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prejudices of habit and the clouds of ignorance. There is certainly a superiority in several of Travels in Kamtchatka and Siberia, with a their silk manufactures, as it regards the gloss Narrative of a Residence in China. By and the fixing of the colours, and the rendering Peter Dobell, Counsellor of the Court of them so bright and permanent; but this is not H. I. Majesty the Emperor of Russia. 2 vols. produced by any secret mordant or process 12mo. London, 1830. Colburn and Bentley. unknown to Europeans. I was once present THESE Travels are full of interesting ad- at the dyeing of silks; and, on examination, ventures, and relate many curious particulars found the process conducted in the simplest both of Siberia and China (in the latter of manner, with the commonest mordants used in which countries the author remained between England. They know very little of the chemical seven and eight years), which will be both new agents, the use of which has become so comand entertaining to readers. He landed in mon in Europe; and the brightness and perKamtchatka in 1812, and journeyed through manency of their colours must be derived from Siberia, giving a much more favourable account a very nice experience of the application of the of that frozen region than we have been ac-mordants, the climate, and other favourable customed to hear: but his previous visit to and concurring circumstances. Owing to the China in 1798, though it forms the end of the cheapness of labour, a very large number of deep. second volume, possesses more attraction for hands are employed; therefore the work goes us in the way of extracts, and we shall illus-on with a rapidity almost beyond conception, trate the work by a few selections bearing on and the silks are immediately hung out to dry, the customs, &c. of the Chinese, as observed by during the prevalence of the north wind, called a European, who had better opportunities by them Pak Fung. Certainly, in any other than common for acquiring correct informa- climate, and under different management, more

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"When they are wounded, there are no people so easily healed as the Chinese; fractures, which in other countries would require amputation, are there cured without the loss of limb. It may serve to account for this in some degree, if I state that the food of the poorer classes is principally rice and vegetables, accompanied by a couple of little ragouts of fish or flesh, and also a glass or two of their favourite samtchoo, which is very rarely drunk to excess. Several workmen were placing tiles on the roof of a house not far from where I lived, when the beam that supported it, being old and rotten, broke, and the roof and the whole party fell into the house. There were no limbs broken, but fifteen of the men received cuts on their heads and bodies; some of them very As the master-workman was an old acquaintance, he brought them all to my house, and requested me to dress them. I washed their wounds with laudanum, and, closing the lips with strips of court-plaster, gave orders not to remove the bandages until the wounds should suppurate. Although some had several time would be required, and that circumstance deep cuts, only two wounds suppurated, and "I have been told that the whole military would suffice to alter very much the appearance these were on the back part of the head,—a force of the empire is upwards of a million of of the colours. The Chinese never attempt to place which the Chinese refused to have shaved, men. This may be true; but I will answer for dye any fine silks with rich colours until the and, consequently, the hair interfered with the it there never existed an army of the same Pak Fung commences, which generally hap-adhesive quality of the court plaster. All the numerical force, so feeble, so little adequate to pens towards the last of September, or the rest were healed by what is called the first inThis wind is so re- tention. The master-builder (who was also a the defence of the country, or so perfectly igno- beginning of October. rant of the art of war. In the province of markable in its effects, and so immediately joiner), thanked me much; for he said, had the Fokien, civil wars have occurred between two felt, that should it begin at night, even when men been left without dressing their wounds, powerful clans, which the military were unable all the doors and windows are shut, the ex- it would have taken a long time to cure them, to quell. Indeed, they never attempt it, when treme dryness of the air penetrates into the and he should have been obliged to nurse and eight to ten thousand men of a side meet to house immediately, and the furniture and floors feed them. He never forgot this friendly act, decide some family quarrel. They look calmly begin to crack, with a noise almost as loud as and gave me many proofs of his gratitude afteron until the affair has had its bloody issue, the report of a pistol. If the floors have been wards. Many persons