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roclaimed as fpoufe of the mandarin, in 
recompenfe for her perfevering fidelity, 
In the fequel, the emperor raifes old 
Alay to the rank of mandarin. But this 
fuccefs, perhaps exaggerated, raifes this 
eltimable man, as it were, out of himfelf ; 
and he commits faults which prove that 
education ought to concur with the fineft 
qualities ; and that the virtues which ren- 
der a domeftic worthy of general efteem, 
do not always fuifice to make a mandarin. 
The emperor ordains moreover the 
erection of a triumphal arch of marble, 
which, even during the life of Aouana, 
fhall be deftined to celebrate her fidelity, 
and to tran{mit the fame to pofterity as an 
example for them. 
Feafts, which laft many days, terminate 
the drama. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
Extract of a LETTER from M. J. DE 
GRAMMONT, APpoOsTOLic Missio- 
WARY at PEKIN, on the Sulject? of the 
EnGuisHEmBassy. Firf? publi/bed by 
M. Van Braam, and never before pub- 
lifhed in this Country. — 
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s¢ 77 N the mean time, to fatisfy your re- 
queft, I fhall fay aword or two relative 
to the embafly of England.—Never did an 
embafly better deferve fuccefs, both with 
regard to the experience, intelligence, 
and amiable qualities of Lord Macarr- 
Ney and of Sir GEorcE STAUNTON— 
the talents, the knowledge, and the cir- 
cum{pect conduct of all thofe of his fuite, 
and the rich and curious prefents deftined 
for the emperor. And, what is fingular 
and altogether ftrange, never did embaifly 
fucceed worfe. - 
The defign of the court of London and 
of the Englifh Company, was to obtain: 
rft. A refidence at Pekin, by which the 
refident might be enabled to fuperintend 
the commerce of his nation. i 
2dly. An eftablifhment at Chufan,a lit- 
tle ifland about eighteen leagues from 
Ningpo. 
3dly. The liberty of commerce in all 
the ports of China. 
4thly. A houfe of commiffioners in 
every province of the empire. And 
sthly. Regulations more fixed and lefs 
arbitrary in the cuftom duties of Canton. 
All thefe articles were propofed at dif- 
ferent audiences, both viva voce, and in 
writing, and they were all anfwered to and 
rejected; fome purely and fimply, and 
others with claules difrefpectful, at leaft, 
not to fay infulting. 
In re{pect to the prefents for the em- 
peror, Lord MacarTNEY, who wifhed to 
Caufes of the Failure of the Englifs Embaffj to Pekin 
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remain at Pekin till the month of March 
in the following year, announced that 
they were not to be offered all at once, but 
at three different times, and for this pur- 
pofe he had arranged them in three claffes. 
‘The two firft were received and approved. 
of by the emperor. They contifted of 
Englifh cloths of different colours; twenty- 
two volumes of felect prints; fome Englifh 
knives and {ciffors ; an ele&trical machine 
a pneumatic machine; portative barome- 
ters; a burning mirror; two magnificent 
cry ftal luftres, every pendant of which ex- 
hibited the colours of the prifin ; two ber- 
lins ; two carriages on {prings, which fol- 
low all the movements of the perfons feat- 
ed ; and an excellent celeftial planetarium, 
the work of twenty years. 
The third clafs was not prefented, as 
time was not given for it. To the great 
aftonifhment of every one, the minifter 
charged with the affairs of this embafly, 
after having remitted to the ambaflador 
the prefents of his majefty, which, they 
fay, were not magnificent; without having 
granted him an audience of leave of the 
emperor, nor indulged him with an op- 
portunity of feeing Pekin, nor even of 
making us a vifit; this minifter, I fay, 
fent him back in great hafte with all his 
fuite, much inthe fame way in which I 
was difmiffled from Canton: add to this, 
that all the European miffionayies had al- 
ready received injunétions not to approach 
his palace. This is the ftrange fcene 
which has juft been agted on the theatre 
of Pekin. It will, no doubt, occafioa 
much fpeculation in Europe and elfe- 
where. 
You will, perhaps, be curious to know 
the reafon of a reception fo unfavourable 
and {o.extraordinary: I fhall give it you 
in a few words. ‘Thefe gentlemen, like 
ali other firangers who know China only 
by books, were ignorant of the way of 
managing matters, of the ufages and the 
etiquette of that court; and, to in¢creafe 
their misfortune, had brought with them 
an interpreter ftill lefs informed 5; which 
was the reafon, in great part, that they 
never could obtain leave to have with them 
an European miflionary to inftruét and 
direét them. Thence it followed rit. that 
they came here without bringing any pre- 
fent, either for the minifters of the ftate, 
or the fons of the emperor; 2d. that 
they were waiting in the ceremonial of 
the country in making their falute to the 
emperor, and were unable to explain the 
reafon of it in a fatisfatory manner; 3d, 
that they were prefented in habits too fim- 
ple and too ordinary; 4th. that they did 
not properly fee the different officers whg 
had 
