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<HEAD>An Hi&s;torical Ab&s;tract of Mr. <HI>Samuel White,</HI> his Manage|ment of Affairs, in his <HI>Shabander&s;hip</HI> of <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery</HI> and <HI>Mergen,</HI> during <HI>Francis Davenports</HI> &s;tay with him, in Quality of Secretary: Collected out of the &s;aid <HI>Daven|ports</HI> own Private Memoirs; for the clearer Di&s;covery of what&s;oever may have Relation to the Right Honourable Engli&s;h <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Company them&s;elves, or others our Country Men in <HI>India,</HI> through his proceedings, in pre|tence of his Mini&s;tration of that Publick Office under the King of <HI>Syam.</HI></HEAD>
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<P>THE Ship <HI>Quedabux</HI> belonging to the <HI>Nhabob Nurulakhon</HI> in <HI>Bengala,</HI> bound from <HI>Sirian,</HI> in the Kingdom of <HI>Pegu,</HI> towards <HI>Balla&s;ore, William Morgan</HI> Pilot, (I <HI>Francis Davenport</HI> being then a Pa&s;&s;enger on board the &s;aid Ship) was on Tue&s;day the 2d of <HI>March,</HI> 1685/6, about three Leagues to the Southward of the Land <HI>Agoada,</HI> and in &s;ight of point <HI>Negraes,</HI> Pyratically, and without Commi&s;&s;ion attacqu'd and &s;eiz'd by one Captain <HI>Alexander Le&s;sly,</HI> in a Ship call'd the <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> which Captain <HI>Coates</HI> had, (about three months before) as Pyratically taken from <HI>John d' Marcora,</HI> an <HI>Armenian</HI> Merchant at <HI>Madapollam; Le&s;sly</HI> being then attended with a &s;mall Sloop call'd the <HI>Malpot,</HI> and then both of them wearing the King of <HI>Syams</HI> Colours.</P>
<P>After this &s;eizure of the <HI>Quedabux,</HI> Captain <HI>Le&s;sly</HI> conveyed her into the Harbour of <HI>Mergen,</HI> where the two Ships Arriv'd the 13th of <HI>March,</HI> the Sloop being in the way thither, over&s;et by a Gu&s;t of Wind, and five men lo&s;t with her, <HI>viz.</HI> three <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and two <HI>Portugueze.</HI></P>
<P>On the 14th of <HI>March,</HI> the Nocquedah and Pilot of the <HI>Quedabux,</HI> and &s;everal Pa&s;&s;engers of us were permitted to go a&s;hore at the Town of <HI>Mergen,</HI> and carried on our Landing (with &s;trong Guards) directly before Mr. <HI>Samuel White,</HI> at his dwelling Hou&s;e: Here I found Mr. <HI>William How</HI> entertained into Mr. <HI>Samuel Whites</HI> particular &s;ervice, as Steward and Ca&s;h-Keeper, who had al&s;o been carried in on Ship <HI>Mahmuddy,</HI> belonging to <HI>Meer Facqueer Deun</HI> of <HI>Metchlepatam,</HI> which had been by the &s;aid <HI>VVhite, Shabander</HI> of the Port, Condemn'd as Prize, and di&s;patch'd to the Coa&s;t of <HI>Choromondel,</HI> on the roaving de&s;ign, under the command of Captain <HI>Edward Engli&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>Here I al&s;o was inform'd, that the Ship, which this day went over the Bar, and Anchor'd in &s;even fathom Water, belong'd to <HI>Hughly,</HI> and was Laden with twenty two Elephants bound thither, having a <HI>Portugueze</HI> Pilot. Upon this News Moun&s;ieur <HI>Carroon,</HI> and I, addre&s;t our &s;elves to the <HI>Shabander,</HI> reque&s;ting his permi&s;&s;ion (&s;ince the King of <HI>Syam</HI> had no Wars with either <HI>England</HI> or <HI>France,</HI> and that we were only Pa&s;&s;engers in the Ship, now brought into that Port) to depart that Port, with that pre&s;enting opportunity of the <HI>Hughly</HI> Ship: Our bu&s;ine&s;s calling us to <HI>Bengala,</HI> he at fir&s;t freely con&s;ented, and being made &s;en&s;ible that the <HI>Jeru&s;alems</HI> Sailers, and Souldiers, had imbezelled and &s;pent all our Provi&s;ions on board the <HI>Prize,</HI> gave order to the Purveyor to &s;upply us a new again&s;t the next morning.</P>
<P>The <HI>Shabander</HI> al&s;o pretended, that he would clear the <HI>Quedabux,</HI> and recruit her with Water and Plantain Trees, &s;eeming highly to check Captain <HI>Le&s;sly</HI> for his bringing her into Port, when he had no order for &s;o doing; but the <HI>Nocquedah</HI> alleadging, his Ship to be in want of repairs; the Mon&s;oon, and the long time the Elephants had been already on board; whereas had &s;he not been intercepted, &s;he might in all probability have been ere then at her intended Port, and that there|fore he could do no le&s;s, then in behalf of the Prince his Ma&s;ter, to prote&s;t again&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Le&s;sly</HI> and his Abettors, for what Dammages might en&s;ue on this interception of the Ship <HI>&s;uper Altum Mare.</HI> The <HI>Shabander,</HI> pre&s;ently in a great rage, ordered her to be unladed, and all the Rubies and other Merchandize to be delivered into his own cu&s;tody, turning the nine Elephants upon the <HI>Nocquedah,</HI> to be maintained at his charge, &s;coffingly telling him, that if he would not take the fir&s;t offer of his Liberty, he &s;hould &s;tay long enough, before he &s;hould have a&s;econd made him,
<PB N="2" REF="2">and be taught what it was to threaten a Prote&s;t, and at length forc'd the <HI>Nocquedah</HI> to &s;ign a Pa|per in the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Language, &s;ignifying that the Ship was not detained by the &s;aid <HI>Shabander,</HI> but that being out of repair, and the Mon&s;oon now far &s;pent, the <HI>Nocquedah</HI> thought it not con|venient to proceed for <HI>Bengala,</HI> until the Months of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> or <HI>November:</HI> Thus was his Ship ordered to be unrigg'd, and laid by the Walls; Mr. <HI>White</HI> not &s;paring to &s;ay publickly, on the <HI>Nocquedahs</HI> &s;igning of the Paper, that the <HI>Nocquedahs</HI> next <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> or <HI>November,</HI> would not happen till latter <HI>Lammas.</HI></P>
<P>Thus much for the <HI>Quedabux.</HI></P>
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<P>On Munday the 15th of <HI>March,</HI> my Che&s;t being fetcht out of the Ship, and the Provi&s;ions (according to Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> order) being put into a Boat, which was to have carried us to the <HI>Hughly</HI> Ship over the Bar, Moun&s;ieur <HI>Carroon</HI> and my &s;elf, went to take our leaves of the <HI>Sha|bander,</HI> who di&s;mi&s;t us with a great deal of Courte&s;ie; telling us, that he had &s;ent to the Pilot of the Ship, on which we were to proceed, our late <HI>Nocquedahs</HI> Certificate for Mr. <HI>John Tyler,</HI> the King of <HI>Syam</HI>'s Agent in <HI>Bengala,</HI> to produce on any occa&s;ion of the <HI>Moors</HI> being di&s;&s;atisfied at the <HI>Quedabuxes</HI> &s;tay at <HI>Mergen,</HI> and de&s;ired, that we al&s;o would acquaint whoever enquired into it, that it was the <HI>Nocquedahs</HI> own choice, &s;ince he had been offered a &s;peedy di&s;patch, if he would have proceeded.</P>
<P>As we were putting off the &s;hore in the Boat, the <HI>Shabander</HI> Mr. <HI>White</HI> &s;ends order to &s;top her, and calls me to him, who (when I came to him) told me, that for &s;ome Rea&s;ons he had, he thought it not convenient, that I &s;hould go on that Ship to <HI>Bengala;</HI> At which when he &s;aw me much &s;urprized, and di&s;turbed, he pre&s;ently told me, he intended nothing to my prejudice, but had a mind to do me a greater kindne&s;s, than I was aware of; &s;aying, that he would give me a good Employment in the King of <HI>Syams</HI> &s;ervice, which I refu&s;ing to accept, alledging fir&s;t, The un&s;uitablene&s;s of it to my own Inclinations, having never in my life &s;erv'd any Heathen Prince; nextly, The inconvenience of &s;uch an engagement of my &s;elf, which perhaps might debar me the priviledge of returning home, when I &s;hould have a mind to it: And la&s;tly, The unhand&s;ome|ne&s;s of taking that, or any other Employ, until I had fir&s;t appeared before my late Ma&s;ters, and given them an account of the lo&s;s of their Ship, be&s;ides the di&s;&s;atisfaction it would be to my Friends, to have me ab&s;ent, after &s;uch a cro&s;s Adventure as I had lately met with: He then told me, that if I would &s;erve him, he would order matters &s;o to my advantage, that I &s;hould have no occa&s;ion to repent my &s;tay on &s;hore, this Mon&s;oon. That he would give me fifteen <HI>Tales per</HI> Month, to a&s;&s;i&s;t him in his particular affairs, and that in the Month of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> next, he would put me in Ma&s;ter, and Supra Cargoe of a Ship of his own, which he was re&s;olved to &s;end to the <HI>Bay,</HI> which would be abundantly more to my Benefit, than to go now a Pa&s;&s;enger, when I mu&s;t expect to lye a whole Mon&s;oon at home out of Employ.</P>
<P>This fair offer prevailed with me to &s;tay with him on &s;hore until <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> next, he further add|ing, that for the ten <HI>Tales</HI> worth of provi&s;ions, which Captain <HI>Le&s;sly</HI> and his men had imbezelled of mine, he would &s;ee me paid; and as for what in lieu of it, he had already ordered into the Boat, the Purveyor &s;hould take it back again. So Moun&s;ieur <HI>Carroon</HI> &s;taying all this while in the Boat, I had only time, whil&s;t my Che&s;ts, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> were fetching a&s;hore again, to write a few Lines to Mr. <HI>Ralph Harwarr,</HI> &s;ignifying the lo&s;s of the Ship <HI>Hopewell,</HI> and the occa&s;ion of my &s;tay here.</P>
