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Sir (ieorge Staunton wan unquestionably tho first who opened to Europeans any of the useful treasures of Chinese literature.* lib elaborate translation of tho Ta-tsing-lcu-lec, or funda mental lawn and institution* of the Ta-tsing dy nasty, made uh acquainted with the real practi cal mwhiiierv by wliich the Chinese government is enabled to keep together, in one bond of uni* on, the multitudinous population of that exten nive emptre.'Befoie tht? valuable work appear ed, all the world thought, and the JeKuit missi onariesencouraged the opinion, that the Chinese had found out the Hecret of keeping men in or der by the application ofcertiiin refilled maxims of morality to the practical oporationH of the go vernment, ? a Hecret which had elevated the na tion to the acme of political wisdom ; so that when M. Pauw asserted that the Chinese were actually governed by the whip and the bamboo, he was held up by tlie missionaries as an igno rant and yrejudicud writer. M. I'auw's state ments however were amply verified by the two subsequent embassies of Lord Macartney and Mr. Titsing to the court of I'ekin. The truth is, that the missionaries suppressed the facts that every day came immediately liefore their oyes, and published only what they read in Chinese books ; they gave tlie theory of the government, but kept back the practice ? the moral senti ments, but not the mornl conduct of the |>cople ; and they omitted to tell, what they must nave known, and what Mr. Morrison very soon dis covered, that " there is no nation in the world in which professions and practice are more at variance than in China.'* I'hey wrote as if tlie coinmun-place maxims of morality drawn from the ancient writings of Confucius were actually the rulo of conduct with tho Chinese : in short, as if China was a nation ol'suges, in which phi losophy and science not only flourished omong tho up|?er classes, but produced wholesome fruit in the multitude. The corrupt jargon of the schools llnudh and Krahma, rendered more ab surd and unintelligible by translation into an ob scure and] symbolical language, was called histo ry, and p tilosophy, and science ; and the moat trifling M jrJnft# of tit* nneigit*, provided **?*.? were old enough, were JK down as sublime truths. The fii st part of the little volumct now before us contains a selection of reports and edicts from theiPekin Gazette translated by Mr. Mor rison tlie missionary, of whose literary labours we have already had occaoion to speak. The most interesting arc those which relate to a re bellion raised by a certain sect (the Tien-Ire) with a view of expelling Kia-Kinu, the present emperor* from his throne, headed, it has been supposed, by his own brother, though tlie know ledge of this part of the transaction is properly suppressed. It has been the custom of all the emperors of the present Tartar dynasty to pass the summer months at Oehol in I*artary, on account of the heat j or as the Chinese say, to keep open the communication with the country from which they came, in the event of a change of circum stances making it netvissary for them to retreat thither. On the IHth October, 181.1, an His Im Er?rial Majesty Kia-Kiug was returning from is summer excursion, ami about to enter Pekin. a party of conspirators broke into the imperial palace, and kept possession of a part of it for three davs. On this occasion His liniierinl Ma jesty issued a proclamation, which, as lie candid ly states, whs 44 to announce a revolution, and ?o take blame to himself,** After observ in# that he had scarcely mounted the throne when the sect of the Ve-llrn (the white water lily ? the nttumMa) causcd a revolt in four provinces, which took eight years in subduing j that ano ther sect, the iP/en-fee (heavenly reason, iHumi nati,) whom Mr. Morrison malics llis Imperial Majesty to call a 44 banditti of vagabonds," nud* denly created disturbances ; 44 out now,*' he continues, 44 rebellion has suddenly arisen un der my own arm-pit } the calamity has sprung from my owl* house." This proclamation, full of hypocritical humil ity and self-reproach on the part of His'lniperi af Majesty, was followed by the most liarharnus exertions, which lasted a whole year ? several hundreds were put toddath t some by behead ing j othors by a slow and lingering process ; home were hacked ill pieces by a certain number of strokes, and others had their bodies rut, as It in called, into fenthoosaitd nicccs. The Kmpe ror then announces that he had lieen graciously pleased to promote the officer who first discover ed the plot | and that of the three officers of the district, who failed to main 'such discovery, one he exiled to the extreme confines of the empire, utid ordered to bo kept to ItA'rd labor s another he had degraded, and scut to the army to atone lor his offence) 'and tho third lie had .deprived of his office. Some month* afterwards- seven teen rebels were hacked in pieces at Pekin and thirty-five others sentenced by tlie courts of jus " | If0m ? We would mitke an exception however Itf the Mw?. k.MMchusn, or 4 tig If v.