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eleStric fhock, one difcharge of the battery 
of revolution has accumulated another 
negative coating of fubferviency: it is to 
the filent diffipation of this latter excefs 
that the conducting points of literary 
acutenefs ought now to be applied. 
But if this jefuitic order does, as is 
nearly undeniable, exift in growing force 
and energy, is more than ever bufy in its 
enormous purpofes of fubjection, has a 
Jong catalogue of wrongs to avenge, and 
vatt and willing provinces to fubdue—if 
it operates in any fort of *merely inten- 
tional conjunction with the, Ruifian co- 
Joffus—it would indeed be an important 
intereft of this nation to turn afide the 
planet of its afcendency, and to dilorb its 
approaching» culmination. Ruflia, with 
its Scandinavian arm, could ftrike at the 
heart of Britifh empire in Europe; and, 
with its Perfian arm, at the heart of Bri- 
tifh empiré in Hindoftan. A Ruffianifed 
Scandinavia (by the bravery ot Sir Sidney 
Smith that muft never be!) would poffeis 
an extent of North Sea coaft capable of 
interfering with our naval fuperiority : 
and from Scandinavia have poured the 
only barbarians who ever achieved an un- 
confented conqueft of the Britih ifles. 

For the Monthly Magazine. 
NOTICE AND EXPLICATION OF ‘THE 
CHINESE GAME OF CHESS. 
By Anvre’ EverarvVan Braam Hovck- 
GEEsT, date Chief in the Dire&tioa of the 
Dutch Eaft India Cowpany in. China, and the 
Second Perjon in’ the Embaffy to: the Court: of 
the Emperor of China. 
N China the game is called Tche-on- 
kbie; it was introduced into that coun- 
try more than four hundred years ago, by 
‘a Lat-toeq or general of their troops whole 
name was Long-hin-tche-quam-tie-lie. 
This game 1s fo common in China, that 
it was played by the coulis and the lowett 
clats of people before he underftood that they 
were playing-at chefs; as they did not | 
make ufe of figures like thofe employed 
an Europe, but of round pawns like thofe 
we make ufe of fordrauglits, and on each of 
which the name of the piece is engraved. 
The board is not of two colours, but 
confifts of a fimple paper, crofled by ftripes, 
fo that the pieces are placed on the points 
where the firipes meet.—The number of 
“pieces however is the fame as in the Euro- 
-pean game, viz. fixteen pieces of éach co- 
lour.—There are only: five pawns or fol- 
diers, although there are eleven principal 
pieces. 
Thefe laf are: a taytocg or general; 
two mandarins or countellors.; two ele- 
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Chinefe Game of Chefs, — 
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phants;. two hories ; two chariots; and 
two pieces of artillery. 
The nihe firft of the eleven pieces juft 
named are placed in the outermoft band of 
the board, one betide the other, the taytocg 
in the middle, a mandarin on each fide, an 
elephant after each mandarin, a horfe after 
each elephant, anc a charict at each end; 
the two pieces of artillery are put on the 
third row, before the two horifes, and the 
five foldiers on the fourth lise, correfpond- 
ing to the tayfocg, to the two elephants, 
and to the two chariots. | 
The board or field (camp) is feparated 
by a river, the paflage of which is ‘only 
permitted to,the hories, to the cinariots, to 
the cannon and the foldiers; while it is 
abfolutely interdicted te the five other 
ieces. _ When the tayiocg is made check- 
mate, the game is won. 
The following is the march or moye- 
ment of the pieces: , 
The taytocg or general, who can never 
make more than one {quare at once. of the 
board, may advance or retire, or go inany 
dire&tion, provided he never quits the nine 
compartments next to him, and which, for 
that reafon, are’ marked with a different 
fhade from the reff of the board. 
The mandarins or counfellors can only 
go from one fquare to that which is hext, 
but only diagonally ; and, like the general, 
they cannot go out of the nine compart- 
ments which ferve him for limits. — 
The elephants march diagonally, by 
Jeaping over a compartment or {quare, but 
‘they are not to ¢rois the river. 
‘The horfes have exactly the fame march 
as the knights in the European game. 
But if the adverfary puts one of his pawns 
bythe fide of a horfe, he.has, according to 
the fenfe of the Chinefe word, bis fect tied. 
‘Then hecannot take the piece which made 
him check, although he may place him- 
felf any where elfe; he alto paffes the 
river. 
The chariots! have the fame march as 
the caftles or towers in the European game, 
They: pafs the river. igs ee 
_ The cannon march like the chariots 
next to them, in front and in rear. They 
may pa{s over any of the compartments, 
and may go over'the river. But one can- 
non cannot take another piece, unless 
there be on the fame line with it another 
piece in front of that which they defign it 
to take. So that the movement. of the 
canon or piece of artillery is that ofa 
body which is projeéted. like a bomb- 
fhell. . 
~In the beginning, the foldiers or pawns 
can only make one {quare forwards, and 
can 
