Requesting Relief for the Officers of the Eastern Campaign陳爲東征將士陳奏救解。啓
臣病役潮熱往來午前則稍醒午後則昏甚昨日午後備邊司郞廳以秘密啓草來示臣見其大槩蓋欲爲東征諸將解釋人言而慰解其意與臣之近日所慮無異同今承。下敎更爲詳審則經略之事雖與提督有異自此有言以一爲一否爲難其意亦是然臣意不必歷擧姓名但以東征講臣承。皇上之命拯濟小邦爲辭恐無不可第此事當別爲一奏抑幷載於賊情。奏本乎此等曲折未知如何而可以前日金睟狀啓諸條臣病昏不能仔細看過思慮所及未能精細更令備局熟議處之俾無未盡之事幸甚
I your servant have been ill, the fever coming and going like the tide, so that in the forenoon I am a little clearer and in the afternoon badly dizzy. Yesterday afternoon a clerk of the Border Defense Council came with a secret draft report (啓草) and showed it to me, and when I looked at its purport it was to clear away the talk of others on behalf of the various commanders of the eastern campaign (東征) and to comfort their minds. It is no different from what I have been anxious about of late.
Now, having received your instruction, I have looked into it closely again. The affair of the Military Commissioner (經略) is indeed different from that of the Commander (提督), yet whether it is right or wrong to speak out about it from here is hard to settle in a single word. The intent of it is right as well. But to my mind there is no need to name each man one by one; it would seem that nothing need be amiss in putting it simply as that the various officials of the eastern campaign bore the Emperor's command and rescued a small country. Only I do not know whether this should be made a memorial (奏本) of its own or carried together in the memorial reporting on the enemy's situation; how such particulars should be handled I do not know.
As for the several points of Kim Su's (金睟) dispatch of the other day, I was dizzy with illness and could not look at them closely, nor does my thinking on them reach far enough; I should be grateful if the Border Defense Office (備局) were again made to deliberate well and dispose of them, so that nothing is left unfinished.
Interlinear notes 2
The base text has 講臣, taken as an error for 諸臣.
In this passage the characters of the base text are corrupt, so only the sense is rendered.