1807.] 
all historians confirm on the clearest and 
most abundant evidence; nor indeed 
have I ever yet met with any Roman 
catholic writer of credit, who pretended 
to deny the fact. Even that lying rebel, 
Sanders, (an author, it should seem, not 
unknown to your correspondent) does 
not venture to deny these rebellions and 
conspiracies: on the contrary, he glories 
in them; canonizes those who suffer- 
ed the just punishment of their crimes 5 
and hoids them up as objects of re- 
verence and imitation, as martyrs.* 
Colleges were instituted at Rome, 
Doway, and St. Omer’s, for the express 
and avowed purpose of training up young 
men, natives of Eneland and Ireland, 
who were to act as missionaries in their 
own country, under the direction of their 
superiors! Philip, king of Spain, founded 
two others; one at Valladolid, and the 
other at Seville; and they all incul- 
cated upon the students educated there- 
in, the duty of sacrificing even their lives, 
in the good work of destroying the enemy 
of the holy see, and extirpating heresy in 
their native land. These formidable 
engines, for such they unguestionably 
were in that unsettled period, naturally 
excited considerable alarm in the Eng- 
lish government; by whom, with the 
consent of parliament, it was made a 
capital offence for these seminary-priests, 
as they were called, to erter the king- 
dom. Yet numbers of them did venture 
over, and a tew, comparatively speaking, 
were executed. Letit be observed, how- 
ever, that those who did suffer, were not 
put to death for their religion; unlesssit 
be granted, that with them, religion and 
treason were one and the same thing. At 
the time when these missionaries of the 
Pope were thus treated, the secular 
priests remained in quietness, and were 
unmolested ;- for which, they became 
very obnoxious. to the court of Rome, 
and to the heads of the English colleges 
abroad. From the controversial pamph- 
lets which passed between the seculars 
and the jesuits, m this and the succeed- 
ing reign, any unbiassed person may be 
able to judge, whetber “ it is hypocrisy 
to say that the papal missionaries, who 
were executed between the years 1570 
and 1602, suffered for treason.” All 
that follows in your correspondent’s let- 
ter is so wild and intemperate ; and at 
the same time evinces either such gross 
ignorance, or such a wilful desiga to mis- 
* De Schismate Anglicaao, Lib, iu, 
P. 417) 
et pussim. : 
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Journal of a Voyage in the Indian Seas. 
lead; thet I do not think it.worth my 
while to trouble you, Mr. Editor, or your 
readers, any further on the subject. 
Joun WatkINs. 
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JOURNAL of a vorace performed in the 
INDIAN SEAS, ¢0 MADRAS, BENGAL, 
CHINA, S¢., &¢., im His MAJESTY’S 
SHIP CAROLINE, in theyrarRs 1803-4-5, 
interfperfed with short DESCRIPTIVE 
SKETCHES of the PRESENT sTaTE of the 
principal SETTLEMENTS of the INDIA 
COMPANY, 
Communicated to the MONTHLY MAGAZINE 
by an OFFICER of that SHIP. 
iE number of junks, and boats of 
all descriptions, that are seen pass- 
ing and repassing between Macao and 
Canton, exceeds all calculation or belief. 
Some of these junks will carry nearly a 
thousand tons; and those that trade to - 
the Straits of Malacca, the Ealt-rn Is- 
lands, &c. are very great curiasities, con= 
‘taining perhaps two or three hundred 
merchants, each having his separate ca- 
bin, or rather shop or warehouse. In 
one of these junks, therefore, may be 
seen almoit an epitome of the suburbs of 
Canton: ivory-cutters and manufactur- 
ers, painters, carpenters, blacksmiths, 
goldsmiths, &c. all with their various ar- 
ticles arranged for sale in their separate 
apartments. 
The Chinese work their janks and 
other boats with astonishing adroitness 
on this river, where they actually seem 
to fly thronghthe water, The sails are all 
made of mats, and are narrow, but very 
lofty. Slit pieces of bamboo cross the 
sails horizontally, at short distances; 
and to one end of these is attached a 
bow-line, leading forward; to the other, 
a sheet leading aft; by which means their 
sails stand better, and he nearer the 
wind, than any European sails possibly 
can. 
When it blows fresh, and they have 
occasion to reef, they lower away the 
halliards, and roll up any length of the 
sail they please round the lower piece of 
bamboo; thus reefing their sails at the 
bottom with much less dithiculty than we 
can atthe top; and this they can con- 
tinue to do, till the whole of the sail is 
rolied up, adapting it from the lightest 
breeze to the heaviest squall with the 
greatest facility. : ; 
They frequently have two or three 
mafis, but we never saw any with top- 
masts; the mat-sails extending up along 
the masts (which are generally very tant) 
tg any height. 
On 
