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Show the Empireof Cuina ---- . e e and Famous City of Fangchen made fome confiderable refiftance, and kill' many of the Tar'tarf ir} their Sallies, among(t whom was a Son of one of thei petty Kings. - This City was commanded by one Z s Coluris, placed there b the new' Emperour, to whom he proved very faichful ; for he defended th place, whe;cin wasa firong Garrifon, to the very laft; yet »havin‘gc‘ndure long and cruel Siege, and feeing no likelihood of relie (the provifions all within being all {pent) he was forced at laft to delivei r up to the Tartars, wh put all, as well the Souldiers as Inhabitants, to the Sword, plundered the City and afterwards {ecting it on fire, laid it all in afhes kY The Tartars hereupon increafed very much in power and authority, fo tha many of the Cbz‘nefe Commandcrgwent over to them 'fi't up, 3fte g the pex and were either' conti wnued in their prefent Employments, or elfe preferr'd to better. © Which friendl d Coifipo and favourable treating {uch Officers an force over to them, and on the other han cley on fuch as made oppofition, brough Province o d, and pro Cities as came voluntarily and withou inflifting {uch great feverity and cruit to pafs that moft'of the places fitua ted in the North over the River Kiang fubmitted themfelves, to avoid the pu reat matter his Throne, nifhment and mifuf{age which they fhould otherwife undergo by making oppofi tion Having fubdued thefe places, the next thing they undertook was againft th City of Nanking, formerly the Court of the ancient Emperours, and is a ftately City lying upon'the Southfide of the River Kizng, which divides the whol Empire of China into a Southern and Northern divifion, and runs'quite throug ms Of Ieav the Tart !».0 gain tim jected thei the middle of the Province: So that the Tartars to win this City, and to get th new Emperour into"their hands, who was within the fame, were forced before untrey, o complith hand to provide great numbers of Boats whetein to be carried ‘over the River The Chinefes likewife having many Veflels, of them,made a Fleet, which lay under the Command of the Valiant Prince Hosngehosng on the other fide of the River. The Tartars in their Boats fell'upon thé Chinefe Fleet with great fury and tha uth, wh nd endeaAnd tha which as manfully received and maintained the Fight's fo that both fides foiigh molft valiantly, butatlaft Fortune intending to fhew a glimpfe of her favour t the Chinefes; the Tartars were vanquifhed and" totally routed with a very grea flaughter of their Men:* By which-valorous adion Hoangchoung made it appear that the Tartars were not-invincible. - But Fortine, never conftanc but in he inconftancy, did not long favour this brave General; for ‘a while after he ‘was moft teachieroufly kill'd by one of his own Commanders, a Traitor who had lon before been hired by the Enemy to perpetrate this Villany, one Thienns a Nativ that fevera pretende ment, an he lawfu , with a , notwithextreaml he Youth ufif, tha of the Province of Leaotung, who from his Childhood had ferved amongft th Chinefes. And asthe Acin it {elf was direful, {6 the events that followed had . of NowJomman er, the/Chinefe-Affairs began infinitely to decline, and the whole Empire becam like miferableiffuesforthrough the unfortunate ;de-at,h of this ExcellentCommand ‘a'Prey toothe Tartarsina fhort time after e refufe .tor (being prefent) {eeing approach, commanded his Men to'feize him, and the delivered'hin up to'the Tartars;in Tuly 1645. who' now having obtained wha cfchC the fam e North / they much ‘aimed at, ‘did'not prefently put him to death, but firft carried him u and down'in ‘Triumph, and at length havingf {l?;ought him- under the Walls_? th ; got ove I Jefe e cccive ough th ,ok in th hief Cit a The Traitor Thienns, not fatisfied in having committed 'this foul a&ion, bu willing toiadde villany tovillany, flies with his b%en into Nanking, under colour o performing his duty as'a faithful Officer, but in truth with hopes'to effe& fom other Treafon, as heafterwards did ; for the Emperour hearing" of the ‘death o his' General, was per{fwaded by this Thienus to leave the City.' ' As foon as th Tartarsybeing got overithe'River with their Army, underftood that che'Emperour wasfled; they feiie {everal great Parties in purfuit of hini, whom the Trai the ne the Ric |