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must acknowledge, however, that Mr. 
Bruce’s powers of comic dialogue and 
picturesque description are never more 
happily displayed than in those ficcitious 
scenes. 
The magnificent account which is 
given, in the same voyage to Luxor, of the 
ruins of Dendera, Thebes, and Carnae, 
has been fully confirmed by the drawings 
taken on the spot by Denon. The two 
AXgyptian harps painted in fresco, in the 
royal sepulchres at Thebes, were observed 
by Brown, who remarks, however, that 
“the engraved figures (of the harpers) 
seem to be from memory; and that the 
originals, of which the colours are per- 
fectly well preserved, have the features 
and complexion exactly resembling the 
Egyptians of the present day.” (Brown’s 
Travels, 137,163.) The first harper is 
described by Bruce as seeming to be a 
corpulent man of sixty, and of a com- 
plexion rather dark for an Egyptian; the 
second as still older, and of the same 
complexion (vol. 11. p. 37-38); but it was 
early remarked that the engravings (and 
drawings, which we have also seen), in- 
stead of Egyptian countenances, present 
us with features completely Grecian, and 
instead of corpulent old men of sixty, and 
upwards, with the head of young Apollo. 
On comparing these with the two harps, 
of which, among other figures in the 
same caverns, Denon took a rapid, but 
spirited sketch, and which are apparent- 
ly from the same originals, it is evident 
that the figures have been added atter- 
wards, from an indistinct recollection of 
the attitude of the performers, but with- 
out the least attention to costume. 
( To be continued. ) 
A 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
EFORE the publication of a short 
Statistical View of the dominions of 
the King of Prussia, which I submitted 
to the readers of your interesting Maga- 
zine, on the first of November 1806, the 
dismal news, that two thirds of the Prus- 
sian army were annihilated, had already 
reached our shores. Still the assistance 
of Russia warranted the hope. that Prus- 
sia’s detached provinces, which comprised 
a territory of about 1684 English square 
miles, would be the price of peace, and 
that the basis of her political strength 
which rested on an extent of about 24,000 
English square miles would not be mate- 
riaily impaired. ‘This hope however has 
been defeated. The peace of Tilsit has 
x! 
The Present State of Prussia. 
[Dec. 1, 
reduced Prussia to nearly 14,000 English 
square tiles, so that her territory at pre- — 
sent is about 3,000 English square mileés, 
less than what Frederick the Great left 
it in 1786. : 
On that monarch’s accession to the - 
throne in the year 1740 the Prussian 
dominions contained a population of 
2,200,000 inaividuals on a territorial ex- 
tent of 9,683 English square miles. AE 
ter a brilliant reign of forty-six years, he 
transmitted to his nephew Frederic Wil- 
liam the Second, father of the present 
king, 
Inhabitants. G, sq. Me 
East and West Prussia 1,500,000 1310 
Brandenburg . . 1,057,000 653 
Pomerania . . . 465,000 506 
Magdeburg, Mans- 
te uae \ 280,340 104. 
Walberstadt . . . 132,000 46 
The Westphalian rae 681,000 284 
vines 2 A eee 
East Friesland . . 103,000 54 
Neutchatel and Val-? 
Tepe sie We t ae ibid “al 
SUG Sieh ia alias Te 1,582,000 685 
Total . 5,840,840 3659 
which, reduced to English square miles, 
at the rate of 15 to 69, give a territory 
of 16,832 English square miles. : 
By the peace of Luneville, Prussia lost, 
on the left of the Rhine, a considerable 
part of the Duchy of Cleves, the whole 
principality of Moers, aud the Prussian 
portion of Guelder, which provinces con-_ 
tained, together, a territory of about 
220 English square miles, with 122,000. 
inhabitants; but, in exchange, she ac- 
quired Hildesheim, Paderborn, part of 
Munster, Fichsfeld, Erfurt, Treffurt, Mul- 
hausen, Nordhausen, Goslar, and Qued- 
linburg, the whole amounting to about 
1,000 English square miles, and contaiu- 
ing 580,000 inhabitants. 
In 1806, Prussia lost, on the confines of 
Switzerland, the principality of Neufcha- 
tel and Vallengin, of about 79 English 
square miles in extent, with a population 
of 47,000 individuals. This province was 
of little financial importance; the reve- 
nue barely sufficed to defray the charges 
of administration. As an equivalent for 
this principality, and for the Margera- 
viate of Anspach, in Franconia, which, 
together with Baireuth, had been ceded 
to Prussia a few years before, and which 
contained 270,000 inhabitants, upon an 
extent of 280 English square miles, Prus- 
sia accepted of Hanover. This plunged 
Ler into a war with England, from ar 
she. 
