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Rh ao almot the firt eay at tranlation from a Chinee original into the Englih language, he truts that even in that point of view it will not be deemed undeerving of indulgence.

His own wihes will be gratified in their full extent, if he can be conidered to have ucceeded in giving, through the medium of an authentic work, containing incidental notices upon the manners, cutoms, civil and religious habits, national characteritics, and moral principles of the Chinee, a jut idea of the pirit, and a ufficiently extended pecimen of the ubtance, of the coercive and penal laws by which the government of that vat empire has o long been maintained and regulated. Rh