People were variously affected with the Preparation for the Tryal; some thought the Doctor guilty; others thought him innocent; and this only the Effects of the secret Machinations of his Enemies: Those of his own Profession, for what Reason I am not able to learn, were his most open Enemies; and thought by all to be his secret Accusers; however, the Doctor seem’d not at all dismay’d; but hugg’d himself in reflecting on his own Innocence, which comforted him the more, that he had not the least Suspicion, that the high Tribunal, before which he was to be try’d, would mix any Partiality in their Sentence. I have taken Care to use as few _Chinese_ Terms of Law as possible; and have chose such _English_ Words, as seem’d to come nearest to the Meaning of the Original; and in order to make the whole more comprehensible to an _English_ Reader, I have all along substituted some _English_ Forms, where I could with Propriety, especially where they served to make the Tryal more Intelligible. [Illustration] THE TRYAL, &c. On the Day appointed for the Tryal, the great Council of Mandarins assembled in a great Hall, in the second Court of the King’s Palace, the President was seated on a Throne, under the Canopy of State; the Ensigns of his high Office being carried before him, and attended by twenty four Officers with drawn Sabres in their Hands, who stood round the Steps of the Throne; the rest of the Mandarins were ranged on each Hand of him in their Robes of Honour. Silence being commanded in the Name of the Emperor, the Prisoner was brought to the Bar, to which he approached by making three Obeysances, and then lay prostrate on his Face, till the President commanded him to rise; acquainting him, that he had nothing to fear but his own Guilt; for if that was not found in him, the Court would not only acquit him, but load him with new Honours; after a short Speech to this Purpose, Silence was again commanded, and the _Mandarin_ Secretary, was ordered to read his Indictment; which was conceived in Words to this Effect.