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"
This
proposal
was
received
with
the
utmost
disapprobation
by
the
whole
board
.
Bolgolam
,
the
admiral
,
could
not
preserve
his
temper
,
but
,
rising
up
in
fury
,
said
,
he
wondered
how
the
secretary
durst
presume
to
give
his
opinion
for
preserving
the
life
of
a
traitor
;
that
the
services
you
had
performed
were
,
by
all
true
reasons
of
state
,
the
great
aggravation
of
your
crimes
;
that
you
,
who
were
able
to
extinguish
the
fire
by
discharge
of
urine
in
her
majesty
's
apartment
(
which
he
mentioned
with
horror
)
,
might
,
at
another
time
,
raise
an
inundation
by
the
same
means
,
to
drown
the
whole
palace
;
and
the
same
strength
which
enabled
you
to
bring
over
the
enemy
's
fleet
,
might
serve
,
upon
the
first
discontent
,
to
carry
it
back
;
that
he
had
good
reasons
to
think
you
were
a
Big-endian
in
your
heart
;
and
,
as
treason
begins
in
the
heart
,
before
it
appears
in
overt-acts
,
so
he
accused
you
as
a
traitor
on
that
account
,
and
therefore
insisted
you
should
be
put
to
death
.
"
The
treasurer
was
of
the
same
opinion
:
he
showed
to
what
straits
his
majesty
's
revenue
was
reduced
,
by
the
charge
of
maintaining
you
,
which
would
soon
grow
insupportable
;
that
the
secretary
's
expedient
of
putting
out
your
eyes
,
was
so
far
from
being
a
remedy
against
this
evil
,
that
it
would
probably
increase
it
,
as
is
manifest
from
the
common
practice
of
blinding
some
kind
of
fowls
,
after
which
they
fed
the
faster
,
and
grew
sooner
fat
;
that
his
sacred
majesty
and
the
council
,
who
are
your
judges
,
were
,
in
their
own
consciences
,
fully
convinced
of
your
guilt
,
which
was
a
sufficient
argument
to
condemn
you
to
death
,
without
the
formal
proofs
required
by
the
strict
letter
of
the
law
.
"
But
his
imperial
majesty
,
fully
determined
against
capital
punishment
,
was
graciously
pleased
to
say
,
that
since
the
council
thought
the
loss
of
your
eyes
too
easy
a
censure
,
some
other
way
may
be
inflicted
hereafter
.
And
your
friend
the
secretary
,
humbly
desiring
to
be
heard
again
,
in
answer
to
what
the
treasurer
had
objected
,
concerning
the
great
charge
his
majesty
was
at
in
maintaining
you
,
said
,
that
his
excellency
,
who
had
the
sole
disposal
of
the
emperor
's
revenue
,
might
easily
provide
against
that
evil
,
by
gradually
lessening
your
establishment
;
by
which
,
for
want
of
sufficient
for
you
would
grow
weak
and
faint
,
and
lose
your
appetite
,
and
consequently
,
decay
,
and
consume
in
a
few
months
;
neither
would
the
stench
of
your
carcass
be
then
so
dangerous
,
when
it
should
become
more
than
half
diminished
;
and
immediately
upon
your
death
five
or
six
thousand
of
his
majesty
's
subjects
might
,
in
two
or
three
days
,
cut
your
flesh
from
your
bones
,
take
it
away
by
cart-loads
,
and
bury
it
in
distant
parts
,
to
prevent
infection
,
leaving
the
skeleton
as
a
monument
of
admiration
to
posterity
.
"
Thus
,
by
the
great
friendship
of
the
secretary
,
the
whole
affair
was
compromised
.
It
was
strictly
enjoined
,
that
the
project
of
starving
you
by
degrees
should
be
kept
a
secret
;
but
the
sentence
of
putting
out
your
eyes
was
entered
on
the
books
;
none
dissenting
,
except
Bolgolam
the
admiral
,
who
,
being
a
creature
of
the
empress
,
was
perpetually
instigated
by
her
majesty
to
insist
upon
your
death
,
she
having
borne
perpetual
malice
against
you
,
on
account
of
that
infamous
and
illegal
method
you
took
to
extinguish
the
fire
in
her
apartment
.
"
In
three
days
your
friend
the
secretary
will
be
directed
to
come
to
your
house
,
and
read
before
you
the
articles
of
impeachment
;
and
then
to
signify
the
great
lenity
and
favour
of
his
majesty
and
council
,
whereby
you
are
only
condemned
to
the
loss
of
your
eyes
,
which
his
majesty
does
not
question
you
will
gratefully
and
humbly
submit
to
;
and
twenty
of
his
majesty
's
surgeons
will
attend
,
in
order
to
see
the
operation
well
performed
,
by
discharging
very
sharp-pointed
arrows
into
the
balls
of
your
eyes
,
as
you
lie
on
the
ground
.
"
I
leave
to
your
prudence
what
measures
you
will
take
;
and
to
avoid
suspicion
,
I
must
immediately
return
in
as
private
a
manner
as
I
came
.
"
His
lordship
did
so
;
and
I
remained
alone
,
under
many
doubts
and
perplexities
of
mind
.
It
was
a
custom
introduced
by
this
prince
and
his
ministry
(
very
different
,
as
I
have
been
assured
,
from
the
practice
of
former
times
,
)
that
after
the
court
had
decreed
any
cruel
execution
,
either
to
gratify
the
monarch
's
resentment
,
or
the
malice
of
a
favourite
,
the
emperor
always
made
a
speech
to
his
whole
council
,
expressing
his
great
lenity
and
tenderness
,
as
qualities
known
and
confessed
by
all
the
world
.
This
speech
was
immediately
published
throughout
the
kingdom
;
nor
did
any
thing
terrify
the
people
so
much
as
those
encomiums
on
his
majesty
's
mercy
;
because
it
was
observed
,
that
the
more
these
praises
were
enlarged
and
insisted
on
,
the
more
inhuman
was
the
punishment
,
and
the
sufferer
more
innocent
.
Yet
,
as
to
myself
,
I
must
confess
,
having
never
been
designed
for
a
courtier
,
either
by
my
birth
or
education
,
I
was
so
ill
a
judge
of
things
,
that
I
could
not
discover
the
lenity
and
favour
of
this
sentence
,
but
conceived
it
(
(
perhaps
erroneously
)
)
rather
to
be
rigorous
than
gentle
.
I
sometimes
thought
of
standing
my
trial
,
for
,
although
I
could
not
deny
the
facts
alleged
in
the
several
articles
,
yet
I
hoped
they
would
admit
of
some
extenuation
.
But
having
in
my
life
perused
many
state-trials
,
which
I
ever
observed
to
terminate
as
the
judges
thought
fit
to
direct
,
I
durst
not
rely
on
so
dangerous
a
decision
,
in
so
critical
a
juncture
,
and
against
such
powerful
enemies
.
Once
I
was
strongly
bent
upon
resistance
,
for
,
while
I
had
liberty
the
whole
strength
of
that
empire
could
hardly
subdue
me
,
and
I
might
easily
with
stones
pelt
the
metropolis
to
pieces
;
but
I
soon
rejected
that
project
with
horror
,
by
remembering
the
oath
I
had
made
to
the
emperor
,
the
favours
I
received
from
him
,
and
the
high
title
of
nardac
he
conferred
upon
me
.
Neither
had
I
so
soon
learned
the
gratitude
of
courtiers
,
to
persuade
myself
,
that
his
majesty
's
present
seventies
acquitted
me
of
all
past
obligations
.
