The troops then went to the country villages where the trouble started, and pulled down, destroyed and burned a number of houses belonging to the rioters. Some of the landlords' secretaries were arrested, put in chains, marched round the: city and afterwards thrown into prison. The magistrate has been busy day and night with the trial of these cases. Two nights ago, while the official was examining, & la Chinoise, a merchant of the country village, who was in league with the farmers, he (the culprit) swooned. In a short time he was dead.
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