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Show EXAC EmBass 0% XB fent by the Eaft -Inp1a-Compan i OF TH UNITE A RELATIO PROVINCES T TH GranxpD TarTar C H A M o EMPEROU H I A Delivered ac 2 E K I N G, the Imperial City, &c " 4 HE Locedemonians werea People, who by their Law and Cuftoms were ftrictly prohibited from Travellin out of their own Countrey; left fo degenerating i manners (ds they fuppofed) they mighe fall into more loofe and irregular courle of life,and by the acquaintance of the various Modes of feveral Forei Nations, flight the ftrictnefs of their own feverer Eftablifhments Neither ‘would they permit that any Stranger {hould refide amongft them, left they by Converfation thould be imbu'd with thei noveltiesand opinions Which more to ftrengthen ; What Citizen foever that di not educate his Children according to their own fetled Laws, was immediately pronounced incapable of the priviledges belonging to his Countrey So great a lov had this Natjon to their Native foil, and fuch the averfion engraffed in them fro thei the fever Toviemon "* |