<P>On Tue&s;day the 16th. In&s;tant, Mr. <HI>Samuel White</HI> the <HI>Shabander,</HI> committed to my care all his Books and Papers of Accompts, which then &s;tanding in a very confu&s;ed po&s;ture, he de&s;ired me to peru&s;e and dige&s;t them into the be&s;t and cleare&s;t method I could; &s;aying, that he would procure a Writer under me, for Tran&s;cribing them fair over after me, in a better hand then he perceived I could write; and fir&s;t to begin with the Kings Accompts, which referr'd to his oblique di&s;-bur&s;t|ments out of the Trea&s;ury, from <HI>January,</HI> 1684/<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">, for that he was ordered from Court, to remit them up to the Privy Council in <HI>July</HI> next, and therefore would have them made up to the fir&s;t day of that Month, to which I gave my promi&s;e to apply my &s;elf with all po&s;&s;ible diligence.</P>
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<P>This day Arrived here from <HI>Syam,</HI> Mr. <HI>Tho. Yale,</HI> Mr. <HI>James Wheeler,</HI> and Mr. <HI>John Kiddal,</HI> with an order from the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> to be furni&s;hed with a Ship to carry them to <HI>Madra&s;s.</HI> The fir&s;t of the&s;e was pitcht upon, as a per&s;on mo&s;t proper to accompany the Jewels, which the King of <HI>Syam</HI> threw back upon his Brother the Wor&s;hipful <HI>Elihu Yale,</HI> on pretence they had been over-valued, which was done at the in&s;tance of the &s;aid Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> who was apprehen&s;ive that the Kings acceptance of them at &s;uch an over-rate, might give an opportunity to his Enemies at Court to &s;upplant him in the Kings favour, by &s;ugge&s;ting, that he had covertly Juggl'd with the &s;aid <HI>Yale,</HI> in thus abu&s;ing the King. The &s;econd (for want of Copper at <HI>Syam,</HI> and on pro|mi&s;e from the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> to be the next &s;ea&s;on &s;upply'd, with the Amount of the <HI>Phenix</HI>'s Cargoe in that <HI>&s;pecie</HI>) took his pa&s;&s;age this way for company &s;ake, having al&s;o orders to move the Pre&s;ident and Council in the <HI>Jewel</HI> Affair, in ca&s;e Mr. <HI>Elihu Yale</HI> did not comply with expedi|tion, in taking back the Jewels, and reimbur&s;ing their Amount, as he had charg'd them to the King. The third had found &s;o great favour with the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> as to be credited for forty <HI>Cattees,</HI> for which he brought an order to the <HI>Shabander,</HI> to pay him in Tynn at the Kings price: But the <HI>Shabander</HI> him&s;elf having occa&s;ion for the Kings Tynn, paid Captain <HI>Kiddal</HI> in ready Ca&s;h,
<PB N="3" REF="2" MS="y">or at lea&s;t charg'd it &s;o in his Books, the &s;aid <HI>Kiddal</HI> being de&s;ign'd from <HI>Madra&s;s</HI> to the <HI>Bay,</HI> to fetch his Wife to <HI>Syam.</HI></P>
<P>Upon this their Arrival at <HI>Mergen,</HI> the <HI>Dorothy</HI>'s de&s;ign for <HI>Atcheen</HI> was laid a&s;ide, and her Cargoe of Rice being &s;old to Mr <HI>Thomas Yale</HI> (not without the di&s;gu&s;t of Mr. <HI>Wheeler</HI>) &s;he was pitcht upon to carry them to <HI>Madra&s;s.</HI></P>
<P>On <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 17th. Captain <HI>John Coats</HI> arriv'd at <HI>Mergen,</HI> from the Coa&s;t of <HI>Chormondel,</HI> in a &s;mall Sloop call'd the <HI>Robin,</HI> which he had built at <HI>Madapollam,</HI> and brought with him about Forty <HI>Europeans,</HI> who were full with boa&s;tings of the great Exploits which <HI>Coats</HI> had done again&s;t the Subjects of the King of <HI>Golcondah,</HI> whom they in Bravado &s;til'd the Enemy, and particularly in taking a Fort at <HI>Madapollam,</HI> and firing of <HI>Metchlepatam:</HI> But notwith&s;tanding all this, 'twas ea&s;ie enough to ob&s;erve, that <HI>Coat</HI>'s Reception by the <HI>Shabander,</HI> did not corre&s;pond with his ex|pectation, though (becau&s;e of the&s;e Strangers) the be&s;t &s;ide was put outermo&s;t on both hands.</P>
<P>On the 18th. arriv'd from the Coa&s;t of <HI>Chormondell</HI> a Ship call'd the <HI>Tokely,</HI> belonging to <HI>Maho|met Sadock</HI> of this Port, a Moor, and Son to the late <HI>Shabander;</HI> her Lading con&s;i&s;ted chiefly of Salt for Mr. <HI>White,</HI> and the Ship he immediately &s;eiz'd to him&s;elf, for &s;ecurity and &s;atisfaction of a Debt which the &s;aid <HI>Sadock</HI> ow'd him.</P>
<P>On <HI>Friday</HI> the 20th. The <HI>Dorothy</HI> (Captain <HI>John Croply</HI> Commander) was di&s;patcht to carry Mr. <HI>Yale, &amp;c.</HI> with the Jewels to <HI>Madra&s;s.</HI> The <HI>Shabander,</HI> Captain <HI>Coats,</HI> and my &s;elf accom|panying them on board the Ship down the River, and <HI>Coats</HI> Sloop following the Ship to take us in when we parted from them.</P>
<P>On our return towards the Town in the Sloop, Mr. <HI>White</HI> began to tax Captain <HI>Coats,</HI> with his indi&s;creet management of Affairs at the <HI>Coa&s;t;</HI> telling him, that he mu&s;t prepare to go to <HI>Syam,</HI> and there give an Account to the King of what he had done, and particularly blam'd him for the Re-delivery of <HI>John d' Marcoraes</HI> Money, and bringing away an empty &s;hip, and leaving <HI>Don Jo&s;eph d' Haeredia</HI> behind him upon the Coa&s;t, as well as &s;urrendering the King of <HI>Golcondah</HI>'s Ship: <HI>Coats</HI> pleaded the good Service he had done Mr. <HI>White,</HI> in revenging him on <HI>Ally Beague</HI> the <HI>Hoble|dar</HI> of <HI>Metchlepatam,</HI> by putting the Country into a Combu&s;tion, which he had done in ob&s;ervance to Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> private Orders to him; contrary to the expre&s;s command of the King their Ma&s;ter, and that in&s;tead of being blam'd, he expected the <HI>Shabander</HI> &s;hould according to his promi&s;e, skreen him from His Maje&s;ties di&s;plea&s;ure, he having expos'd him&s;elf meerly to it for his &s;ake, when they came on &s;hore, they came to &s;o high words, that <HI>Coats</HI> in a great pa&s;&s;ion openly &s;light|ed the <HI>Shabander,</HI> and the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> and privately ordering his Chyrurgeon to bring him an Ounce of <HI>Opium,</HI> pretended in &s;ight of us to &s;wallow a large Pill, which &s;tepping into the next room he brought out in his hand, heaving the remaining <HI>Opium</HI> publickly out of the Window, after he had fir&s;t &s;hown it to Mr. <HI>White,</HI> and told him that his unhand&s;omne&s;s had made him take that Pill, which (as he &s;aid) was a parcel of the <HI>Opium,</HI> nor did he cea&s;e after this action extrava|gantly to rail again&s;t them both. Mr. <HI>White</HI> doubting he had de&s;perately poy&s;oned him&s;elf, &s;eem'd mightily troubled at it, and &s;ent for the Garri&s;on Chirurgeons, (both <HI>Frenchmen</HI>) who both came and gave their opinions, that Captain <HI>Coats</HI> had not &s;wallow'd any Poy&s;on, though his own Chirurgeon affirm'd, that what he brought was <HI>Opium,</HI> which in ob&s;ervance of his command he had innocently done, not knowing what occa&s;ion this Captain de&s;ign'd it for, however Mr. <HI>VVhite</HI> for that time humor'd Captain <HI>Coats,</HI> by courting a Reconciliation, and pretending that he would engage Life for Life, that if Captain <HI>Coats</HI> would but go up to <HI>Syam,</HI> he would bring about &s;o, as that all his proceedings &s;hould meet with his Maje&s;ties approbation, and he not want all the Fa|vour and Honour he could de&s;ire. <HI>Coats</HI> now &s;eem'd better &s;atisfy'd, was prevail'd with to take (as the Doctors call'd them) needle&s;s Antidotes to expel the fancy'd Poy&s;on, and next morning was well recover'd from a feigned Indi&s;po&s;ition.</P>
<P>They are after this Nights Comical Feat, fa&s;t friends to all appearance, and harp no more on the Coa&s;t Exploits, only Captain <HI>Coats</HI> the next day begins to make up his private Accounts with Mr. <HI>VVhite,</HI> concerning a parcel of Raw Silk, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> which he had in his own name formerly con&s;ign'd from the Coa&s;t to Mr. <HI>VVhite,</HI> and then prepares for his Journey to <HI>Syam,</HI> and delivers me all his Papers and Journal, relating to his <HI>Coa&s;t</HI> Expedition, to be regi&s;tred for the <HI>Shabander,</HI> among&s;t which the mo&s;t con&s;iderable, and likely to tend to his, or the <HI>Shabanders</HI> prejudice, was the prote&s;t which Mr. <HI>Freeman,</HI> Mr. <HI>VVales, &amp;c.</HI> had made again&s;t him; Mr. <HI>Mallet,</HI> and <HI>Don Jo&s;eph d' Haeredia,</HI> in hehalf of the Honourable <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Company, for dammages &s;u&s;tained by his Ho&s;tile proceedings at <HI>Madapollam,</HI> and &s;ome Letters, which the <HI>Dutch</HI> Chief at <HI>Metchlepatam, Laurence Pit</HI> had &s;ent him, wherein he al&s;o complained of great dammage, and threatned to remem|ber it in a proper &s;ea&s;on, together with &s;everal Letters from Mr. <HI>Freeman,</HI> the final an&s;wer of which was, <HI>Coats</HI> Surrender of the King of <HI>Golcondahs</HI> own Ship, when at the &s;ame time, he detain'd the Ship of a Merchant &s;tranger, who was no Subject to that King, with whom he pretended the King of <HI>Syam</HI> his Ma&s;ter to have War.</P>
