros. 6d. each, and is now 
completed, and publifhed in boards at 
61. 6s. kt is intiled 
The Cofiume of China, illuftrated by Sixty En- 
gravings, with Explanations in Englifb and 
French ; by George Henry Mefon, Major of 
the 1o2d Regiment, Printed for Miller, 
Bond-fireet. 
With refpeét to the letter-prefs, the 
author modeftly and candidly admits, that 
(having been trom his early youth devoted 
toa profeflion which generally militates 
againft literaty improvements), he has 
ufually introduced appofite quotations from 
preceding wriers on the fame fubje&s. 
The prints are defigned by Pu Qua of 
Canton, and engraved by Dodley of Lon- 
don. They confift of full-length portraits 
of the different orders of fociety, {rom the 
Joweft rank to the higheft. The Englith 
artift has, in the characters of the faces, 
and peculiar air of thofe reprefented, ad- 
hered fo clofely to his eaftern models, that 
they really appear like a fet of China 
figures defcended from a chimney-piece, 
er {tept out froma fire-fcreen: they are, 
generally {peaking, neatly finifhed, though 
the outline is rather too hard and deter- 
mined for an eye that has been accuftomed 
to European drawings. 
Four numbers, at ros 6d. each, have 
been publifhed of a work that is to be 
eomprized in twelve numbers, and is in- 
titied 
Oriental Drawings, by Captain Charles Gold, ef 
the Detachment of Royal Artillery, lately ferv= 
ing in India. Inferibed to the Marquis Corn= 
wallis, General of India, where many of the 
Drawings were made. The Defigns are by 
Captain Gold. Harrel aqua-tinta fecit. 
Confidered as pieces of art, neither the 
defigns nor etchings can be much boafted 
of ; but the fubjeéts are frequently cu- 
rious: with one of them we were much 
ftruck ; it isa fingular and melancholy 
example of the influence which credulity, 
fuperftition, and enthufiafm, have on the 
human mind, It reprefents a Gentoo zea- 
lot rolling a pilgrimage. 
The perfon reprefented, in the hope of 
gaining the favour of his God, refolved to 
travel from the Braminical church on Tri- 
chinopoly rock to the famous temple on 
the hill at Pylney, a diftance of more than 
one hundred miles, by rolling the whole 
way on the ground. Being aman of con- 
fiderable property, he was enabled to foften 
the toils infeparable to a poor enthufiaft 
from fuch an undertaking, by the atten- 
tion of two fervants, who, preceding, 
cleared the roads of all moveable impedi- 
ments, avd, whenever he thought proper 
to end a ftage, prepared refrefhments for 
him. The only piece ot drefs worn by 
him was a calico cloth wrapped about the 
waite ; his hair was clofe fhaved, except- 
ing a fmall lock on the back part of the 
crown, and his head entirely expofed to the 
influence of the fun and reflected heat from 
the ground, which it nearly touched every 
revojution he made. When the writer 
faw him, he was concluding his pilgrim- 
age, by rolling the fort of Trichinopoly, 
“* finging, or rather crying, aloud the 
praifes of God.” 
Mr. Alexander, fo well known by his 
admirable defigns in the Voyage of Lord 
Macartney, 
