Feng Tzit-tsai, the Commander-in Chief of Yiiuuan, who has been engaged for some time past in work of defence on the Tongking frontier, forwarded a congratulatory address to the Throne on the occasion of the Emperor's assumption of Government, These addresses should be couched in a special phraseology, and Feng Tzit-tsai, who was formerly an active Taiping rebel, fell into the error of adopting an epistolary style of writing, which so incensed the Empress that she ordered the General, who, it seenus, has committed similar gaucheries Vefore, to be handed over to the Board for the determination of a penalty.
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