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I fear it is too much surrounded with reefs of Rock to become
of general utility. It may however furnish a place of
refreshment to a Cruizer on the Spanish Trade, the situation
being favourable for it. No other material discovery seems
to be made, so that we have destroyed the happiness of a
harmless inoffensive people, who knew no other world than
their own, and whose wishes & wants were confined to those of nature.

That the Trade to China may be greatly encreased,
and that the Commerce in the Japanese seas, North
of China Corea, and adjacent Islands might be extended to great
advantage, is a circumstance, which is entitled to serious consideration.

All the Companys business is transacted between
select committee of supercargoes and a set of Merchants
established by the Government of Canton called Hong Merchants
which Hong Merchants are Entremetteurs between the Viceroy
and Council of Mandarines for all affairs of foreign Commerce,
& the revenue arising from that Commerce. As the Viceroy
and the Chiefs of the Canton are never see by the Europeans,
nor any other mode of communication admitted from them, but
through these Hong Merchants, they interpret the will and
pleasure of Government, in bad English to the select committee,
who manage their affairs accordingly. The other gentlemen of
the Factory are employed in weighing and assorting of Tea, writing
Invoices & keeping the books, & knowing that by time & rotation,
they will rise to independant fortunes, they remain satisfied,
without giving themselves either trouble or exertion. Thus passes
the six months at Canton, where the English are not known
three streets from their factory house. The jealousies of Trade make
correspondence of the different nations little more than outward
civility.

Not one of our factory has attempted the Chinese language,
or to study their history, morals, government, or natural history,
and what I was most surprised at was to find not one of our Linguistis
but had been taught to speak English in the gibberish of a Negro.
As no women are allowed to live with the Europeans of Canton
the time passed at Macao is supposed to make up for that loss

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