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Evangelist; and Miscellanea Sinica

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Evangelist; and Miscellanea Sinica
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Miscellanea Sinica
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Evangelist
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Evangelistic work -- China -- Periodicals ( LCSH )
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Asia -- China -- Guangdong -- Guangzhou
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Issue II, published May 21, 1833
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Tagline: "Go ye into all the World and preach the Gospel to every creature."
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Printed at the Albion Press
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Copy formerly belonged to Rev William Ellis.
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[Macao, China]: Sold by Marwick & Co. and by R. Edwards, Canton ; printed at Albion Press, 1833.

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THE EVANGELIST;
AND
MISCELLANEA SINICA.

NO. II. GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.
MAY 21ï¼› 1833.


FEMALE EDUCTION.

The moralists of China, lay a great deal of the
duty of teaching young wives, on Husbands, their
Fathers, Mothers and Sisters. A work we have
before us,全人矩護 Tseuen jin keu hwo, or,
Rules for perfecting man ; omits the duties of
Parents to their daughters, and notices only the
duties of. Husbands &c. One writer admits, that
evils arise froii early espousals, before the temper
or disposition of the intended Bride can be known.
But still, in cases where the Bride is very defici-
ent, he admonishes the Husband and his kindred
not to become disgusted, dnd leave the perverse
bride to herself: for the Brides of to day will
become the mothers-in-law of some future period.
Another writer quoted in the moralist's mis-
cellany, .at which we are looking, is of opinion that
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first ;â–  by which they are led to yield to them in
hundreds and thousands of instances ; in which they
ought to oppose them with a stern gravity: for
the opposite course, he says, is not really loving
them: but, on the contrary is doing them an in-
jury. He adds, that girls, not being able to read,
are often incapable of understanding what is rea-
sonable, and still oftener their dispositions are per-
verse and obstinate. Under such circumstances he
advises the husbands not to let regret, at their not
reforming speedly, make them desist from using
every expedient to teach them; for even "monkeys
may be taught to play antics ; dogs may be taught
to tread a mill; rats may be taught to run round
a cylinder; and parrots may be taught to recite
verses; since then, it is manifest, that even birds
and beasts may be taught to understand human
affairs ; how much more so, may young wives, who
after all, are human beings."—How insulting to
woman is this Sage's would-be defence of her claims !
This Pagan Philosopher exhorts husbands to
consider their wives as human beings ; and guards
them against behaving to them as if they consi-
der them inferior to monkeys, dogs, rats and par-
rots. This is the height of his philosophy. The
Christian Philosopher Pau), on a similar subject
says—"Wives submit yourselves unto your own Hus-
bands, as unto the Lord. And Husbands love your
wives, even as Christ also loved the Church and
gave himself for it.” So then HusbUh^s should,
if necessary/ lay down their, lives for their wives.
It has often been remarked, with great trutli,
that Christian education alone, is that which ele-
vates womam to her proper rank in social life. And
it has been inferred with perfect fairness, that
Christian Ladies are bound to exert themselves, to
introduce, wherever practicable, the Christian edu-
cation of pagan and mahommedan girls. Its practi-
cability in British India has been ascertained. In
the straits of Malacca also this good work has com-
menced. And we sincerely hope, that God will
over-rule circumstances, and raise up instruments,
to make it practicable in China and the surrounding
nations.
To enable our Readers in China to converse
with their native Friends oh the subject, we give,
this subli ne passage in the original.
女子不曾證書
識字毎多不能
明理且性氣偏
訛者居多爲丈
夫者須要多方
教導不愁不改
彼猴子且教能
做戯狗子敎能
-踏碓港鼠教•能
跚圈八哥教能
-吟詩可見禽轍
-且能.教通人事
何况他是個人
INFIDELITY.
