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Show ed. Cjeneml @W A . For the Bearerof this Letter; th ake je the ;];);-;» ble.and effe@ual, chofe a certai Ptieft, whom the Tartars ca]] La mand to deliver the fam‘;in amoftfubmiffive manner;-and ferioufly ;0 wIith b C?m woahynsion Y the Emperour and ‘his Councel th of ‘bloog that was ]ilzle tiog {pilt, if not timely prevented y a friendly Accommodation'begyes them, ' The Emperour Vanliens. ' to'whom the'King' o though in o herithings herwas a "wile ‘ nd' prudent Prince, Yet (whether t'hto'u'gh his great age h began' to dote; or 'that the greatne( Power and Srat chad ftupified his brain) he fhewe d ‘Prudenc Conduét: For as he could not but v éry-well undetftand by the Contents "( Il' Létter; that the Complaints of th King'of ‘Ninche weie erounded u on vveiorhlt) Realons, andnot withour great Can e s yet'he took the bufinefs fo little t hgar and yudged-itoffo fmall confequence; &3 not w tthy"to be debated in i P;.Ct {encé; {6 referbed it toithe Confidera ioonf ‘fome 6 flie Councel, or rather tm] to. fome of fhis Govcrnoursand‘Comm" ‘fide'i's, who'had Tibotired ai they could a} Couit, thatit might be tranfmitte o them, ‘that (o they might fhew thei Pride i not atifwering the Letterof a Tartar ing's for to that hefght was-their in uffe rableanrogance grown;that they tho ght it an undervaluing to their Honou an Grandeur, to-rétur any Anfwer unto it.: And'inflead ignified thei high.Difpleasfure, that people fubje&y anté ' hem; and whe paid Taxes yearly t the Empero r; fhould take upon them to come s unto hi Nor ceafed chey here, bat mocked an reviled the King of Ninche with bite words never confidering that great A my whercwich hé had iavaded their Emp re orfomuch a gathering any Forces together to oppofc hiim ‘o TheTartarKing finding himfelf chas fli hted andfcorned, changing his ange 1nto madnefsybuct out into curling and fw aring;that he would revenge the Mutther of his Father with the dea h of 200000 Chinefes. ' For, as was ai e, i 1s 2 Cuftom amongft the Tartars, that hen any Perfons of Qilality dye, in Honourof the Dead, to fling into the Funeral ire, where the Deceafed ‘was burnt fome Men-fervants, Women, Horfes, B ws and Arrows, as'if the Dead frood i need of thefe things h 1 1.': .' i A i B ‘fl"l Ml 1 - A reafte many thoufands fhould atten -this barbarous Cruelty, finc o h" 3 and here the Vouw of the King fignified, that f his Fathers Funeral. Byt they have very much lef their Conqueft of China, infomuch that they no there bury their Dead after the Chinefe fafhion, wit out burning, ‘though in thei ow Country perhaps they obferve fill the {ame Ceremony The King of Ninche being thus incenfed, marches with hi Force ly, and fuddenly laid Siege to the chief City of Laeoy ng, in th Leqotung. The place was firongly fortified; and there was a Ga fifo immediateProvince o of Souldier within it,all well armed with Musketsswherea the T rfars ufe nothing but Zables Bows and Arrows ; for prevention therefore of the {laugh er by Bullets, whic the Tartars were very fearful of (‘for thisfort of Arms was th n altogether unknown to them) theyinvented a Stratagem, which might render the hooting' o ‘Bullets ineffeGual unto the Chinefes, which was this'; their King cauf d a grea number of thick Planksto be made ready, " and caufed ‘each Foot-So ldier tha marched in the Van, to carry one, wherewith he fecured both imfelf and th Horfe that followed behind. thi th Being thus provided having lain ‘a while befor City, whofe Inhabitants were unwilling to yield, it was conclude t Place. To thisend the King divided his Forces into four div fions, to ftorm th City infour placesat one time.He commanded the Foot t march with their beforementioned Planks in the Front, next to them the worf} Horfe, af ed thofe that carried the fcaling Ladders's'"At laft m rched up the Prime of hi Army, which confifted of the ffoutef? and ablef Souldiers of his Kingd om. ‘Ha"‘( V"‘ v" |