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advifing the difpofal of the veffel and ftores, as the Chinefe I 7 8 3 - 
0 . A DECEMBER,, 
government would not admit of her coming up to Wham¬ 
poa, without paying duty and port charges to a confiderable 
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amount. 
Mr. MTntyre alfo received letters, defiring him to fur- 
nifh them with money, and every thing elfe they might be 
in want of.—-They alfo received congratulatory letters from 
their particular friends, on their arrival at Macoa, after the 
hardfhipS they had fuftained; and thefe were accompanied 
by other letters from the commanders of feveral of the Com- 
pany’s Ihips, kindly offering to accommodate them with a 
paffage to England. —And it would be an injuftice to the 
gratitude and feelings of Captain Wilson and his officers? 
ffiould the recorder of thefe events omit to mention the 
kind treatment they experienced from the Company’s fuprcl¬ 
eargoes ; from feveral Portuguefe gentlemen, inhabitants of 
Macoa ; and alfo from the Commodore of their ihips, who 
being almoft ready to fail for Europe, offered Captain Wil¬ 
son, with many kind expreffions, a paffage in his ffiip, for 
himfelf, and fuch other perfons as he might wiffi to take 
with him. 
Whilft Lee Boo remained at Macoa, he had frequent 
opportunities of feeing people of different nations ; and alfo 
was ffiewn three Englifb women, who having loft their huf- 
bands in India, had been fent from Madras thither, and 
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were 
