they fled before a handful of light cavalry. The Polygonal bastions of Rhodes, as they appear in the plans of Dapper, and the Due de Choiseul, present an unfor tunate attempt to modernize the Roman towers, of the same form. I believe very few instances of a similar construction are to be found, excepting the lines of Precop. The slope of the summit of the parapet, seems, from the account of the accurate SANDYS, to have been first practised in the works of the Valetta, after the deliverance of Malta from the Turks. "The walls on the inside," says he, "are not above six foot high, unimbattald, and shelving on the outside." *To have noticed this construction, after having seen the principal cities of Italy, would have been trifling, if the method had not then been new. In ANTELLA's plan of the Valetta, published in 1600, we find casemates in * P. 233. the flanks of the bastions: the Turks were now stimulating their enemies to excel them. The effects of retired flanks were long and dreadfully felt by them, some years afterwards, during the siege of CANDIA, by the celebrated defence of the bastions of St. Andrea, and Panigra. THE PUPPET-SHEW: A DIDACTIC POEM: Partly translated from Addison's Machina Gesticulantes. Written in 1788. THE ARGUMENT. Exordium-Merry Andrew-The Booth-Entrance of the Puppets-PUNCH-Revellings-Simile-A Battle -AMERICAN WAR-PIETY IN PATTENS OMBRES CHINOISES—A Simile-PATAGONIAN THEATRE-SERIOUS BALLETS-A Vision-Philosophy of Puppet-Shews-The Marquis de CasauxPoets are Puppets-Conclusion. THE PUPPET-SHEW. THE wondrous pageants of an humble train, A tiny race, and nation void of brain, I sing. No heav'nly spark inflam'd their hearts; Their framer guiltless of Promethean arts. Where the hoarse drum, and motley droll invite The gaping mob, with foretaste of delight, Where jests are dealt to please the long-ear'd crew, As old as Miller's, and as C-t-y's new. Admiranda cano levium spectacula rerum, Exiguam gentem, et vacuum sine mente popellum; Quem, non surreptis cæli de fornice flammis, Innocua melior fabricaverat arte Prometheus. Compita qua risu fervent, glomeratque tumultum Histrio, delectatque inhiantem scommate turbam, |