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be safest to carry tutenague, if it can be bought so cheap that you can have 

 your own money tor it, as you have the advantage of receiving new cash 

 from the King in payment ; but if gold is dear, you will lose nothing by 

 carrying dollars, and selling them on your arrival to the Portuguese or 

 Chinese, who, not being obliged to invest the returns of their tutenague in 

 sugars, are compelled sometimes to carry gold at a great disadvantage. The 

 greatest part of your stock ought to be in dollars or tutenague, for other 

 goods are not to he depended on at first, till they huve been tried, unless a 

 little cutlery in low-priced spring knives and scissars, and a few piece-goods 

 of various kinds ; there will be no loss on cowries, cochineal, sulphur, and 

 beech de iner. 



The greatest difficult/ here is (as probably you are not acquainted with 

 their language), the transacting all your affairs through the medium of a 

 linguist, who is always with yon, and lives in your house; they are gene- 

 rally paid 2 or 30(1 quans a season, besides perquisites, which it wiJl be 

 difficult to hinder them of. If, on your arrival, you are greatly at a loss 

 for want of one till you go to Court, you will find somebody that may do 

 for two or three days about the Portuguese House, who generally at all 

 times of the year have people at Faifbe ; if not, it will then be proper to 

 make application to the governing Mandarin to send for one from Court, 

 where the professed ones generally reside. It is a very material point to 

 keep him in your interest, for on that your success greatly depends ; but 

 whoever aims at having an easy and smooth trade with the Cochin-Chinese, 

 must as soon as possible begin to learn their language, which may be easily 

 attained. Though the Chinese characters are used to express the same 

 meaning and things, yet the speech is quite different, and of a much easier 

 and plainer expression. 



The following official notification has appeared at Calcutta : — 

 Government Advertisement, July 24, 1823. — The public are hereby 

 informed, that the Government of Cochiu-China has officially communicated 

 to the agent of the Governor-General, lately deputed to that country, its 

 consent to the admission of all British vessels into the ports of Sey~gun, Han 

 or Turon, Faifoe, and Hud, on the terms specified in the annexed transla- 

 tion of an official copy of the Cochin-Chinese Tariff', and regulations of 

 trade, delivered to the Governor-General's agent. 



Translation of the Cochin-Chinese Tariff, — u These are the Regula- 

 tions of Commerce for all nations trading to the Kingdom of Coch in-China, 



" For Hue. — Vessels of Canton, Chu-chao,' Nam-hong, Wai-Chao, 

 Su-heng, To-Kcin, Chi-Kong, (provinces of Canton), and the ships of the 

 European nations, pay as follow 



