COCHINCHINA, 
education of the heir apparent to a foreigner, who neither 
respected the laws nor professed the rehgion of their an- 
cestors ; and the necessity strongly urged of placing him under 
the direction and guidance of the learned men who were versed 
in the only true doctrine, as contained in the writings of Con- 
fucius. On such occasions the King alwa^^s repelled their 
representations with firmness, and sometimes did not conceal 
from them his determination of preferring rather to sacrifice 
the friendship of his ministers than to give up that of the 
;Bisliop, who continued indeed to enjoy his implicit confi- 
dence to his last moments. 
His Queen is represented as a woman of exemplary virtue, 
of great firmness, and as the support and comfort of the King 
in the midst of his adversity. Of their seven children the 
two eldest sons were put under the tuition of Adran. The heir 
apparent, the youth whom the Bishop carried with him to Parish 
died shortly after his master. He was of a mild, obliging, and 
affable disposition, endued with all the social virtues, but of 
talents more suitable for the quiet of domestic retirement than 
the bustle of public life. The second brother, the present heir 
to the throne, has the character of being a complete soldier. He 
served three years as a private in his fathers guards, and five 
years as a corporal and seijeant, during which servitude he 
was engaged in a great deal of active warfare. In 1797 he 
was raised to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and the fol- 
lowing year he was appointed Governor of the southern pro- 
vince. In 1800 he obtained the rank of General, and was 
appointed to the command of an army of 35,000 men ; in 
which year he gained a most important victory over the rebels 
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