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two feet , there would then be , in each stack , two hundred sections , or fourleen thousand bags ; and in the two hundred and twenty-two stacks , upwards of three millions of bags of salt . Every bag contained about two hundred pounds weight of salt , an i consequently altogether six hundred millions of pounds in weight of that article . ' On the Embassador ' s arrival at Tien-sing lie was received by the Viceroy of the province with the most marked attentionand informed that the
Em-, peror was at Zhe-hol , in Tartery , where he intended to celebrate the anniversary of his birth-day , being on the thirteenth of the ei ghth moon , answering to the 17 th of September , and that lit desired to receive the embasssy there . The Viceroy is represented to have been a man of very engaging manners , but the Legate appointed to attend the embassy was very adverse to the English .
Oh the 16 th of August the yachts anchored within twelve miles or Pekin , and near the city of Tong-choo-foo , beyond which the pei-ho was no longer ¦ navigable , unless for boats , and the embassy ceased travelling by water for -some time . The Embassador and his suite were accommodated in a large temple ; and it is remarked that , ' among all the crowds assembled near Tong- choo-foo , or those which the approach of" the embassy had attracted in other places , since its entrance into China , not one person in the habit of a .
beggar had been seen , or any one observed to solicit charity . No small portion of the people seemed , it is true , to be in a state approaching- to indigence , but none driven to the necessity , or inured to the habit , of craving assistance from a stranger . ' ' Pekin exhibited , on the entrance into it , an appearance contrary to that of European cities , in which the streets are often so narrow , and the houses so lofty , that from one extremity of a street the houses appear at the other to
be leaning forwards , and closing upon each other . Here few of the houses were higher thah one story , none more than two ; while the width of the street which divided them was considerably above one hundred feet . It was airy , gay , and lightsome . ' The slight view which the strangers had of Pekin in this first visit ' did not come up to the idea they had previously formed of the capital of China . ' From Pekin they came to the open town of Hai-tien , ; between which and the Emperor ' s palace of Yuen-nin-yuen , was the villa intended for the Embassador and his suite , being an inclosure of at least twelve acres .
[ TO BE COSCtt / DED I . V OtTIt XCXT . ' j Pious for the Defence of Great-Britain and Ireland . By Lieutenant Colonel Dirom . 8 vo . as 6 d . Cadelland Davies . THIS work is interesting at the present moment , when the object of the enemy is confined to the attack of this country only . With HO employment
for their immense armies , it is by no means unlikely that they will hazard an attempt at invading some part or other of Great-Britain . Let us then attend to Colonel Dirom ' s opinion on the subject . After supposing the enemy to have landed , he says : 1 Instead of encamping among the hills , as Fabins Maximusdid , in consequence of his being inferior to Hannibal in cavalry , we should have no need to keep so far aloof from our enemy , and have only to choose strong
positions at such a distance from him , as to prevent a surprize . Even when he halts for the night , we must not allow him to rest , but have parties constantly employed to harass his camp , stealing upon him in every direction ; which we should be enabled to do from our superior knowledge of the 'toautry .
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Review Of New Publications.
two feet , there would then be , in each stack , two hundred sections , or fourleen thousand bags ; and in the two hundred and twenty-two stacks , upwards of three millions of bags of salt . Every bag contained about two hundred pounds weight of salt , an i consequently altogether six hundred millions of pounds in weight of that article . ' On the Embassador ' s arrival at Tien-sing lie was received by the Viceroy of the province with the most marked attentionand informed that the
Em-, peror was at Zhe-hol , in Tartery , where he intended to celebrate the anniversary of his birth-day , being on the thirteenth of the ei ghth moon , answering to the 17 th of September , and that lit desired to receive the embasssy there . The Viceroy is represented to have been a man of very engaging manners , but the Legate appointed to attend the embassy was very adverse to the English .
Oh the 16 th of August the yachts anchored within twelve miles or Pekin , and near the city of Tong-choo-foo , beyond which the pei-ho was no longer ¦ navigable , unless for boats , and the embassy ceased travelling by water for -some time . The Embassador and his suite were accommodated in a large temple ; and it is remarked that , ' among all the crowds assembled near Tong- choo-foo , or those which the approach of" the embassy had attracted in other places , since its entrance into China , not one person in the habit of a .
beggar had been seen , or any one observed to solicit charity . No small portion of the people seemed , it is true , to be in a state approaching- to indigence , but none driven to the necessity , or inured to the habit , of craving assistance from a stranger . ' ' Pekin exhibited , on the entrance into it , an appearance contrary to that of European cities , in which the streets are often so narrow , and the houses so lofty , that from one extremity of a street the houses appear at the other to
be leaning forwards , and closing upon each other . Here few of the houses were higher thah one story , none more than two ; while the width of the street which divided them was considerably above one hundred feet . It was airy , gay , and lightsome . ' The slight view which the strangers had of Pekin in this first visit ' did not come up to the idea they had previously formed of the capital of China . ' From Pekin they came to the open town of Hai-tien , ; between which and the Emperor ' s palace of Yuen-nin-yuen , was the villa intended for the Embassador and his suite , being an inclosure of at least twelve acres .
[ TO BE COSCtt / DED I . V OtTIt XCXT . ' j Pious for the Defence of Great-Britain and Ireland . By Lieutenant Colonel Dirom . 8 vo . as 6 d . Cadelland Davies . THIS work is interesting at the present moment , when the object of the enemy is confined to the attack of this country only . With HO employment
for their immense armies , it is by no means unlikely that they will hazard an attempt at invading some part or other of Great-Britain . Let us then attend to Colonel Dirom ' s opinion on the subject . After supposing the enemy to have landed , he says : 1 Instead of encamping among the hills , as Fabins Maximusdid , in consequence of his being inferior to Hannibal in cavalry , we should have no need to keep so far aloof from our enemy , and have only to choose strong
positions at such a distance from him , as to prevent a surprize . Even when he halts for the night , we must not allow him to rest , but have parties constantly employed to harass his camp , stealing upon him in every direction ; which we should be enabled to do from our superior knowledge of the 'toautry .