<P>This accidental and &s;trange difference between the&s;e two per&s;ons, made me &s;omewhat curious in my enquiries and &s;earch into the rea&s;on, and fir&s;t commencement of this, which by what I could collect from all the Letters and other Writings, which had pa&s;t between Mr. (alias Lord) <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> Mr. <HI>VVhite,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Coates</HI> was this.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>VVhite</HI> being in a Ship of the King of <HI>Syams</HI> at <HI>Metchlepatam,</HI> had received (by the private in&s;tigation of Mr. <HI>Robert Freeman</HI> as he fancy'd) &s;ome abu&s;es, and &s;u&s;tain'd &s;ome lo&s;s by <HI>Ally Beague</HI> the <HI>Hobledar,</HI> to the amount 1200 <HI>Pagodoes,</HI> and afterwards his Ship <HI>Spellman</HI> being deny'd at the
<PB N="4" REF="3">&s;ame Port a &s;upply of <HI>Cables,</HI> was for want of them ca&s;t away upon the <HI>Coa&s;t,</HI> Mr. <HI>White</HI> being then arriv'd to the <HI>Shabander&s;hip</HI> of <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> by the Intere&s;t of the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> &s;ues for Let|ters of Reprizal from his Ma&s;ter the King: The Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> &s;o repre&s;ents matters to his Ma|je&s;ty, that he con&s;ents to make open War with the King of <HI>Golchondah,</HI> but fir&s;t for fa&s;hion &s;ake, re&s;olves to demand &s;atisfaction for &s;everal affronts, done by the Subjects of that King to his Impe|rial Crown and Dignity; the <HI>Ribarr</HI> employ'd to demand redre&s;s at the Court of <HI>Golcondah</HI> failes in his Duty, or at lea&s;t in their expectation; <HI>Coates</HI> is thereupon ordered to begin the War, and is furni&s;hed with Copper, and other Goods to defray his nece&s;&s;ary expence, and entertainment of all the <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> he could get into the &s;ervice for that de&s;ign, and is in <HI>March,</HI> 1681/5. di&s;patcht from <HI>Mergen</HI> to <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> coun&s;ign'd to Mr. <HI>Thomas I<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">att,</HI> and thence to go down to <HI>Metchle|patam.</HI></P>
<P>In the <HI>April</HI> following, comes from Court a Revocation of <HI>Coates's</HI> Commi&s;&s;ion, with &s;trict Orders to forbid his breaking into a War with the King of <HI>Golcondah,</HI> or u&s;ing any act of Ho&s;tility or mole&s;tation, towards any of his Subjects, with po&s;itive command to Mr. <HI>White,</HI> immediately to di&s;patch the be&s;t Sailer belonging to the Port with that Expre&s;s, &s;o that it might reach <HI>Coates</HI> at <HI>Madra&s;s:</HI> Mr. <HI>White</HI> could not avoid &s;ending it, but withal &s;ends his own private Orders to Cap|tain <HI>Coa&s;tes,</HI> to proceed according to his former In&s;tructions, promi&s;ing to &s;tand between him and all danger, and reflecting highly upon the &s;icklene&s;s, and irre&s;olution of the <HI>Syam</HI> Courtiers.</P>
<P><HI>Coates</HI> having advice at <HI>Trincombarr</HI> of <HI>Ivatt</HI>'s Death, flu&s;ht with money, and blown with Ambition, is prepar'd for any undertaking for his great Friend Mr. <HI>White;</HI> and when <HI>Cropley</HI> brings him the Letters to <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> prefers Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> Orders to tho&s;e of the King his ma&s;ter, and ac|cordingly under pretence of going to look for <HI>Don Jo&s;eph,</HI> and having a leaky Ve&s;&s;el under him, puts into <HI>Madapollam,</HI> rebuilds his old Ve&s;&s;el, and builds two &s;mall ones more, and now having lived at an extravagant rate, and by his carele&s;s lavi&s;hne&s;s made all <HI>Sterling,</HI> as we &s;ay, He re|&s;olves to fetch it up again, by the &s;eizure of an <HI>Armenians</HI> Ship, which had (by report) near 60000 <HI>Pagadoes</HI> in her bound to <HI>Madra&s;s;</HI> Now is the Country Alarm'd, and <HI>Coates</HI> inveigling <HI>Don Jo&s;eph d' Haeredia</HI> to &s;ide with him, open defiance is proclaim'd: Many of the poor <HI>Paddy Boats</HI> taken, Robb'd and de&s;troy'd, a &s;mall incon&s;iderable Fort below <HI>Na&s;&s;apore</HI> taken and &s;ack't, and the Guns brought away, <HI>Metchlapatam</HI> skulkingly &s;et on fire, the Companies Goods &s;top'd in the Countrey (or alledg'd to be) becau&s;e all this was done by <HI>Engli&s;hmen,</HI> Mr. <HI>Freeman</HI> appears in behalf both of the Company, the <HI>Armenian,</HI> and him&s;elf, and at length makes an advantage of <HI>Coates</HI> weakne&s;s, according to the <HI>Mergen</HI> con&s;truction of the matter.</P>
<P>Whil&s;t the&s;e things were thus carried at the Coa&s;t, Mr. <HI>White</HI> him&s;elf had an opportunity put into his hands, to break with the <HI>Moors,</HI> which he was re&s;olved not to lo&s;e, not knowing how <HI>Coats</HI> might &s;ucceed in his de&s;igns; and 'twas thus. <HI>Cropley</HI> returning in the <HI>Dorothy</HI> from <HI>Coats,</HI> finds at Anchor under <HI>Ilha Ferro,</HI> a Ship belonging to the <HI>Nhabob Mahomet Aminkhon,</HI> Laden with <HI>Metchlepatam</HI> Goods, and waiting for fair Weather to put into <HI>Mergen,</HI> whither &s;he was bound; he coming in before her, tells the <HI>Shabander;</HI> who immediately &s;ends <HI>Croply</HI> out again, with orders to attacque, &s;eize, and bring her into Port as a Prize: He follow'd his orders; Mr. <HI>White</HI> gives notices of what he had done to the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> he con&s;truing it (according to Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> plau&s;ible repre&s;entation of the matter) as an omen of future good &s;ucce&s;s, commends the Act, and prevails with the King to approve it: Now no longer peace with <HI>Golcondah,</HI> another <HI>Gingerlee</HI> Ship being in Port, is detained and confi&s;cated with her Cargoe. The <HI>Shabander</HI> ad|vi&s;es the Court, that many Coa&s;t Ships frequented <HI>Pegu:</HI> The Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> encourages him to way-lay them all, and bring them into <HI>Mergen</HI> for Examination; &s;o that this year no le&s;s then &s;even Sail have been taken and Prized, and &s;everal others paid &s;awce for their being cleared, only the <HI>Henrietta Maria,</HI> with her Cargoe, belonging to Mr. <HI>Freeman,</HI> and his effects on broad the <HI>Momuddy</HI> e&s;cap't; which was done for Rea&s;ons no le&s;s publick then politick.</P>
<P>Of the number of tho&s;e taken was a Ship called the <HI>Sta Cruz,</HI> Burthen about 350 Tons, be|longing to <HI>Jo&s;eph,</HI> Brother to <HI>John d' Marcora,</HI> who little de&s;erved &s;uch u&s;age, as not only being no Subject to the King of <HI>Golcondah,</HI> but being the Redeemer of many poor <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Men, and others, at his va&s;t charge, out of Captivity in <HI>Pegu.</HI> His Ship, without ever preadvi&s;ing up to Court, was &s;ent with her Cargoe to <HI>Atcheen;</HI> Mr. <HI>White</HI> at one and the &s;ame time &s;eizing all, and yet promi&s;ing to interceed for the re&s;titution of both Ship and Cargoe to him; however he and his Son (being by Mr. <HI>White</HI> detain'd behind, as pledges for the Ships return; for Mr. <HI>White</HI> was fearful, lea&s;t the men he had &s;ent upon her &s;hould be either over-power'd, or over per&s;waded to let her e&s;cape at <HI>Atcheen</HI>) did at length, with much importunity, obtain liberty to go in Per&s;on to Court, being full of hopes, that the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> would be &s;o ju&s;t, as to take the Ca&s;e into con&s;ideration, and move the King in his favour. This <HI>Nocquedah</HI> having been inform'd that I came out of <HI>England</HI> in the &s;ame Ship with Mr. <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> willing to leave no means une&s;&s;ay'd, de&s;ired me to write to him in his behalf, which I (not daring to deny any thing, within the com|pa&s;s of my power, to one whom I owed my Redemption from Slavery) accordingly writ, and gave him this following Letter to the Lord <HI>Phaulkon.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="5" REF="3">
<OPENER><DATELINE>Mergen <DATE>24. <HI>March</HI> 1684/5.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>THe Signal Obligations I lye under to this Bearer, the Redeemer of my &s;elf, and many other Poor Men out of Captivity, call for all the Evidences of my Grati|tude, that any Opportunity can put into my Hands; &s;o that though long ab&s;ence, and diver&s;ity of Fortunes may have drawn a Curtain betwixt Your Lord&s;hip and my &s;elf, and put me by all pretence to any Intere&s;t with You, from a former Friend&s;hip or Ac|quaintance in any matter that might immediately concern my &s;elf; yet in this particular In&s;tance, when my be&s;t of Friends require it, I hope I may become Your &s;ucce&s;sfull Hum|ble Petitioner; That You would vouch&s;afe him all the favour You can in his pre&s;ent Affair, and then I am &s;ure he will find all the favour he de&s;ires, which is the re&s;titution of his Ship and E&s;tate, taken from him under pretence of His Maje&s;ties Authority; and though I do not pretend to a Spirit of Prophe&s;ie, yet I dare be confident to affirm, that Your Lord&s;hip, in doing that ju&s;t and generous act will find more &s;atisfaction, and reap more true Honour then can be expected from the Ruine of &s;o well de&s;erving an Hone&s;t Man, as is</HI> Jo&s;eph d' Marcora, <HI>who&s;e Condition I humbly recommend to Your Gracious Con&s;ideration.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t Humble Servant,<LB> <HI>Francis Davenport.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV2 N="April" TYPE="month">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>APRIL,</HI> 1686.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>The beginning of this Month Arrived the <HI>Delight, Robert Melli&s;h</HI> Ma&s;ter, from <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> with a Cargoe of Cloth, to the amount of &s;ix thou&s;and Pagodoes and upwards, in Joynt-&s;tock, between Mr. <HI>Thomas Lucas</HI> and Mr. <HI>Samuel White,</HI> the two Owners of the &s;aid Ship, in equal proportion, &s;he is &s;ent up with her Lading to <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> for the conveniency of Repacking it into Bales, fit for Tran&s;port to <HI>Syam,</HI> whither it was to be &s;ent, committed to the care of Mr. <HI>Francis Heath</HI> for Sale.</P>