* transited l>y the lli-lwp of flromore (Vnit?nPorlUK?iC:.e ihnnovripi. which wliu li iv n genuine Chinese Novel, containing a ru.thful p ruire of llic donwat'c hslitt an-l character of tMv itngnnr p?>p!e. tice to transportation \ but Hi* Imperial Majes ty wu graciously pleased, in his great mercy to mitigate the sentence of these last Unfortunate people, and to order that they should only be ttrangled after a certain period of close im prisonment. It is a privilege, and rather a singular one, in this despotic government, which, however, every officer may claim, to lay hls sentiments in writ ing before the sovereign, whether in the shs^e of representation, complaint, or. even admoni tion, and these docurti4nt? are usually made pub lic through the I'ekin Gazette, together /with the Kmperdkr's approval or otherwise. , ' A spirited representation Qf this kind, made ty the tithperor by one of his magistrates, is published in, the Gvzette. It states tb^t many innocent persons had been brought to trial* tor tured and suffered death', apparently for no o^ thcr purpose than to rtince the zeal of the ob viating magistrate it. The imperial edict that first announced the insurrection had ascribed the cause and origin of it to a particular sect r and bence ovcry person, it appears, who was known to belong to any other sect than -that of lioudh, which may be called the established reli gion of the country, became obnoxious to the persecution of these over-zealous magistrates. The Christians, being considered as a sect, were grievously persecuted in every part of the em pire, and the Christian missionaries driven out of I'ekin. 80 abhorrent indeed do the Chinese now appear to be from the Christian religion in particular, that, on seizins a Chinese linguist, who had been despatched from Canton to Pekin by the servants of the East India Company, with a letter and present from our Secretary of State to the late viceroy of Canton, who had been called to the capital, they insisted, in imitation of the Japanese, that he should trample on a cross, to evince his hatred of that sect of which it is considered to be the standaru ; this the mandid without hesitation, being no Christian, but a disciple of Po. * The magistrate above mentioned state*, that numbers had been unjustly confined, that many were pasted from court to court, and put to the torture under pretence of preparation fur trial ; that they were finally liberated without trial af tcr their health wafxteitroyed, and their pro perty wasted | Mid that numbers were seduced 01 tortAred into confession by the inferior offi cers. Indeed the whole dnrum#>n* ouImKWu ? tuous government .ymmw I But what can be expected from a nation whose sovereign and high priori (united In the t Ol' His Imperial .Mljfcstv) issued through tl . for tht information and respect" Wired million Hubject*,nn edict, of IKe following is a translation, mid which we uive at full length j it being, in our opinion) as obvious an interpoHition of miraculouts pow er as any of those which have recently U|ten place in the Peninsula. Kin. King, 19/A year, lw moon, \5thdiiu (Frk. 4, 1814A; ?? The lollowmg imperial edict has ucpii respect received. Lutt \e.?r, wImcii the rebels broke open and en tered the prohibited gate, there was in the air, obscurely seen, an appearance ni' tin: image of the Cod K wan-to i on perceiving it, the rebels liecame alarmed, and fled to hide themselves. Tlieir immediate destruction follow. I ed. To day Na-ycn-ching (lite general commanding the imperial troops) lias reported that wlten the town llwa was re-taken, the rebels during the darkness of tlie night made a desperate attack < the government troop;* were playing upon them with spear* und arrows, hut were till able to produce any real effect i when suddenly, from u temple ny the side of die town, a flume rose spontaneous ly and shone brigtit at noon. The imperial troops then (attacked in two divisions, pressing on the rebels from opposite points, their retreat Was cut oft', und tlie entire number of the rebels completely destroyed. After the affair was over, it was found that by the side of the city was a temple dedicated to the image of Kwun-te. The temple was completely burnt down j hut the divine im age, ami it alone, was preserved, not having been moved ?n