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 the Chinee made this act of neceity on my part, an official pretext on theirs to eize the veel and cargo; and having contrived by tratagem, to get me out of her, detained me as a prioner in Canton during five days: But when the various unfortunate circumtances which had befallen me were explained, and the truth of them duly atteted, before the judicial Mandarins, I was ordered to be enlarged, while my veel was ent for me, at the expene of the Chinee Government, to Macao to be old, and myelf and cargo, by the ame uperior interpoition, put on board the Eat-India Company's hip, General Coote, bound for England. On my arrival there, the India Company purchaed my cargo for nine thouand even hundred and ixty pounds terling. A full account of this voyage and the circumtances connected with it, together with the charts and drawings made to illutrate it, were left in England when I proceeded on my lat voyage; a narrative of which, as well as of that I made to Japan