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found. EA'ery great officer of state lias his haram, consisting 

 of 6, 8 or 10 women. Every merchant of Canton has his 

 seragho. But the poor find one wife fully sufficient for all 

 their wants. Female infants are often exposed. Fathers have 

 it in their power to sell their sons for slaves, and this power 

 is not unfrequently put in force. Women must neither eat 

 at table nor sit in the same room with their husbands. Tho 

 male children at the age of nine or ten are entirely separated 

 from their sisters. Thus the feelings of fraternal tenderness 

 are nipped in the very bud of dawning sentiment*. Among the 

 poor women are employed in the most servile drudgery, 

 even forced to plough, and are often yoked with an ass. 



Hence it is remarked by a judicious anonymous critic, that 

 it is not possible for a people deriving their subsistence from 

 the cultivation of the soil, to be held together by means less 

 favourable to human happiness; and that the Turks, whom 

 we deem barbarians, in every particular which can be re- 

 garded as a mark or a result of civilization, are their superi- 

 ors-f-. To Avhich Mr. L'Evesque adds that the Chinese are 

 perhaps the most vitious of all nations^. It is therefore 

 needless to be more particular. It is plain the wretched in- 

 habitants 



• Barrow 1+2. f Etlinbi Review, No. 28, p. 413. 



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