396 Mr. Davids Extracts from the Peking Gazette. 



that the officers, Hae-fuh, Wang-gan-pei, and Chow-kwang-heung, be delivered 

 to tlie Criminal Board for trial. 



" Let the gunpowder which was exploded be made good, according to 

 the quantity lost, by those whose business it was to watcli it. In other 

 respects, let the judgment of the said governor be followed. 



" Khin-tsze." 



XVII. Suppression of incipient Rebellion in Slian-tung Province. 



On the 27th of the 3d moon the following imperial edict was respectfully 

 received. 



" Ke-sheu (acting governor of S/ian-tu?ig province) has presented to us 

 a report of the trial and condemnation of tlie banditti who have been 

 propagating lessons of rebellion, and has at the same time sent up lists of 

 all those officers who exerted themselves in the appreliension of the rebels, 

 together with other particulars. By tliese it appears that the traitor Ala- 

 tsin-chiing, a native of Tsing-ho district in Chili-le pro%ince, made himself 

 the head of an unlawful association at Lifi-tsing-c/iow * in the province of" 

 Shan-tvng, and that he, with his associates, organized themselves into self- 

 constituted ranks and grades of authority, after the model of real officers 

 of government. Tliey circulated secret signals among themselves, and 

 consulted together for the purposes of treason and rebellion. Tlieir crime 

 has been enormous, and their wickedness of the deepest dye ! 



" The said acting Foo-yuen, however, at the head of the civil and 

 military officers, at once crushed the incipient evil, without giving the 

 slightest previous intimation, and apprehended accomphces in the con- 

 spiracy to the number of above five hundred and seventy persons." 



Then follows a very long list of civil and military officers who are to be 

 promoted on the occasion, together with the acting Governor and the Judge 

 of the province, who, in addition to their promotion, aae rewarded each with 

 a peacock's tail. Nothing is said in this paper regarding the punishment 

 of the conspirators, most of whom will of course be put to death. 



* A place at the northern extremity, or commencement of the Grand Canal, where the 

 British embassy stopped on the 22d September 1816. 



