258 Mr. Davis's Extracts from Peking Gazettes. 



III. 

 YuNG-CHiNG,* A,D. 1722. The third Emperor. Reigned thirteen years. 



IV. 



Keen lung,! A.D. 1735. The fourth Emperor. Reigned sixty years. The 

 Chinese Empire was never so large as in this reign. Keen-lung expanded 

 it to its greatest size, as Trajan did the Roman empire by violating the 

 wise precept of Augustus, in adding the province of Dacia. Keen-lung 

 sent the embassy to the Khan of the Tourgouth Tartars, a tribe whom he 

 afterwards restored to their native country, from their exile in the Russian 

 territories. Lord Macartney's embassy was to this Emperor. 



V. 



Kea-king,1: A.D. 1795. The fifth Emperor. Reigned twenty-five years. 

 Lord Amherst's embassy. 



VI. 



Taou-kwang,§ A.D. 1820. The reigning Emperor. 



» See Plate III, No. 12. t See Plate III, No. 13. 



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