In this way they encouraged the ambitions of the eastern Tartar savages (Manchus), and fostered the growth of their power.

They were thus able to take advantage of the presence of rebels to invade and possess themselves of your sacred capital.

From a bad eminence of glory basely won, they lorded it over this most holy soil, and our beloved China's rivers and hills were defiled by their corrupting touch, while the people fell victims to the headman's axe or the avenging sword.

Although worthy patriots and faithful subjects of your dynasty crossed the mountain ranges into Canton and the far south, in the hope of redeeming the glorious Ming tradition from utter ruin, and of prolonging a thread of the old dynasty's life, although men gladly perished one after the other in the forlorn attempt, heaven's wrath remained unappeased, and mortal designs failed to achieve success.
A brief and melancholy page was added to the history of your dynasty, and that was all.
"As time went on, the law became ever harsher, and the meshes of its inexorable net grew closer.

Alas for our Chinese people, who crouched in corners and listened with startled ears, deprived of power of utterance, and with tongues glued to their mouths, for their lives were past saving.