The spirit of infidelity, when it pervades the mass of a nation,
is a compound of pride, cruelty, and licentiousness. The liberty it
promises is synonymous with a liberty to commit every evil that
can be perpetrated without incurring the pains and penalties of
civil law., There is no tribe I have seen in the interior of Africa,
among whom I wouldT not- preler Tjxing^ my domicil, to a residence
among a people with minds imbued with the spirit of infidelity,
where the law had lost its authority・ We turn from the savage
with pity and disgust; from the vulgar infidel^ who throws off
religion because he hates its restraints, as from a monster・ Among
barbarians you find some remains of the law. of nature written on
the heart; among those who unite the vices of savage life with
those of civilization the spirit of that law is extinguished. The poor
savages in Africa dread meeting such men, as they do meeting a
lioness robbed of her whelps・ Under the dominion of ungovernable
passions such men form no union but what originates in the selfishness
of the depraved heart; they submit to no laws but such as those
to which the highwayman is obliged to submit; and they are


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[may 2I・
guided by no principles in their ordinary associations^ but such
as lead to confederacy in crime・
To such as may object to my statement that [men professing
Christianity, are often found to be no better than infidels, my
reply is,that I am here speaking of the spirit of infidelity,
which is often associated with an ignorant or hypocritical zeal for
the forms of religion. Paul describes such persons as worse than
infidels. Dr. Philip.
TO THE EDITOR.
Dear Sir. ・
I send you the following, certainly not from
any idea of its poetic merit, but chiefly from the lasting interest
which I feel in the recollection of the event described. It is
the truth and not poetryy which makes such fugitive lines worth
repeating,
It was on a lovely spring morning, after a succession of
anxious and wearisome days and nights, that the sudden sight
of the ^morning star,” awakened new and happier thoughts
within me.
am the bright and morning Star.^
Rev. 22 : 16・
The night—a night of deep despair
Had gathered round the sky,
And neither sun, nor moon nor star
Had shed a ray from near or far,
To light my wildered eye・
No guide nor friend to set me right
Or point the happy road;
To heaven in vain I turned for light,
A starless, hopeless, endless night
Had shut me out from God.
O, there is nothing like the wo
"A wounded spirit" gives;
No friend above or friend below,
To whom the guilty soul will go,
Alone, alone it grieves・
The day,—the day in sadness came,
The night knew no repose;—
Midst. horror that could find no name,
For ever changing, yet the same.
Another mom arose ・
With eye bedimmed and moistened cheek
I lay in long despair,—
Upward I raised a vacant look,
When sudden o'er my vision broke,
"The bright and morning Star.”
Now glory be to God on high
For mercyJs radiant light,
Too dazzling for the new born eye,
It spoke of peace, and pardon nigh,
And banished hopeless night.
Serene and calm that light has shone-
O'er all my devious road ;
Though far in sin and folly gone,
That changeless Star is shining on
And points me home to God・
Farewell henceforth to doubt and fear,
Farewell to earthly care ;
Though sometimes clouded by a tear,
That glorious Star will soon appear,
The Eternal morning Star
THE JEWS.
THE CALCUTTA CHRISTIAN OBSERVER FOR JAN. 1833.
The original Christian Observer, conducted by Members of the
Established Church of England, was commenced there, thirty three
years ago, and has continued to the present time with increasing
influence and usefulness both in Great Britain and America. Some
copies have reached China・ It is one of the best written religious
periodicals. The Title of it has lately been adopted at Madras,
and also at Calcutta, as appears by the pamphlet before us, which
is the 1st. No. of the 2nd. Vol.
In the ^Preliminary Observations,n there is a defence of
Mr. Wolff the Jewish missionary, whose Journals from central
Asia, appeared in the Observer, and were noticed in the Indian
newspapersï¼› This defence is dispassionately, and argumentatively
written: And it leads to the discussion of an important subject,
namely—"The national conversion and restoration of the Jews."
We make a few extracts・
But the chief act of injustice towards Mr. Wolff, and that which
involves the commission of every other, is either contemptuously
despising, or heedlessly overlooking^ the great object of his mission・
With characteristic boldness, he has proclaimed aloud, that his
grand object has been to discover, if possible, the remnant of the
ten lost tribes of Israel・ Hereupon, all scoffers, all nominal professors
of religion, and all ignorant pretenders, turn round and exclaim:
"How frivolous, how unprofitable, how delusive, how fanatical !n
When challenged to the proof, instead of facts and arguments to
substantiate charges so gratuitously preferred, they insult their own
understandings, by pouring out a fresh torrent of abusive epithets.
