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Show W, S - p [ L 4 \ { U ALY M£ | Fh E‘M' BASS - - To i i e "y 3 - i . R ‘_._ S i - - 12 Of tb refpedts, muft not appear before the Emp hout hearing < 3 hapned to the Embaffadour of Muftoqfi){, WhQ t0 preferv gnity and eficen of his Lord and Mafter, would no perform here the u{'ual'Com'pleme t and Cer mony: yeayal the Gfa'_ndees of tthingd mufi do their duty here é'r th appear before his Majefi ; nay ‘more, the E.mpflour imifelf before e is Inftall'd is obliged to comé'and bo here : Andtht; cuftom is u ually performed thire days before Audiente Upon the 22. of Auguft, came the gents of the Canton Vice-Roys-, Wi heh Mandorine Pinxenton; and other of' C antony carly in' the m'oming V" ity L dg 1ngs; not leng after appeare nefe DoGordind fome o very rich habits: Fhefe pé the Courei fons condu@ed the Embaffa 'apd: their Follow ers ingreat ‘State intéa roo 'of the o]d Palace, ‘much lik 3 Library,' for e fi none but Scholars and Gown-men - with Books i their hands'} fi fome fhort ftay; we were co duGed Into an open Court,w thin 2 high ' Wallwher wewere commanded at th voice of the Herauld to kie ] thrice, and ¢6 bow ou heads to the ground : " Afte a' fhort paufe the Herauld pro Chinefe Langiiage, Cafe chdn, th h_ic‘h 151n Englifh Go ent the Ewmperonr: After wards he cryed aloud, Quee that is,F 4]/ upon yodrRnees' word Canto, fignifying,; B d th w Jour bead sy after that Coe they, ftandup; an this did he three times i ordor one after another wherein we alfo conform At lafthecalled to us, C d e, thatis, - g0 on one [rd e did fo monies and Refpe@s were pe formedin the prefence of a leaft a hundred Chinef Doctorso,r ‘Rabbies: af erwards we returfied to r Lodgings. ""And no the Embafladours,- accord ng to the cuftom; "wer appear uponthe 25, o Augufty.-béfore the Empero r, but were pre ented by 'the fudden de th of th Emperours: youngeft brother, ho about fix years of Age hapn the 23..0f thefame month not without ifoh‘b"y fomie of the Coup ¢1l; who it feems (as we we e told; did‘not think: hi ort‘hy to "live, becauf he had provoked che Emperou ‘in fom ill Language' long before our rrival ~ Butothers afcribe his death to by drinking ‘of a glafs o of Ice-water, being very hot, hich put him into' fucha violen ‘he' dyed. in-a few. hours after diftemper,) ‘tha . The Emperour" {eemed ver his death, for he wo not ‘b e feen by any perfon iir ‘three' ays. Thisyoun Prince ‘was kept a- whole' ment ‘that the Embaffa dours were held . figm having ‘ udience:of the: Emperout; unti September, - - - vastan i Uponthe 14. of Anguft the Embaf d idours underftood, ‘that the Eniba don of Mufowy went from thence wit ecautehe'refufedto bow ro th Seal of .the Empérour 5 {ot preferve theHonour ‘an ty'oh is' Lord "an Mafter, 6ne of his Gentlemen c me aboue neon: Wil the Em afladours wer at Dmner, and took leave i the name of all "the! vé ‘a'nd"defired-‘I;iké'wi‘fc th favouf*of:i‘Letter, ~to fhe in Rauffin thae hel had foundas re fently granted. "Afterwardwse were med ‘that thi {uff red to depart, il the Emp rour had given'himaPafd The next day-after the Punera , the Emperoar 'felnt"WOrdfvt 't‘h‘e'Cbla'hcellour tlfat he-fhoy]( eenduét th Piitch Embaladou;s upofit at day before his Majeéfties Thr‘oge, asalfo thofe f the Grear Mogvl. He accordingly gave notic Proclamatt}on toall the Gr b ndees i Peking, ‘that th were to appear thenin th Court before his Royal Thicage ini sy Towving. - s Fif A "Upon the qa}' appointed for thi ce; came'the Muidorin I""""""'")‘ Withthe: Agentsag Mandorines of the Canton Vi e:Roys, ‘and fom other the aft fe an g hi S - W |