<P>The 9th of this Month al&s;o Arrived the <HI>Agent</HI> from <HI>Bengala,</HI> Mr. <HI>John Thredder</HI> Cape Mer|chant, her Cargoe con&s;i&s;ting of Butter, Oyl, Salt, Dammer, Cloth and Raw Silk, in Partner|&s;hip, between Mr. <HI>John Tyler,</HI> Mr. <HI>Fitz Needham</HI> and him&s;elf; a part of her and the Cargoe, was by them offered to Sale to the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> and Mr. <HI>White,</HI> which latter did at fir&s;t accept of an eighth at the Price propo&s;ed, but in a few days, on &s;econd thoughts, recanting; he al&s;o wrote up to <HI>Syam,</HI> di&s;&s;wading the former from being concern'd; however he took off all the Butter, Oyl, Salt and Dammer, which were on good Demand, at a very low Price, not permit|ing him to &s;ell it to any of the Merchants, who would have given a far greater rate, and left him at liberty to prceed for <HI>Syam</HI> with his Raw Silk and Cloth, fairly promi&s;ing that (in con&s;idera|tion of the hard mea&s;ure Mr. <HI>Thredder</HI> complained of, in not being permitted to &s;ell his Butter, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to the be&s;t advantage) he would in ab&s;ence furni&s;h the Skipper, <HI>John Bunt,</HI> with Carpenters Timber Plank, or what&s;oever el&s;e he &s;hould want for the fitting his Ship.</P>
<P>About the middle of this Month we went up to <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> where the <HI>Delights</HI> Cargoe was ex|amined and repackt, and to it was added a quantity of <HI>Metchlepatam</HI> Goods, to the amount of fourty Cattees, being a parcel of <HI>Mahomet Aminkhons</HI> Cargoe, which Mr. <HI>White</HI> found a knack to make clear gains to him&s;elf, in di&s;po&s;ing at the &s;ame time another quantity of the &s;aid Cargoe to the amount (as he forc'd the Merchant to take them off) of two hundred Cattees, which very parcel of the &s;aid Cargoe he had newly received expre&s;s order from <HI>Syam</HI> to remit to <HI>Clong:</HI> Nay there tho&s;e Goods being much wanted, and on great demands there; but becau&s;e by that means he would have lo&s;t the opportunity of a &s;nack out of them, he thinks be&s;t to pretend the Kings &s;tock of Ca&s;h then in his hands to be low, and the Garri&s;on and Port charges being to be defray'd before the clo&s;e of his Books, he adventured the breach of order, and expo&s;ed them to Sale as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>Captain <HI>Coates</HI> took his journey hence for <HI>Syam</HI> the 22th of this Month, and the day before his departure, perceiving him to be very melancholly, I askt him what made him &s;o, where|upon taking me into a private Room, he produc'd a Paper, which he bad me read; and I found it to be Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> forementioned order to him, encouraging him (notwith&s;tanding the Kings pro|hibition) to make War upon <HI>Golcondah,</HI> by doing what mi&s;chief he could at <HI>Metchlepatam,</HI> or any Ships belonging to that Port, or any part of that Kings Dominions, and a&s;&s;uring him, that he would not only bear him out, but make it redound to his great advantage and honour at the Court of <HI>Syam.</HI> When I had read it Captain <HI>Coats</HI> asked me, whether Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> demeanour to him, &s;ince his Arrival at <HI>Mergen,</HI> had corre&s;ponded with tho&s;e &s;plendid Promi&s;es he had made him in that Paper, and whether 'twas rea&s;onable that he &s;hould be turn'd over to <HI>Syam,</HI> to give an account of his proceedings at the Coa&s;t; when Mr. <HI>White</HI> was the only per&s;on that put him
<PB N="6" REF="4">Action, and for who&s;e &s;ake alone he had thus embroil'd him&s;elf? To which I reply'd, my opinion was, that the exhau&s;ting &s;o much of the Kings &s;tock by his twelve months &s;tay at the Coa&s;t, without any advantage, was the main rea&s;on that made Mr. <HI>White</HI> loth to pa&s;s his Ac|counts; but that however, Mr. <HI>White</HI> being very &s;en&s;ible that tho&s;e orders may at any time be produc'd again&s;t him, there was no que&s;tion but he would u&s;e his utmo&s;t endeavours to obviate all the blame that the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> could transfer upon Captain <HI>Coats,</HI> except in the ca&s;e of his &s;urrender of <HI>John d' Marcordes</HI> Trea&s;ure, and the King of <HI>Golcondahs</HI> Ship, and buying of the <HI>Danesburg</HI> without order; to all which Captain <HI>Coats</HI> replyed, he could readily an&s;wer and ju|&s;tifie, and that nothing troubled him, but that his fir&s;t commencement of the breach at the Coa&s;t, being point blank contrary to the King of <HI>Syams</HI> expre&s;s plea&s;ure, he &s;hould now appear to pre|fer the private Revenge and Intere&s;t of his Friend, before his Duty to his great Ma&s;ter, and that he &s;aw no way to &s;ave him&s;elf, but by letting the King under&s;tand the truth of the matter, which could not but be of hazardous con&s;equence to Mr. <HI>White, Coats</HI> being only at fir&s;t Commi&s;&s;ionated to follow &s;uch In&s;tructions from time to time, as he &s;hould receive from the <HI>Shabander,</HI> which Commi&s;&s;ion al&s;o he now &s;hew'd me, together with the revocation, and &s;trict prohibition to mo|le&s;t or di&s;turb, or u&s;e any ho&s;tile action towards any of the Subjects of the King of <HI>Golcondah,</HI> but to return with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed through the &s;treights of <HI>Malacca</HI> to <HI>Syam,</HI> with all the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> men he could po&s;&s;ibly procure, and bring <HI>Don Jo&s;eph</HI> in his Company, the King re&s;olving to War upon <HI>Cambodia;</HI> to which I had little to &s;ay, only advi&s;ed Mr. <HI>Coats</HI> to be of good Cou|rage, and yet very cautious how he prejudiced his old and experienced Friend, telling him, I doubted not, but on his Arrival at <HI>Syam,</HI> his own ingenuity would &s;ugge&s;t to him the mo&s;t &s;uit|able and &s;afe methods of proceeding.</P>
<P>This month al&s;o arrived <HI>Don Jo&s;eph d' Haeredia,</HI> in a new &s;hip of his own, called the <HI>Sancta Ro&s;a,</HI> Burthen about four hundred Tons, from the Coa&s;t; with a parcel of <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Portu|gueze</HI> Souldiers, whom he had encouraged to come over into the King of <HI>Syams</HI> &s;ervice, and forty five Pri&s;oners taken by <HI>Coats</HI> and him out of the Paddy Boats, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> which they plunder'd or de&s;troyed on the Coa&s;t. Many dayes had not pa&s;t before Mr. <HI>White</HI> and the <HI>Don</HI> fell at vari|ance; though the latter managed matters &s;o &s;ubtilly, by a &s;eeming conde&s;cen&s;ion, that it broke not into open flame, be yielding to &s;urrender his Account at <HI>Syam,</HI> which the <HI>Shabander</HI> refu&s;ed to accept, or examine here, which yet the <HI>Don</HI> thought but rea&s;onable he &s;hould have done. The Ca&s;e was thus:</P>
<P>Captain <HI>Coats</HI>'s Ve&s;&s;el, with which he went from <HI>Mergen</HI> the la&s;t year, being too &s;mall to carry all the effects, a&s;&s;ign'd by the King for his Coa&s;t Expedition; <HI>Don Jo&s;eph</HI> makes voluntary offer of his old Ship to &s;erve the King on that occa&s;ion, and carry the remaining part of the Goods after <HI>Coats</HI> to <HI>Madra&s;s;</HI> Mr. <HI>White</HI> accepts the motion, and Lades on him in <HI>March,</HI> 1684/5, the remaining quantity of Copper, Tynn, and Tutenage, with a parcel of Elephants, and di&s;|patches him for that Port; he meeting with contrary Winds, puts in to <HI>Metchlepatam,</HI> and the mo&s;t of his Elephants being dead by the way, the re&s;t he Lands there, of which (after a great charge in keeping them) only two were &s;old; the others al&s;o dying before he could meet with a Market for them, <HI>Ally Beague,</HI> by a Wile, gets into his clutches Goods, to the amount of three thou&s;and <HI>Pagodoes,</HI> and detains them as the King of <HI>Syams;</HI> Mr. <HI>Freeman,</HI> with &s;ome difficulty, recovers from the <HI>Don</HI> to the amount of two thou&s;and two hundred eighty nine <HI>Pagodoes</HI> for Mr. <HI>Lucas,</HI> on account of Captain <HI>Coats,</HI> who had al&s;o &s;hipt Goods on him for his own account: The <HI>Dons</HI> old Ship proves un&s;erviceable, he removes her to <HI>Madapollam,</HI> and &s;ets a new one upon the Stocks, de&s;igning her (as <HI>Le&s;sly</HI> reported) for the <HI>Per&s;ia</HI> Trade, in