-1807.] 
sistance was afforded them in this. way, 
and they were supplied with abundance 
of provisions; but they were scarcely al- 
lowed to have aay intercourse with. the 
anhabitants, aud were not permitted to 
trade with them in any manner whatever. 
The government would not receive the 
ambassador, and very little nterenutee 
was allowed beyond the exchange ot let- 
ters and compliments, so that the object 
of the expedition may be said to have 
totally failed. 
On their first arrival at Macao, they 
experienced some difficulty and delay 
getting up to Whampoa, till the Chinese 
were assured that they were hot men-of; 
war, but had come for the purpose of trad- 
ing. They were then allowed to’ come 
up, and reached Whampoa about the 
end of December. They carried on their 
business in the usual way; sold their 
skins tolerably well, and laid in a cargo 
of hi: gh-priced teas, with a coi siderable 
q! antity of nankeens, and some silk piece- 
goods. 
Captain Krusenstern had the chief 
command of the expedition, His ship, 
the Nadeshda, belonged to the Russian go- 
vernment; but the other was the property 
of the Russia American Company, to 
whom the emperor gave his ship for the 
voyage, tree. of expense; besides patro- 
nizing the undertaking to a great extent. 
The chief commercial object. was to open 
and establish an intercourse between St. 
Petersburgh and Canton, by sea, The 
company had appointed an agent, or su- 
percargo, to transact the purchase and 
sales, aud the whole of the commercial 
part was submitted to his direction. A 
dispatch had been sent to Pekin, to in- 
form the emperor of the ariival ‘of the 
ships, and no objection was made about 
allowing them to sell and purchase 1 in the 
mean time ; or te their getting asecurity- 
merchant; ‘but they could not be allowed 
to depart ‘till the emperor's answer came 
Account of the Life and Works of Canova. 
43. . 
back. To this little attention was.paid , 
and Captain Krusenstern prepared to. sail, 
and applied for his grand chop; on which 
two men-of-war’s boats were sent down 
to Whampoa, to he by each of the ships, 
which created such alarm, that no provi-. 
sions were carried on board them for two 
days. The commodore remonstrated 
with the security-merchant, and repre- 
sented that such steps were considered 
by the Europeans as amounting very 
nearly to hostile measures; advising him 
to represent the circumstances to the vice 
roy. Captain Krusenstern also sent in 
a moderaté remonstrance himself, and 
concluded with demanding his grand chop, 
as further delay would be of material in- 
jary to his voyage. ‘The restrictions at. 
Whampoa were on this immediately re- 
moved, and in a few days the end chops 
for both were issued. They left Wham- 
poa on the 9th of February, 1806, and: 
on the 12th or 14th, the imperial edict ar- 
rived at Canton from Pekin ; but the ships 
having sailed its contents were only ime 
perfectly known. It was, however, une 
derstood, that the purport of 1t was by | no 
means favourable to the Russians; that 
the emperor did not approve of the con- 
tinuance of the intercourse by sea, but re- 
commended the old mode by caravans, 
which he pronounced the best for the 
Russians, and the most agreeable to him. : 
Some trivial questions were also inserted 
as to the motives for the voyage; how the: 
Russians could have found their way to 
China, and if they had been in England? 
On the whole, it was evident that there 
was a strong jealousy on the part of the 
Chinese at the good understanding which 
they perceived to exist between the Eng- 
lish and Russians. 
When this eyent hanpened at Wham- 
poa, no intelligence had been received of - 
the grand embassy by land, from St. Pe- 
tersburgh to Pekin, the failure, of which. 
has been since ascertained. 
MEMOIRS AND RE (MAINS OF EMINENT PERSONS 
account of the Lire and works of M. 
CANOVA, the celebrated ITALIAN SCULP- 
Tror.* 
PUNE revolutions which, during the 
| has last twenty years, have taken place 
in painting and sculpture, are sO asto- 
* The readers of the Monthly Magazine 
will recollect that in our eighteenth volume 
we presented them with a brief account of 
this illustrious artist. It is with pleasure 
nishing that they will be marked in the: 
history of the Arts as the commencement 
of anew era. Two artists have more espe- 
cially contributed to raise thein to their 
we now lay before them a more complete’ 
memoir of the most distinguished sculptor‘of, 
the present age, from the pen of Charles. 
Lewis Fernow, an enlightened amateur, who 
made the fine arts the barticular object of his 
study during @ long residence at Rome. 
G 2 present 
