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Show ...;_E r-- A General Defeorf iptio 2 ~{wher th fuegughin, th pon th firft difturbanc Emperou Pim by the Robbers began wasr havin informari nof ¢ t rmy, and were alrea ir march to hisrefcue ; but whep t ey were certified of his Deat the raking of the City, they return d immed'iatdy with all their Forces Jong afterunderftood that the Tartars who by the means of 'Ufa/mu;'an called m as Aids,had pofleffed them(elves of th whole Empire, and weércj gzc‘:;; :fififlfle Ma ters thereof 5 the very thoughts of whic much Perplexed thei : And this { px:cd likg.wxfe a great confterna ion among all the People,even g far 2 Nanking, the chief City of the Provinc of the fame name, fo that the di know what to advife or do ; bat at laf the General took Co'urage and fetyu l aPO a long and ferious confultation, on of the Family of Taiminga,,bei thI: Heir to the Chinefe Crown,as Gran -child of the Emperour Vanlieu ang Cohf;::z the laft Emperour Lungchinius who heretofore kept his Court in ti]e rovince o Hownan, but for fear of the Robbers remove to Nanking 3 where upon his arriva the Inbab tants in great Pomp and State fet the Cro claimed him Emperour by the name of Hung ang, in hopes to effe& gre,at matter by him, in regard he was a valiant Princ . He was no {ooner {eated in his Thron but he fentan Embaffadour to the Tartar to demand a Peace upon terms of lcav 10g all the Northern Provincesto them hich they had taken : But the Tartar well underftanding that the {copé of this Embafli was only intended to gain tim till the Chinefes could recruit themfelves with Men and M ney, reje&ed thei of ers, and fent them an{wer, that they would either h ve the whole Countrey, o no part of it, being refolved not to lay down thei ed what they had undertaken Arms till they had accomplifh In the mean time, whilft the Embaffadour was upo his. return home, and th both Parties prepared for the War, there appeared in anking a Youth, wh gave himfclf out for the eldeft Son of the Emperour Z ngehinius, and endea voured to confirm his faying which {feemed to make a grea Gelubdens,and others who ha to knowkim. But Hungnan with fome peculiar remarks of Truth- And tha addition to the credit of this report, was that {evera been converfant in the Emperours Court,pretende who had tafted the fweetnels of Government, an in fome meafure ferled Himfelf in the Throne, refufed to owne him for he lawfi Son of Zungchinin intention to put hi {tanding that all th hared-and maligne A N A 58 ett 5 but caufed him to be apprehended as an Impoftor, with a1 to death. And in this crue) refolution he perfilted, notwithCommanders and Governours oppofed him, and extreaml him for it, for they gave credit to the faying of the Youth T his bufine(s occafioned {o much and {o long trouble among the Chinefes, tha the Tartars in the interim took the opportunity to {ubje& the Province of Nawking, wherein they found little or no oppofition, in regard the Chinefe Commanders were divided among themfelves to that height of malice, that fome refufe to hinder the Progrefs of the Tartars, on purpofe to work a prejudice to the ne Ewperour : Whereupon they came immediately to Hoaigan, the firft chief Cit of the fame Province, and without making any flop or delay, they took in th ‘Eaft-fide of the Yellow River, and Ferried over the fame in Boats, thoug th other fide thereof was well lined with Chinefe Souldiers; who no foone perCCiVC _the Tartars in carneft to put themlielves aboard for paflage, but they left thei ftation, and fled like fo many Sheep before Wolves The Tartars thus got ove (' which mighthave been calily prevented, if the Guards appointed for defenc o the Banks had thewn the leaft courage) fell with their whole Army into the fam rich Province, and took and carried away whatfoever they found upon the North{ide of the River Kiang 5 no place being able to withftand them, only the Ric a |