Excerpt from Portfolio Chinensis, or a Collection of Authentic Chinese State Papers Illustrative of the History of the Present Position of Affairs in China: With a Translation, Notes and Introduction
Tnosn important Russian State Papers made public by Mr. Urquhart, and printed by Ridgway and Sons. London. Were published in monthly numbers under the title of Portfolio hence the origin of the appli cation of the term in the present instance. The designs of the Chinese Government are usually made known beforehand by public Proclam tions, written (and sometimes printed) in very large and legible char acters, and pasted up at all the most frequented thoroughfares, stamped with the red seals oi' the high officers who issue them.
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