have when they intrigue with the stronger party, to laid down in summer, when the air is damp, or supposed (who only know the Chinese superdeliver over for trial some of those whom they if the planks be not exceedingly well seasoned, ficially) that a nation so grave, sedate, and mohave conquered. The governor then despatches and secured with iron cramps, they will open notonous, cannot include either fops or bons a flaming account to Pekin, relating the victory an inch at least when the north-east monsoon vivans. They are, however, mistaken; few obtained over the rebels; and asks permission commences. The Chinese will not even pack countries possess more of those worthies than to eat off the heads of the prisoners. On re-teas or silks for exportation in damp weather; China, though perhaps their talents are not ceiving an answer (always in favour of cutting that is to say, unless they are hurried to do it carried to so great an excess as in other parts off heads), those poor wretches suffer punish by the strangers who have business with them, of the world. The dress of a Chinese petitment, and there ends the affair. There is a and wish to get their ships away sooner than maître is very expensive, being composed of sect in China, very formidable, called the ordinary. I have known a ship detained three the most costly crapes or silks; his boots or Celestial Fraternity,' who, certainly, if what weeks longer than the captain wished at Can- shoes of a particular shape, and made of the the Chinese say of them be true, have some ton, because the security-merchant would not richest black satin of Nankin, the soles of a influential characters among them, by whose pack the silks which formed part of her cargo, certain height; his knee-caps elegantly emintrigues many of the revolts we have read of until the weather became favourable. This will broidered; his cap and button of the neatest have been produced. Although the fraternity account, in some measure, not only for the per-cut; his pipes elegant and high priced; his at Canton is said to be composed of gamesters, manency and beauty of the dye, but likewise tobacco of the best manufacture of Fokien ; robbers, pirates, and the very dregs of society, for the care that is taken to preserve it. The an English gold watch; a tooth-pick, hung these men, being very daring, do oftentimes Chinese say that if newly-dyed silks be packed at his button, with a string of valuable pearls; defy the police. Their object, I have been told, before they are perfectly dry, or in damp wea- a fan from Nankin, scented with chulan is the subversion of the Tartar dynasty. ther, they will not only lose the brightness of flowers. Such are his personal appointments. "The perfection of the mechanic arts in the colour, but will also become spotted. They His servants are also clothed in silks, and his China cannot be denied in certain instances; may have some secret in the spinning and tissue sedan chair, &c. &c. all correspondingly elebut this is evidently not the result of a regular of silks, which we know nothing of; but cer- gant. When he meets an acquaintance, he combination of scientific improvements. It ap-tainly not in dyeing them. pears to be the effect of the laboured experience of ages, brought slowly and difficultly to a certain point, where it is stationary, and cannot advance further, until science shall dispel the

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puts on a studied politeness in his manners, and gives himself as many airs as the most tical parts of chemistry. Cinnabar is made in Canton, sis to all those fulsome ceremonies for which They are certainly acquainted with some of the prac-perfect dandies in Europe, besides giving emphaas well as some other preparations of mercury; and I am medicine. It is said that a Chinese doctor always asks rich Chinese, who are cleanly, are all fond of told (though I never saw them) mineral preparations of the Chinese nation is so remarkable. which the patient prefers, mineral or vegetable treatment; the former being dearer than the latter." dress; though some, from avarice, attend only

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to outward show, whilst the shirt and under- This latter vice is very prevalent amongst all time a strong proof of their effeminate characgarments remain unchanged for several days, classes and descriptions of people, and is carried ter. It is, however, pursued with great arand expose, at the collar and sleeves, the dirty to a great excess. Pack-thai-Yen, whom I dour in China, many persons losing and winhabits of the master through his splendid dis- mentioned before as having been civil governor ning large fortunes at it, and some of the most guise. Those who are in the habit of mixing with and also viceroy of Canton, attacked it very avaricious men I was acquainted with were Europeans are more attentive to cleanliness; severely; but, although he caused the public great quail-fighters. I have been told also by but, generally speaking, the Chinese are cer- gaming-houses to