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the Prince gave me to understand, exposed him to con-
siderable danger,
Prince Ch'ing, not being in the Privy Council at
the time, appears to have sat on the fence, and the
safety of the Lagations, according to Prince Kung, was
largely attributable to Yung Lu and his influence over
the troops. He held that the movement, when all in sald
and done
was a patriotia though misguided one,
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and had
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been a blessing in disguise for China. Washington he
regarded as a Fozer and a successful one, but his patrio-
tion had been directed into the proper channel.
Even as it was. the rising could easily have been
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suppressed at the outset, and had his grandfather been
alive it would never have attained formidable proportions
His grandfather had steered China through a far more
difficult orisis in 1860, when the English and the French
ocoupled the capital, and the West was in the hands of
Wahometan insurgents, and the whole Empiro was barely
recovering from the effects of the Taiping rebellion.
China, however,
was not the only country that had suffer-
ed from the loss of great men. If England had had a
Wellington