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deration, It was determined that two 
Portuguese should be demanded, and 
their lives sacrificed as an equivalent for 
the hte of one China man! To the ho- 
nour of the Portuguese governor, however, 
he obstinately resisted the demand; and 
would not even give up the man who 
eommitted the murder, but ordered him 
to be publicly shot by hig own country- 
men, before the eyes of the Chinese, who 
by these means were appeased and the 
affair dropped. 
Winle we lay here an English boat’s 
erew happened to land on the Chinese side 
ef the Boundary, and were immediately 
unprsoned; the sum of two or three 
thousand dollars being demanded for their 
enlargement. ‘The Caroline was there- 
fore moveddown abreast of Macao, and 
& message sent to the Portuguese gover- 
nor, who applied to the mandarin for the 
nels se of the English, but without effect, 
as they expected a considerable ransom. 
A message was therefore sent to the 
mandarm in the name of his Britannic 
Majesty, demanding the instant release 
of his majesty’s subjects, with an intima- 
tion, that if this lawful demand was not 
directly complied with, force would be 
used to compel him to it; but Fukki, 
though he had no sinall itching for the 
dollars, was not at all inclined to risk 
broadside from the Tars of Old England 
on their account; and therefore the men 
were givenup the moment he received 
this message. 
The Typa, (a safe harbour, where com- 
modore Anson hove down the old Cen- 
turion) hes between two islands about 
four miles from aeifol and here the De- 
dai gneuse frigate lay, all the time we were 
in China, without experiencing the least 
degree of sickness; whereas the Caroline 
and Grampes had half their men laid up 
with agues, fevers, and fluxes, at Lintin 
and Anson’s bay. 
‘Phe Atbenian, of sixty-four guns, which 
ship arrived in China early in January, 
1805, suffered still more trom. sickness 
than we did. Macao :oads are therefore 
rauch healthier than any of the anchorages 
farther up the river, which indeed is ge- 
nerally the case in all rivers of hot coun- 
tries. 
Macao road, however, is objected to on 
account of its openness, shoulda gale of 
wind take place; but during the months 
of October, November, and December, 
we did not ‘experience any weather that 
could damage a vessel lying in these roads ; 
and had we continued here, instead of 
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higher up, I am convinced- we should 
have evaded great part of the sickness, 
and mortality that prevailed on board. 
Macao is the only European-looking 
city we had yet seen in India or China; 
for the Portuguse, contrary to the prac- 
tice of most other European settlers in 
hot countries, make very little difference 
in the construction of thetr houses, whe- 
ther ou the banks of the Ganges or the 
Tagus: whereas the people of other na- 
tions in general, but the English in parti- 
cular, leave no means unemployed to ob- 
viate the effects of climate, by construct- 
ing their habitations in the most airy 
manner imaginable. 
The trade of this place seems now re- 
duced to a mere shadow; the principal 
branch being that of smuggling opium 
ashore here, which is afterwards privately 
sold tc the Cinuese, at a great price; as 
these people have of late got exceedingly 
fond of this drug, which they smoke and 
chew clandestinely, the use of it being 
strictly prohibited by government. 
Ou the 1st of January, 1805, the Ca- 
roline dropt down to Lintin, in order to 
callect the convoy, which was directed to 
assemble at this place. On the 5th, the 
men of war and merchant ships broke 
eround, and steered past Macao, with a 
sti? breeze, that came down cold and 
dreary from the -bleak Chinese moun- 
tains. . 
We were no sooner out of sight oe the 
bleak coast of China, than rhe” skies 
cleared up, and the north-east monsoon 
blew clear and pleasant over the scarcely 
ruffled surface of the ocean. We steered 
a direct course for the Paracels, passing 
to the southward of the island of Hai- 
nan: we crossed the centre of that 
space in which the Paracels are laid down 
in the charts, but saw nothing of them ; 
and on the 8th made the high land of 
Cochin-China, to the northwar rd of Cape 
Avarella: as we coasted along in the 
night, the mountains, which are here 
very hich and rugged, seemed to be in a 
complete blaze, having been fired by the 
inhabitants for some purpose or other, 
and exhibited a very grand illumination. 
a he 
‘or the Monthly Magazine. 
CRITICAL SURVEY OF LESSING’S WORKS. 
— inued from p. 425, of Vol. 23.) 
SIL serious dramas of Lessing are 
five in number, 1. Miss Sara ‘Sam- 
son; 2 Philotas; S. Emita Galotti; 
4. Nathan the Wise; 5. Lhe Monk of 
Libanon, 
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