be shut, and punished the the adepts, that there is a great deal of art in tainly not so clean in their persons as one would proprietors, yet, in a short time afterwards, choosing and dressing quails, as well as feeding expect from the inhabitants of a warm climate. a number of new ones sprang up on the ruins them and handling them. Next to quail-fightThe Chinese indulge in every species of sensu- of the old, and were as much frequented as if ing, the flower-boats occupy most of a Chinese ality, are fond of indecent shows and books, nothing had happened. No doubt the magical gentleman's leisure hours." which debauch the minds of youth, and, indeed, qualities of gold produced this effect. It seems Among their dinner customs, the following are too apt to carry all pleasures to a criminal to be the talisman of the Chinese soul, the would do well for Mr. Planché's Easter piece. excess. At their theatres I have seen exhibi- deity to whom he pays his most fervent adora- "Besides the stated periods for drinking, the tions such as it would be impossible to describe tion; nor ought we to feel surprised at his de- guests drink with one another occasionally, as without giving offence to delicacy; and these votion, when he sees it bind the rod of justice, in England. But when it is done ceremobefore the women, who appeared quite pleased and arrest the arm of the executioner. Be- niously, the parties rise from their chairs, with at the entertainment. This must be owing, sides cards and dice, they have other sports and their wine-cups held in both hands, and proon their part, to a want of education and games of chance peculiar to the country. The ceed to the middle of the room. They then refinement, and to the habit of witnessing most remarkable are quail-fighting, cricket- raise their cups as high as their mouths, and spectacles which European women, of even the fighting, shuttle-cock played with the feet, and lower them again until they almost touch the worst class, would turn from with disgust. tumbling, at which they are very expert. To ground—the lower the more polite. This proAt a Chinese theatre there is always a place make two male crickets fight, they are placed cess is repeated three, six, or nine times, each set apart for the females (I will not call them in an earthen bowl, about six or eight inches in watching the other's motions with the greatest ladies), separating them from the rest of the diameter; the owner of each tickles his cricket exactness; nor will one of them drink before audience by a curtain or screen; but, as they with a feather, which makes them both run the other, until, after repeated attempts, their sit in front, near the stage, one has a good round the bowl different ways, frequently meet-cups meet their mouths at one and the same view of them, and near enough to discover ing and jostling one another as they pass. After instant, when they empty them, and turn them how much they seem pleased with the play. several meetings in this way, they at length be- up so as to expose the inside, and shew that Women in China are not even taught to read come exasperated, and fight with great fury, un- every drop has been drunk. After this, they and write needle-work and music (if it de- til they literally tear each other limb from limb. hold the empty cups and salute one another in serves the name) are their only accomplish- This is an amusement for the common classes; the same manner, retreating by degrees towards ments. To kill time, they play at cards and but quail-fighting belongs to the higher orders. their chairs, when they sit down to resume dominoes, and smoke incessantly. Men and Quails that are to be prepared for fighting re- their functions at the repast. Here, sometimes, women of the better classes never mix in quire the strictest care and attention. Every a polite contention takes place who shall be society; it is considered disgraceful to eat quail has a separate keeper; he confines it in a seated the first, and is not decided until after a with their wives; they do not even inhabit small bag, with a running string at the top, con- number of ceremonious bows, nods, curvings the same side of the house. I have, however, stantly attached to his person; so that he carries of the bodies, and motions of the hands, when known some who broke through this custom, the bird with him wherever he goes. The poor they contrive to lower themselves into their and who have assured me they found much prisoner is rarely permitted to see the light, ex- chairs at one and the same moment. At the pleasure in dining with their wives. Polygamy cept at the time of feeding, or when the keeper commencement of this ceremony, when the has certainly done a great deal of mischief in deems it necessary he should take the air for his parties approach one another so as almost to the way of morals. Some men, even at an health. When he airs his quail, he will hold touch their wine-cups, they very often exadvanced age, continued to increase their stock him in his hand (taking great precautions not