Leaving the offenders to digest the liberality and good sense of
such dealing, let us briefly revert to the facts of the case. The
illustrious founder of the Jewish nation, when called on by heaven
to become an exile from his native land, "went out, not knowing
whither he went;" and contrary to all reasonable probability, "there
sprang even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars
of the sky in multitude, and as . the sand which is by the sea-shore
innumerable."This innumerable offspring has produced a succes-
sion of prophets and patriarchs, of sages, of legislators, of judges,
of princes, of priests, of 冠 一reputSiiurr iids niied me
whole earth, during a series of almost four thousand years. Their
history exhibits a nation of the most singular character, and in
every possible singularity of condition; from the extreme of feebleness
to the plenitude of power ; from splendour and affluence the most
unbounded, down to the lowest state of indigence, misery, and
oppression; in all the respectability of wisdom and goodness, and
in all the arduousness of profligacy and vice."
But it is not the celebrity acquired by the descendants of Abra-
ham, from the number and variety of national vicissitudes, through
a duration so extended, that constitutes the strength of their claims
on Christian attention: No ! Apart from the most memorable of all
facts, that of them, ^according to the flesh, has Christ come, who
is God over all, blessed for ever,"——it is the circumstance that
for ages they were appointed as the sole depositaries of the oracles
of truth; and the still more striking circumstance, that every change
in their eventful history forms a separate link in the stupendous
chain of divine prophecy・
With intimations of the future downfal of the nation, and the
final abrogation of the Mosaic economy, the admonitory discourses
of all the holy seers abound・ Accordingly, after Solomon?s death,
the twelve tribes divided;一two forming the kingdom of Judah,
and the other ten, that of Israel or Ephraim・ From intestine broils
and incessant mutual hostilities, these states were often reduced
to the last extremity of wretchedness. At length, Shalmaneser,
king of Assyria, provoked with Hoshea, for entering into a league
with So, king of Egypt, invaded the kingdom of the ten tribes,
besieged and captured their cities, and cruelly massacred the greater
part of the inhabitants・ Almost all the rest he carried captive to
Hara, Halah, and Habor, by the river Gogan; and to the cities
of the Medes, on the north-east of the Assyrian empire: and
brought the Samaritans and placed them in their stead・ The kingdom,
thus brought to the brink of ruin, was soon after totally annihilated
by Eserhaddon, king of Assyria・ For, when this monarch invaded
and subjugated the land of Judea, and carried the reigning prince
Manasseh prisoner to Babylon, he also transported the remains of


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THE EVANGEL呼
the Israelites to Media and the adjacent countries* What became
of them, after that final transportation9 has ever since been nearly
a Itogetker unknown ・
The kingdom of Judah, on the other hand, survived, though
in a distracted, lingering condition, till about forty years subsequent
to the death of Christ. And then, after Jerusalem had been razed to
the ground, and the very foundations of its temple ploughed up
by an avaricious soldiery, amid the tears of the conqtieror and the
infuriated outcries of the conquered, the forlorn survivors were
driven as outcasts from their altars and their homes・ But unlike
their brethren of the ten tribes, they did not disappear from off
the stage of authentic hiå°±ory. Driven from their own land, they
have contrived to penetrate into every country of the known world.
Scattered, contemned, and enslaved, among all nations they have
been, yet not incorporated with any. Amid the hatred, the execration,
and the persecution of all people, savage and refined, they have
maintained an indissoluble bond of union; have. preserved their
characteristic distinctions of language, religion, and manners; and
after a universal captivity of eighteen hundred years, do they now
stand forth as awful monuments of the guilt of transgression, and
living witnesses of the faithfulness of the divine predictions.
