The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-17 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS FROM CHINA.

LIN—A PROCLAMATION.
CarstON,=—Behold=---i, Lin, Qwan-too, and Gover-
nor of the province aforesaid, to the Keeper of the
Prison of the said province, ar.d also to Lin Weike, my
p&o-cbing, greeting. By virtue of an edict from the Face
of Heaven, to me directed, reciting that Soo-Kwang,
mandarin, learned in the celestial laws, official principal
in the Dark Court of Poo-too, lawfully constituted, had
signified to the Face of Heaven that one Foo-Yuen, of
the Market•place, in the town of Tay-chew, tail and
knob-maker, resident and inhabitant of the little district
of King-Shan, in the said town of Tay-chew, in
the province of Kwang-Tung, was manifestly con-
tumacious, and contemned the jurisdiction and
authority of the law and jurisdiction celestial, in not
obeying the lawful commands to pay, or cause to be paid
to Chung-Chow, the collector of Kwang-ta-jin and
Nau-gan-foo, wardens of the said district King-
Shan, the sum of five tads of Sycee silver,
lawful money of the Central Nation, rated and
fixed upon him, and the sum of fifty taels of
Sycee silver, lawful money of the Central Nation, being
the amount of costs on their behalf, duly taxed and
moderated, pursuant to a monition duly issued under
the seal of the said Dark Court, and duly and perso-
nally served on him, the said Poo-Yuen, ior that pur-
pose, and duly returned into the said Dark Court, with
a certificate and affidavit of the execution thereof of the
said Soo-Kwang, .kandarin, learned in the celestial
laws, principal in the Dark Court of P00...00 aforesaid,
lawfully authorised, by not paying or causing to be paid
to the said Chung-Chow, the collector of Kwang-ta-jin,
or Nan-gan-foo, the said sums of five taels, and fifty taels
of Sycce silver, of the Central Nation, pursuant to the
said monition, on a day and hour now long past, in a
certain cause or business of subtraction of a button or
knob* depending before the said Soo-Kwang, mandarin,
officialprineipal of the said Dark Court, in judgment
by notice of letters of request from the worshipful Moo-
kili-tirg-zih, master of the Five Books, Commissary of
the right revered son of Confucius, Cheng,by celestial
permission Fuu-tehe-yuen (censor of morals) of Lin-
choo in and. for the Li-pan (Board of Rites) of Tay-
chew, lawfully constituted between the said Kwang-ta-
chin, and Nang-gan-foo, wardens of the said little dis-
trict of King-than, in the town of Tay-chew, in the
province and commissaryship of Tay-chew, in the
ly-pau, and province of Poo-too, the parties pro-
moting the said cause or business on the one part,
and the said Foo-Yuen of the market-place in the
town of Tay-chew aforesaid, tail and knob maker, resi-
dent and inhabitant of the said little district of King-
shan, the party against whom this said cause or business
was promoted on the other part, and that the proceed-
ings thereon were carried on in pain of the contumacy
of the said Joo-Yuen, duly cited to see proceedings
thereon with the usual intimation, but in no wise appear-
ing, nor would he submit to the Celestial jurisdiction.
I command you and every one of you jointly and seve•
rally that ye attach, or one of you attach, the said Foo-
Yuen, by his body or one of his tails, until he shall have
made satisfaction for the said contempt, and how ye
shall have executed this my warrant make known to
me, so that I may notify the same to his Imperial Ma-
jesty, the Light of Reason, on the 11th day of the first
moon next, wheresoever his said Majesty shall then be
in the Central Nation, and in nowise omit this. Thereof
fail not at your peril.
Given under the seal of my office, on the 13th of the
eleventh month of Ke-hae.

This proclamation of Lin is very ridiculous, but cer-
tainly not more so than the writ issued by our Mandarin
the Sheriff of Leicester against William Baines, hatter
and hosier, and, in order that our readers may judge,
we have kept the English proclamation in type that they
may compare the two. Here it follows :
ENVANG TUNG—

Leicestershire to wit-1, Sir George Joseph Palmer,
Bart., sheriff of the county aforesaid, to the keeper of the
gaol of the said county, and also to Joseph Dent, my
bailiff, greeting. By virtue of a writ of our Sovereign Lady
the Queen, to me directed, reciting that Herbert Jenner
Knight, Doctor of Laws, official principal of the Arches
Court of Canterbury, lawfully constituted, had signified to
her Majesty that one William Baines. of the Market-
place, in the borough of Leicester, hatter and hosier, a
parishioner and inhabitant of the parish of St. Martin, in
the said borough of Leicester, in the county of Leicester,
was manifestly contumacious, and contemned the jurisdiction
and authority of the law and jurisdiction ecclesiastical, in
not obeying the lawful commands to pay, or cause to be
paid, to Vim. Fox, the proctor of William Jolly and Wm.
Berridge, the churchwardens of the said parish of St. Martin,
the sum of 21. and 53. of lawful money of Great Britain rated
and assessed upon him, and the sum of 1251 and 3s. of lawful
money of Great Britain, being the amount of costs on
their behalf, duly taxed and moderated, pursuant to a mo•
nition duly issued under seal of the said Arches Court,
and duly and personally served on him, the said William
Baines, for that purpose, and duly returned into the said
Arches Court, with a certificate and affidavit of the execu-
tion thereof of the said Herbert Jenner, Knight, Doctor of
Laws, Official Principal of the Arches Court of Can-
terbury aforftsaid, la wfitlh- authovi.. l
be paid, to the said William Fox,
the Proctor of the said William Jolly and William

Berridge, the said sums of 21. and 53., and 1251. and
33. of lawful money of Great Britain, pursuant to the said
monition, on a day and hour now long past, in a certain
cause or business of subtraction of Church-rate, depend-
ing before the said Herbert Jenner, Knt., Official Princi-
pal of the said Arches Court, in judgment, by notice of
filers of request from the Worshipful Christopher Hodg-
son, Master of Arts, Commissary of the Right Rev.
Father in God, John, by divine permission, Lord Bishop of
Lincoln, in and for the Archdeaconry of Leicester, law-
fully constituted between the said William Jolly and Wil-
liam Berridge, Churchwardens of the said parish of St.
Martin, in the borough of Leicester, in the county,
archdeacenry, and commissaryship of Leicester, in the
diocese of Lincoln, and province of Canterbury, the
parties promoting the said cause or business of the
one part, and the said William Baines, of the Mar.
ke-place, in the borough of Leicester aforesaid, hat-
ter and hosier, parishioner and inhabitant of the said
parish of St. Martin, the party against whom this said cause
or, business was promoted on the other part, and that the
proceedings therein were carried on in pain of the contu-
macy of the said William Baines, duly cited to appear in
the said cause or business, and also duly cited to see pro-
ceedings thereon with the usual intimation, but in nowise
appearing, nor would he submit to the Ecclesiastical ju-
risdiction. I command you and every of you, jointly and
severally, that ye attach, or one of you attach, the said
Wm. Baines by his body,until he shall have made satisfaction
for the said contempt, and how you shall have executed
this my warrant, make known to me, so that I may notify
the same unto our Sovereign lady the Queen, on the 11th
day of January next, wheresoever her said Majesty shall
then be in England, and in nowise omit this. Thereof
fail not at your peril.
Given under the seal of my office, the 13th day of No-
vember, in the year of our Lord 1840.