The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-30 00:00:00

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YORMER EMBASSIES TO AND
• THEIR ROSULTS.
It is a curious fac.-4,6 though the Veretians,
and the Court,of Romi
have all sent embassies to 'ilia wititiß.view of es.,
tablishing or extending commercial inteecotirse,
they have all met the same fate—failure. Tne eni L. 4,.„, •
bas: y of Nicholas and Matthew Polo, in 1260 ; that
of Marco Polo, in 1295 ; of the Portuguese Jesuits
at Macao, 1573 ; of t: e Dutch embassies in 1655
and 1795 ; of the Ruesian Mission, 1693 ; of the
Papal. Embassy, in 1720 ; of Lerd Macarteev's in
1793; and that of Lori Amherst, in 1816—all pro-
ceeding from commereill views, have all fade i t
procure anything approaching to a treaty a al-
liance or the establishment of free trade. Their
effect on the minds of the Chinese Government and
people has moreover been the very reverse of 8:11u- '
tary. To propitia'e a barbarous power they
have carried elong wi h them valuable presents
from their Governments ; ut so far from effect-
ing the desired end, these very bribes have tended
to defeat the object they were meant. to further.
They have been regarded by the Chinese as tributes
to the universal rule of their Emperor, who, in.
their opinion, has conferred an overwhelming obli-
gation on the various Courts by which they have
been sent, by receiving them.
If we consider the f eiture of the Portuguese t t
the Court of Pekin, the means by which they made
their seq!ement at Macao, and the multiplying re-
stt ictions under which they were allowed to remain.
there ; if we consider the humiliations of the Dutch,
and their expulsion from Formosa ; if we consider
our own establishment, the mode in which we have
been trifled with, aed the humiliations to which
Lord Amherst and his suite were subjected, we
shall find it intolerable that Europa should be thus
insulted by a barbarous power, and should yet ap-
proach the Emperor of China with presents in sup-
port of Petitions.
In no instance has anything been gained from.
the Chinese except 'by force, or kept without force.
There was, indeed, a time when the Emperors (
the Mautchoo dynasty, reversing the example of
their Ming predecessors, who erected brass stake 3,
to Lapel the ingress of foreigners from the Sout
and West, did all in their power to encourage fo-
reign intercourse. At their Court there was tolera-
tion of all religions. Christian and Mahommedan
found an asylum ; letters and the sciences were ft s-
tered, and commerce was declared -free. But the .
shock to the prejudices of the Chinese was too
great. Rebellion broke out in several provinces,
and an army of a hundred thousand men declared
war against the Liberal principles of Khang-hi,
tihe second Emperor of the Mautchoo race, who 1, rag
thus compelled to yield.to his people. The ports
were clese,d againgt the Europeans. As in religion
and bravery the Tartars have 'exchanged their na-
tive character for that of the people they have con-
quered, they have also adopted their bigoted. anti-
pathy to foreign intercourse ; and thongs, in all p ro-
bability the reigning
Emperor deplor's the con-
duct of Commiisioner Yeti, he has not only the
prejudices of his faithful subjec's to contend with,
but those also of the rebels, who have formed a
point of amicable contact with the Imperialists in
the late outrages against the foreigner.--/V/oniing
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