Now,while all the circumstances connected with the freqnent
rise, continual relapses, and final dispersion of the Jews, as a nation,
are legibly inscribed on the pages of the prophetic record, not
less unequivocal are the announcements which the same record contains
respecting their restoration in "the latter day.n And lest this as-
sertion may be deemed as indicating a slight tinge of illusive
colouring, it is well to adduce the sentiments of some of the sober-
est and profoundest of men on this subject.
Here the Observer quotes President Edwards of the College
of new Jersey and Pastor of a congregational Church, in America;
Dr. Herman Witsius, Professor of Divinity in the university of
Leyden; Dr. Gill the commentator, a Baptist minister; Dr. Whitby
a learned commentator of the Established Church in England; and
Mr. Locke, the Christian Philosopher.—All these Authorities, were,
from the Study of Holy Scriptures, confident in their expectation,
not only that the kingdom of Judah should be restored; but that
all Israel shall be saved・"When the fulness of the Gentiles is
come in,—then the whole nation of Israel shall be conMrted—
Gospel, and again be restored to be the people of God.”
Now, the present anomalous condition of the scattered fragments
of Judah, by demonstrating their restoration to be an event not only
possible but highly probable, tends mightily to strengthen the faith
and confirm the hopes of true believers. But to render the faith
and the hope absolutely triumphant, we ought to know something
definite respecting the lost tribes—the exiles of Israel・ Do they still
exist as a distinct race, and where ? After what has been stated,
this question can no longer be blended with meanness, or vain
curiosity, or downright fanaticism. Consequently, the attempt to give
it a practical solution ought to be for ever exempt from such unfounded
charges. And this is the very attempt which the Rev. J・ Wolff,
with unwonted energy, has resolved to make.
Let but some relic be supposed to be buried under the moul-
dering ruins of an ancient edifice, and the antiquarian who volun-
teers to remove the rubbish will be applauded for his laudable zeal,
curiosity, and disinterestedness. Let but a passage be supposed to
lie concealed amid the snows and icebergs of an arctic circle, and
the navigator who braves the horrors of such a region will be extolled
for his skill and daring intrepidity. Let but a rare species of animal
or of vegetable form be supposed to exist in some remote waste,
or unvisited wilderness, and the naturalist who eagerly undertakes to
leave no corner unexplored, will be loaded with the praises of an
enlightened people for his ardour and his enterprize. What then?—-
do we repudiate the propriety of bestowing snch encomiums? Far
otherwise; we might be the first to join in conferring them. But
whether we would or not, we have a right to ask, in reference to
a subject of infinitely greater moment, in the scale not merely of
temporal but of eternal magnitudes,—When there are good grounds
for believing, that a remnant of the most extraordinary people that
^ver appeared on the stage of time, still exists in some province of
the East—when it is almost indisputable that their continued existence
may be subservient to the consummation of the Almighty^s magnificent
dispensations of providence and redemption :—is it reasonable, is it
consistent to point the finger of scorn or of ridicule at the man who
has made so many sacrifices and encountered so many perils, in order
I。effect, the discovery of the exiled remains of such a people—a people;
sy intermixed with the moral history of mankind, and so peculiarly
linked with the development of the counsels of the Eternal ?
©△卿0助卿Q
Le the Shwuy-sze- Te-tuh9 or Canton Admiral, who some
months ago went down to Hainan, in quest of pirates, found a
Budh Temple on the Coast, in which the names of some of the
head pirates were exhibited, as giving thanks to the gods for divine
help. The Admiral was so enraged, he ordered the Temple to be
razed to the ground. After this, the fleet met with a gale of wind,
and some of his Captains reminded him of his impiety, in pulling
down the temple. They also suggested that some sacrifice should
be offered, to atone. He only laughed at them; but still permitted
them to have their own way, and went into another War junk. The
gale increased; one junk was driven away' from the i r^st arid ha^
not been since heard of; and the junk which ! the Admilral' hid
left together with another, went to pieces; by which 'upwdtds hundred men were drowned・ After the gale was over, the survivofs*
recovered parts of the wrecked vessels, and found in the hull,
where three nails or bolts ought to have been; there was only one;
and where the other two nails should have been, there were only
empty holes, stopped outside with Chunam・ They have brought
back the proofs of this wicked fraud, and the government carpenters
are now being prosecuted for their crime.