injured in the l*:tst possible degree. Doting tlie con* fusion caused by the rcoels on this occasion, repeatedly ban Kwaii-te man. fested himself und afforded protection. I feel the most profound veneration and gratitude. It is ordered that the proper court, with the highest respect atld veneration, consult about, and propose, two word*, to be added to tlie original inscription of the (tod. I?ct iho.word.H be presented toint* for my approval, ami after that Ik* published throughout the empire, to be made use of as a return for the Cod's protection. Let the temple of tlu* district llwa lie built and adorned i and when fi nished, let the lieutenant-governor report and rcauostnie to write with tny own bund an inscription for tlie front I of the temple, to be hungup with due respect above tht: If ? lloilfl't ll'i" " We thul in this little collection a reply from the Kmperyr to a memorial, rather itt the way of reproof, of a civil officer, in which he linn used the liberty to request that Hi* Imperial Majesty would issue hi* orders that the steward of the household should be examined strictly " what work* are going on at the Three-hills and Five gardens;" and that he use his endeavor u to les sen tho expense." At the same timo this o Ilk or proposes tyat certain waste land* should be brought under cultivation. From all that we have seen and heard of this | over-grown empire, we are inclined to think that the 'I artar dynaxty now on the throne is totter ing to its base, and we shall not be in the least I surprised if, instead of a sprig of the 'i'a-tniiifr branch, f*ord Amherst should find a withered Chinese eunuch on the throne of /OW-A'in/r, with little twinkling even and straggling beard, shaking bin npddle like a porcelain mandarin on u ( hiinney- piece. Hut no matter ? the splen did orients and tho hnmago will do Justus well for the one a<i for the other. A rebellion or a re volution, an irruption of Tartar hordes, or a change of u Chinese family, |?roduccs no altera tion of tlie least natiptial improvement. The old machine of govcriiinefct turn* round as usual, and though for a tim&ita wheels inav bo clogged and Its moviutienta somewhat disturbed, it soon tcgains its usual motion, and rolls on as if no oltotiuctioii had happened. If any of our rea ders should fuel "uprise, let them look to Spain y; " r " i and cease to wonder*- Spain, thai has the advan tage of oommunicating freely with thb, morc eh ligntened nations of Kurort lias profited noth ing froiu ber revolution and little iron* her mis fortunes. 'China . U<i intercourse with this rest of the world, and knows* 90 latiauagebut jier own* The flint fotir'emperori of the -Tartar race were men of grea(.t|Jen? for. business, ex traordinary vigor of intellect end 'capable' of great bodift exertljta t KaUKtyris a weak bum apda sensualist. aid he hft been unfortunate in the'cholj* of his ministers? perhaps deserved ly so 1 fertile first act oCJils government wM to putto;death the favorite minister of his de ceased father, tojbanish his family and friends to the' wpds Of Tartary, and to rob them of their property. The second part of this little production con sists of the translation of a moral tale, called M The Ihree Dedicated Rootns," by Mr. Davis jrjroungwriter of Canton, and son of Mr. Da vis, thrnirector. We consider this essay high ly creditable to this gentleman, who, wo ijolieve, has net been more than two vears in the coun try aiigW.wcll of |ils, future attainments in thU obscure anu intricate tunguage? 'Die ar gument of the story is simple enough ; the me rit of it consists chiefly in the lights which it throws on Chineso manners, sentiment** & traits of character. There were 2 men in one street. Tang, the miser, who is called u wise man, and Yu,the spendthrift* who is reckoned a foolish man. 'liie wisdom of Tang consisted in adding field after field tohi? estate, and in determining never to build a house ( the folly of Y11, in al ways building and pullinu down, beautifying his pavilions, and planting his gardens, Life, this foolish Chinese would contend, was not worth the having, without three things, a good honse, a soft bed and a stout coftin. But though Tung would not build a house for himself, hi* had no objection to buy, at an under price, those built by others, hi process of time Yti jjot rid ot his fortune, and Tang, who Cor many year* li.nl been canting u longing eve on Itix house, now im<l it a good bargnin ; but Yu in soiling, stipulated to keep for liis own use u small part uf the build* ing which rose to three stories, each consisting of a single room ; the lowest he " dedicated to men," Ming that in which lie received his friends ? in the middle room he read and wrote, and " dedicated it to the ancients" ? the highest was " dedicated to heaven," and had only within it a sacred book and a chafing dish for incense. ? It seems that in China, if a man on selling his estate, reserve any part, however small, he can at any time redeem the rest ; so that u purchase under such reserve is no more than a mortgage. This circumstance was annoying to Tang, the avaricious man, who tried by every possible i meant to get possession of the " three dedicat ed room*?' and thtiscut off the privilege of re 'demptloh. In the midst of Yu's poverty, lie was visited by a wealthy and benevolent friend, wh? gene rously offered to redeem liis house and gardens : I but toe other resolutely declined it, saying, tlie three rooms would do for him ; that he could not lire long, and that at his death every brick AMU tile would go to strangers. The' friend, on taking leave, thus addressed him : " At night while I was reposing in the lowest room, I ob ci'rven a white rat, which suddenly sunk into the floor. Some treasure is no doubt concealcd there. On hit account part with these three rooms/' Yu only laughed at his friend's caution. Yulmd a son Ittri) io him in his old ate, on which occasion life guests poured in upon mm in such numbers, that, according to the Chinese ex pression, " they ate his salt clean, and drank I his vinegar dry." Ho sold his rooms to the pur chaser of the other part of the property, and 1 died shortly after leaving the widow and her son I in great distress. The son, however, became a greet scholar ; and, of course, acquired a Mandarin's cap.-? One day as he was travelling towards his mo ther's house, a young woman presented a petition in the name of her husband, imploring his protection, anil offering, with his whole family, to become his slaves. Her father-in-law, she said, was a rich man, and while he lived contri ved to keep out of scrapes \ but he made ma ny enemies ; and at his death his sun was persecuted by them, and lost a great part of his property ; hut that a great misfortune had now befallen hitn : ? he was cast into prison, mid none but himself (the Mandarin) could get him out. The voung man conceived it to bo some trick, hut the woman assured' him to the contrary. " In the midst of our property (says she) is a tall building called " The three dedica ted rooms." It was originally your lordihfp'a, but was sold. We lived in it for several years without molestation. Lately, however, some one presented an anonymous petition to tlie courts, Haying, that my husband was one of a nest of robbers j and that the three generations, from the grand father to tlie grandson, were all rogues i that there were now 'wentjr pieces of treasure deposited under tho - three dedicated rooms," and that when the hoard was taken up, tho particulars would lie understood. She went on to state, that, in consequence of this infor mation, the magistrates caused a search to be ! made, 44 tliat the treasure was found, her hus band apprehended and sent to prison, where he underwent the torture to forre him to n disco very of his associates." " Nothing," she adds, " can save us but your claiming the money, which must have belonged to your family."-? The young Mandarin refused to do this, but promised to enquire of the magistrate into the particulars of tl^o case. On menticninu the eircumstanco to his mo ther, she immediately called to her recollection ) the story of the white rat, which the young man laughed at ; hut the magistrate, who had now | arrived, thought thnre wa? something in it which would give V>?n? a clue tp the business, especi ally when the mother informed him that ten years afMjr her husband's death, hit friend hal [Mid her a visit, .and enquired, whether, beforo, iheV sold the ??.three dedicated roomy," they' -hiVfl discovered ahy treasure j and that, being answered ijjjtke negative, he said it was a fine thins fVr those jvho had bought the property, but that Undeserving of the wealth they liad thua acquired, initead of a blessing it would turn out jlHwr greatest misfortune. During this conver sation, the old gentleman made his appearance, and the story of the* white rat and the treasure wap at, once unravelled ) the treasure was em plovea in redeeming the property of the decea sed I'm / and the son of Tang Was released from prison. *' In order to remember these circumstance^ every one had a stance of verses, the object of whicli was to advise persons of opulcnce not to be contriving schemes for the acquirement of their neighbors' property. The lines were t? this effect : Ily wont compell'd, he sold his home ami land : Both house and land tlx purchsters return. Thus profit ends the course by virtue pUnn'd, While envious