Mr. <HI>Freemans</HI> em|ploy: <HI>Coats</HI> in the mean time Arrives there, puts him by that de&s;ign, and draws him into the intriegue, to joyn with him in the projected di&s;turbance, him&s;elf had re&s;olved, pur&s;uant to Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> afore&s;aid orders, to break out into. The Government jealous of their de&s;igns, at|tempted to interrupt their Building of their Ve&s;&s;els. The <HI>Don</HI> entertains &s;everal Souldiers as the King of <HI>Syams</HI> &s;ervants; they then both &s;tand upon their Guards, and with much difficulty at length, get their Ve&s;&s;els into the Water, only Captain <HI>Coats,</HI> in a bravado, burnt his old Ve&s;&s;el upon the Stocks, having then thrown away (as <HI>per</HI> his account) thirty <HI>Cattees</HI> in the re|building her; the Factory for &s;hewing them no other then ordinary Civility is embroiled and hazarded; the Companies Intere&s;t &s;uffers; and at length <HI>Don Jo&s;eph,</HI> having by the great ex|pence of maintaining &s;o many Souldiers and La&s;cars, and the &s;upplies he had afforded Captain <HI>Coats,</HI> with what <HI>Ally Beague</HI> detained from him, drain'd his Pur&s;e of all the Kings Ca&s;h, and was the proceed of what he carried with him; highly oppo&s;ed Captain <HI>Coats</HI> in the &s;urrender of the King of <HI>Golcondahs</HI> Ship to Mr. <HI>Freeman,</HI> expecting by detaining her, to bring <HI>Ally Beague</HI> to a complyance and redelivery of what he had &s;eque&s;tred from him: But in the end, <HI>Coats</HI> over-ruling him, the Ship is delivered back; <HI>Coats</HI> leaves the Coa&s;t, and not long after, <HI>Don Jo&s;eph</HI> leaves <HI>Metchlepatam</HI> Road, being threatned by a <HI>Dutch</HI> man that Rode there, goes down to <HI>Corrango</HI> to water, and there meets with oppo&s;ition; thence he &s;ails to <HI>Vizagapatam,</HI> there gets &s;ome recruit, and &s;o comes to <HI>Mergen,</HI> where Mr. <HI>White</HI> not willing to pa&s;s &s;uch Account as he thought would not prove &s;atisfactory at Court; and having an Eye upon the <HI>Dons</HI> Ship, if po&s;&s;ible to hook her to him&s;elf, referr'd him thither: The <HI>Don</HI> at fir&s;t refu&s;ed it, alleadging that being employed by the <HI>Shabander,</HI> he was to give his accounts to the <HI>Shabander,</HI> and to no per|&s;on el&s;e; but at length, upon Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> large promi&s;es of appearing in his behalf to the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> &s;o effectually, that the <HI>Don</HI> might be a&s;&s;ured of not only a currant acceptance of his
<PB N="7" REF="4" MS="y">Account, but great and Honourable Rewards for the good &s;ervice he had done his Maje&s;ty, and an advantagious Employment for his new Ship the next year; he not only con&s;ented, but chear|fully re&s;olved to make his per&s;onal appearance at Court. Thus on the 29th of the Month, away marches the <HI>Don,</HI> big with expectation of no &s;mall matters.</P>
<P>Here al&s;o before our return to <HI>Mergen,</HI> the <HI>Shabander</HI> ordered the bringing into him of all the Rents, Penalties, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> which had been by the under Officers of the <HI>Clong,</HI> Collected this Year; &s;o that his &s;tock was once more con&s;iderably recruited to the amount of 506 <HI>Cattees,</HI> and leaving Mr. <HI>Heath</HI> to proceed the next day with the <HI>Delights</HI> Cargoe, the <HI>Metchlepatam</HI> Goods, and twelve Pattararaes of <HI>Ophium</HI> con&s;ign'd to Mr. <HI>White,</HI> from Dr. <HI>Ralph Harwar:</HI> We this Evening left <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery</HI> to return to <HI>Mergen.</HI></P>
<NOTE PLACE="PAREND">Now it may be worth while to Note what is meant by Penalties, and the Methods of Impo&s;ing them.</NOTE>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<P>THE <HI>Shabander</HI> is never without his Emi&s;&s;aries and Spies, brib'd for that end, in every Fa|mily of Note in the Province; and when any of them that are worth the fleecing, have committed any little pilfering tricks in their re&s;pective Employments, upon notice given to him, he pre&s;ently aggravates the Crime to the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> who leaves it to the <HI>Shabander,</HI> to try and puni&s;h the fault at his own di&s;cretion, which in &s;uch Ca&s;es &s;eldom fails of commanding a total Confi&s;cation of the Delinquents E&s;tate, and &s;ometimes they are told into the bargain, that it is a great favour in him, that be&s;ides, or contrary to the Kings Order, he forbears the ran&s;ack|ing of all the Parties Relations, though brancht out into &s;everal di&s;tinct Families; that is to &s;ay, Fathers, Mothers, Brothers, Si&s;ters, Uncles, Aunts, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and by this cour&s;e he &s;trikes &s;o great an awe into them, that none of them have the courage to enquire into any thing that he does, or pre&s;ume to make their Complaints to Court, being fearful that his Intere&s;t there would cru&s;h them to pieces, Stock and Branch.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="May" TYPE="month">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>MAY, Anno</HI> 1686.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>The height of bu&s;ine&s;s being now over, Mr. <HI>White</HI> dedicated this Month to his diverti&s;ement and recreation, and begun with a de&s;ign to &s;ound round all the I&s;lands near this Port, and take notice of all the Channels leading to it, for which end he took me with him in the Sloop <HI>Robin,</HI> being attended by the &s;mall Sloop called the <HI>Mary,</HI> both which Captain <HI>Coats</HI> had built at <HI>Mada|pollam;</HI> but when we came out to the We&s;tward of the I&s;lands, we &s;oon found the Year was too far &s;pent for &s;uch an undertaking. The Weather not permitting our &s;tay abroad, he then re|&s;olved to &s;tand in again among&s;t the I&s;lands, and take the plea&s;ure of Fi&s;hing, di&s;patching a Pin|nace to <HI>Mergen</HI> to fetch down the Fi&s;hermen and their Nets: When five or &s;ix dayes had pa&s;t with this plea&s;ant diverti&s;ement, an unlookt for and unwelcome &s;ummons for Mr. <HI>White,</HI> im|mediately to repair to the Court at <HI>Levo,</HI> dampt all our Jollity; now was it become but good manners to conform our &s;elves to his more re&s;erved and melancholly deportment, and <HI>Regis ad Exemplum,</HI> nothing but &s;ilence among us. To <HI>Mergen</HI> we return, where he begins to frame an Apology for his non-complyance with the Summons, alleadging not only his indi&s;po&s;ition and want of Health, but the prejudice that would accrue to his Maje&s;ties Affairs, if he was forc'd by &s;o &s;udden a removal to leave them in that un&s;etled po&s;ture they yet were in; but two days af|terwards, before he had di&s;patcht that Letter, comes another Pur&s;uivant to call him up, and in two days more a third, with an Expre&s;s, to ha&s;ten him up by night or day. Upon which, a Letter is di&s;patcht to my Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> of a quite different Tenor, to what was at fir&s;t prepa|red, &s;ignifying his willingne&s;s to come up to Court to take new mea&s;ures for the bu&s;ine&s;s of the en&s;uing Year, which the pre&s;ent &s;tate of Affairs rendred nece&s;&s;ary; and nothing but his late being abroad to &s;urvey the Frontiers had kept him &s;o long from moving his Honour for liberty to come and ki&s;s his Hand; now all preparation is made for our Journey, the Souldiers and Seamen all paid off, and (which was a trick I had never heard of before) becau&s;e Mr. <HI>White</HI> would not appear to be in the Kings Debt, he invented a Mu&s;ter Role of &s;o many mens names (who for ought any man knows never were in <HI>rerum Natura</HI>) as &s;wept out of the Kings &s;tock 135 <HI>Cattees,</HI> as clearly as if they had been lain on a Drum-head in the face of a Regiment, and be|cau&s;e it might be as trouble&s;ome to him to have any of the Kings Stores, as well as Ca&s;h in his hands, he re&s;olves to make a Ballance of the <HI>Clongs</HI> Account, by reparting all the remains (the amount whereof <HI>per</HI> Invoice was 276 <HI>Cattees</HI>) into &s;eparate charges, as already disbur&s;ed and di&s;tributed upon all the Kings Ships, and accordingly the Kings Godowns were clean &s;wept, and the <HI>Shabanders</HI> fill'd: Thus was I ordered to clo&s;e the Kings Books in Duplicates, from <HI>January</HI> 1684/5 to the 1&s;t of <HI>July</HI> next, he making the Kings &s;tock at <HI>Mergen</HI> vani&s;h in a moment: His publick Table now broke off: His Goods and Hou&s;hold Uten&s;ils all Inventoried; and the keep|ing of his Hou&s;e recommended to Mr. <HI>Hows</HI> care, with private Letters and In&s;tructions left for all the Commanders of Ships belonging to the Port, that might be expected to arrive, during his ab&s;ence. Now al&s;o is the difference and fewd, which for four Months together (becau&s;e