change them before they begin their salutaof wives, when they have already sons grown to to spoil his plumage) for two or three hours at tions. They have also a game for making manhood. I have been confidently informed, a time. The patient care and attention of the each other drink, which I shall endeavour to that intrigues between those sons and the Chinese to their fighting-quails and singing- describe. The wine-cups being filled, the two younger wives, or concubines, of the father, birds, are equal to those of the fondest mother persons engaged stretch forth their right hands are not uncommon. Dining once with a rich for a favourite child. When two quails are towards the centre of the table, with their merchant, some comedies were represented to brought to fight, they are placed in a thing like fingers closed. When the hands come almost us, where the wit turned upon the refined a large sieve, in the centre of a table, round in contact, they open as many fingers as they tyranny of a husband, who beat his wives most which the spectators stand to witness the battle please, and each person cries out the number unmercifully. We asked him if the wives did and make their bets. Some grains of millet- he opens, as one, three, five, &c. Whoever not sometimes rule the husband, and begged to seed are then put into the middle of the sieve, hits on the exact number of fingers presented have a piece of that kind acted for our amuse- and the quails, being taken out of the bags, are by both persons, obliges his adversary to drink. ment. Our host answered in the affirmative, put opposite to each other near the seed. If I have seen this game continued for an hour, and immediately ordered two or three comedies they are birds of courage, the moment one be- until one of the parties, finding himself the to be performed, in which the females were gins to eat the other attacks him, and they loser, and his head a little affected, is obliged complete termagants, and made the poor hus- fight hard for a short time, say one or two mi- to recede. It is an extremely noisy amuseband appear the most pitiful, hen-pecked wight nutes. The quail that is beaten flies up, and ment when any number of guests engage in it. imaginable. The strangers present all laughed the conqueror remains, and is suffered to eat In passing up and down Canton river, on a heartily; and we could perceive the women all the seed. I should suppose the best quail- holyday, one's ears are assailed on all sides enjoyed it beyond measure; but, the moment fight never lasted more than five minutes. with this boisterous merriment, which savours the master of the house discovered this, and Rich men have always a number of birds ready strongly of the barbaric customs that prevailed that we passed some jests upon him, he became trained, in order to have as many battles as will at the feasts of our uncivilised ancestors." serious and embarrassed, and would not permit occupy a considerable portion of the day. Im- But we must conclude, which we do with a continuance of those representations. We mense sums of money are won and lost on the Chinese account of the origin of letters in may therefore fairly conclude, that in spite of them. A good deal of time also is spent in Europe. the strict and despotic manner in which wives making the bets. Sometimes one quail has "A Chinese, who was accustomed when he are treated in China, they sometimes get the been known to win several hundred battles, walked to take a book for his amusement, went upper hand of their lordly masters. On stricter and, all of a sudden, gets beaten by a new and once some distance into the woods, where he inquiry I found, that when a Chinese became untutored bird; a circumstance which occa- stopped to read and rest himself. Finding enamoured of one of his wives in preference, sions high betting and fresh encounters, until himself fatigued, he put the book down on she generally contrived to wheedle him, and the new comer is again beaten in turn. If we the ground and placed a stone on it, whilst he govern him as she liked. The rich men, how-consider what a trifling gratification this sport lay down to repose himself. After a while he ever, are not over-blessed with domestic habits.affords, when compared with the time, trouble, got up and went home-but forgot the book. They dissipate a great deal of their time at the and expense of preparing the quails, it is It remained there for several years, until every theatres, or in parties on the water, at the astonishing it should be so much esteemed. part was decayed, except twenty-four characters flower-boats, or receptacles for public women, An extreme fondness for gaming can be the covered by the stone. These a monkey afterat the exhibitions of fighting quails, gaming, &c. only inducement; but it exhibits at the same wards found, and not being able to read them,

he presented them to the Europeans, who formed their language with them. This story, ridiculous as it is, shews the vanity and pride of the Chinese, and the contempt they have for Europeans."

