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The Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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A Chinese reformer akin to Tom Paine advised the aging Emperor to remarry and name a successor via a letter published in the Pekin Gazette. The Emperor declined, citing age and tradition, leading to the reformer's execution as an incendiary. The empire remains tranquil under the current sovereign.
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A sort of a Tom Paine started up some time since in the empire of China. He addressed a letter to the Emperor, advising him to marry again and also to nominate his successor to the sovereignty.
This letter was published in the Pekin Gazette. The Emperor himself condescended to write an answer to it; in which he observed, that being near eighty years of age, he thought himself rather too old to think of matrimony again, & that it was probable, the fair sex might be of the same opinion: therefore he had fully justified himself for not adopting the counsel of the writer on the subject of Marriage.
With respect to the nomination of a successor, the Emperor stated, that it was contrary to the practice of all his predecessors, and consequently by deviating from their example, he might only involve the empire in confusion. The Emperor having thus vindicated himself in the face of the Empire, for declining the measures proposed to him, the Reformer was taken up, and immediately executed as an incendiary!
Since the circumstance took place, no other innovator has ventured to come forward; and the Government of the Empire, which has been considerably extended by the present Sovereign, is now carried on with its usual tranquility.
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the reformer was executed as an incendiary; no further innovators have appeared; the empire remains tranquil under the current sovereign who has extended its territory.
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A reformer in China, compared to Tom Paine, wrote a letter to the Emperor advising him to remarry and nominate a successor, published in the Pekin Gazette. The Emperor, nearly 80, responded publicly declining due to age and tradition to avoid confusion. The reformer was arrested and executed.