To the Editor of the "Norra-Catxa Dalny News."
Sim,—In the Boxer 'Terms of Peace" which sou published in to-day's paper, reference is twice made to the Emperor Chien Lung and his regulations for the treatment of foreign envoys. 'The following extract from Williams' ' Middle Kingdom" (vol. IT, p. 439) explains the reason why he is the model of the reactionaries. This is the way he treated the Dutch envoys in 1793 "Tt is needless to detail the annoyances, humiliations, and contemptuous treatment experienced by the embassy on its overland journey in midwinter, and the degrading manner in which the Emperor received the envoys; his hauteur was a befitting foil to their servility, at once exhibiting both his pride and their ignorance of their true position and rights. They were brought to the capital like malefactors, treated when there like beggars, and then sent back to Canton like mountebanks to perform the three-times-three prostration at all times and before everything their conductors saw fit; who on their part stood by
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