J40 A. D. 1788. 



the fame time obliged to buy the manufudures of India and Europe irx 

 the port of Manila, where pretended Mooviih, Armenian, and Portuguefe, 

 vellels from Goa import only Englifh goods. 



He thinks that Macao in China, which nominally belongs to the Port- 

 uguefe, if it were made a free port, and were under a government of 

 proper energy, might be one of the moft flourifliing towns in Afia. 



Peroufe made it an invariable rule to give every ifland or country in 

 his charts its proper indigenous name, if he could obtain it ; if not, he 

 retained the name given by the firfi: European difcoverers, giving new 

 names only to fuch places as, he had reafon to believe, were firfl: dif- 

 covered by himfelf *. Indeed, he was fo far from arrogating to him- 

 "felf the honours due to other diftinguifhed navigators, that he was ever 

 ready to give them all due praife, and in particular embraced every op- 

 portunity to exprefs the greateft refpect for the memory of the immort- 

 al Cook, whom he called the greatejl of navigators, and of whom he was 

 a moft worthy follower f . 



This enlightened navigator, all his philofophical aflociates, and the 

 crews of both fhips, were, moft probably, fwallowed up in the ocean, 

 for nothing was ever heard of them after their departure from Botany 

 bay on the ii"" of March 1788. Had they been fpared to return to 

 Europe, the world would have been greatly enriched by the ftores col- 

 leded in almoft every branch of fcience by lb many men, each of whom 

 was eminently qualified to execute the talk he had taken upon himfelf. 

 What we poiiefs of the fruits of their labour and refearch was fortunate- 

 ly fent home, as they found opportunities, and chiefly from Kamtfchat- 

 kaq:. 



The progrefs and general diffufion of fcience have humanized the 

 manners of mankind, and fofcened that ferocity which difgraced form- 

 er ages. One of the confeqences of this iniprovement in the moral 

 fentiments and feelings of mankind is, that thejuftice of carrying the 

 natives of Africa into flavery has been queftioned by moft people, who 

 are unconnected with the Have trade or property in llaves, and abfolute- 

 ly denied by many. At the beginning of this feflion of parliament §, 

 Mr. Wilberforce gave notice of his intention to bring in a bill refped- 

 ing the flave trade : Mr. Fox alfo fignified, that he propofed to call the 



* Fulure geographen, ami navigators (who, to \ Tlie national afTeir.bly of France ordered a, 



be majlers of their iiwn art, miij} be geographers ) iv'ill fplendid edition of the Voyage to be executed at 



be fuliy fenjibk of the important ad-vaniages refulting the public expenfe, and_ dircded, that, after the 



fromfuchalineofconduS. king fliould have taken fome copies for his own 



-f To the many inltances of refpeft contained ufe or difpofal, the whole of the impreffion fhould 



in his account of his own voyage may be added be fent to the widow of the lamented commander ; 



what he faid to Lieutenant King at Botany bay. and they ordered that (lie Aiould receive hev huf. 



— ' In (hort, Mr. Cook has done fo much, that band's pay till the return of the two fliips, which 



' he has left nothing for me to do but to admire were fent out in hopes of finding him. 



' his aftions.' [^Hunter's Voyage to Ncvj South § The feflion began on the 27th of November 



Wales, p. 292. J 1787. 