of the entire visible circle, a dull, dusky, mo-mounted; but William, having no motive for tionless cloud sat brooding over the earth. choosing one place rather than another, kept The road along which the travellers were jour-his seat, resolved to go as far as they would neying seemed to plunge into the midst of this take him. In the meantime the lamps became portentous gloom; but extending on either more bright, and the shop-windows were lighted side, vast and irregular lines of buildings, as up; the streets were crowded with innumerable The Game of Life. By Leitch Ritchie. 2 vols. they caught the parting rays of the sun, flashed carriages, and the foot-pavements with hurry12mo. London, 1830. Bull. them back from their windows, looking like ing passengers; every thing wore an air of life, THIS tale is the history of a young man who, fragments of some victorious city in which the and bustle, and prosperity, and the sensations with no friends, and only ten pounds in his illuminations had begun. In a little while the of the traveller were wound up to a pitch of pocket, but with the birth, education, and feel- eye was able to wander through opening vistas almost joyous excitement. Looking eagerly ings of a gentleman, is forced, by the pressure of streets, and to discern that the dim interior from one side to another-measuring with his of necessitous circumstances, to visit London, was formed of similar materials; while spire eye some gigantic spire, till it was lost in the and seek his fortune on the slender foundation after spire, and dome after dome, and column gloom above-now fixing a lingering gaze on we have indicated, having passed all the early after column, rising slowly on the sight, con- some window of surpassing splendour, and now portion of his life in the ignorance and seclu- veyed to the spectator an almost exaggerated looking with no less surprise and delight on sion of the country. The scenes are uniformly idea of magnitude and magnificence. At some lovely face turned up in the lamplight to dark-vice and want go hand in hand; and length, as one enormous dome stood distinctly glance listlessly on the passing vehicle-he sat the exertions to escape from this double bondage revealed, apparently the centre and nucleus perfectly insensible of the lapse of time, till are made in the lowest channels by which a of the proud array, and when the sunlight the coach plunged suddenly into an archway, livelihood can be gained. Copying law papers, flashed on that golden cross and ball, rendered and stopped before the door of an inn." collecting or manufacturing news for the daily as familiar by pictorial representations to the We shall add a bit of a night piece, sketched press, and writing for magazines, finally leave distant kind, as the roof of his father's cot- in the same vivid manner. him in a state of absolute destitution. How- tage,-William sprung upon his feet where "It was nearly twelve o'clock, the publicever, the book ends very happily, owing to the he sat on the top of the coach, and his houses had already emptied their lawful conintervention of an old gentleman, such as is high-wrought and tumultuous feelings of ex- tents into the vast thoroughfares of popuseldom to be met with in life, though very pectation, awe, wonder, and delight, burst lation; the shops were shut, with the exception, often in novels, a Mr. Vesper, who, because forth in the exclamation- London, London!' here and there, of an avaricious pastry-cook's, the mother jilted him, sentimentally protects As yet the wheels had not grated on the paved which still gaped upon the street for the purthe son, helps him out of his difficulties, and ways, which mutter with portentous voice of pose of tempting stragglers on their way home finally marries him to his newly-discovered the business of a town; but already a dull, from the playhouses; the customary noises of niece, the heroine of these pages. The plot is grating, monotonous sound filled the air. It evening had died away, all but now and then nothing; the argumentative portions somewhat was like the low and soft, yet most mighty and a drunken shout, or the rattle of a hackneylengthy; and we do not find much originality magnificent voice which is heard upon the sea- coach, or the hoarse voice of a watchman in the more creative efforts. But the great shore at night, disturbing the ear, amidst the bawling the hour. By and by, the theatres merit of the author is in the true and graphic silence and calmness of the hour, with news flung their gushing volumes into the stream, pencil with which he draws pictures from from the far ocean. Soon a louder rush was which gave token of the addition to the actual life. Evidently an eye-witness, and heard, sweeping and dying away at intervals; furthest corners of the metropolis. Men and perhaps an actor, in the scenes he describes, then a single shout might be distinguished, women, boys, girls, and children, flowed rathey are exhibited with startling fidelity. The rising among the millions of voices rather felt pidly along; some absorbed as they passed into lodging-house, and various street occurrences, than heard; and then slowly and gradually, the ducts and creeks which opened by their are copied