Mr. Davids Extracts from the Pe/dng Gazette. 391 



years, the interval between the examinations), and that he be enrolled as a 

 Chinese by birth. But let the head of the Tartar division, who presumed 

 to take upon himself to present the report on the occasion, be delivered to 

 tile Criminal Board for trial and punishment. 



" Khin-tsze." 



XII. A public Granary insufficiently supplied— Imperial Order. 



2d moon, 22d day (22d March). 

 " The Too-tung, named Ying Hicuy, has presented an address respecting 

 the expediency of transferring grain to a district wliere the present stock is 

 insufficient. The district Kocching, in Kan-sich province, has its granary 

 annually supplied with an insufficient quantity ; so that whenever it is found 

 reqmsite to sell grain at a low price to the soldiers and people, for their 

 immediate consumption as well as for seed, the stock is always inadequate. 

 Ihe said Too-tung has clearly ascertained that the neighbouring granary of 

 Tse.muh.shd district is redundantly supplied, and that a portion of the stock 

 may be transferred. This being really the case, it is directed that, accord- 

 ing to the tenor of the address, forty thousand peculs (two thousand three 

 hundred and seventy-five tons) be transferred from the granary of Tscmuh- 

 sha to that of Koo.ching, with a view to providing an adequate supply. Let 

 the appropriate board take cognizance of it.* 



" Khin-tsze." 



I . not d,fficu It to perce.ve, that this excessive care to provide against local and con- 

 t,ngentfarn.nes,n Chma springs not so n^uch from any real feeling of affection and kindness 

 towards the people, as from a dread of the usual consequences of Lch dearths when the ^ 

 severe No sooner does a famine take place than revolts are immediately apprehend I 

 unless the cravn^gs of the populace can be allayed by supphes from the public granari thTs 

 ^pprd,ens.ons are sel om groundless. Taught (according to their patern'al no.Ls of go e 

 ment) to consuler the good which they enjoy in prosperity as resulting from the care of tl"e 

 Emperor and h.s representatives, the people very naturally refer the evil which tlT uffe 1 

 advers.ty to remissness and improvidence in the same quarter, and the government, no t ig !ra 

 of he danger, ;s proport.onably cautious in guarding against it. Were the low r ordL. . 

 or mg to t e d.ctates of a more sensible policy, instructed to refer these inevitable calan itL 

 ^o he,r real or.gm, the .rregular vicissitudes of .he seasons, they would probably bear th m 



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