We hear from another source, on the same subject, that a
hundred thousand taels were being spent on new war-junks under
the direction of the Kwangchowfoo ; when secret information was
given to the Admiral and Governor, that the ten new junks, were
all put together with bamboo or wooden pins, in five or six cases
out of ten, where iron nails or bolts should be used・ The fact was
denied: but examination proved it true. The Admiral and Go-
vernor were enraged, and proposed the degradation of the Kwang-
chow-fbo by reporting him to the Emperor. The persuasion of a
friend, appeased the storm for a while, but the Governor declares
that nothing will satisfy him but ten other and better built junks・
A notorious Bandit, Fang-a-sze9 who with his accomplices
laid several districts on the coast under contribution, aiid who has
been sought7for in vain during the past two years; has at last
been taken by Teen lao-yay the new Heang-shan magistrate, who
oflfered a reward of 3,000 Dollars to any spy who would inform
against him. Rewards of considerable amount were also offered
by several of the villages, where Fang, and his banditti had robbed and
murdered people・ It is said that he wished to go to Manilla,
but could not find an opportunity, and then began to think his
time was come, and it would be impossible to escape・ He therefore
advised his sisters husband to inform, and get the money. The
Brother however refused to sell his life, and at last Fang-a-sze
gave himself up to the police. Whilst proceeding in a boat to
Heangshan, the war junks, with their Commodore on board, took
the prisoner from the police, under pretext of security》but with a
wish to share in the merit of the capture・ The magistrate claim-
ed his prisoner; the naval officer refused : and so both parties pro-
ceeded to Canton・ It is added that two of Fang-a-sze?s accomplices
joined him, in order that they may die with him.—Sentences confirmed
at the autumnal assize in Peking arrive in Canton about this time,
and executions are frequent. Ye-yin-che, a gentleman of learning
and official rank, is to be decapitated for tyranny causing suicide ;
and opening graves, to extort a ransom for the dead bodies.—There
is a rumour among the trading people at Canton, of an Insurrection
in the Province of Sze-chuen・ Letters from thence induce them to defer
taking their goods thither for the present, till the facts are better
ascertained.
CHINESE SAYING.
The following is a common saying, when admonishing youths to behave
properly, and act morally・
獄地到不死堂公入不生云語俗
Sanff, puh juh Kung-tang : Sze, puh taou Te-yuh,
"Take care that? in life you never come into public court; and at
death do not go to earth's prison”一or hell, a place of future pnnishment:
for, notwithstanding all the jeers of the learned . in China; the dread of
punishment after death is not obliterated from the public mind. In the
above saying, it is also insinuated, that to fall into the hands of the offi・
cers of ju&tice, involve・ a series of …sufferings that resemble in degree, what
the imagination apprehends in future misery・ An dinner prison” is commonly
called a Te-yuh^ or Heil.


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THå¿… EVANGELIST.
[may 21.
THE CHRISTIAN’S HOPE・
Looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ
unto eternal life^ Jude 21.
Of all the subjects which can occupy the thoughtful mind,
none is so absorbing and momentous as the subject of death !
In whatever circumstances it is presented to our view, it is one
of overwhelming interest・ Who has not felt unutterable emotions,
as he has beheld the victim of death stretched before him,-in
helplessness iand humiliation ? No one has ever returned from that
struggle to tell us what is meant by a conflict with the last
enemy ・ But who has not though to f its fearfulness and desolation,
and been compelled to mourn over the sickening scene of its
being!
