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    We agree with the governor : it is most probable they will not . But there is a trifle to add : ' Forty-seven have also been visited by a three-inch bamboo upon th e soles of their feet , during a few hours at a time ; and it is thought they will remember their instructions . You also must strictly attend to our chopB and edicts , whereat all nations tremble excessively . '

    After this very palpable threat , whereat if the Dictator did not tremble excessively , ' he must at least have felt very peculiarly situated , Loo becomes rather sarcastic . ' No doubt your Barbarian Eyeship fiuds yourself very comfortable here in Canton : you take your fill at a cheap rate , of our finest tea , and feast luxuriantly every day upon our curried mice , conserve of locusts ,

    and stewed moles with worm sauce ; preserving an excellent state of health throughout by frequent potations of our incomparable rhubarb . But you must go . It may be a sad tiling for you ; but I say again , Duck Will-in-town , there is no longer any room for you here ! Macao is your fate ! Here you must eat and drink and gad about no more . Tempt not the Celestial chops !'

    Luxurious governor ! with what jealous gusto he talks of the rich national dishes of insects and vermin ! Who would not be an epicursean a la Chinois ? Well might Lord Napier , or the dictatorial duke , ( according to Loo ' s opinion , ) wish to remain in Canton , where , no doubt , the cookery was so much better than at the common maritime Macao ! But the irony of the governor quickly ceases , and he addresses himself to the ' Barbarian Kye / seriously remonstrating with its incorrigible obliquity :

    * Your people cannot surely be without some laws ; they must have some degree of reason ; and some sort of spirit . Since the emblem ot your nation is reported to be a bull , why should you dare to show disrespect to the Celestial White Elephant ? If you , Barbarian Bull ' s-eye , were to conduct yourself in this dictatorial manner in your own country ,

    what would the laws do to you ? Would they not immediately order you to be visited by the bamboo ? You must feel the force of this reasoning . Would not your King , moreover , who must have some power , put you down from your high horse , or bull , or whatever else you ride , and strike off your cocked-hat and feather with your own sword V

    Everybody ' must feel the forceof the above reasoning , though not with the same personal or nervous reference as that in which the barbarian optic must have understood it . The governor meant . this for nothing more than a calm dispassionate appeal to his auditor ' s common sense , trusting that a parity of reasoning would bring the argument home to him in a convincing manner ; but to us , these cool queries have all the eiVect , of Swift s searching caustic . Mark also the following concluding address . Loo

    simply intended every sentence to be an innocuous marginal arrow , merely pointing out the texts of truth and justice : with an English reformer ' s application , every arrow seems thrice

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    278 Chinese Politics .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 278, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/54/