The Emperor’s Physicians are always put to Death when he dies; and those of other Persons, are try’d by the Court of Mandarines, upon Application of the Friends of the deceas’d, and put to death or otherwise punish’d according to the Nature of their Crime, from whence we may judge, that it is a very dangerous thing, to be of that Profession in this Country; however there are but few Instances where the Physicians of private Persons have been put to death; as a Pretence to the Knowledge of Physick, rashness or Impudence, will not in this Country, obtain a _Diploma_, none but Men of Merit are of the Faculty: These are obliged to make Conscience of their Business; and dare not venture to try Experiments; there are no Apothecary’s whose Interest the Doctor has Occasion to consider in the _Recipe_; he prepares the Medicine himself, and is too much interested in the Success, to give any more than he thinks necessary; the Officinals in their Dispensary, are so few, that you may write them all on a quarter of a Sheet of Paper; and he never makes a Bill for his Druggs? but is paid so much a Visit, whether he gives any Physick or not. Thus he is not under the least Temptation to make an Apothecarys Shop of his Patient’s Belly; but carefully watches Nature; and assists her when she is weak to the best of his Skill; but leaves her to her self, when she is strong enough to bring about her Designs without his Aid. Before the present Tryal, there had not been one at _Pekin_, for near twenty Years; which made this make a considerable Noise through the whole Empire: The Patient happened to be the _Mandarin_ TONWIN; a Man of great Authority, much esteemed and trusted by the Emperor; who had made him Treasurer to his Army; by whom he was not less loved than by the People in General; as he did Justice to the first, in their Pay, and promoted the Interest of the last to the utmost of his Power; he was a Friend to Mankind in General, but particularly to the virtuous, and thought that Day Ill-spent wherein he had not given them Proof of his Humanity and Bounty: The Death of this great Man, so universally esteemed, was somewhat sudden; and his Physician was blamed by some, tho’ not by the _Mandarines_ nearest Friends; however, it was wispered about, that he had deviated from the Rules laid down by the great Council of _Mandarines_; and by the Malice of the Doctor’s Enemies, the Clamour became publick; in so much, that the great Council, ordered the Register of the Case to be inspected; and the _Senescal_ was ordered to draw up an Accusation against the Doctor; with a Copy of which he was served and taken into Custody; and a Time appointed for a solemn Tryal before that High Tribunal.