The genuine tryal of Dr. Nosmoth, a physician in Pekin; : for the murder of the Mandarin Tonwin, treasurer to the army of the Emperor of China, before the great council of mandarines. / Taken in short hand by the linguist of the English factory.

Date:
1746
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The genuine tryal of Dr. Nosmoth, a physician in Pekin; : for the murder of the Mandarin Tonwin, treasurer to the army of the Emperor of China, before the great council of mandarines. / Taken in short hand by the linguist of the English factory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *3 ) I have taken Care to ufe as few Chinefe Terms of Law as poffible^ and have chofe fuch Engl'tjh Words, as feeirPd to come neareft to the Meaning of the Original > and in order to make the whole more comprehenfible to an Tinglijh Reader, I have all along fubftituted fome Englifb Forms, where I could with Propriety, efpecially were they ferved to make the Tryal more Intelligible. THE T R Y A L, &c. ON the Day appointed for the Tryal, the great Council of Mandarins affembled in a great Hall, in the fecond Court of the King’s Palace, the Prefident was feated on a Throne, under the Ca- C nop y