Let me embrace thee, sour adversity

There has been something like a personal conflict between Fadge and the man who looks after the minor notices. Fadge, more suo, charged the other man with a design to damage him and the paper.

[…] this most profitable and true christian worke : which though by reason of the manifoldnesse of the matter it be wearisome to reade […]

It was on the 24th that the Tſong-tou returned from a journey which he had made to the province of Quang-ſi, which, like that of Quang-tong, was ſubject to his adminiſtration; but the Fou-yuen being obliged to ſet off the ſame day, and to go and examine the damages occaſioned by an inundation, at the diſtance of two or three days journey, his unforeſeen abſence determined the Tſong-tou to ſend, on the following day, two principal Mandarins to wait upon the Ambaſſador, and to tell him, that the was prevented by that circumſtance from giving him an audience.