The Afiatlc governments aiefalmoft- univerfally defpotic, and the very
idea-ofja-'p'p'mimooweajkh feems-tQ'be unknown* The mildeft fyftems-
Jape perhaps thpf<% found in Arabia.. ^
In arranging ndte1 e^tenfive*iitatetf, of A-fiaj- hcdordmg, to their population
and relative confequencej the *firft and*", chieflyrank,' bey©n®f alt-
comparifon,, mpft be affignesdllto th'4 .Gh-inbfe,“empire, s*Bu^ that pro-
.digiims‘‘domination beingJpteaHgeTTrofif Europe^'and having-,in-1 no»
age exerted‘.the.; fmalleft influence* on ,,ita deftinies, it feems preferable, ins
this inftance,-. fipft tpt.porifi.der two ftates,^iptipiately blended
with European .policy. TfajejTgrkilJi3empije i n < ® ohftk u J e sf a natural
and eafy tranfition from1 the de’foriptionof Europe, jjvan'dthe Ruffiacp
empire,though,, in pppijlafid'n.far,inferior, yet ^in, military and political'
force tranfeendf that5 df'Ghibd.1' *
’ Trk>m the Ruffian* empire m Alia the tranfition. is eafy ,tp that» o f
'China, a bordering Hate ; _ after _winch ffialL be ^eferibejf Japan, and _ as
newJgreat power, the Birman, .empire!^, Hindoftad rana Perfia beitfg
mow divided into, feveral diftin£b ,lpv«epeig^,tiesy, and* ArabiaVcpnCaining
’many independent .ftates, the'^fcale, df‘ political , importade'e^ hecpmea*
tranfitive and indimndfi and, may' juffly^yield mWcm^oafes to mere
geographical ,arrangement! 'Hence tjie fmaller''l|a|eVof'iifdiy beyond’
me pnngesj or Bqt^een Hindoltan and Chjin^ wilr follow the Birman
'empire, to wfiicfi!, pr to *China^they fuwnrdd*.
'A. wefterp pr'Qgrefs leads toJHipdblfan, Ferfia, and Arabia" :J and^ffiort
^oujiiJof the various interelting and' 'ijnportant fflafids ih the Indian»/ $
and m theTacific, 'oceans, will' «ffisre \his grand\dej>artment of the ivork*.