the Chineſe made this act of neceſſity on my part, an official pretext on theirs to ſeize the veſſel and cargo; and having contrived by ſtratagem, to get me out of her, detained me as a priſoner in Canton during five days: But when the various unfortunate circumſtances which had befallen me were explained, and the truth of them duly atteſted, before the judicial Mandarins, I was ordered to be enlarged, while my veſſel was ſent for me, at the expenſe of the Chineſe Government, to Macao to be ſold, and myſelf and cargo, by the ſame ſuperior interpoſition, put on board the Eaſt-India Company's ſhip, General Coote, bound for England. On my arrival there, the India Company purchaſed my cargo for nine thouſand ſeven hundred and ſixty pounds ſterling. A full account of this voyage and the circumſtances connected with it, together with the charts and drawings made to illuſtrate it, were left in England when I proceeded on my laſt voyage; a narrative of which, as well as of that I made to Japan
