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Show N etherland Ed/l-lnd,,;,@mp any were couragioufly beaten off by he Befieged, with great lofs of Me This brave def.ence of the Inhabi ants made the Siege to laft a e year, an becaufe of their firong Garrifo o make fo many Sallie uponthe Beffegers, that the at laft found themfelves fo ghtned, either t make one general affault with the r whole Army, or elfe battel'd t raife thei Leagure Butamongft thofe which did moft were two Holland Guniners, who had Marrie Chinefe omen, and fetled themfelves th re and through their Advice and Condu the City held out fome months longe butat laft the Tartars having made a g eat breach with thejc Ordnance in th Wall of the City, whick might have ncowraged them to haye made a gener Storm ; yet they thought convenient t delay it, until they had corrupted fom of the chief heads of the Cityy and ha formed fuch a confpiracy therein, tha [o they fieeded not to fear any mifcarriage i the attempt: The Vice-Roys who governed over this Kin there, had then the chief command ov r the Tartars : Thefe endeavoured t corrupt the Governour of Canton, with grea promifes and fums of Money, fignitying withal unto him in thefe words; Ibat b foould confider into what extrean danger be was bronght; and what difafte s were banging over bis Head ; that if f be e either lowed bim elf, or bis Relationsy be fhould forthwith Jurr and this bis favour they promifed 1o requite wi h an eternal F riendfbip, bigher pre fermenty and forty thoufand Toel of Silver The Pufillanimous and Faithlefs Chinefe Gove nour, whether that his hear mil-gave him, or the Money and large promifes though he might very well have defended the City that contrary tohis Qath an Honour, he made a promife to the fame Trtarian C mmanders to {et opena Gat to the Befiegers at the appointed hour; which he acco dingly performed It was upon the 24. of Nowember, in the year 165 . when the Tartars upo thisadvantage ruthed with their whole Army into the ity, which was {oon {ubdued by them, the Befieged not being ina condition to ake any refiftance; fo no {ooner was the Tartar horfe got in, but they rid with all the Streets, to hinder the Chinefes from gathering t gether ; and though th Chinefes were not inferiour in number to the Tartars , et they effeGed nothing being in diforder, and furprized by the treachery of th ir Governour ; fo that th beft courfe any could ufe, was to {ave himfelf by flight Th whol Tarta Arm bein got into th City the place was foo turned to a Map of mifery, for every one began to tear, reak, carry away what{oever he could l y hands on : The cry of Women, Children, and A was {o great, that it exceeded all noife of fuc loud diftrations; fo that fro the 26. of Nowember, until the 15. of December t ere was heard no other cr in the Streets, but Strike, Kill, and Deftroy the Reb llious Barbarians; all place full of woful Lamentations, of Murder, and Rapine Thofe that were able t ranfom, bought their lives at dear rates, and { efcaped the hands of thefe In humane Slaughterers At laft the Vice-Roys, and chief Command Army, u on the fixth of Winter month, did ftri&tly forbid any fuch der to be committed hereafter: And T was cr dibly informed, that during th fpace of eighty days, above eight thoufand were killed in old blood by the Tar tars: Others (amongf whic the Jefuite Martinus isone, in his Boo Tartar War) fay there were flai altogether improbable, in regard o though this City was thus lamentabl above one hundred thoufand, whic the great number there penn'd up laid wafte, yet through the great car Vice-Roys, it wasina few years after reftored to her former lu tre of th i An o no alth te |