The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-08-19

From CHINA. We find in the New
York Journal of Commerce the following
extracts from a file of the Canton Register
to March 16, received at Philadelphia.
The small pox was raging at Canton in
March, and had occasloned an uDprece-
denied mortality among the natives. Sew
eral thousands had fallen victims to the
distemper and of adults, not one third had
survived the attack. The crews of foreign
ships had also suffered, to a considerable
extent many deaths had occurred but a
timely resort to vaccination had done much
to mitigate the calamity.
Pekin. His Majesty has granted per-
mission to his younger brother, King Tunt
sin to walk within the precincts of the inner
palace. To his paternal uncle, King Eet-
sin, who is now "a years of age, he has
granted the privilege of appearing before
the Emperor and Empress Dowager with
out kneeling.
Canton. King Tain, the right hand
Tartar Adiutant General of Canton, receiy-
ed the other day form of PRAYER, piece
of silk, and stick of Incense, from the
Board of Rites to Pekin. He is ordered
to 60 with them and offer sacrifice on the
altar of the District God, Namhoy Shun.
a severe prohibition against killing bunocks
for food.
Burial ofhe Dead Whle'th One Man.
as his Imperial Majesty designates himself,
has spent eight years in excavating Sc
RES OF Palaces to receive his mortal re-
MAINS, there are subjects of this great Mon
archy who are so poor as to leave their
children and friends without burial. The
rich keep their kindred, sometimes twenty
years, IN Halls of State, coffined up, till a
lucky spot be found, which the Geomancers.
who live by the superstition, are in haste to
ma. we ourselves were the other day
present, in Hall, where two coffins were
deposited, by gentleman said to possess
nearly million sterling. One contained
the body Of his father, who died twenty
years ago. The following paragraph, writ
ten by gentleman who visited the spot,
describes the condition to which the poor
are reduced and shews at the same time,
the want of feeling and good government
"hich exists In this great commercial city,
and metropolis of the province.
! About - miles above the European
factories at Canton, on the south side of the
riVer and about 500 yards in land, stand a
clump OF trees in the midst of the paddy
helds. 1t is beneath their shade but above
ground that the corpses of the neghborng
poor are deposited, some of them waiting
only TIL mt place ofburial can be obtained
ny their friends, others, doomed to this as a
last hating place. We found Z or s corpses
pied upon the roots and round the trunk
OF large tree, some of them in collins com
posed OF few rough planks nailed together
-others wrapped IN mats: at little dis
lance lay the body of child, with the flesh
still seemingly sound-but whose feet and
hands had already become the prey of some
ravenous animal. Some countrymen who
approached us, told us, they were mostly
victims of the small pox, who were brought
thlther-the child however which we saw
had no marks whatever of such disease.n
In the interior of the empire similar spots
OF waste ground, were occupied in the same
manner,