And is this the termination of our being! Is this triumph
of the king of terrors final ? Is there no state of conscious existence
beyond this passing, changing, dying world ? Did God light up,
in these tenements of mortality, the spirit, and all its powers and
capabilities, its thoughts and emotions,让s intellectual and moral
faculties, its vast and interminable desires, to be extinguished in
the darkness of the tomb? Js there no state of enduring reality,
no world of substantial enjoyment? Christian—these inquiries you
are enabled to resolve with confidence and satisfaction. Principles
the most sublime, facts the most decisive, promises the most precious
and consolatory, prospects the most animating and delightful, constitute
the sources of your peace, and hope, and joy, amidst all the
desolations of sin and death・ You look not on death alone, but
on Him who hath abolished death, rendered void its power, and
brought life and immortality to light, Death is no longer the
extinction of< your being, but the commencement of another and a
higher state of existence—the beginning of a glorious and an endless
destiny. Immortality is enstamped on your nature; you are no
longer confined to the narrow limits of time, but can expatiate
through the power and realities of eternity・ And for thew consolations,
you are indebted to "the glorious gospel of the bl( sed God.”
Dr・ Fletciii r.
^tract.
The one before us, printed on yellow Paper, is about a foot square・ Ten
thousand copies were printed and distributed gratis, by a seafaiing man, of
Fokien Province, who, in a gale of wind, prayed to Heaven, and vowed,
that, if his life were spared, and he were permitted to see his wife and
children once more, he would print ten thousond Keuen She Wan^
as they call such Papers, to manifest his gratitude・.
Keuen She Wan, denotes, Admonitions to the age. The Specimen before
us gives moral advice in the form of a medical prescription, for some serious
malady. It is entitled "An Excellent recipe for Dispersing calamities, and
increasing happiness."
The Ode Says—The ancients handed down old medical prescriptions; for
clearing the sight, purifying the heart, and giving strength・ If the men of
this age will but use all my various medicines; myriads of miseries, and
thousands of calamities, will all be converted into blessings. The following
are eighteen ingredients which constitute an excellent medicine ・ Take, of filial
piety, ten parts; of secret beneficence, a whole piece; of kindness and liberality^
use as much as you like; of cautious speaking^ enoguh to flavor the whole:
of minute carefulness^ ten parts; of fidelity and plainness^ one piece; of tranquill
attention to your own department; as much as you like: of continence, enough;
of benevolence and justice^ an abundant portion: of simplicity and sincerity^ one
piece: of Good-heartedness a splinter: of attention to business^ a bit: of an
gambling spirit, enough to cast it away entirely: of sincerity and truth in
actian9 use the whole: of cordial feelings a ball: of kind accommodation to others^
no matter how much ; of warm lieartedness9 one rod; of forbearance and patience^
one hundred pieces.—and heartily pulverize all these; then usiug a little
sweet pine juice, form them into pills’ about the size of a grape, and take
108 for a dose. To help them down, you may take three friendly acts; or
a little tranquil heart Soup; and swallow them leisurely・ Be very careful to
guard against, a siuord in a smile; an arrow in the dark; and raising a
gale upon level ground・
This medicine is produced in exhortation district, belonging to conversion
Province・ Prepared by the society on spiritual hill; according to prescriptions
in the Lama Scriptures・
It is a special cure for unfaithfidnes; for want of filial piety; malevolence;
injiistice; disrespect to heaven aud earth; contempt for the gods; self-sufficiency;
and self-deceit; for injuring many to establish one's own house; for sowing discord,
and exciting litigations; for benefitting one's self and injuring others; for enty;
forx tcde-bearing; for irregular conduct; for despising the poor and esteeming the
rich; for theft and robbery and other disseases. If it be compounded according
to the Prescription, it will most certainly cure.—But, if you merely read the
prescription^ and don't swallow the physic, when will your disease ever be
removed?
As it is difficult to translate moral terms, as well as the names of
medicines, in Canton-English, we give the names of these 18 ingredients, in
the original, for the sake of those who converse with Natives・
方良福壇災消
1孝順2陰騰3恩惠4愼言5仔細6忠直
7安分8戒淫9仁義10老實1屈心I?小心
13戒賭14信行15利氣16方便17熱腸18
忍耐
SEASONS・
In the nortli of China, near the Capital, there was, last summer a
deficiency of rain, and a bad iiarvest in consequence. Under a belief that
human conduct has an influence on th" great powers of nature; heaven and
earth, and the atmosphere, the Emperor7 ordered the supreme Court at Peking
to deliberate on a mitigation of punishment, to be extended to offenders in
Chih-le Province ; and particularly towards members of the Imperial kindred,
who were confined at Kirin and on the banks of .the river Amour・ The
Court has sent in its report, and gone over the history of some of those
persons who had been sentenced to be aforever fettered and confined^—for the
common word imprison^ is carefiilly avoided, as derogatory to his majesty's
kindred: although in the narrative of their offences, the most depraved and
infamous conduct is imputed to them・ Some are so very bad that the Court
cannot recommend a mitigation of punishment.
