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the sanctuary in tins martial array . He marched leisurely into a corner , ancl took his position . As soon as the holy parson had begun the excommunication , and pronounced the words offending brother , the veteran cocked and levelled his weapon of destruction , crying out , " Proceed , ami you are a dead man . " The astonished clergyman shrunk behind his desk . The eldest deacon attempted to begin . The farmer , more vehemently than before , called out , " Desistand marchor yon are all dead men" The man of God leaped
, , from the desk ; the deacon and elders followed in equal trepidation . The victorious farmer was left master of the field . He marched home ;—lived fourteen years afterwards , and died a brother in full communion . ' Authentic Account of Lord Macartnefs Emb _ issy from the King of Great-Britain to ihe Emperor of China .
[ CONCLUDED FROM vot . ix . PAGE 3903 THE opportunity offered of visiting the Emperor at his country residence in Tartary was highly gratifying to the Embassador and his suite . This part of the work will be read with peculiar pleasure . The reception of his Excellency was particularly flattering to himself ancl his nation . But our limits-will not admit of such copious extracts . Our learned author appears to have been a very careful observer of the
minutest circumstances that fell in his way . The following remarks are curious . ' The Chinese have no Sunday , nor even such a division as a week . The temples are , however , open every day for the visits of" devotees , Persons of that description have , from time to time , made grants , though to no great amount , for the maintenance of their clergy ; but no lands are subject to ecclesiastical tithes . A land-tax to Government has been substituted , in the last reign , to a poll-tax , as better proportioned to the faculties of
individuals . Most imports , and all luxuries , are likewise taxed ; but the duty being added to the original price of the article , is seldom distinguished from it by the consumer . A transit duty is laid , likewise , on goods passing from one province to another . Each province in China , which may be compared to an European kingdom , is noted , chiefly , for the production of" some particular article , . the conveyance of which , to supply the demand for it in the others , raises this duty to a considerable sum , and forms the great internal
commerce of the Empire . Presents from the tributaries and subjects of the Emperor , and the confiscations of opulent criminals , are not overlooked in enumerating the resources of the public treasury . Taxes , such as upon rice , are received in kind . The several species of grain , on which many of the poorer classes of the people principally subsist , are exempted from taxation ; so is wheat , to which rice is always preferred by the Chinese . ' The account of the fishing-bird is remarkable . ' This bird is a species of the Pelican , and resembles the common Cormorant . On a large lake
[ passed by the Embassy ] are thousands cf small boats and rafts , built entirely for this species of fishery . On each boat , or raft , are ten or a dozen birds , wliich , at a signal from the owner , plunge into the water ; and it is astonishing to see the enormous size of fish with which they return , grasped within their bills . They appeared to be so well trained , that it did not require either ring or cord about their throats to prevent them from swallowing any portion of their prey , except what the master was pleased to return to them
for encouragement and food . The boat used by these fishermen is of a remarkable light make , and is often carried to the lake , together with the fishing birds ' , b ) the men who are there to be supported by it . ' We shall add to this the singular account of catching water-fowl . 'Empty jars , or gourds , are suffered to float about upon the water , that such objects may become familiar to the birds . The fisherman then wades
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the sanctuary in tins martial array . He marched leisurely into a corner , ancl took his position . As soon as the holy parson had begun the excommunication , and pronounced the words offending brother , the veteran cocked and levelled his weapon of destruction , crying out , " Proceed , ami you are a dead man . " The astonished clergyman shrunk behind his desk . The eldest deacon attempted to begin . The farmer , more vehemently than before , called out , " Desistand marchor yon are all dead men" The man of God leaped
, , from the desk ; the deacon and elders followed in equal trepidation . The victorious farmer was left master of the field . He marched home ;—lived fourteen years afterwards , and died a brother in full communion . ' Authentic Account of Lord Macartnefs Emb _ issy from the King of Great-Britain to ihe Emperor of China .
[ CONCLUDED FROM vot . ix . PAGE 3903 THE opportunity offered of visiting the Emperor at his country residence in Tartary was highly gratifying to the Embassador and his suite . This part of the work will be read with peculiar pleasure . The reception of his Excellency was particularly flattering to himself ancl his nation . But our limits-will not admit of such copious extracts . Our learned author appears to have been a very careful observer of the
minutest circumstances that fell in his way . The following remarks are curious . ' The Chinese have no Sunday , nor even such a division as a week . The temples are , however , open every day for the visits of" devotees , Persons of that description have , from time to time , made grants , though to no great amount , for the maintenance of their clergy ; but no lands are subject to ecclesiastical tithes . A land-tax to Government has been substituted , in the last reign , to a poll-tax , as better proportioned to the faculties of
individuals . Most imports , and all luxuries , are likewise taxed ; but the duty being added to the original price of the article , is seldom distinguished from it by the consumer . A transit duty is laid , likewise , on goods passing from one province to another . Each province in China , which may be compared to an European kingdom , is noted , chiefly , for the production of" some particular article , . the conveyance of which , to supply the demand for it in the others , raises this duty to a considerable sum , and forms the great internal
commerce of the Empire . Presents from the tributaries and subjects of the Emperor , and the confiscations of opulent criminals , are not overlooked in enumerating the resources of the public treasury . Taxes , such as upon rice , are received in kind . The several species of grain , on which many of the poorer classes of the people principally subsist , are exempted from taxation ; so is wheat , to which rice is always preferred by the Chinese . ' The account of the fishing-bird is remarkable . ' This bird is a species of the Pelican , and resembles the common Cormorant . On a large lake
[ passed by the Embassy ] are thousands cf small boats and rafts , built entirely for this species of fishery . On each boat , or raft , are ten or a dozen birds , wliich , at a signal from the owner , plunge into the water ; and it is astonishing to see the enormous size of fish with which they return , grasped within their bills . They appeared to be so well trained , that it did not require either ring or cord about their throats to prevent them from swallowing any portion of their prey , except what the master was pleased to return to them
for encouragement and food . The boat used by these fishermen is of a remarkable light make , and is often carried to the lake , together with the fishing birds ' , b ) the men who are there to be supported by it . ' We shall add to this the singular account of catching water-fowl . 'Empty jars , or gourds , are suffered to float about upon the water , that such objects may become familiar to the birds . The fisherman then wades