China: An Outline of Its Government, Laws and Policy, and of the British and Foreign Embassies to and Intercourse With, that Empire

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Parbury, Allen, 1834 - 419 頁
 

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第 370 頁 - Granville, one of Her Majesty's principal secretaries of state, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.
第 366 頁 - ... the said dominions ; and to make and issue directions and regulations touching the said trade and commerce, and for the government of his majesty's subjects within the said dominions ; and to impose penalties, forfeitures, or imprisonments for the breach of any such...
第 368 頁 - ... a Court of Justice with Criminal and Admiralty jurisdiction for the trial of offences committed by His Majesty's subjects within the said dominions, and the ports and havens thereof, and on the High Seas within one hundred miles of the Coast of China...
第 197 頁 - Your Majesty's kingdom is at a remote distance beyond the seas, but is observant of its duties and obedient to its laws, beholding from afar the glory of our empire, and respectfully admiring the perfection of our government.
第 365 頁 - India,'" it is, amongst other things, enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, by any such order or orders...
第 190 頁 - AD i793. cannot acquiesce in them. I again admonish you, O king, to act conformably to my intentions, that we may preserve peace and amity on each side, and thereby contribute to our reciprocal happiness.
第 317 頁 - It is a notion too commonly entertained and acted on by you, and encouraged by foreign merchants residing at Canton, that nothing is to be gained from the Chinese by obedience to their laws and edicts, but that much may be obtained by intimidation. You may have succeeded for the moment in setting the government at defiance ; but that government has not only taken the first opportunity to assert its dominion, but also, with the view of making you feel the consequences of disobedience, it has almost...
第 198 頁 - The foregoing are Articles of the Laws of the Empire of China according to which Judgement is passed on persons offending against them, without allowing of any Compromise or Extenuation.
第 362 頁 - Peter were such as to have been expecte'd in a man of his violent temperament, despotic in a barbarous country, and who in early life had been surrounded by flatterers and dissolute associates. But it would be foreign to the purpose of this work to enter into a discussion of this nature. .The Russians date their civilization from his reign...
第 198 頁 - With regard to those of your Majesty's Subjects who for a long Course of Years have been in the habit of trading to our Empire, we must observe to you that our Celestial Government regards all persons and Nations with eyes of Charity and Benevolence, and always treats and considers your subjects with the utmost indulgence and affection ; on their Account therefore there can be no place or occasion for the exertion of Your Majesty's Government.

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