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XXII. Extracts from the Peking Gazette for 1824, being the Fourth 

 Year of Taou-hwang. By John Francis Davis, Esq., F.R.S. M.R.A.S. 



Read January 7, 1826. 



INDEX. 



I. Malversations in Office. 



II. The Emperor puts off his Journey into Tartary. 



III. Forbidding the possession of Fire-arms to the common People. 



IV. Advance of Salary to one of the Imperial Kindred, towards the repair of 



his Family Tombs. 



V. History of the late Reign concluded. 



VI. Appointments in the Ministry. 



VII. A Decree conferring posthumous Honours. 

 \'III. Posthumous Rewards for Valour. 



IX. Against buying up Government Grain. 



X. Martial Exercises. 



XI. A Chinese erroneously stated to be a Tartar. 



XII. A public Granary insufficiently supplied. 

 XIII. Destruction of Provincial Records by Fire. 



Xn^. Petition from a sick and aged Minister to retire permanently from Office. 



XV. Petition for a new Trial, in a Case of Homicide. 



XVI. Loss of Lives from the Explosion of Gunpowder. 

 XVII. Suppression of incipient Rebellion in Shan-tung province. 

 XVI n. A Case of Rape. 



XIX. Grain Junks on the Canal. 



XX. Seizure of a Convict who had escaped from his Place of Banishment. 



XXI. Forging the current Coin. 



XXII. Distress at Peking. 



XXIII. Pecuniary Aid to those whose Dwellings were swept down by the Inunda- 



tions of 1823. 



XXIV. Erection of additional Prisons in Canton. 

 XXV. Presentation of Military Officers at Court. 



XXVI. Locusts in the Province of Peking. 



XXVII. A Grain Junk burnt by Lightning. 



XXVIII. Plundering inroad of Hossacks, or Cossacks, on the Russian Frontier. 



XXIX. Forbidding the Practice of Witchcraft and unlawful Rites. 



XXX. Two Vessels from Loo-choo, or Lew-kew, blown on the Coast of Chi-keang. 



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