86 oe} 
Your, and other cireumflances, the writer 
informs us, that a battalion thus equipped, 
has at fome diftance, a fplendid and even a 
military appearance. 
iI. A Group of Paffengers, Watchmen, he 
Playing at Dices 
The. Chinefe are fo much addiéted to 
gaming, that they are feldom without a 
pack of cards or a fet of dice in their 
pockets. 
EIT. View of a Cajtle. 
Is in a broad and good ftyle. 
IV. 4 Sea Veffel under Sait, 
This will give fome idea of Chinefe 
naval’ tactics and fhip-building. The 
main and forefails are of matting, ftrongly 
interwoven, and extended by pieces of 
bamboo, - running horizontally acrofs 
them. The mizen topfails are nankin. 
Number VI, contains a@ portrait of Chow 
Te Zhiz. He is attired in full court- 
dreis, being a loofe gown of filk or fatin, 
and has a bjue ball in his cap, to which is 
fafpended a peacock’s feather. The fi- 
gure of an imaginary bird on his creft, de- 
notes the wearer to be a Manof Letters, 
as the blazonry of a tyger would denote 
him to be military. 
A Chinefe Porter or Carrier. 
The cart in which he depofits the goods 
he is to deliver has a fail, and when the 
wind is favourable, and ise face of the 
country level, this is heifted; and the ex- 
ertions of the driver are thus leffened. 
When the wind is adverfe, the fail is laid 
afide. Milton in his Paradife Loft, al- 
ludes to this praétice. 
*€ On the barren plains 
Of Sericana, where Chinefe drive, 
With. fails and wind, their cany waggons 
light.” Book 3, 1. 437. 
A Mandarin’s Travelling-boat. 
This is highly ornamented, and all the 
part occupied by the mandarin is enclofed 
by fhutters. 
The Habitation o of @ Mandarin, 
The fuperior Chinefe live in great pri- 
vacy, their habitations are therefore ge- 
nerally furrounded by a wall, and their 
houfes rarely exceed one ftory in heighth. 
The firft print in No. VII, is afandard 
earer. His drefs is nankin cot ton, 
which is tied round the waift with the im- 
perial and yellow girdle, and his legs are 
crofs- -quariered like thofe of Malvelio in 
the play. His hat is eas neatly woven, 
and faftened under the chin, 
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| Retrofpect of the Eine Aris. 
any aoe rane undertaking. 
[Oaober i 
en A Sacri if ¢ at the Temple. » 
_ The Chinefe have no regular fabbath 5 
their temples, conftantly open, are vilited 
by the fupplicants on their commencing 
Their idols 
are grotefque and frightful. 
A Military Station —A Fifbing Boat. 
The contiivance for raifing their nets by 
_@ lever,. the frame of which is compofed 
of bamboo, which unite ftrength with 
flexibility, is good, and is made ufe of 
on almoft every occafion. We have not 
room to add a more particular delcription, 
but on the whole recommend this work as 
worthy of particular attention. 
The laft number of Boydell’s Shakefpeare, 
will be pubhihed i in a few weeks, and con- 
clude a work of greater magnitude and im- 
portance, than any ever ermbarked i in, in 
England, or. any other country. 
Weftall has juft finifhed a beautiful print 
from his admirable drawing of a ftorm in 
harveft; it is fo exquilitely. engraved, that 
without a very clofe infpeétioa it cannot be - 
diftinguifhed from the original drawing. , 
The annual exhibition of the works of 
living artifts in painting, drawing, and 
fculptare, was opened at Paris, on the 
rft of September. The colleétion is lefs 
numerous than that of laft year, in con; 
fequence of an univerfal determination to 
exclude every thing that did not poflefg 
ftriking merit. Three hundred painters 
have furnithed three hundred drawings 
and paintings. The fculptors have fup- 
plied a much lefs proportion, though they 
have been employed in a number of works 
for government. There are few engrav- 
ings, though the artifts have given a num- 
ber of plans for departments, columns, 
&c. A Battle, by Tauvray, and the 
Rane of Iphigenia, by Roland,’ are en 
titled to. particular attention. Ths School 
ef David continues to make greater pro- 
grefs every year, and promiles to over- 
come prejudice and obtain additional fup= 
port. 
Rural Sports 3 in revo volumes, by the Rewerend 
Wilkam Daniel. Publifbed for White, Fleet- 
JSrect; Longman and Rees; Cadell and Davis 
and Egerton. Price 4/. 4s. 
This work is publifhed by fabterip: 
tion, to be paid for on delivery: — 
the Art volume will be delivered this 
month, and the fecond ina fhort fime. 
__Te country-gendemen the volumes will 
be very intereiting : they contain, the Nae 
tural Hiftory aad Habits of the various 
Kundg 
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