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Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · Footnote 1 : (return) Recently formed.Note 2 · Footnote 2 : (return) Quoted in Cunningham's Life of Harlow.Note 3 · Footnote 3 : (return) A celebrated Hungarian, named Cosmös de Körös, has lately discovered in a Thibetian monastery, where he has been engag Note 4 · Footnote 4 : (return) A Chinese who leaves his country is considered as a traitor, and is punished with death if he ever return to it.Note 5 · Footnote 5 : (return) The grand maxim of Confucius is, "to despise foreign commodities."Note 6 · Footnote 6 : (return) The Chinese use this stimulant as we do wine and spirits, and with perhaps, less deleterious consequences to their hea Note 7 · Footnote 7 : (return) About 7,000,000 of which, or bars or moulds of silver to that amount, are sent to India, the Chinese being unable to m Note 8 · Footnote 8 : (return) A late No. of the Canton Register, mentions a fact, which is one instance out of many, of the desire to be independent Note 9 · Footnote 9 : (return) The port dues on a vessel of 1,000 or of 100 tons are alike!Note 10 · Footnote 10 : (return) The Chinese will not admit a foreign nation to trade at two places; for instance, the Russians are excluded from Cant