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Show i . © - -- et \"\"\‘\ ed General Defcription o Licungzus being now Mafte Throne, and the next day caufe pieces, and gave the Plunder o The Emperou e A 9S S - -- 5 B e ' give you notice that the Ewmperoun g o -- Zungchinius and th Government of the Race of Taiming s totally deftroyed.; and that funce-th Hegwensy which order and manage all. thin s by 4 Juft vule, bave given the Dowmin on 1 Licungzus, it 7 requifite that we comply wit the Times,. and make a Virtue of Necelfity; efpecially if we will efeape 4ll diftasters, p 015 favour He Prowmifes to ennoble Jou with g Roy l Dignity, and to confer on yo all panner of Honour and F riendfbip, if you wi in for your Lord and Ewmperour.. Confider wel hereof, and know. that upon your promif and confent to this, depends my preferva ion, and Jon may now either prefervemyl fe o deftroy it Weigh with your [elf the ob igations of Nature, which will tell you. ho deeply you are engagec 1o preferve him t at firff gave you being --- [ - ‘Uf. ""gm'jm,upon the receipt and reading this bled at t -- -‘q._ which lay upon the Frontier o That the warions changes and vic ffitudes whic)y happen in this worl are eithe pre-oidained by the H cavens, occafioned y the Earth, oy inipwlfed by Deftiny. Thi 1 write to youy my Son, t never appeare Tartars: OFf whom the Ulurp r ftanding in fear, as perable to do him very great preju ice with his Forces, threatput him to death in a moft c manner, if he did o forthwith command and enj yn his Son to come apnd fubm t unto him; promi{ing to reward fuch his civility w Prefermen ts. The decrepit Old Man s, in hope to get his liberty, and over e with thefe grea promifes, writ a Letter to his Son the {ubftance whereof wasto this urpofe y Leaotung againft th cetving that he wa ned this Old Man t - whereof the Eldeft (leei Amongft feveral other Gov rnours and Commander whom he had take Prifoners, there was a very an ient Man named Vs, whof guejus, had the Comman of the Chinefz Ar - --- T T s et Kl " ~ st g 3 X e g s - o had three Sons for him, to have had hig cither al ve of dead n)og his lofs there are divers opinion , fome thinkin g he wa known : Others that e {aved himfelf by flig mong{i thofe that elc Mountains, w here they li d o t ed a long while after Befide this, were two ther ounger Sons, wh were bro rant, but he caufed the ttheheaded prefently. Andto thew his Tyr nnical Cruelty, an he Barbarifm of his 1ot at all altered by h a¢yre wa s being gotten into th Throne, he Summone Perfons of the Empire t he chiefef a Mecting, under coloy of treating with them abo bufinefs of Confequence e no fooner come, but of the bafeft Fellows wer ompan turned 1Inupon them, wh fe favage Fury {o unbound edly raged, that it fpar d none but fuch as ha no Monrey to buy off thei Lives. But- here ende not his Tyranny, as by he following Tragedy wil appear ~ i - e Zungchinin of Peking, prefently fears imfelf in ¢the Impers the dead b ody of the Empe our to b, hac oo | City.to the Souldiers k'd ¢ Fathersdeath, and the Crt in the hands of the Robbe s though great fearch was mad A : e P B TR, o - 30 \\\\"\, though very much trou e Contents, being tyed by Qath t fwered his Father with thefe few, but th rp words I hall never swne biyg formy F ther, who will not be true and f a to his Sovereigin.. Have you forgot that aith which Jon owe to.the Empe our 2 whoca blame e if 1 forget that Obedienc which I oxre to you £ Much vathe had I dye, the betray m Truft and falfifie my 04 N |