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It

may

an immense

either prove

· success, placing England

in a

position of commanding influence.

in China, or

else

a

combination

of jealous foreign Diplomatists with certain Chinese parties may render it ultimately a comparative failure. Moreover, (as I have -

remarked in former despatches),

and

measured

of

the policy Chinese, as of Turkish statesmen,

are

often liable to be upset by

Palace intrigues of

women and

eunuchs. As I mentioned on a

previous

Weather

i

#

do

China?

A

or that Quarter

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previous occasion, I was much struck during my

visit to Peking

by the general resemblance of things there to what they probably

کو

were at Constantinople in the

latter days of

the

Byzantine

Empire; of which indeed the

modern Turks are, in

now,

many

senses, the heirs; for there must through frequent intermarriages during the last four centuries, & as much of Byzantine as

nearly

of Ottoman blood in the existing

raec.

be

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