<PB N="8" REF="5">the man had a mind to have &s;hared &s;takes with Mr. <HI>White</HI> in the Prize profits) had been main|tained between him&s;elf and Mr. <HI>Burneby,</HI> with great animo&s;ity on Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> part totally (at lea&s;t &s;eemingly) laid a&s;ide, and Mr. <HI>Burneby</HI> much courted by him, and pitcht upon to act as his Attorney, to receive and open all his Letters, and take into his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion at pre&s;ent his Plate, Jewels, and a &s;mall Box with Rubies; and hereafter what&s;oever Goods &s;hould be Imported, either for his proper Account, or on Con&s;ignment, only what Gold was expected from <HI>Atcheen,</HI> by Mr. <HI>Triggs,</HI> being the proce&s;s of the <HI>Succe&s;s</HI> her Cargoe, and the <HI>Sancta Cruz</HI> (which be|long'd to the <HI>Armenian</HI>) was to be paid into Mr. <HI>Melli&s;h,</HI> he pa&s;&s;ing his receipt for the &s;ame to <HI>Tho. Triggs</HI> for Account of Mr. <HI>White;</HI> to him al&s;o Mr. <HI>White</HI> now delivered a parcel of Gold, to an&s;wer part of the <HI>Delights</HI> Cargoe, de&s;igning, however &s;quares might go with him&s;elf, that Mr. <HI>Lucas</HI> &s;hould be no &s;ufferer.</P>
<P>Things being thus &s;etled at <HI>Mergen,</HI> on the 20th of <HI>May</HI> we began our Journey; at <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery</HI> we met a fourth Me&s;&s;enger, and thence proceeded in all ha&s;t to <HI>Jelinga;</HI> there he, Captain <HI>Le&s;sly</HI> and my &s;elf, took our &s;peedie&s;t way by Land; they two with <HI>Doolies,</HI> my &s;elf, with an Ele|phant, leaving Mr. <HI>John Turner,</HI> his Writer, and Mr. <HI>Ware,</HI> with &s;everal of his black &s;ervants, to come after us with the Baggage and Carts.</P>
<P>At <HI>Peranne</HI> we met with two other <HI>Bragos Pintados,</HI> or Pur&s;uivants, to ha&s;ten him up to Court, where&s;oever they &s;hould meet with him: This hurrying of tho&s;e Me&s;&s;engers at the heels one of another, gave Mr. <HI>White</HI> no &s;mall jealou&s;ie, that all was not well; however there was now no remedy, but go he mu&s;t; &s;o here we immediately take Boat, and go by Sea to <HI>Syam</HI> River, Mr. <HI>White</HI> (now wi&s;hing him&s;elf no <HI>Shabander</HI>) in the interim compo&s;ed him&s;elf to recol|lect, and ordered me to Pen down what he could conceive might have &s;lipt him, that would be likely to prove matter of offence to the King, or the Lord <HI>Phaulkon;</HI> the heavie&s;t charges, and tho&s;e which he ordered me to write for his own review, &s;aying, that he expected no wor&s;e, were,
<LIST>
<ITEM>I. His di&s;patch of the <HI>Sancta Cruz</HI> with her Lading to <HI>Atcheen,</HI> after her &s;eizure upon his own head, without waiting an Order from Court, for either her &s;eizure or di&s;patch.</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. His di&s;mi&s;&s;ion of <HI>Arnold Baroons</HI> and <HI>Nelcons</HI> Ships, who both had in them Subjects and Goods of the King of <HI>Pegues,</HI> without advi&s;ing up to Court.</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. His forcing from the Merchants, (for he thought, he &s;aid, they would call it &s;o) on the two afore&s;aid Ships for their di&s;mi&s;&s;ion, to the amount of five thou&s;and and odd <HI>Pagodoes,</HI> of which he had never advi&s;ed the truth to Court, nor brought it into the Trea&s;ury; he only hint|ing to his Lord&s;hip, that the &s;aid Ships belonged to, and the &s;aid Merchants, were inhabitants of <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> and therefore in re&s;pect to the amicable Corre&s;pondence, which hitherto had been pre|&s;erved unviolated, between the Honourable <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Company, and the Crown of <HI>Syam,</HI> he had after &s;trict Examination clear'd them; and they at their departure freely made him a &s;mall Pre|&s;ent, which for its incon&s;iderablene&s;s, he hop't might pa&s;s as a perqui&s;ite to his Office.</ITEM>
<ITEM>IV. His Sale of <HI>Mahomet Aminkhons</HI> remaining part of the Cargoe, contrary to order, it being expre&s;ly &s;ent for up to <HI>Syam.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>V. His engro&s;&s;ing all Goods Imported into his own hands, by which means, not only all other Merchants, but even the King him&s;elf had been forc't to take of him, and at his price.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VI. His neglect in Fortifying the Town of <HI>Mergen,</HI> which he had repre&s;ented up to Court, to be rendered impregnally Fortified by his own great pains, and at the Kings va&s;t charge, which he &s;aid he was jealous, or the Country people, or the <HI>Moors,</HI> (his mortal enemies) might have given a truer account of, than he had done.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VII. His detaining to his own u&s;e a parcel of choice Rubies, taken out of the <HI>Pegu</HI> Ships, to the amount of 130 <HI>Cattees,</HI> of which his own <HI>Oconta</HI> being privy to the act, he was jealous that information might have been given by him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VIII. His di&s;patch of the Sloop <HI>Phaulkon</HI> in <HI>March</HI> la&s;t to <HI>Atcheen,</HI> without orders from Court, which he &s;aid, might perhaps prove as hard to an&s;wer, as the di&s;patch of the <HI>Sancta Cruz</HI> thither, who&s;e motion the former was &s;ent to attend, and Convoy her back to <HI>Mergen;</HI> and if neither of them &s;hould return &s;afe back, he lay liable to a double La&s;h: That is, to &s;atisfie the King and the <HI>Armenian.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>IX. His detaining of the proceed of the <HI>Derrea Dowlets</HI> Cargoe, her la&s;t Voyage to <HI>Atcheen,</HI> contrary to the Kings Orders, on pretence that he wanted it, to defray the charges of the Port and Shipping.</ITEM>
<ITEM>X. His detaining likewi&s;e part of the proceed of the <HI>Nonkalays</HI> Cargoe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XI. His difference with Mr. <HI>Burneby,</HI> which had grown to that height, that the Country people, he doubted, took great notice of it, and his acting all the preceding year on his own head, both in i&s;&s;uing out Orders, In&s;tructions and Di&s;patches to the Commanders of the Kings Ships, and condemning or clearing what, and whom&s;oever he thought be&s;t, without either advi|&s;ing with the <HI>Oyea</HI> and <HI>Coromocon,</HI> or permitting Mr. <HI>Burneby</HI> to be privy to any thing he did in the Kings Affairs, or &s;o much as Communicating to him tho&s;e Letters, which always came Gene|rally directed to them joyntly from Court.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XII. And La&s;tly, (which he &s;aid he accounted the deepe&s;t and mo&s;t unan&s;werable charge they could lay again&s;t him, and he was afraid <HI>Coats</HI> had produced them) his Orders to Captain <HI>Coats,</HI> for commencing a War with <HI>Metchlepatam,</HI> flatly contrary to the Kings expre&s;s Command.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<PB N="9" REF="5" MS="y">
<P> Thus was the remaining part of our pa&s;&s;age &s;pent by him in forming fit An&s;wers for what he had recollected, as mo&s;t likely to be alleadged again&s;t him, and being from hence forward more then ordinarily dejected in his Spirits; the day before we got up to the City, he was taken with a &s;trong Feaver.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="June" TYPE="month">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>J&V;NE, Anno</HI> 1686.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>The fir&s;t of this Month we Arrived at <HI>Syam,</HI> about &s;ix in the Evening; the next day Mr. <HI>White</HI> receiving from <HI>John Mattheos</HI> and <HI>Anthony Perez,</HI> to the amount of about &s;ixty <HI>Cattees,</HI> for Goods &s;ent up by them in <HI>January</HI> la&s;t for Sale here, and a parcel of China Ware and other Commo|dities, which they had inve&s;ted according to his order, deliver'd all, both the Money and Goods into Mr. <HI>Francis Healths</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, and ordering me to &s;tay at the City, until Mr. <HI>Turners</HI> arrival, took Boat with Captain <HI>Le&s;sly,</HI> to accompany him for <HI>Levo.</HI></P>
<P>On the 6th In&s;tant I received a Letter from Captain <HI>Le&s;sly,</HI> &s;ignifying Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> plea&s;ure, that I &s;hould come up with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed, he lying de&s;perately &s;ick, almo&s;t pa&s;t hopes of re|covery; upon receipt whereof I immediately took Boat, and arriving the 8th In&s;tant at <HI>Levo,</HI> found Captain <HI>Coats</HI> and <HI>Don Jo&s;eph d' Haeredia</HI> at Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> Lodgings, oppo&s;ite to the Lord <HI>Phaulkons</HI> Hou&s;e, but him&s;elf &s;o very ill that there was no &s;peaking to him: That night hap|pened to be the Cri&s;is of his Di&s;temper, which being pa&s;t, his Feaver the next day began to abate, and being informed that I was come up, he &s;ent for me to his Bed-&s;ide, and de&s;ired me to peru&s;e all his Papers that were in the E&s;crutore, which was kept for his particular Concerns, and out of them collect and Inventory of all his Per&s;onal E&s;tate, and reduce all his Accompts into a Lead|ger form, and bring them to a Ballance, which accordingly I went about, and in fourteen dayes time compleated; he in the mean time growing &s;omewhat better in Health; &s;o that at length he was able to walk about in his Room. When I had fini&s;hed, and &s;hewn him the Book, by the Ballance whereof it appeared, that his E&s;tate in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>India</HI> at that time, amounted to 1574 <HI>Cattees</HI> of Silver, be&s;ides his Plate, Jewels and Rubies, left at <HI>Mergen,</HI> to the amount of 322 <HI>Cattees,</HI> and in his Stock in Partner&s;hip with the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> 