ments are announced, Senior Vice-Presid-Fannary 4th. (1) The following appoint ent, Board of Civil Office, Lin Shu Qlinister of the Tsung-li Yamen); Senior Vice-President, Board of Revenue, K'un Kang ff]; JuniorVice-President, Board of Revenue, Ch'ang Hsti FSX; Senior Vice-President, Board of Punishments, Sung Kuei FAYHE.
(2) Memorial from Chang Shu-sheng, Governor of Kuangsi. The memorialist has already reported to His Majesty by express despatched on the 16th of November the details of the combined attack of the Tmperial forces on Li Yang-tsai beyond the frontier, whom they surrounded nid captured alive. the 30th of No-mber, Feng ai, Commander-in-of, wrote to say that the rebel Li had been ill on the 8th and 9th inst., but being slightly better on the 13th, he had him brought before him, and rigorously questioned him in person, The rebel deposed as follows:—When I gave over charge of the command of the Hsun Chow brigade, and being unable to recal [the step I had having no hope of further advancement taken in getting transferred to Kwangtung], I was constrained to return to my homo, where I received a letter from [the rebel Yeh Ch'eng-lin announcing his sincere desire to vive in his submission; whereupon I crossed the frontier with some two or three thousand men to invite him to join me that I might afford him comfort And consolation, In the month of February, I onteced Shui-ya (7K 4), and on the 24th of May the place was taken by the Imperial troops. 1 then retreated into the hills at the back of the place, and, escaping from there under cover of the night, concealed myself. The Imperial troops having encamped [in the neighbourhood of my hiding-place}, came out of my own accord and placed my life in their hands." The Commander-in-chief then directed the Annamese officials Chang Teng-than and others, with the officers attached to his (the Commander-in-chief's) forces, to satisfy themselves that the rebel in question was really the person he represented himself tu be. After this he handed him over to a weiynan ith orders to take him on to the provincial capital with a guard, starting on the same day from the head-quarters at T'ai-yuan. pie memorialist has humbly to. remark with reference to this matter, that the action of Li Yang-tsai in raising a number of men and crossing the frontier [into Aunam], where he seized strategical posts, and established himself in places where it
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