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Pàgina 390 - China had recovered from her internal confusion, there was nothing to be gained and much to be lost by protracted resistance to the peoples of the West.
Pàgina 351 - ... recognition of the right of the British Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade to communicate directly in writing with the high officers at the Chinese capital, and to send his communications by messengers of his own selection : such arrangements affording the best means of ensuring the due execution of the existing Treaties, and of preventing future misunderstandings. 5. A revision of the Treaties with China with a view to obtaining increased facilities for commerce, such as access...
Pàgina 272 - Your Lordship will announce your arrival at Canton by letters to the Viceroy. In addition to the duty of protecting and fostering the trade at Canton, it will be one of your principal objects to ascertain whether it may not be practicable to extend that trade to other parts of the Chinese dominions. It is obvious that with a view to the attainment of this object the establishment of direct communication with the Imperial court...
Pàgina 459 - At many of the principal places in China open to foreign residence, the Sisters of Charity have established institutions, each of which appears to combine in itself a foundling hospital and orphan asylum. Finding that the Chinese were averse to placing children in their charge, the managers of these institutions offered a certain sum per head for all the children placed under their control given to them, it being understood that a child once in their asylum no parent, relative, or guardian could...
Pàgina 325 - We killed them all,' said the Insurgents with emphasis, — the recollection bringing back into their faces the dark shade of unsparing sternness they must have borne when the appalling execution was going on — ' We killed them all to the infant in arms: we left not a root to sprout from.
Pàgina 280 - ... of that property : but (beyond the actual pressure of necessity,) that demand was founded on the principle, that these violent compulsory measures being utterly unjust per se, and of general application for the forced surrender of any other property, or of human life, or for the constraint of any unsuitable terms or concessions, it became highly necessary to vest and leave the right of exacting effectual security, and full indemnity for every loss, directly in the queen.
Pàgina 304 - Now three principal things are required for the redress and satisfaction above spoken — namely, compensation for losses and expenses, a friendly and becoming intercourse on terms of equality between officers of the two countries ; and the cession of insular territory...
Pàgina 415 - ... still held by the garrison across the Taho lake. In order to attain this object it was necessary,. in the first place, to carry the stockades at Wuliungchow, a village two miles west of Patachiaou. The place was captured at the first attack and successfully held, notwithstanding a fierce attempt to recover it under the personal direction of Chung Wang, who returned for the express purpose. This success was followed by others. Another large body of rebels had come up from the south and assailed...
Pàgina 398 - ... necessarily followed that no advantage would accrue from any further hesitation with regard to allowing Europeans to enter the imperial service for the purpose of opposing them. Ward was officially recognized, and allowed to purchase weapons and to engage officers. An Englishman contracted to convey 9,000 of the troops who had stormed Ganking from the Yangtse to Shanghai. These men were Honan braves, who had seen considerable service in the interior of China, and it was proposed that they should...
Pàgina 107 - The delay in selecting Kuyuk, whose principal act of sovereignty was to issue a seal having this inscription : " God in Heaven and Kuyuk on earth ; by the power of God the ruler of all men," had given the Sungs one respite, and his early death procured them another. Kuyuk died in 1248, and' his cousin Mangu, the son of Tuli, was appointed his successor. By this time the Mongol chiefs of the family of Genghis in Western Asia were practically independent of the nominal Great Khan, and governed their...