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* -Loo , governor of the provinces of Kwang-tung and Kwang-se , &c . ; Ha , general commandant of the city of Canton ; Lun , lieutenant-general of the Mantcheou garmon ; Tso , lieut .-general of the Chinese Tartar garrison ; and Chung , commissioner of customs at Canton , &c *
After this pompous parade of porcelain aristocracy and military kettles , we are shortly informed that the whole of them are religiously ( i looking upward" towards the Great Emperor , and " awaiting the vermilion-coloured reply ! " This beautiful answer in the Emperor ' s own hand-writ ing we have not yet had the delight of reading . Loo proceeds to detail the conduct of ' Lord Napier from the commencement , and does
not appear to extenuate or set down aught in malice / notwithstanding his indignation and astonishment . f On the face of the envelope' proceeds Loo ,, in allusion to Lord Napier ' s letter to him , c forms and style of equality were used !—and there were absurdly written the characters Ta ying kwo !—Great British Nation ! ' Loo then informs the Emperor that he gave orders " Han-shaou-king , the jfoo-tscang in command of the military forces of Kwang-chow-foo ! ' to remonstrate with the Barbarian Eye on his
presumptuous su perscription and unprecedented attempt at lite rary correspondence with himself the governor !'
Should Lilliput and Lapvita ever be discovered , it would then be seen how accurately historical and matter-of-fact were Swift ' s descriptions of them . Can anything be more like a fairy tale than the preceding specimen ? It is a characteristic of the
consciousness of power not to be in the least angered at the idle vaunts o ( self-complacent inferiors ; and this is why the English nation are no otherwise moved than by excess of laughter at these peacock vanities , nor can a few weak and ignorant nationality folks , induce any other excitement on the occasion . We scarcely know how to leave this memorial ; it is so full of exq uisite character .
* Again' proceeds Loo , ( as leader of the memorial chorus , ) in allusion to the Barbarian Eye , ' considering that he was stupid and unpolished , having come from without the hounds of civilization , and that , it being his first entrance into the central flowery land , lie was yet unacquainted with the rules / &c . * I , Loo , selected and made an arrangement of the rules and orders ; ' and this was done tor his especial guidance . Loo repeats that the said Kye has continually been ' perverse , stubborn , and , indeed , extremely obstinate ; but having considered thai the said nation's King has heretofore been always reverently submissive , ' and the merchants also , it is a pity that for the misconduct of one man , said Kye , all the nation should be injured ; k for thus they cannot but be overcome with grief . ' 4 l , your
Majesty ' s minister , Loo , therefore looked upward to embody my august sovereign ' s liberality- —extensive as heaven and earth , which beholds with the same benevolence the central ami the outside people , and stoops to treat with compassion !—and accordingly replied clearly and perspicuously to the said merchants / ike . * Hut the said Barbarian Kye , when the merchants enjoined orders on him , remained as if he heard not ! and
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282 Chinese Politics .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/58/
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