At Sea, Gulf of Pecheli.—­July 5th.—­At last I am actually off—­on my way home?  May I hope that it is so?  I got on Sunday the Emperor’s assent to the Treaty, in the form in which I required it; sent immediately down to stop the troops, and set off myself on Tuesday at noon for the Gulf.  We sailed yesterday afternoon, with the intention, if possible, of seeing the great Wall of China on our way to Shanghae, but we have not been very successful, and have now put about, and are moving southwards....  Frederick is going home with the Treaty, and I proceed via Japan....

    July 14th.—­Frederick embarks to-night, and sails to-morrow morning
    at four.  I shall not know all that I lose, publicly and privately, by
    his departure, till he is gone....

Shanghae, Sunday, July 18th.—­I have just returned from church.  Such an ordeal I never went through.  If a benevolent lady, sitting behind me, had not taken compassion on me, and handed me a fan, I think I should have fainted....  Everyone says that the heat here surpasses that felt anywhere else.  They also affirm that this is an exceptional season.

July 19th.—­Writing has been an almost impossible task during these few last days.  The only thing I have been able to do has been to find a doorway, or some other place, through which a draught was making its way, and to sit there reading....  In sending Frederick away, I have cut off my right arm, but I think, on the whole, it was better that he should take the Treaty home,... and of course he is better able than anyone else to explain what has been the real state of affairs here....  It is impossible to acknowledge too strongly the obligation I am under to him for the way in which he has helped me in my difficulties.

[Sidenote:  Yeh]

July 21st.—­As for Yeh, I cannot say very much for him; but the account given of him by the Captain of the ‘Inflexible,’ who took him to Calcutta, differs as widely as possible from that of the Times’ Correspondent.  He was very courteous and considerate, civil to everybody, and giving no trouble.  I suppose that there is no doubt of the fact that he executed a vast number of rebels, and I, certainly, who disapprove of all that sort of thing, am not going to defend that proceeding.  But it is fair to say that rebels are parricides by Chinese law, and that, in so far as we can judge, nothing could have been more brutal or more objectless than this Chinese rebellion.  They systematically murdered all—­men, women, and children—­of the dominant race, and their supporters, on whom they could lay their hands.  Certain Americans and Europeans took them up at first because they introduced a parody of some Christian doctrines into their manifestoes.  But these gentlemen are now, I think, heartily ashamed of the sympathy which they gave them.

July 26th.—­I heard