plotter# their misfortunes mourn." We have only to add, that if Mr. Morrison will continue to make translations from the I'e kin Gazette, Mr. Davis from their numerous collections of moral tales, and Sir George Staun ton employ his superior know lege on the state of the arts in China, for science we know they have none, we shall soon be able to assign the proper place of this people, who have been much too highly extolled, in the scale of civilised na tions. They would be found, wc suspect, cither immediately above, or next below tho Turks. MKS. KAIK'LIFFE. " Of this justly celebrated woman, the princi pal object seems to have been to raise iwwerfu! emotions of surprise, uwe, and especially terror* Dv means and agents apparently supernatural. To effect this, she place* her characters, and transports her readers, amid scenes which are calculated strongly to excite the mind, and to predispose it for spectral illuHion : Gothic cos ties, gloomy abbeys, subterraneous passages, tho haunts of banditti, the sobbing of tne wind, and the howling of the storm, are all employed for this purpose ; and in order that these may hav? their full effect, the principal character in her romances is always a lovely and unprotected fe male, encompassed with snares, and surround ed by villains. Hut, that in which the works of Mrs. RadclifTe chiefly differ from those by which they were preceded Is, that in the Castle of O tranto and Old English Baron, the machinery is in fact supernatural ; whereas the means and agents employed by Mrs. RadclifTe are in re ality human, and such as can be* or, at least* are professed tobe. explained by natural event*, lly these means she certainly excites a verjr powerful interest, as the reader meanwhile ex periences the full impression of the wonderful and terrific appearances j but there is one de fect w hich attends this mode of composition, and which seems indeed to be inseparable from it*? As it is the intention of the author, that the mys teries should be afterwards cleared up, they are all mountains in labor ) and even when she is successful in explaining the marvellous circum* stances which have occurred, we feel disappoint ed that we should have been so agitated oy ties. But the truth is, they never are property explained j, and the author, in order to rati* strong emotions of fear and horror In the body of the work, is tempted to go lengths^to acroiint for which the subsequent explanations seem ut terly inadequate. Thus, for example, after all the wonder and dismay, *nd terror and expec tation, excited bj the mysterious chamber in the eastfc Vwijwt, how much are we disappoint ed^ dlij uteri to find that all this potiier has ' b&h ratsed by a waxen statue. In short, we may say not only of Mrs. Radcliffe's ca-tles, but of her works in general, that they abound " in that lead to nothing.*' " In the writing of this author there is a con siderable degree of uniformity and mannerism, which ispernaps the case with all the producti ons of a strong and original genius. Ilcr he roines too nearly resemble each other, or rather they possess hardly any shade of difference.?* They have all all blue eyes and auburn hair? the form of each of them'ha* " the airy lightness of a nymph" ? they aro all fond of watching tho setting sun, and catching the purple tints of e? vening, and the vivid glow or fading splendour of the western horizon. Unfortunately they are all likewise early risers. I say unfortunate ly, for in overy exigency Mrs. ltadcliffe's he roines are provided with a pencil and paper, and Lthe sun is never allowed to rise nor set in peace. ? Like Tilburina in the play, they are " inconso lable to the minuet in Ariadne,*' and in the most distressing rircumstahr.es find time to compose sonnets to sun-rise, the bat, a ?ea*nymph,a lily, or a butterfly." ? Dunlop. LANCASTRIAN SCHOOLS. The trustees of the lfrec-8chool Society of New-York, (or which Dewitt Clinton, Ksq. in President) have petitioned the legislature of that State for an extension of Schools on tho Lancastrian plan throughout the State. They mention that they have estabtyshed two Schools of this kind in the city, in which eight hundred children are tanght \ that they have succeeded in practically proving its pre-eminent utility i its advantages in point of economy, facility anil celerity of instruction j in inculcating ordor activity and emulation. Anxious to extend this plan to all parts of the State, they, offer to in struct persons in the art of teaching the system free of expense, so that overy cotttmon school in the State may, in this manner, become a Lan castrian School, and thereby greatly Multiply the advantages of education, e?|*?'ltll1y to Hit poo/rr of ?oclMy,