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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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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    to bring about her Defigns without his Aid. Before the prefent Tryal, there had not been one at ‘Pekin, for near twenty Years; which made this make a confide* rable Noife through the whole Empire: The Patient happened to be the Mandarin T o n w i n ; a Man;of great Authority* much efteemed and trufted by the Empe¬ ror ; who had made him Treafurer to his Army ; by whom he was not lefs loved than by the People in General ; as he did Juftice to the fir ft, in their Pay, and pro¬ moted the Intereft of the laft to the ut- moft of his Power; he was a Friend to Mankind in General, but particularly to the virtuous, and thought that Day Ill- -pent wherein he had not given them Proof of his Humanity and Bounty : The Death of this great Man, fo univerlally efteemed, was fomewhat fudden ; and his Phyfician was blamed by fome, thos not by the Mandarinesmzxvft.Friends; how* ever, it was wifpered about, that he had deviated from the Rules laid down by the great Council of Mandarines; and by the