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Show -_- R Ut. Pleafe thep too {oon, fo was he hardly cold but great divifions hapiied in the Cour, b means of one of the Emperours Brothers called Owintus, who would take upo him the Guardianthip and DireGion of the Young Emperour, againft the will 1t Is thlt th' Of fl[a(' and minds of all the reft, who were of opinion and propofed that now the Fmperour Xunchins was come to theage of 16 years, he fhould take upon himfel the Management of all Affairs of the State ; but ambitious Quintus alledged tha ) by tbe Tan 2nd fcn \ '"7" 5 an the Emperour was not yet of .an age capable to take upon him the great an weighty ‘Affairs of the Empire, and therefore infifted that the Dire&ion and Management of Affairs might be committed to him till the young Prince fhould at tain hisfullage : - But finding that he was generally oppofed by all the Grandees o the Court, and thatit was impoflible for him to attain his ends, he at laft concur cultivat ‘"Ompany the red with the opinions of all the reft ; and the young Cham of Tarmry is crowned uth thefe Peopl and the whole weight of the Government unanimoufly caft uponhis fhoulders which he managed with {uch judgment, that inafhort time he gave fufficient proo Arms better the them with the REuI, btlng of they abandone of hisabilities, and not only his defire but intention to do Juftice 5 infomuch tha when fome dangerous Counfels which his deceafed Uncle had in his life-time given ‘ came to break out, he caufed his dead body to be taken out of the Tomb, and t be moft (hamefully mifufed, and the Tomb to be brokenin pieces : Nor ended h there 5 for thole of the Friends and Relations of his Uncle, which were privy an and Arr OWs, fol perour heard o end them back t confenting to the faid Counfel, were likewife handled with extreme {everity Thus far have I {pent in {etting forth particularly, how and in what manner th sed bis Countryr having afecon sovernour of th mprifon or kil ir after the thre Robber Licungzus firft conquered China, and after his expulfion, how the Tartarsat laft conquered the fame : Nowyou are to remember, that contemporar with Licungzus was another Thicf called Changlianchus, the remaining Tranf actions of whofe Villany, whereof we have already in part made mention, I (hal now relate5 and indeed when I call to min nd received b wh hangs himfelf cecded hi1nmbi - o Kengu travell'd throug moft Places fub schew endured e Wa ~ort of the com at 1 bdflg Put (o th oot Embalfadour at (hflt t1me f l yit an | g f K t at (im cc\'wn Monfter ina Mans fhape, Tam as one deprived of his Senfes, for his a&ions being {uch, and fo filled with horrour, that none that hears of them, but vvill b filled vvith (tupefaltion and amazement This Robber Changlianchns Plundered and Ruined feveral Provinces, puttin hid their Wealth and Goods ; he vvas greatly delighted to put out People Eyes, and to fee Men dye in Mifery : His intention was really to have depopulated the whole Country of China, that {o being alone, there might be none lef to oppole him or be his Competitor: And although the Barbaroufnefs of his nature appeared every where and upon all occafions, yet did he give a proof of hi crueltyin no place more thenin the Province of Suchuen, where he took upo him the Royal Title, and put moft of the Inhabitants to death. He would frequently caufe a whole Family to be utterly defiroyed, if any one of them ha not obeye - LNCS (QVCd d with bis AT™ 'the cruelties committed by thi the Inhabitants to unfpeakable Tortures, to make them confefs vvhere they ha it guantung, Vit Province, and t the Empire of C u 1~ a his orders accordin to his will and mind h abounde f very much in Feral Barbarilm, that oftentimes if by chance any one of a firee had offended him, he would caufe all the Inhabitants refident within the fame t undergo the Fury of his Inhumane and Beftial rage He wascivil and kind to none but his Souldiers; with whom he would con verfe and drink as if he had been but their Companion ; and many times woul beftow great Prefents upon them if they had performed any thing well, and according to his mind ; yet on the other hand, for the leaft offence or negle&, h made nothing to put Multitudes of them to death. And which is yet more this Bloody Caitiffs Butchery extended to the very Magiftrates, but in fpecia manner of the chief City Chingtn of the Province of Suchuen, {o that of fix hun dred,in the fpace of three years there were hardly twenty left that efcaped wit their lives; and it was to him as a Recreation to fee and caufe People to be Flay' alive Iii Whe |