400 <HI>Cattees;</HI> he ordered me to write out another Leidger by it, only leaving out all his Adventures and Stock abroad, except tho&s;e wherein the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> was concerned with him, &s;aying, that he &s;till doubted, whether he &s;hould ever recover his &s;ickne&s;s, and that the compleat one, which contained his en|tire E&s;tate both in <HI>India</HI> and <HI>England,</HI> he would commit to Mr. <HI>Heaths</HI> cu&s;tody, whom he de|&s;igned for one of his Executors, and the other, which was to contain only that part of his Tra|ding Stock and Accompt which appeared, and lay depending in the Kingdom and City of <HI>Syam,</HI> &s;hould be left among&s;t his other Books for the Lord <HI>Phaulkons</HI> peru&s;al, when he &s;hould make enquiry into his E&s;tate: This was done in &s;ix or &s;even days more. And now having gathered a little more &s;trength, he adventured too early over the way to wait upon his Honour, who in two or three days &s;ucce&s;&s;ively that he went to him, not carrying it with his formerly wonted free|dom and familiarity, by &s;tanding longer than he was well able, bare headed in the cold, and being much dejected at the alteration he ob&s;erved in his Lord&s;hips Carriage towards him, he fell into a Relap&s;e, in which, though his Feaver was not &s;o violent as before, yet he had a wor&s;e and more dangerous pain in his Stomach and Bowels, which indeed rendered his condition to our appear|ance de&s;perate, nor yet did his Lord&s;hip, notwith&s;tanding he lived &s;o near, and &s;aw one or other of the Hou&s;e every day, &s;o much as once make enquiry after his Health; only the Lady <HI>Phaulkon</HI> would by <HI>Padry Pomaz,</HI> &s;end him &s;ometimes what &s;he thought might be grateful to him, and proper for him.</P>
<P>Having as afore&s;aid begun this Month with fruitle&s;s vi&s;its to his Lord&s;hips, and finding him&s;elf dangerou&s;ly Relap&s;t, he &s;ends for me, and in the mid&s;t of his Agonies and roaring Pains, dictates a Letter to his Lord&s;hip, which he ordered me to &s;end to him by his Servant <HI>Joan.:</HI> The Con|tents were to this purpo&s;e, for he would not permit me to Regi&s;ter it.</P>
<P><Q>He complained of, and admired at the occa&s;ion of his Lord&s;hips unwonted &s;trangene&s;s to him; That he doubted not but he had many Enemies, who had been &s;ecretly endeavouring to po&s;&s;e&s;s his Honour with an ill Opinion of him, which was the common fate of mo&s;t men in publick and weighty Employment: That having now one foot in the Grave, he could &s;afely averr (and nothing troubled his Con&s;cience now &s;o much as that) that he had been always more Zealous for the Honour and Intere&s;t of his Ma&s;ter the King, then in his own Devotion to|wards his Creator, under who&s;e afflicting Hand he now lay, perhaps for no one &s;in of a more hainous provocation; and therefore de&s;ired the favour and &s;atisfaction, before he dyed, of being informed, wherein it was that he &s;tood culpable before his Maje&s;ty or his Honour, which kindne&s;s if it could not be granted him, he would however lay his hand upon his mouth, re&s;olving to acquie&s;ce in his Lord&s;hips opinion of him, which he hoped would not reach him to the prejudice of his Reputation, when in the Grave; for if it &s;hould plea&s;e God to recover him from his &s;ickne&s;s, he was &s;o Con&s;cious to him&s;elf of his own innocency in all matters re|ferring to his publick Admini&s;tration of his great Ma&s;ters Affairs; That the fir&s;t thing he would do, &s;hould be to throw him&s;elf at his Lord&s;hips Feet, for an Impartial Sentence of Life or Death, according to his merits, in confidence, that his Lord&s;hip would not, without ju&s;t pro|vocation, take delight in plucking down the Building which his own hands had rai&s;ed.</Q></P>
<PB N="10" REF="6">
<P> The next day the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> returned An&s;wer by a Letter; of which this following is a true Copy.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>July <HI>the 10th. 1686.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>Right Wor&s;hipful,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WE know no rea&s;on you have to charge us with &s;trangene&s;s in our deportment to|wards you, when you con&s;ider or ob&s;erve our general Carriage towards all other Per&s;ons, which we hope is not offen&s;ive to any man in particular.</P>
<P>The Jealou&s;ie you expre&s;s of having private Enemies, who endeavour to e&s;trange us from you, as 'tis on our part altogether Cau&s;ele&s;s; &s;o it not only argues you culpable of &s;omething, you would not have di&s;covered, but highly reflects upon us, as if we took plea&s;ure in hearkening to the malicious tattling and detraction of over bu&s;ie men, to the prejudice of tho&s;e we have thought worthy of &s;o con&s;iderable a Tru&s;t, as we upon mature deliberation, thought good to confer upon you: Nay, Sir, we mu&s;t be plain, and tell you, The <HI>Shabander</HI> has no other Enemy, that we know of, than the <HI>Shabander,</HI> which your own Hand will evidently make appear.</P>
<P>That you are now reduced &s;o near the Grave is matter of trouble to us, and that you may not ha&s;ten your &s;elf thither, let us, as your Friend, per&s;wade you to Temperance. As to the Prote&s;tation you make of your Zeal for His Maje&s;ties Honour and Intere&s;t, give us leave to tell you, that it is no miracle to &s;ee a man drive on his own Ambitious or Covetous de&s;igns, under a pretence of promoting his Kings Intere&s;t; though we do not de&s;ire to charge you with being a Court Para&s;ite.</P>
<P>The &s;atisfaction you de&s;ire &s;hall be granted you, &s;o &s;oon as you are in a condition to be Examined by our Secretary, who &s;hould long &s;ince have been &s;ent to you, had we not under&s;tood your Indi&s;po&s;ition, and be cautioned to be plain, fair, and moderate in your An&s;wers, to what&s;oever Queries he propo&s;es to you; avoiding all Pa&s;&s;ionate Ex|pre&s;&s;ions or Ge&s;tures, which may do you much harm, but cannot avail any thing to your advantage.</P>
<P>It will be no &s;mall plea&s;ure to us, to find you as innocent as you pretend, nor &s;hall we ever take delight to ruine what our Hands have built up; but if we perceive a Stru|cture of our own rai&s;ing begin to totter, and threaten our own ruine with its fall, none can tax us with imprudence, if we take it down in time. Thus is your own Metaphor retorted, and the needful in An&s;wer to your Paper of ye&s;terdays date, concluded with our hearty wi&s;hes for your recovery, as being</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Friend,</HI><LB> PHA&V;LKON.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>This Letter, I could perceive both from his Ge&s;ture, and &s;everal expre&s;&s;ions which he let fall when he gave it me to peru&s;e and file, had very different effects upon Mr. <HI>White;</HI> &s;ome Clau&s;es &s;eeming very tart, and others not only more moderate, but giving him &s;ome hopes, that matters would not go &s;o bad as he before &s;u&s;pected.</P>
<P>In a few days after this, he was once more upon his Legs, though &s;till very weak; and now he was not &s;o much concern'd about re-e&s;tabli&s;hing him&s;elf in his Lord&s;hips good opinion, as apprehen&s;ive that he &s;hould not be permitted to return to <HI>Mergen,</HI> where he &s;aid, not only his Intere&s;t, but his Safety invited him to re&s;ide, as being there at a great di&s;tance from the Courts Eyes, and capable of leaving the Kingdom, when&s;oever his inclinations or any other con&s;idera|tion &s;hould render it either eligible or nece&s;&s;ary &s;o to do; for now <HI>Coats</HI> blows him in the Ear, that his Lord&s;hip &s;eemed to be di&s;po&s;ed to keep Mr. <HI>White</HI> near him&s;elf, and commit the <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery</HI> Affairs to the management of Moun&s;ieur <HI>Forbien,</HI> a young Gentleman, highly in favour with his Lord&s;hip, and at pre&s;ent, Governour of <HI>Bankoke</HI> Forts: This made &s;uch an impre&s;&s;ion in Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> fancy, that he was ea&s;ily wrought upon by <HI>Coats</HI> to believe what he mo&s;t dreaded, and accordingly (without &s;o much as &s;u&s;pecting <HI>Coats</HI> double dealing, who made it his daily bu&s;ine&s;s to wind him&s;elf into his &s;ecrets) he pre&s;ently orders to be drawn out all his <HI>Mergen</HI> Accompts, and together with the Invoice of all his Merchandize, Ships &s;tores and moveables there, &s;ent them enclo&s;ed in a Letter to Mr. <HI>Burneby,</HI> wherein he impowered him fully to act as his Attorney, and complaining of the alteration he had found in his former Friend the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> endea|vours to po&s;&s;e&s;s him with a belief, that the <HI>French</HI> Intere&s;t was now mo&s;t prevalent at Court: That the &s;aid <HI>Forbien</HI> was to rule the roa&s;t at <HI>Mergen,</HI> and concludes, that all things being like to be &s;uddenly turned top&s;ey turvey, Mr. <HI>Burneby's</HI> wi&s;e&s;t cour&s;e would be to withdraw, whil&s;t he had liberty; and u&s;ing what means he could to turn off Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> effects at any rate, finds
