HONG, the Chinese name for the for eign factories situated at Canton. The hong merchants are those persons who are alone legally permitted to trade with for eigners. They are ten in number, and are always held responsible by the gov ernment for paying all duties, whether on inspects or exports in foreign vessels. No foreign ship that enters the Chinese ports can commence unloading until she has obtained a hong merchant as security for the duties.
IION'Olt, a testimony of esteem or submission, expressed by words, actions, and an exterior behavior by which we make known the veneration and respect we entertain for any one, on account of his dignity or merit. The word honor is also used in general for the esteem due to virtue, glory, and reputation. It moreover means, that dignified respect for character, which springs front princi ple or moral rectitude, and which is a distinguishing trait in the character of good men. It is also used for virtue and probity themselves, and for an exactness in performing whatever we havo promis ed: and in this last sense we use the term, a man But honor is more particularly applied to two different. kinds of virtue, bravery in men, and chastity in women. Virtue and honor were deified among the Greeks and Romans, and had a joint temple consecrated to thetn aat Home; but afterwards they had separate temples, which were so placed, that no one could enter the temple of Honor, without passing- through that of Virtue ; by which the Romans were continually put in mind, that virtue is the only direct path to true glory. The first temple to
honor was erected by Scipio Africanus, and another afterwards was built by Claudius Marcellus. We find a persoiti fication of this quality on several medals of Galba and of Vitellius. She is repre sented half naked, holding in one hand is spear, and in the other a cornucopia: upon others, a long robe envelops the figure, and the spear is exchanged fur an olive branch.—Honor, in law, a superior seignory, to which other lordships and manors owe suit and service, and which, itself, holds of the king only—Ifanors of war, honorable terms granted to a van quished enemy, when he is permitted to march out of a town with all the insignia of military honors. of honor, among persons of fashion, signify certain rules by which their social intercourse is regu•ited, and which are founded on a rega,rd to reputation. These laws re quire a punctilious attention to decorum in external deportment, but often lead to the most flagrant violations of moral duty.—Court qf honor, an ancient court of civil and criminal jurisdiction, having power to redress injuries of honor, and to hold pleas respecting metters of arms and deeds of war.-3ra ids of honor, ladies in the service of European queens, whose business it is to attend the queen when she appears in public. In Eng,land, they are six in number, with a salary of £300 each.