Intimate friends of the enlightened Viceroy T'ao Mu of the Two Kuang provinees, whose resignation was recently accepted, state that BLE, was forced to abandon' public life owing to the bitter and determined hatred of the palace eunuchs, who thwarted H.E. in every way they could and incessantly, maliciously slandered and traduced him before their Majesties. Finding that he could do no good to his country while the eunuchs held sway in the palace precincts, H.E. put up the usual plea of Chinese illness and 0 got, permission to resign office., The cause of this vindictive hatred of the ownuchs was owing: to a suggestion of Viceroy T'io Mu for the abolition of eunuchs from the. palaces for ever.
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