The colonnades which adjoin the buildings of King William and his consort are one hundred and fifteen feet asunder, and are composed of three hundred duplicated Doric columns; the pilasters are of Portland stone, twenty feet high. The four quadrangles contain a vast number of apartments for the governor, and other officers and persons connected with this great establishment, and afford accommodation for about three thousand disabled veterans, and one hundred and five nurses. The pensioners dine in common in large halls, which are situated under the painted hall. In the library for the use of the pensioners, there is a bust of Dibdin, the author of the naval ballads. We have heard it questioned whether these celebrated songs are really adapted to the feelings of sailors, and must leave this knotty point to be decided by abler minds.

The painted hall is the work of Sir James Thornhill, the father-in-law of Hogarth; the paintings are executed in a masterly manner, and adapted to the object for which the building was erected. The vestibule contains casts from the public monuments of Nelson, Howe, Duncan, and St. Vincent. The saloon, or grand hall, is one hundred and sixty feet long, fifty-six broad, and fifty feet high. On each side, between the pilasters which support the entablature, are naval portraits and paintings. In the centre of the upper hall is a design for a monument to Nelson; the coat which he wore at the battle of the Nile is likewise deposited here, in a glass case; there are likewise several models of ships. The chapel contains several statues and pictures, by West.

The royal hospital schools, to the south of the Woolwich-road, extend to the park wall. The upper and lower schools receive, each, four hundred boys, the sons of officers and seamen of the royal navy, marines, and merchant service.

AMO Y.

THE island of Amoy, in which is situated the city of the same name, which is one of the five harbours of China opened to the commerce of other nations by the treaty formed with England at the conclusion of the late war, lies towards the south-eastern extremity of the province of Fookien. The latitude is 20° 45' N., the longitude 118 E.

Amoy, Heamun in the Mandarin dialect; Hamoy, in that of the inhabitants of Fookien, is directly opposite to Tayvan, or Formosa, and the Pongou group of