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Niphon, after the great navigator's death, and decorated 

 several of its capes with English names, which still keep 

 their places on the charts. 



" Twelve years later, in 1791, Capt. Colnet skirted the 

 western shores of the Japanese Archipelago, in search of 

 some point where trade might be opened; but was 

 everywhere repulsed by the boats of the coast-guard. 

 Wood, water, &c., were, however, furnished him, without 



pay- 



"In 1796, Capt. Broughton visited the Japanese 

 islands, for the purpose of discovery, and passed some 

 time in surveying and refitting on the coasts of Yesso or 

 Matsmai. He was kindly treated, supplied with refresh- 

 ments, and even boarded by the fishing boats as far south 

 as the bay of Yeddo. Being in a public exploring 

 vessel, he, of course, made no attempt to open a trade. 



" In 1803, the ship ' Frederick ' was sent to Nangasaki 

 from Calcutta, with a valuable cargo of British goods. 

 Capt. Torey, who commanded her, was refused admit- 

 tance to the harbour, and required to leave the road in 

 twenty-four hours. The Calcutta merchants were pro- 

 bably led into this attempt by the 'representations of M. 

 Titsingh, who, as Dutch resident at Chinsurah, had been 

 their neighbour for many years. This gentleman seems 

 always to have looked back to Japan, and to his stay 

 there with the fondness so often felt toward an old 

 residence, the discomforts of which are forgotten, but the 

 agreeable recollections still retained. 



" In 1808, two years after Louis Buonaparte had been 

 crowned king of Holland, the English frigate ' Phaeton ' 

 entered the harbour of Nangasaki in search of Dutch 



