ORIGIN OF WHIG ANTIPATHY TO THE CHINESE.
Moen meditating, we have at last discovered, though more by accident than meditation, why the present Ministers of this coun- try hate the Chinese. Coarecrus is held in universal veneration throughout China, and shrines and temples are erected to his worship. Now in the Lun-yu, or conversations of CONFUCIUS recorded by his disciples, be is represented to have said—" How can a mean matt serve his prince? When out of office, his sole object is to attain it ; and when he has attained it, his only anxiety is to keep it. In his unprincipled dread of losing his place, he will readily go an lengths."* How can the MELBOURNE Ministry-be otherwise than hostilely disposed towards a people whose state religion is a standing impeachment of them ?
• DAVIS'S Chinese, IL 53.
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