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and of a second trial made the year after, will be found 

 in our sketch of British intercourse. Both failed to re- 

 move the president of the Dutch factory at Nangasaki, 

 who kept his place until the trade with Japan was 

 renewed, on the restoration of the Dutch E. I. colonies, 

 at the peace of 1815. The pertinacious M. Doeff was 

 relieved by the arrival of a legitimate successor in 1817. 

 Since that time, the trade has been carried on for account 

 of the Dutch Government, with the exception of the 

 years 1828 and 1829. The two annual vessels are 

 chartered, and the principal articles of their cargoes laden 

 by government, which receives and employs, chiefly in 

 the Batavian coinage, the copper that constitutes the great 

 return from Japan. The minor articles sent in these 

 ships are put on board by private merchants, who pur- 

 chase, at auction, their licenses to take this part in the 

 trade. We have no list of cargoes later than that of 

 1806, given in the appendix to the ' History of Java,' 

 and which consists of sugar, tin, woollen cloths, chintzes, 

 pepper, spices, sapan wood, &c., &c., valued at 175,000 

 dollars ; the returns for which were in copper and cam- 

 phor, and the balance in favour of the voyage, 175,000 

 dollars. But in this account, the copper is assumed by 

 the mint at fifty dollars per picul, considerably more than 

 the market price." 



Speaking of Adams, an English pilot, in the interest 

 of the Dutch : 



" Three years after this, one of his letters, addressed 

 to his countrymen in Java, fell into the hands of Capt. 

 Saris, one of the Commanders of the English E. I. Com- 

 pany, who, acting on its invitations, sailed for Firando 



