200 Mr. Davids Notices of Western Tartary. 



" pas tenir centre la Chine ; mais si, comme on le dit, ils sont aides des 

 " Russes, ils ne seront jamais soumis." 



It appears, by later accounts in the Peking Gazette, that the war is 

 concluded, at least for the present. The emperor declares, that as the 

 principal places have been retaken, and the inhabitants returned to their 

 submission (though the leader of the rebels has not fallen into his power), 

 there is no farther occasion for the exertions of his troops. The real 

 motives of his Imperial Majesty, in thus suddenly putting a stop to his 

 military operations, and the real nature of the means by whicii this 

 cessation of hostilities has been brought about, must for the present remain 

 involved in considerable uncertainty. He may have reduced these Tartars 

 to peaceful terms by the mere force of arms ; or he may have ended 

 a ruinous war by compliances and acts of compromisej* not altogether 

 suitable to the dignity of the celestial empire, however these may have 

 been coloured and misrepresented in the official bulletins. " Proximis 

 " temporibus " (says the historian of another overgrown empire, when 

 speaking of other barbarians), " Iriumpliatl magis quam licti sunt." 



The neighbourhood of Chinese Turkistan to Cabul and its dependencies, 

 induced me to refer to Mr. Elpliinstone's valuable account of the latter 

 kingdom, and I was at once struck by the resemblance between the costume 

 exhibited in plate xii. of that work, and that which is represented in the 

 pictures drawn by the Romish missionaries for the Emperor Kien-lung, in 

 commemoration of his battles with, and victories over, the Hoey-hoey, or 

 Muliammedan Tartars. The singular cap whose rim ends in two points, 

 curved upwards both before and behind, is almost identical, and seems to 

 prove some considerable connexion.t Mr. Elphinstone describes the subject 

 of his twelfth plate as an individual of tlie Hazaurehs, a Muliammedam 

 Tartar race, dependent on the King of Cabul, and inhabiting tlie moun- 

 tainous country in the neighbourhood of Hindu Cush, or the Indian Caucasus, 

 not very remote from the Chinese dependencies. 



In comparing the itineraries of our own travellers, and the maps constructed 

 from European accounts in general, with the Chinese map of Tartary, 

 great difficulty arises from the awkwardness with which the latter conveys 

 the sounds of foreign names. A few, however, are easily distinguishable, 

 and the following may be given as examples : 



* The Gazette states that all the former contributions in grain are to be remitted. 

 t See suite des seize estampes representant les conquetes de I'Empereur de la Chine, 

 Planche xiv, etc. 



