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pass, nor are they allowed privately (or clandestinely) to make purchases of 
any commodities. On every occasion let care be taken to prevent. If any 
of the boatmen dare to purchase for them any books, victuals, or other ne- 
cessaries, they shall be immediately seized and severely punished. 
The above coming before me, the Heen, it is incumbent upon me to issue 
a Proclamation to make subject fully known to the military people. When 
the Tribute Envoys’ boats come to any place, you people are not allowed 
to gaze and look, so as thereby to cause a crowd and clamorous noise ; nor 
are you allowed to talk with the foreign Envoys. It is still more necessary 
that women and girls should retire ; they are not allowed to expose their 
faces, nor go out and look about them : if any dare wilfully to disobey this, 
they shall be instantly seized and punished. Decidedly no indulgence shall 
be shown. 
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A Special Edict. 
Paper referred to in page 118 . — Note. 
“ PEKING GAZETTE. — KEA-KING, NINETEENTH YEAR, TENTH MOON, SECOND DAY. 
(NOVEMBER 13 . 1814 .) 
“ ON GOVERNING WITH SINCERITY. 
“ DRAWN UP BY HIS MAJESTY. 
“ Govern with truth and sincerity, and order will be the result; if not, 
then anarchy will ensue. To an individual, a family, even to the Sovereign 
and the whole Empire, nothing further is requisite than truth. 
“ At this moment great degeneracy prevails ; the Magistrates are desti- 
tute of truth, and great numbers of the people are false and deceitful. The 
Magistrates are remiss and inattentive ; the People are all given up to 
visionary schemes and infernal arts. The link that binds together superiors 
and inferiors is broken. There is little of either conscience or a sense of 
shame. Not only do they neglect to obey the admonitions which I give 
them ; but, even with respect to those traitorous banditti, who make the 
most horrible opposition to me ; it affects not their minds in the least degree ; 
they never give the subject a thought. It is indeed monstrously strange ! 
That which weighs with them is their persons and families ; the nation and 
government, they consider light as nothing. 
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