"<The lessons taught by the victories of the Europeans, and especially the capture of Tie followed by the approach of the international army, from time to time caused great disquietude among the Empress's advisers. Our successes had a nsidovable effect on the arrogance of the mandarins who had thought themselves able to make war on the rest of the world, The moderate element, in the person of Prince Cling, and a third party, which seems t have been incarnated in Jung Lu, attempted to effect a reaction against the odious follies which were bringing the Empire face to face with a estastrophe. But courage is not the most conspicuous virtue of a Chinese mandarin, and those who realised the danger dared not do what was necessary to avert it. They stopped half way, and preferred to have their own hands steepd in blood and leave the Legations open to every kind of danger rather than expesa their own persons to the wrath of the raving madmen obeyed by the Empress, They had before them certain facts which were calculated to confirm them in their coward-
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