Pakhoi
a seaport of China; opened to foreign trade in 1876; on the N. shore of the Gulf of Tonkin. The harbor is shallow. Trade does not flourish. The imports-cottons, woolens, opium, riceports-tin, sugar, indigo, aniseed, hides, average $4,048,500 per annum; the ex- 20,000. over tuosos"; "The Chinese Idol"; "The Marquis of Tulipano"; etc. In that year he entered the service of Catharine II. of Russia. Here during eight years' residence he composed his best productions, at Madrid. He there became editor of "The Maid Mistress," and "The Barber where he composed "King Theodore," of Seville." He then visited Vienna, another of his best operas, and 12 symphonies for the Emperor Joseph II. He died in 1816.