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l > y our Laws . Their festabUshtnents at pAin were originally founded with the ausp icious view of adopting the western method in our astronomical calculations ; and European ? of every
nat . on , who have beea d sm > us of studying and practising the aarne at this court , have readily been permitted : o come and reside upon the above establishments ; but from the beginning , they were re-tricted from maintaining
intercourse with , and exciting troubles among our subjects * < : Nc ; v < rtiieJess , Te-tien-tse has had the audacity secretly to propagate and teach his doctrines to the various persons mentioned in the Report ; and he ha ? not only worked oil the minds of the
simple peasantry and women , but even many of our Tartar subjects have been persuaded to . be . ieve and conform to his religion ; and it appears that no les-i than thirty-one bookt upon the F / uropean religion have been printed by his order in the Chinese character .
ci Unless -we act with severity and decision on this occasion , how fcre the-e perverse doctrines to be suppressed?— - and how shalL we stop their insinuating progress ? 14 The books of the Christian religion
must originally have been written in the European languages ; and iti that state were incapable erf influencing the minds of our subjects , or of propagating the doctrine in thi .- ; country ; but the books lately discovered are all of them printed in the Chinese character . With what
View , it is needless to inquire ; for . t is sufficient , that in this country such means must not be employed to seduce our simple peasantry to the knowledge and belief of those tenets , and muu-h less can it b « suffered to ojpferate thus on the mindof our Tartar subjects , as the most serious effects are to be apprehended from it on the hearts and minds of the
peop . e . " With respect to Chin-yo-varrg ,. who Had taken charge of the letters ; Chuiping-te , a piivate of infantry under the Chinese banner , who was discovered
teaching the doctrine in a c hurch ; JLieuchao-tuny , Siao-diing-ting , Chu-changtay , amd the private -o'dier V « iui ;' -rnciit <\ who severally superintended the congregations of Ch istiaii ? , as they have pecu respectively eonvj' : ; d ° f conveying
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Intelligence . —Edict of the Emperor of China . 443
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letters , or emp ' oying other means for extending their beet and doctrine ,-if is ourp ie-. \ ure to confirm the sentence of the codrt ; according to Vvhich tht ; y shall
severall y be sent into banishment at Eiii , in Tartary , and become slave- ? artiong the Eicuths ; and previous to tlieir depsrtnre , snail wear each ' of them "the heavy canvas for three months , that their dhiistiscnneiit inav be rorrective
and exempiarv . a . * < k The conduct of the female peasant ( "hin-yang-shya who under ook to superintend a congrfg-dt-ion of her own se . v , is sti 4 l more odious . She , therefore , $ hi \\ i also be banished to Elu . and reduced to
the condition of a slave at the military station , instead of 'being indulged with . * he female privilege of redeeming the punishment by a line . ** The peasant Kun-han , vvho * wnS eJti * ployed in distributing- ljrtcrs for the con ^ rejration , and iri persuading ; others to assist in their ministry , —and likewi e the so- dier Tung-hing-shen 3 v * ho contumaciously resisied the repeated exhona * tions niade to him to renounce hid
errors , shall re : f > ective ! y wear the common cangue for thr « e mbnth-, and after * tiie expiration of that term , undergo banishment to Elu , and become slaves among ; the Kieuths . - ¦ " ¦ T he soldiers Cheu-ping' -te , Vang * m ^ ute , and Tung-hen —hen , who have £ one astray , and willingly become pro ; clytcs to the European doctrine , are really unworthy to be considered as men : and
their jnanies shall be erased from the list ^ of those serving under our banners . 1 'h ^ countrymen Vang hy-ning-, Ko-tien-fo , Yu se ~ kin : ; , and V " u-si-rnaii \ and the -oldiers serving in the Chinese infantry , 'I ' ung-miiig " , l ung [ -se , and Cheuryuug ;* tung , have each oi them repc r ] tjd a : id renounced their errors , and may
therefore be discharged from coniinesnent % but as the fen ot puni hmoit may hav ? bad more effect in producing their iccantatior : th $ n any sincere dLpo itroii to leforrn it is n : * ce s . iry th : it tl > ti mac . n-3-tfA . es and n"iilitai } oiTijors uj \ vJ ; o . ^ juri . diction they may be , ^ 3 u > u il kecj ) a strict w : t « h over theni : ar . d inflict a .
piinishmeiit doulny severe , i ! rUcv should relapse inr . o th ^ ir iWrnier < - ; ror . k < 'L \ -tial-tscyW'ha i au . l :. Liro ]) c ; tH ertcv ~ taincl in our ¦ , crvicc . « t cour ; :, iiivm * . ' o far forgot his . duty , i ? . nd J / ' iobuycd , t . * c
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 443, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/47/
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