Your Ambassador first began to open his communications at Tient-T-appointed great officers. of State to be there, to give to him an Imperial feast and entertainment; when, behold! instead of your Ambassador returning thanks for this feast, hho refused to pay obedience to the prescribed ceremonies. the Emperor, in the affair of an inferior officer of State arriving from 2 remote country, did not deem forms and ceremonies of any great Import-nee: it was an affair in which some indulgence and a compassionate forbearance might be shown to th individual; and I therefore made a special order for all my great officers ly every city in the world in that department and it is his business to sort them out and see that they get to the right department. A [great worker, but he hasn't got on Jas he should. He seems totally lacking in imagination." of State 4o use gentleness and accommo dating behaviour towards your Ambassador; and to inform him, on ihis arrival at Peking that in the fifty-eight year of Kien-lung, your Ambassador, in performing the usual cere-many, always fell upon his knees and bowed his head tothe ground, according to the established forms; how, Indeed, on such an occasion, could any change be allowed!
"Your Ambassador then told my great officers, face to face, that, when the proper time came, he would comply with the ceremonies, and would perform the kneeling, and prostration, and bowing of the head to the ground; and that no exceeding or falling short of the established forms should occur.
"Accordingly, my great officers conformity to, and in reliance on, declaration, reported the affair to me; and I sent' down my pleasure, that on the 7th day. of the 7th moon, your Ambassador should bbe ordered to appear before the Imperial Person; that on the 8th, in the rear hall of light and splendour, an entertainment should be conterred, fud gifts bestowed; and agai the gardens of perpetual pleas feast should be prepared: that, on the 9th, he should have his audience of leave; and, that on the same it should be permitted him to ramt among the hills of ten thousand ages hat, on the 11th, at the gate of perfect concord, gifts should again be conferred, after which he should repair to the board of ceremonies, and there again be feasted; and that, on the 12th, he should be finally dispatched, and ordered to proceed on his journey. The day fixed for perform= ing the ceremony, and the precise form to be observed, were previously communicated to your Ambassador to approach and behold the Imperial Person, he accordingly arrived at the Palace, and ¥, the Emperor, was Just about "to enter" the great "hall" of audience.
Sudden tines "Your Ambassador, all of a sud= den, asserted that he was so exceedingly ill, that he could not stir step: I thought it not impossible, and therefore ordered the two Assistant Ambassadors to enter the hal and appear before me; but Assistant Ambassadors. also that they too were ill. This certainly was an instance of rudeness which had never been exceeded. "I did not, inflict severe chastisement; them to be sent off the same day, on their return to their own country. As your Ambassador was thus prevented from beholding the Imperial presence, it was not pedient that "he should sending the written representation from you, King: it is, therefore, sent back in the same state it came, by your Ambassador.
°F, therefore, thought proper to take from among the articles of tribute only a few maps, some prints of views, and portraits; but T_ highly applaud your feelings of sincere devo-eelness for me, just the same-as If T had received the whole, In return, ordered to be given to you, O King, a Joo-ce (emblem of prosperity), string of Imperial beads, two Intge silk purses, and eight small ones, as a proof of our tender and indulgent conduct in this affair.
"Your country is too remotely distant from the central and flourishing, empire; so that to send an Ambassador such a distance over the waves of the sea ig not a light affair. Besides, your Ambassador, it would seem, does hot understand how to practise the rites and ceremonies of the central empire. The subject, indeed, involves severe labour of the lips and the tongue, which is by no means pleasant of easy to bear, "That you, © King, may preserve your people in peace, and be careful in giving strength to the boundary ines of your territories, that no se-aration of those paris which are di tant from that which is near at home may take place, is what I, the Em-eros, sincerely and strongly recom-
"Finally, there will be no occasion hereafter for you to send an Am sador from so great a distance, at to give him the trouble of passing over mountains and crossing the ocean. If you do but pour out the heart in dutiful obedience, itis by '20 means necessary, at any stated time, to come to the celestial presence, ere it be pronounced, that you. turn towards" the transforming influences which emanate from this empire.
"This Imperial Mandate is now {issued that you may for ever obey Kia-King, 2ist year, 7th moon, 26th day—Sept. 11, 1815."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.