Mii. Davis's Extracts from Peking Gazettes. ^55 



Erection of Military Posts on the Frontier of Y'un-njn (dated ^th year, 



6th moon, -ith day). 



Ming-shan, Viceroy of Yun-nan and Kwei-chow provinces, entreats the 

 Imperial attention to the subject of this address. I, your slave, have 

 received a communication from the military commander, Ah-tsing-ah, stating, 

 tliat " in the first year, and the third moon, he was indebted to the Imperial 

 goodness for his present appointment of general of Tang yue chin, and that 

 having been introduced to your Majesty's presence, he reached his station 

 in the 8th moon of the same year. Three years having nearly elapsed, it is 

 right that he solicit to be again introduced."* In the 6th year of Kea-king 

 (1801) the Imperial decree signified, that for the future, the precise period 

 of presenting military officers need not be ligidly observed : that any such 

 persons as were not immediately engaged in the performance of important 

 duties, might proceed in turn to Peking to be introduced." This is respect- 

 fully preserved on record. The station Tang yue,\ being on the very 

 frontier itself, is of great consequence. Watch towers and lines of commu- 

 nication are now forming : and it would be inexpedient to entrust the com- 

 mand to an inexperienced person ; therefore it is right to petition the 

 Imperial goodness to defer the period of this General's presentation until 

 the work in whicli he is engaged be completed. For this purpose the 

 present address is humbly offered up. 



No. 2. From the Pelcing Gazette, of the \4h year of Taoit-Iacang, dated 



3d moon, 20th day. 



Depreciation of the metal Currency in Fiih-keen jn'ovince, in conseqiie7ice of 



over coinage. 



Chaou-shin-ciiin, Viceroy of Fiih-keen and of Che-keang provinces, witli 

 his colleagues, kneels and presents this report concerning the depreciation 



• Such is the old estabhsheci rule ; but having been (bund inconvenient, it is sometimes 

 relaxed. The Viceroy of Shen-se and Kan-siih has proposed lately to the Emperor, to confine it 

 to the provinces close to the capital, and excuse the distant ones. 



t Tang t/ut chin. In the Company's large MS. map it is |)laced on the borders of the Bur- 

 mese empire, between Betel-nut and Dragon-stream rivers. 



