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fo ill-hu'i&d to -riieir iti#vibtiab as wélbas- polMcal, tharafler: at thè
fame time, it weaiM', perhaps, | have beeït more difcréet to have-fpated
möfe menaces which - were continually éxpreffed againft p’erfons
charged with an official döiypand tfc^ibg ladder the dhe<i:ton.: of i&ieir
fuperiors-; tod tö havé fhhfeaittéd With patience to tho& regulations,
which,-however unpleafaat, were fuch. as were adopted fey, arid might
be the Wage of, that government, whote-partial favour- and friend*
flxip it was the intereft, and, therefore,.'th| ;dtoy o f the Britifh em-
baliyv by anfintiatlng addrefe aads^ l i t k ^ manceuyre, to obtain' tod
eftabliih.
T h e pleasure that was this day felt by *hêi@taïe o f the firite o f every
denomination^ is %ot eah^f delcribed, when orders were received to
prepare far- quitting this horrid place on tike Monday following.
Thisabd the facceeding day were employed in removing the greater
part o f the baggage and prefen ts , whic h wto acèóinpiiihedV as it had
hitherto been, by the coolies, or porters.
The chandeliers, mathematical apparatus, together with $ie clocks
and time-pieces, were left at the palace-df- Yeumen-manyeumen, as
liach foequent removals might materially injure, i f not altogether J|?oil
thofe pieces ofmechanifm, the wonders o f whofe operations muft depend
upon the delicacy o f their movements.
At ten o'clock in the moming fingle Horfe carts were provided for
die whole train ó f the embaffy. The foldiers, mechanics, -and for-,
vants, were locked two- in a cart j and eaeh o f the gentlemen had w
cnrt to himfelfj but the Ambaflador, with his fecretary and interpreter,
were, as before, accommodated with palanquins.
The bufinefs o f our fetting off was, as it had hitherto been, a
fcene o f confufiort and diforder; but by eleven o’clock, we had, to
our extreme fatisfadfion, bid adieu to our late uncomfortable refidence.
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fideuce. We food palled through the village-from whence the palace
appears to derive its name, amidft a vaft crowd pffpejdators j and, at
ope o’clock, arrived at the north-gate pf .the pity^pf Pekin j which is
the counterpart pf that we have already deferibgd. In our progrefs
through the ftreets we paged a pagoda, y?hkh isithe firft we had feen
’in China. In our; voyage up the river*, ©r in bur journey frdm 'fong-
tchew toy:Pekin, we'ha,d,not feen one ,q£ .thefe -buildings,. which are,
in a great mcafure, peculiar to-this part of, the eaft, till we arrived in
tbfS- pity : it is fituateH in the center of a very pretty garden adjoining
to a mandarin’s palace,
This pagoda is a fquare ftjrudlure, bujj|| o f .ffcipe, and r%jinijhes
gradually from the hottom, till it terminates in a fptre. It had
only one gallery, which encircled it near the top, and was’guarded
by a rad : ta curtain o f red filft. at this time, hung from a projecting
canopy, and gave this pap o f die building, when feen at a dif-
tauce, the appearance o f an umbreHa, It was feven dories in height,
kind o f exterior ornament, hut that which
I hav^* already deferib^},
-As our return to Pekin was not only hidden but unexpected, pur
re-entry V'as-'not -particularly interrupted by the. public cuyipfity,/and,
at half pall two yn the afternoon, we arrived', without .'having met with
impediments at the princely palace, which had Jreenapr
J>°0Jit?d for the future refidqn^e. o f the embafly. It is the property o f
Tuck, a name generally .given hy .Englidimen, ~ hut why, or
wherefore, I cannot tell, to the Viceroy o f Canton, who vyas now here
as,a ilato prifoner, for dome efotezzlerrient o f the public'treafurds, or
o,ther mifd^mcaocu's refpediing his government there.
__ P^ c e is built of a greyjirick, and .is’eptremely foacious, containing
twelye large tod' fix fmall f j j ? ^ cemented
with ,fuch curious care, diat the feam,s.of mprtaf between them are as
fmal.1 as a thread, and placed with fuch peculiar uniformity,'that a mi-'-
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