The Litchfield County post., 1827-12-13

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of our readers, although the witty Joseph
Millar has recorded it in his laughter stirring
volume. A painter was desired to make an
achievement, on which was the motto, /" Sic
transit gloria mund." 1t SO happened that
he was desired 10 deliver In his performance
on Monday; it was not, however, finished
before the succeeding day, and as proof of
his accuracy, he altered the motto. and dellv-
! cred the melancholy emblem of death to his
customer with the following alteration - sic
transit gloria IueSday.'
! The Ne1c Zealand Chief.-When this dis
tinguished parsonage first arrived at Calcutta
| Ire, with the modesty natural in persons of
rank, preferred going ON shore, incOg, at first,
in order the better to dispose of his state pa
pers and credentials, leaving his minister and
| factorum, his Exceilency Morgan M'Murroch
on hoard the st. Pdtrick.-SOme days after
his Minister landed in full figure feathered
war-cloak hung from his brawny shoulders;
his large circular shield was carried on his left
arm, with his right hand grasped three stout
| lances, and his bow and well stored
| quiyeI, with two stone pdtta p1ttooes (the
| formidable weapon used in close combaD were
suspended hv sings of Unframed hides from
! his back. With these heavy. cumbrous man.
| fold Announcements, his Excellency moved
! with the most perfect ease, and he was quick
Nly surroundedsby a crowd of spectators.
, while IA procession to his royal masters no.
tel, a body Of choked IFS, with drawn scyme-
| tars and fierce looks rushed upon his Excellen-
[ CIV. and seized hm he cot rpIishing this sal
| ute, bnt without terror freed himself with one
bound from his assaiIants. drew his cloak a.
round him, lowered his spear, aud was in the
act of dealing death blow, when his Europ-
can friends arrested his uplifted arm. Invain
they represented to the chokedars that he was
a foreigner and man Of rank-they re>Oute
.y unarned him, and insisted that be was
Burman SPY IN diSguiss come to Calcutta, s.
that an army would he there in the night.
Seeing that the functionaries persisted in their
legal determination to conduct his Excellen-
| ~ before the police. his friends agreed to ac-
company him to the Office where the matter
was soon set to rights and his Excelency set
| at liberty. This ludicru,Is occurrence created
4 great deal of mirth in India and impressed
| his Excellency with some serious alarms that
they intended to bake him, the only death he
| feared.
RUSSIA AND CHINA.-Et is fact. probably
not generally known, that the Russian Gov
eminent has had, for a century pasta regular
! Iy established religious and scientific mission
at Pekin, not merely tolerated Or connived at
! by the Chinese Government but openly ex-
| isting under the sanction of formal treaty,
concluded in.the year 1898; the fifth article
Of which is in the following terms: The Rus
slams shall henceforth occupy at Pekin the
Kouan or Court, which they now inhabt.
According to the desire of the Russian Am
bassador, a church shall be built with the aid
of the Chinese Government. The priest who
now resides there, and three others who are
expected, shall live in the Kouan above men
| toned. These three priests shall be attach
| ed to the SEINE church, and receive the same
| provisions as the present priest The Rus
slams shall be permitted to worship their God
according to their rites of religion. Four stu
dents, and two Ofan advanced age, acquaint-
ed with the Russian and Latin Languages,
| shall also br received into this house the Am
| bassadOr wishing to leave them at Pekin to
| '"arn thr I"nguages of the country. They
shall be- maintained at the expense of the EN-
peror, and shall be permitted to return to
their own country as soon as they have fin
ished their studies. The maintenance of the
mission annually costs the Chinese Govern
ment above 1000 roubles and 5000 pounds of
rice; and the Russian Government Is, $50
rubIes; of this last sum, 1000 rubes are set
apart for the maintenance of the young AL
bazins who live at Pekin, and who are des-
pendants oft COssacks Of Albusin. The
translator of an interesting account of the ira
wells Of Russian in China very Justly re-
marks that it is natural to enquire what ad-
yantages literature and science have derived
from the Russians having thus possessed for
a hundred years an opportunity which no o.
ther Christian nation has enjoyed, and which
had it been allowed to the natives OF France,
England or Germany would most probably,
have made us acquainted with every thing
relative to the history, institutions, the gov
eminent. Of this great empire and its extensive
dependencies. 10 this, no answer of salts
factory nature. can be given.
| Although the Russian government possess
| the above mentioned privilege, the Celestial
Empire gratifes its vanity by retaining Rus-
STA in the list of its tributary states; and in
the Hoei-tian or fundamental code of the en-
pire, where every thing relative to the embas-
| sizes from those countries which are account
ed tributary is regulated there is a chapter
| treating Of the manner of receiving the Rus
sian Embassies. 1t is there laid down, that
the Ambassador shall be daily supplied with
sheep, vessel of wine, a pound of tea,
pitcher of milk, two ounces of butter, two
fish, two cups of oil for the lambs, pound of
sailed cabbage, four ounces of sOya, four oun-
ces of vinegar and an ounce of salt EverV