"He [Ciatip Oglou] was charged with being excessively cruel to the subjects of the empire-this is true-for whenever he took a fancy to the wife, sister, or daughter of a poor Greek, or Armenian, he would order her without any ceremony to his Harem; and if the relatives complained, they were almost sure of receiving the bastinado.' Probably the bastinadoed relations,' would have preferred our kind of justice, notwithstanding all its inconveniences. ART. VIII.-Explanation of the Plates. THE coloured engraving representing a view near Bordenton, is executed from a painting by Birch, the sketch for which was made by that artist on the spot, possesses the fidelity that is so remarkably the attribute of his pencil. The point of view selected is from one of the windows of the magnificent mansion of the Count de Survilliers, looking down the river. The fore-ground consists in a part of the ornamented garden immediately round the house, and the eye passes directly from the edge of the bank, to the waters of the Delaware. On the left are seen a few houses of the village of Bordenton, with the wharf at which the steam boat lands her passengers. To the right of the centre an island is partly seen, and a sloop is at anchor in the inner channel. No single view can however convey any thing like a complete idea of the beauties of the place, nor of the improvements made by the present owner. Two other views, together with the one from which this plate is taken, display nearly all the prominent beauties in the scenery. But the splendid dwelling house has been recently consumed by fire, and almost all the valuable collection of paintings and statuary has been lost. The house, it is said, is about to be rebuilt, but the pictures cannot be replaced, and are the more to be regretted as the collection was unique and unrivalled in this country, and the liberal hospitality and kindness of the possessor rendered frequent access to it easy for all that possessed taste to enjoy the beauties of art, It may not perhaps be thought ill-placed here to record the following letter, which was written immediately after the conflagration, and bears such honourable testimony in favour of the inhabitants of Bordenton. (From the Union Gazette.) Translation of a letter from the Count de Survilliers (Joseph Bonaparte,) on the subject of the loss of his house by fire. 'POINT BREEZE, Jan. 8th, 1820. 'William Snowden, Esq. Judge and Justice of the Peace, Bordenton. 'SIR,-You have shown so much interest for me since I have been in this country, and especially since the event of the 4th instant, that I cannot doubt it will afford you pleasure to make known to your fellow-citizens, how much I feel all they have done for me on that occasion. Absent myself from my house, they collected by a spontaneous movement on the first appearance of the fire, which they combatted with united courage and perseverance, and, when they found it was impossible to extinguish it, exerted themselves to save all the flames had not devoured before their arrival and mine. All the furniture, statues, pictures, money, plate, gold, jewels, linen, books, and in short every thing that was not consumed, has been most scrupulously delivered into the hands of the people of my house. In the night of the fire, and during the next day, there were brought to me, by labouring men, drawers in which I have found the proper quantity of pieces of money and medals of gold, and valuable jewels, which might have been taken with impunity. This event has proved to me how much the inhabitants of Bordenton appreciate the interest I have always felt for them; and shows that men in general, are good, when they have not been perverted in their youth, by a bad education; when they maintain their dignity as men, and feel that true greatness is in the soul and depends upon ourselves. 'I cannot omit on this occasion, to repeat, what I have said so often, that the Americans are, without contradiction the most happy people I have known; still more happy, if they understand well their happiness. 'I pray you not to doubt of my sincere regard.-Your's, &c. JOSEPH COMPTE DE SURVILLIERS.' The Country Wedding is engraved from a painting by Krimmel, an artist not sufficiently known to be duly appreciated. He is a native of Germany, but long since chose this country for his residence, and has painted many pictures in which the style of Wilkie-so much admired in Englandand of Gerard Dow so much celebrated of yore-is most successfully followed. He avoids the broad humour of the Flemish school as much as possible, as not congenial to the refinement of modern taste, and aims rather at a true portraiture of nature in real, rustic life. In the picture here presented he has delineated a scene of no rare occurrence in the dwellings of our native ycomenry. The whole is in admirable keeping. The furniture.and decorations of the room, the costume and attitudes of the characters show, perfectly the inside of a farmer's dwelling, and the business that occupies the group. The old clergyman appears to have just arrived, his saddlebags, hat and whip, lie on the chair near the door, the bride stands in all her rustic finery, rustic bloom, and rustic bashfulness. The bride-groom's hand on her shoulder, seems intended to revive her courage, while the manner in which he grasps her hand is at once affectionate and awkward. The distress of the mother solaced by the father, who points to a younger daughter, as if indicating her as the successor to her sister's rank in the family, is well expressed. And the by-play at the door, which is opened by a servant girl to admit an old woman, the awkward affectation of grace and importance in the bride's-maid, whose attention seems to be attracted by what is passing between |