Kuei-yn and Chang Chi-wan report that they have carefully tried the person who, assassinated the viceroy. The affair was of the most atrocious description, and they therefore beg that the prisoner tay be executed inthe same way asit he had been the leader of a great rebellion, The aecomplices according to the measure of their guilt must also he punished. By the pri-souer's own confession he was formerly a Chang-mie rebel, and then an accomplice of pirates. When Ma Hsin-yi- was lien tenant governor of Chekiuny, an extensive seizure of pirates was made' at Nan-tien-hsien, and a great number were executed. Subsequently Chang's wife, by name Lo, eloped with one Wu Ping-sich, When sin-yi visited Nin me afterwards to inspect the tro. his chair in the street in' order to lay a int before him, But the lieutenant governor refused to listen to him. Burning vith rage at Ma's slaughter of his friends
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