From various sources we hear that the cold was very intense in the
north of China; and even as far south as the tea districts, its effect on
checking vegetation was felt.
While in the region of Peking a dronght existed, it appeal's from good
authority, that in the middle provinces, the poor suffered greatly from au
excess of rain; inundations &c・
PEKING, 2d moon 5th day (March 25, 1833) An Imperial order has
been reverently received, as follows.—
Loo, the Governor of Canton and his Colleagues, have reported, that
certain Country Gentlemen of rank, and Merchants * of that Province, in
consequence of the expenditure occasioned by suppressing the rebellion at
Leen-chow, are sincerely desirous of contributing to the same・ Loo knocks
head and entreats me, the Emperor, to confer the favor of receiving the
contributions..
There has been no order issued requiring these persons to subscribe,
and therefore the ^dancing alacrity^ evinced by them to hasten to the pub・
lie cause/ is extremely deserving of commendation. It is hereby ordered,
that tiie tavor be conierreu 口“七宅 平一 .曲厂丄亠“; __
butions, viz. 210,000 taels of silver.
The Taou eleet, Jin(the Senior Hong merchant's fourth son) not
long ago contributed to the military expences, in the war against the Ma-
hommedan, Changkihur, (100,000 taels) And now again he has contributed
100,000 taels. The said OfliceT,in thus repeatedly contributing to the expen-
ces of the estate, shews a devotion "deep, splendid and great." It is here・
by ordered to confer upon him a Hwa-ling (or Peacock's feather) to
pend to his cap ; and let the Board of official Appointments deliberate on
granting him promotion・
To the Lang-chung, Loo-wan-kin (the Hong merchant Mowqna) who has
contributed 20,000 taels, let the Peacock's feather (some years ago taken
from him) be restored—Of the rest of the Hong Merchants some con-
contributed 30,000 ; some 20,000 ; also 7,000: and 6,000・ These persons are
ordered to be rewarded by additions to their honorary titles.
The salt merchants of Canton, requested leave to contribute 100,000
Taels, but having no money, they begged government to lend that amount to
them, out of the salt commissioner's Treasury, and they would repay it in
five years・ His majesty says, that since they cannot themselves raise the
money, he will uot do them the favor to accept of their contribution・
RETIREMENT OF AN AGED STATESMAN・
The Tartar Ta~chih, grent Statesman, or Magnate, Stiy-ling;, has memo-
rialized the Emperor, begging leave to retire. The strain of the Petition is
truly humiliating・ The old man, calls himself a Slave^ and kneels^ to entreat
w让h piteous Groans^ Heaven's holy condescension and favor^ to stoop and listen
to his prayer to be allowed to retire・ He has served forty years: Was originally
short sighted; for some time past has had sore- eyes, and can now see nothing
distinctly. Although he has leave of absence, he is terribly afraid on two ac-
counts. First he is afraid of getting his allowances, ^vithout doing^ tlie duties
of his office; (which is not a very common case among government servants
in any nation) and in the second place, lest in that office, whilst he holds
it, any thing should go wrong, for which he would be responsible. Thrice,
in his short memorial does he call the Emperor^ favor, Heaven's favor,
which is equal, in European phraseology, to the Divine favor, or God's grace.
His last argument is a promise, that if his e严s get well, he wiJl ccmire
his head at the Palace gate, and again solicit the bestow)?ient of office.^
The meaning of which is,that, instead of kneeling down and knocking his
brow against the dry clean ground, till it bleeds, which is the usual mode;
he will kneel in the miry streets of Peking, and put his forehead in the
dirt, to solicit office・
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