nd still refused to give up the criminal; in the mean time
his trial went on; he was found guilty of the murder, and immediately
hanged. The Chinese assembled with the intention of endeavouring to
seize the perpetrator of the murder whilst on his way to the scaffold:
The governor collected his troops, loaded the artillery on the
batteries, and awaited the attack; and, alarmed at his decisive
measures, the Chinese withdrew, under the pretence of being
perfectly satisfied with the execution of the murderer, and order
was immediately restored." The work from which this is extracted
is Captain Krusenstern's account of his voyage round the world, in
1803-4-5 and 6; being the first circumnavigation the Russians have
made, and that too under the patronage and by the command of the most
magnanimous and beneficient Alexander, a monarch whom every friend of
humanity must admire and love from the heart, as surpassing even his
liberality in the promotion of useful science and discovery amongst
his own subjects, by the splendour and substantial value of his
services in the best interests of Europe, and the world:

Non possidentem multa vocaveris
Recte beatum: rectius occupat
Nomen beati, qui deorum
Muneribus sapienter uti,
Duramque callet _pauperiem_ pati,
Pejusque leto flagitium timet;
Non ille pro caris _amicis_
Aut patria timidus perire.

To return to Macao: Captain K. strongly expresses his wish that
some European power of sufficient energy and consequence would take
possession of it, before the Portuguese themselves abandon it to the
Chinese. It is evident he alludes to the English. An agreement, it is
very probable, might be readily entered into with the Portuguese
for the possession of that place, which could not fail to prove most
convenient for our eastern commerce. An equivalent may be found among
the West Indian islands; but it is perhaps equally vain and invidious
to speculate on such very distant concerns, when the wonderful events
now occurring in a kingdom so long the torment and the _teacher_ of
nations, arrest the imagination from every trivial selfish pursuit,
and fix the mind undividedly on the operations of the great source of
power, justice, and truth. A new aera commences in the world--May it
be remarkable to all succeeding generations for liberal policy,
disinterestedness, and general benevolence!--E.

12th April, 1814.]

The commodore, not to depart from his usual prudence, no sooner c