and punished for some offence, real or alleged, by the "literary" weiyaan wlrose idence is outside the Bast Gate. Accordwg to custom, the prisoner ought to have been tried by court-martial, whatever his offence, and the prefectural Commander of the forces, feeling himself slighted, callod oura hundred or two of his men, and ordered them to rescue the prisoner. Which they did, with considerable damage to the yamen of the small literary mandarin.
Chis, however, differed very little from a literary mandarin" being tried in a military court, which, having no jurisdiction over civilians, can of course have none over civil mandarins. Here then is
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