Here the Court broke up and adjourned the farther hearing to next Day, when the learned Body being again assembled, in Court, and the President seated in the Formalites as before gave Orders for proceeding on the Tryal, which was accordingly done by the Council for the Emperor, who rising up opened the Case as follows. _Council for the Emperor._ My Lord, the Prosecutors for his Imperial Majesty, are so far from taking any rigorous Advantage of the learned Genman at the Bar, that they are resolved to try the Cause upon his own State of the Case now in the _Mandarin_ Secretary’s Hand: They are to suppose, that he has according to his Duty, fairly stated the Symptoms of the Disease under which his Right Honourable Patient laboured; and that he has given a just Account of the Medicines he ordered to be administred in order to effectuate a Cure; and from this his own State of the Facts, we hope to convince this august Court, that the Doctor, has followed a Practice, quite different from those prescribed by your Lordships in similar Cases; apply’d Medicines improper for the Patient’s Distemper; and in every Circumstance, acted, as if he rather intended, to increase the Malady, than save his Patient’s Life; we shall make it appear, that the Doctor instead of assisting Nature, has endeavoured to convert the Order of Things, and obstructed her as much as lay in his Power; and we shall likewise make it appear beyond Conjecture, that the Method used with the Patient, during the Process of his Illness; hasten’d his End, much more than the Fever it self: Out of Respect to the _Diploma_ issuing out of the Court, which entitled the learned Gentleman to practice the divine Science of Physick, we dare not attribute his Misconduct to Ignorance; Charity forbids us to suppose it Malice; and good Manners hinders us to use the Word Obstinacy; but to whatever Motive we may ascribe it the Facts are incontestable, and the Effects have been fatal to the noble Lord once an illustrious Member of this great Court.