Having heard that there were thousands of partridges near Tangshe 9% }ih, some 90 Ni distant from this port, T persuaded a friend to accompany me, in the hope of providing x few delicacies for Christmas. We left on 28th November about noon, and gat beyond the first hill to Tashitino KATE "here we put up for the night. The next morning, taking it rather: easy, we were surprised about 10 o'clock. to see many persons running towards the brow of the hill, on the right of our road near the village of Huaichuantun As our carters and servants seemed desirous of ascertaining what was the cause of excitement, we rode across the ploughed and now deserted cotton fields, till we arrived near the object of attraction—a dead Chinaman, but from all accounts the re-he was the others have it that he was only the leader of an incipient. rebellion, which had just been. nipped in the bad. For some time meetings had taken place, at the instigation of 'a Buddhist priest Li Ting-hou ASZz jig: and a young, fellow named Li Shing-wun ACHS 7G was proclaimed Emperor... The priest made the people believe that he possessed a medicine which rendered the budy impervious to bullet or sword thrust, Well, in the evening of 28th November, a number of. soldiers sent to arrest the rebels suddenly" surrounded the latter, and took. twenty isoners. Li Shing-wun, who had imibod the wonderful antidote, was fired at in front without effect, but the Captain of the military, for a change, shot him in the back, which caused him, to: run-five li, when, the effect of the medicine having, I suppose, passed away with the bullet, another Emperor of China went the-way of all flesh, and his remains were fonnd by us, us described above We now Jearn that whole family of Li, six per-I-heads being hung some on the high the headpiece of the Emperor, tale or not, ornamenting a part of the: city wall of Haichow, 30 miles to the south: of this, Nothing succeeds like success, and history shows that a rising ageinst_ the-government, is either patriotic or original, leo. Washington no doubt would have been executed, if he had not defeated: the British Goverament, Louis Kossuth very nearly lost hia valuable life, Nana Sahib would have been Emperor of India, but for the deviation, through Lord Elgin, of the troops intended. for China, How about Cromwell, ete.? That there are reasons for rebelling against the tyranny of the man-during, I have any quantity of proofs, and #0 have any residents in Ohina, who-take the trouble of looking into the question, The other day only young fellow pounced upon, and lodged in prison, wiry took place, he and his friends paid large sums of money to save him from worse treatment. After a few days by means of very powerful released, still without atrial, Whatever it may take of the case, the word justice is certainly more honoured in the each than in the observance. If innocent, why the 100 blows and the blackmail? If guilty why the release sans rime et sans raison? To conclude we reached Tsnyshe, but not 1,000 partridges, and I think it w fortunate for us that we passed through Hoaichuantun a few choura after the suppression of the rebellion, ne our presence alittle sooner might have been inconvenient. 3 Newchwang, 3rd December.
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