Poor sinner that Tam, I have not yet been able to return thanks to God, even in some small measure, for all the benefits that I have received from His Hand. How much T yearn to go to Rome and lay my respects at the feet of Your Holiness. But the present troubled state of my country and my numerous duties compel me to stay near my Sovereign and my strongest desire must remain unfulreigns once more have especially requested Father Boym, who is sailing for Europe, to beseech Your Holiness at the Seo of S. Peter and Paul to pray God that hho may show His merey on the Great Ming Dynasty, protect China, our country, and give us a lasting pene May He make China an ever happy Jand by granting to my Emperor, who is the eighteenth Emperor, of the (Continued on page 154.)
"When we contemplate the consequences of this glorious event, we are lost in admiration. At a period when the imbecility of other nations was laying them prostrate at the feet of a sanguinary and inveterate foe, it was reserved for this Uttie island, the pride and envy of the universe, to pluck the laurel from his brow. Admirers of French prowess, hide your diminished heads! recreant and unnatural offspring of your gallant country! blush for your own baseness:—
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