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mating. The fubje&ts of each are well 
conceived, and the paflages are combined 
with a judgment that evinces confider~ 
able powers in this {pecies of compofition. 
§€ To.Arms! to Arms 1 or Foba Bulls Charge 
to bis Country; the Words by Fames Fifher, of 
the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple ; 
‘the Mufic by Mr. Davy. Inferibed to bis 
Royal Highnefs the Duke of York. 15. 6d. 
This air is here publifhed as a march, 
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and in fcore for two horns, two trumpets, 
two flutes, two clarionets, and two baf- 
foons. Itsgeneral catt is bold, and highly 
military. ‘Tbe fymphonies and the vocal 
parts of the melody are given in due fuc- 
ceflion, and form a unity of effect which 
leads the ear agreeably through the 
piece. 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
The Loan of all new Prints and Communications of Articles of Intelligence are requefieds 
A Brief Hiffory of Ancient and Modern India; 
embellifbed with coloured Engravings, from 
the Collection of Paintings in the Poffeffion of 
Richard Chafe, Efg. and Lieutenant Hunter’s 
Views in the Kingdom of Myfore, publifbed by 
Edward Orme, Printfeller to bis Majefly, and 
the Royal Family, 50, New Bond-ftrect, amd 
printed at Bulmer’s Prefs. 
HE editor of thefe two volumes ftates, 
in his preface, that having, after an 
exertion of nearly four years fince their 
commencement, brought them to a con- 
clufion, he conceives they will appear 
' ftill more acceptable to the public by be- 
ing accompanied with an Hittorical Sketch 
of the Country they are intended to deli- 
neate ; and trufts that about twenty pages 
large paper devoted to that purpole, will 
be particularly agreeable to thofe who 
may not be intimately acquainted with 
the great events that have tranfpired, ef- 
pecially in modern times, in the vaft em- 
pire of the Eat. 
This hiftorical part having been drawn 
up from the mof authentic fources, will 
enable the reader, who may be unacquaint- 
ed with Afiatic affairs, to form 4 correét 
idea of the immenfe and interefting terri- 
tory, which has fo often been the fite of 
Britith bravery, and which promifes to 
hee a primary fource of Britith opu- 
ence. 
The fketch is accompanied with original 
portraits of the native Judges and Officers 
of the Recorder’s Court, at Bombay, with 
the drawings, of which Lady Syer mot 
obligingly accommodated the proprietor, 
and will form an highly interefting folio 
plate; which, with anengraved Frontifpiece, 
the Hiftory, Indexes, &c. &c. are given 
only as one number, and will render the 
whole a complete work relative to India. 
But this number may be had or not, at the 
option of the purchafers of the preceding 
parts. 
The Views of Hindoftan, and thofein the 
Myfore, may be bound with the hiftory, 
either in one volume or feparately ; and 
fuch as may with to haye the prints bound 
in two volumes may be accommodated with 
two copies of the hiftory, &c. 
The focceeding numbers are occupied 
with views of caftles, pyramids, palaces, 
&c.; in fome of which we fee united, 
proportion, grandeur and beauty, in 
buildings by men who never heard of the 
five orders of architegture. To many of 
thefe fuperb edifices may be applied (with 
fome little refervation) what was once {aid 
‘6 of the fublime dreams of Piranezi, who 
feems to have conceived vifions of Rome 
beyond what it boafted even in the merj- 
dian of its fplendour. Savage as Salva» 
tor Rofa, fierce as Mich2zel Angelo, and 
exuberant as Rubens, he imagined fcenes 
that would ftartle geometry, and exhaug 
the Indies to realize. . He piles palaces on 
bridges, and temples on palaces, and 
f{cales heaven with mountains of edifices, 
Yet, what tafte in his boldnefs! what 
grandeur in his wildnefs! what labour in 
thought, both in his rafhnefs and details !"° 
The Coflume of Hindofian elucidated by Sixty 
coloured Engravings, with Defcriptions in 
Englifh and Frenchy taken in the Years 1798, 
and 1799, by Balt Soljas, of Calcutta, 
Printed at Bulmer’s Prefs, and publifhed by 
E. Orme, Bond-fireet ; by whom it is dedicated 
to the Chairman and Direéiors of the Eaf fndia 
Company. 
This work was undertaken from a con- 
viction that a delineation from nature, elu- 
cidatory of the features, manners, and 
cuftoms of the natives of Hindoftan would 
be acceptable to the public at large, and 
particularly interefting to thofe gentlemen 
who have refided in India. 
In the prefent race of Hindoos, the ob- 
ferverof nature willfee, perhaps, with little 
Ys Variation 
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