A few days ago a Decree noticed a charge which had been brought against one of the eunuchs of the Palace. A certain Censor alleged that a eunuch named Chin Chin tried to present a paper to Hsueh Yun-sheng, Vice President of the Board of Justice, but that officer refused to receive it. It was said that the paper concerned some lawsuit about land, It was also said that the eunuch similarly approached' Kuei Hong, who is President of the same Board; but with what success, the Censor could not tell. The Emperor commanded the two officers in question to give a full account of what took place, Their memorials in reply are now published. Hsueh Yun-sheng reports that one morning last summer he was in one of the official waiting rooms at the Palace, when a man entered and after saying that he was one of the eunuchs, tendered a paper to the memorialist. He indignantly refused to receive it, and the man then went away. In the hurry of the moment he forgot to ask the man his name, and therefore he did not trouble His Majesty with a report of the occurrence. Further as he did not receive the paper, and as some scores of cases are sent every month from the different Government De-Cee to the Board of Justice for trial, he has no. idea to what suit it may have referred.
Kuei Hong declares that none of the official posts which he holds bring him into any connection with the eunuchs of the Palace, except that they have to pass his name in when he comes to Court on duty. Beyond what is required for this he hus never exchanged a word with any of them, and he is not acquainted with any of their nawes. He certainly does not know whether such a man as Chin Chin exists. Nor has any eunuch ever approached him concerning any lawsuit about land. He did not see the occurrence narrated about Hsueh Yun-sheng, and he is inclined to think from the time mentioned that it mirist have taken place when he was absent on duty at the Eastern Tombs,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.