A Narrative of An Exploratory Visit to Each of the Consular Cities of China And
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His only crime was the love of life. On the approach of a conquer- ing enemy, he joined in the universal flight of the citizens. Not being a military Mandarin, he could have offered no successful resistance by awaiting the national foe. Nevertheless, in the judgment of the HIS MISFORTUNES AND MERITS. 223 Emperor, he ought to have fallen at his post ; and in order to deter the Mandarins from a similar betrayal of their trust, Loo ta-laou-yay had been stript of his rank and office, and, amid a ba...nd of faithful attendants, mourned in secret over his humiliation and fall. He wore a knob of white, the decoration of the sixth class of Mandarins, having, since the peace, been restored to a portion of his former honours. His age exceeded sixty years, and his form stooped a little beneath the weight of his afflictions. He is reported to pos- sess private wealth, and to be no longer desirous of restoration to political power, which, however, the approaching cession of Chusan by the British is said to render probable.
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