PEKIN.
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PEKrN IS the capital of the whole Chinese en- lplie, and the ordinary residence of its soyer |eigns It Is situated in fertile plain, at dis tance of twelty-six miles from the Great Wall. It IS in the form of long parallelogram, and is divided into two cities; the Tartar, or more pro- perly the Mantchoorian city, contains the impe- rlal palace, and forms, along with the other or Chinese city, an irregular whole, seventeen miles in circumference. The walls of Pekin are fifty cubits in height, and conceal the buildings from the view; the gates are not embellished with statues or with sculpture, but their prodigious height gives them at certain distance an air of grandeur. The arcades of the gates are of marble, and the remainder of broad bricks ce- mented with excellent mortar. The greater partofthe streets are instraight lines the largest are l20 feet wide. aud nearly three miles in length, well aired, clean and cheerful. The whole street is generally occupied with shops. in which the silks and wares of China are sold. The fronts of the houses, which are very low, have nothing gloomy in their appearance. The magnifcence of the imperial palace does not consist So much in the imposing elegance of it's architecture, as in the multitude of its buildings, its courts and it's gardens. The walls of the pa

 lace comprehend a little town, inhabited by the great officers of the court, and great quantity of mechanics, all isa tic e'npefors service. F

 ther Artier,a French Jesuit who obtained per mission to visit the palace, says, that it is a league in circumference, that its front is embel- lished with paintings, gliding ard vanished

 work, and that the furniture and ornaments of the interior comprise every thing that is most rare and valued in China, India, and Europe.

 The gardens of the palace form a vast park, in

 which, at proper distances, mountains rise twer- fly or sixty feet in height, separated from one