Volume 1

The general history of China. Containing a geographical, historical, chronological, political and physical description of the empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea, and Thibet. Including an exact and particular account of their customs, manners, ceremonies, religion, arts and sciences ... / Done from the French of P. Duhalde ... [by R. Brookes].

  • Du Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1674-1743.
Date:
1741
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Credit: The general history of China. Containing a geographical, historical, chronological, political and physical description of the empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea, and Thibet. Including an exact and particular account of their customs, manners, ceremonies, religion, arts and sciences ... / Done from the French of P. Duhalde ... [by R. Brookes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    feem5d to overbalance the Sovereign Power : He made feveral other Regulations, -which were very ne- ceffary, and which gave great Expectations of a hap¬ py Reign, had his Life been prolonged. In the fifth Year of his Reign Han you, King of the Hartars, obtain'd Leave to come in Perfon to pay his Plomage to him, who was receiv’d in a very magnificent man¬ ner, and a firm Peace was edablifhed between the two Nations. The Emperor dy’d the Year after this happen’d, at the Age of twenty-five, being the fame Year that Chrid was born. They placed on the Throne a Prince defended from Yuen ti, the eighth Emperor of this Dynafty, who was but nine Years old. Pliao ping ti, the Eleventh Emperor, reigned five Years. THE Emprefs, Grandmother to the young Em¬ peror, very imprudently trufted the Government of the Empire in the Hands of one Vang mang, whom fhe made Colao, or Prime Minifter during the Mino¬ rity of the Emperor: This Man was not only de¬ ceitful and artful, but alfo exceffively proud, and made no Scruple to commit the mod cruel Actions to gra¬ tify the fecret Ambition he had of ufurping the Sove¬ reign Authority. Pie had an Afifociate in his Minifhy who was a Man of Merit, but his Ambition could fuffer no Ri¬ val, and therefore he found ways to remove him from the Government, and to make himfclf abfolute. In order to execute his Defign, he made feveral new Principalities, and bellowed them on thofe who were moil devoted to his Entered. In the fécond Year ol the Cycle, the treacherous çvcje Vang mang mixed Poifon with the Emperor’s Food, Year be- which in a few Days reduced him to the lad Extre- fore Chrift, mity, during which time the Traitor pretended to la- 4* ment very greatly, and made the Palace refound with A a 3 his