from the daily panorama of life, with as the ear of the rustic traveller learnt to apply side, and others disappearing in the gloom the tact and accuracy of a very acute observer. its wonderful faculties to the new world of before. The eager remark, the abrupt quesWe hope that the following descriptive sketches sound which it was entering, the supposed tion, the recollected laugh, echoed on all sides; of the metropolis will afford a favourable spe- monotone divided into ten thousand component and when the crowd gradually melted away, cimen of Mr. Ritchie's talents. The arrival parts, and the roar of carriages, the working and their voices died in the distance, the of the hero in town is a fair sample. of machinery, the noise of innumerable trades, loneliness of the desert street seemed strange "When William Clive's journey, which he the barking of dogs, the voices of men, women, and startling. The silence was now only commenced on the following morning, began and children, in tones of cursing and blessing, broken at long intervals by the scream of the to draw near a close, his excited feelings grew and shrill laughter, deluged his very soul. female night-wanderer, driven by intoxication more tumultuous every moment. The villages Darting suddenly from the road into one of and despair to remonstrate with the sullen in the neighbourhood of London appeared as the narrow avenues which gaped at every step, guardian of the hour; but elsewhere the towns of respectable magnitude to him; and the paved stones at length rattled and grum-drowsy voices of the watchmen themselves the idea of the vast leviathan, to which those bled and crushed beneath; rival vehicles swept seemed to add to the calmness of the scene, were but minnows, became proportionably ex- headlong by, the wheels grazing as they passed; Imposing silence with a stilly sound.' panded. Every step, at length, proclaimed the air darkened, the sky was hidden; and with As William turned into Bridge Street by the more distinctly their approach to some enor- a momentary sensation of fear, our traveller Obelisk at Fleet Market, he heard a singular mons congregation of the human kind. The saw the houses closing dimly around him, and cry, which even his practised ear was unable avenues opening to the main road became more felt that he was now fairly swallowed up and to syllable into any of the customary sounds of frequent and more crowded-looking like in- lost in the insatiable maw of the metropolis. a metropolitan night. A figure in white came numerable ducts, constructed for the purpose of His inexperienced eye, however, exaggerated rushing along the pavement, uttering a short, draining the country of its population, to con- the darkness. The lamps in some places were shrill, definite scream, repeated in rapid yet vey it to one grand central reservoir. Even only beginning to be lighted, and the citizens regular succession. As she approached, he the aspect of the passers-by exhibited a sudden still walked on as if in broad day. In one shop could see that she was dressed in the extreme and remarkable change. Each man walked a woman was matching the shade of a coloured of fantastic finery, and that her wild and steadily on, absorbed in his own thoughts, or stuff, which, for aught William's optics could bacchanal air denoted a profession of shame. busy with his own occupation; he looked as if discern, might have been either canvass or mus- 'Lost! lost! lost!' was her cry as she ran; about to enter, or having just left, a tumultuous lin; while in another, a solitary lamp, destined Lost! lost! lost!' she shrieked more wildly crowd, in which his only business was to by and by to communicate light to the whole, in William's ears, as she swept past him like elbow his way as well as possible. No vacant threw a shadowy splendour upon the riches in a spirit. Shocked and heart-stricken, he stood stare of curiosity greeted the approach of a new the interior, which brought to his recollection still and gazed after the phantom; and when freight of human beings to swell the mass- the cave of Aladdin. In some places, the her form had melted into the darkness, and the coach rolled on with as little observation as street was broken up beside him; and as the the voice of the lost one fallen for the last time one of an interminable succession of drops carriage tottered slowly past, he threw a gaze upon his heart, it was with a gasp of unuttrickles down a cliff, to lose itself in the ocean. of wonder and almost terror into the excavation terable relief he pursued his aimless journey. The sky behind was bright with the golden below, where, at a vast depth, numerous la- On the neighbouring bridge he stood for a hues of an autumnal sunset, which shewed bourers were working by lamp-light, in what while, contemplating instinctively the imposing with nice precision the edge of the distant appeared to him to be the streets of a subter-scene before him. No sensible perception, horizon, broken at intervals with small tapering ranean city. The coach stopped several times, however, of beauty or sublimity at first entered spires. Before, embracing nearly two-thirds and some of the passengers one by one dis- his mind. He seemed to be awakened gra