<PB N="11" REF="6" MS="y">&s;ome way for remitting the amount, by Bill to Mr. <HI>George White</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> for the &s;aid <HI>Samuel Whites</HI> Accompt, which he thought would be be&s;t done by Mr. <HI>Lucas</HI>'s a&s;&s;i&s;tance from <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> whither (if he &s;aw not Mr. <HI>White</HI> in per&s;on at <HI>Mergen</HI> before <HI>October</HI> &s;hould be pa&s;t) he &s;hould without expectance of further advices, immediately di&s;patch the Ship <HI>Delight</HI> with all his effects then by him, and that if Mr. <HI>Burneby</HI> him&s;elf had no inclination as yet to leave the Country, he would however not fail (in order to the di&s;patch of the &s;aid Ship) to collect all the Debts in tho&s;e parts, due to the &s;aid <HI>White;</HI> and di&s;po&s;e of his Merchandize, Ships &s;tores, and Hou&s;e moveables, for ready money, at any rate, and not di&s;appoint him in the Lading the produce on her, con&s;igning it as above directed. Mr. <HI>How</HI> was al&s;o written to, to deliver all Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> concerns, that were in his care, to Mr. <HI>Burneby;</HI> Mr. <HI>Tuttie</HI> was ordered to do the like: And the&s;e di&s;tracted kind of Letters being fini&s;hed, to prevent interception, a Servant of <HI>Don Jo&s;ephs</HI> was pitcht upon to carry it in a Cover, directed to <HI>Padre Francis Perez</HI> at <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> Mr. <HI>White</HI> not thinking it convenient that his Lord&s;hip &s;hould know of his writing to <HI>Mergen,</HI> which if the man had taken out, a <HI>Tarrae</HI> would perhaps have come to his notice.</P>
<P>The latter half of this month was taken up in Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> Examination, by the <HI>Barcalong,</HI> and his Lord&s;hip, <HI>Syam</HI> Secretary, <HI>Padre Pomaz</HI> a <HI>French</HI> Je&s;uite being Interpreter between them: In the end, his Lord&s;hip (having kept from all their privities, what&s;oever might have proved unan&s;werable by, and of mo&s;t dangerous con&s;equence to the Examinant) &s;ends for Mr. <HI>White,</HI> and tells him, (as he afterwards told me) well Sir, you are clear'd, but you mu&s;t know that you owe your e&s;cape to me, as I owe my &s;elf, and all I have to your good Brother <HI>George;</HI> if I have frown'd on you, read that Paper, and 'twill &s;atisfie you that I had rea&s;on; and if that be not enough to convince you, I can produce &s;everal of your own Letters wherein you have, &s;o far forgotten your &s;elf, as to abu&s;e us with not a few flat Contradictions; and I make no doubt but your Accounts, if throughly &s;cann'd, would appear notoriou&s;ly unhand&s;ome; but not being de&s;irous to Ruine you, I forbore expo&s;ing you or them to the &s;trict Examination which the matter ju&s;tly required; whereupon he gave him tho&s;e very Orders, which (I have before &s;aid) he &s;ent <HI>Coates</HI> to make War upon <HI>Metchlepatam;</HI> which &s;o da&s;ht Mr. <HI>White,</HI> that he had &s;carce a word to &s;ay, but (as he phra&s;ed it to me) though it better to hand a Sail in time, than carry a Ma&s;t by the Board: And after a large Recapitulation of &s;everal Mi&s;demeanors, he had to charge him with, which yet he had kept from the knowledge of the fore&s;aid Secretaries, without giving him the Liberty to make his Defence, he told him 'twas his plea&s;ure to pretermit them for this time, as they were; and was not willing to have tho&s;e Faults, which were but too great in them&s;elves, heightned by any Excu&s;es; but hop'd that this would be a Caution to him for the future; Nor was he to think, that though he lov'd his Friend well, yet he would ruine him&s;elf to skreen him from that Ju&s;tice which his own demerits &s;hould pull upon him.</P>
<P>This month, Captain <HI>Coates,</HI> and <HI>Don Jo&s;eph</HI>'s Concerns came under debate; Captain <HI>Coates</HI> pa&s;t Examination, and came off with Applau&s;e, having a Gold Hilted Sword, and rich Coat con|ferr'd upon him, be&s;ides the Admiral&s;hip of the Kings Naval forces at <HI>Siam;</HI> but never a far|thing of Money, of which poor man he &s;tands more in need than of empty Titles; his Accounts pa&s;t Currant, partly becau&s;e had he been narrowly &s;earcht into, Mr. <HI>White</HI> could not have been &s;afe, and partly for that his Lord&s;hip knew him to be In&s;olvent, &s;o that <HI>Coates</HI> him&s;elf could after|wards boa&s;t, that 'twas his Happine&s;s that he was not worth the Fleecing.</P>
<P><HI>Don Jo&s;eph d' Haeredias</HI> Accounts were bandied to and fro at another rate. The <HI>Shabander</HI> throws him upon the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> and he again upon the <HI>Shabander,</HI> and this <HI>vice ver&s;a</HI> five or &s;ix times over, though neither of them had any thing to object again&s;t the rea&s;onablene&s;s of them; but here lay the choak Pear; the <HI>Don</HI> had got a good new Ship under foot, which Mr. <HI>White</HI> (as had been formerly hinted) had a mind to hook to him&s;elf, de&s;igning her for the <HI>China</HI> Trade from <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> and ju&s;t &s;uch a Ship as &s;he was the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> wanted for the <HI>Manilba</HI> Trade, in company with the <HI>French</HI> from <HI>Pullicherry;</HI> now for either of them to pay the <HI>Don</HI> for her, would not corre&s;pond with the new mode, which had &s;upplyed them with &s;everal good ones at an ea&s;ier rate, and yet have her the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> mu&s;t, though indeed Mr. <HI>White</HI> ever intended he &s;hould; however the Governour of <HI>Metchlepatam</HI> had &s;eized on three thou&s;and <HI>Pagodoes</HI> of his Maje&s;ties from <HI>Don Jo&s;eph. Don Jo&s;eph</HI> had gone to that Port without orde<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters"> his new Ship mu&s;t make &s;atisfaction; but becau&s;e &s;he might be worth more money then that (for &s;he had &s;tood the <HI>Don</HI> in more then &s;even thou&s;and <HI>Pagodoes,</HI> not being yet quite fini&s;hed) he mu&s;t have &s;atisfaction for the &s;uper amount of her value; Mr. <HI>White</HI> is to be Apprai&s;or, and the <HI>Don</HI> to expect all fair dealing: A better opportunity then this Mr. <HI>White</HI> could not po&s;&s;ibly have put into his hands, to make him&s;elf Owner of the Ship, if he were but permitted to return to <HI>Mergen;</HI> nay he did not &s;tick to &s;ay, That if ever he went down thither again, he was re&s;olved <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">o body &s;hould have a finger in that Ship but him&s;elf, for he was &s;ure, the <HI>Don</HI> knew not what <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">o do with her, without his help, and that he &s;hould never have unle&s;s he would part with her, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">nd the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> had no &s;uch great want of Ships, there was enough be&s;ides her; but <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ays he, this difference between him and the <HI>Don</HI> about the three thou&s;and <HI>Pagodoes,</HI> will give me a good opportunity to work her into my own hands, when once I get thither, but I'm doubtful <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">till his Lord&s;hip will detain me here.</P>
<P>The Mouth was clo&s;ed with a happy di&s;covery of a con&s;piracy made by the <HI>Maca&s;&s;ars,</HI> who were &s;ecretly abetted by many di&s;affected per&s;ons of great Authority and Intere&s;t in the King|dom. The de&s;ign was to have fired the City of <HI>Syam;</HI> and whil&s;t all the Inhabitants were
<PB N="12" REF="7">bu&s;ied in quenching the Fire, to have made them&s;elves Ma&s;ters of the Pallace, while&s;t on the &s;ame night a &s;elect number were to po&s;&s;e&s;s them&s;elves of the Palace at <HI>Levo,</HI> and murder the King with the favourite &s;tranger, (as they called the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI>) and all the <HI>Europeans,</HI> being lookt upon as his Creatures But three days before the intended A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ination, &s;ome of the Con|&s;pirators, who&s;e hearts failed them, di&s;covered the whole Plot, whereupon &s;trong Guards were kept, four or five hundred of the Combination &s;eized, &s;everal of them, to the number of two hundred, immediately Executed, and &s;o the whole de&s;ign for that time qua&s;ht.</P>
<P>The King de&s;igning (now the Con&s;piracy was &s;uppre&s;t) to take the fir&s;t luckly day (which his <HI>Talepoys</HI> pretended would be the 18th of this month) to remove to <HI>Syam;</HI> we were ordered to be gone the 10th, on which day we left <HI>Levo;</HI> in a &s;hort time after us, the King and the whole Court, with the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Emba&s;&s;adour, and his retinue, came down to <HI>Syam;</HI> where his Lord|&s;hip was &s;o taken up with the more general Affairs of the Kingdom, and obliged to &s;o con&s;tant an attendance at Court, that now Mr. <HI>White</HI> could not get an opportunity to wait on him, which however tended not at all to his di&s;advantage; for the <HI>Herbert,</HI> Captain <HI>&V;dall,</HI> Arriving at this juncture, and bringing Letters from his Brother, Mr. <HI>George White,</HI> he had not only the oppor|tunity of an&s;wering them, but of contracting a familiar acquaintance with the Captain, and pri|vately Freighting to the amount of two thou&s;and pound <HI>Sterling</HI> on the &s;aid Ship, con&s;igning it to his &s;aid Brother, and Mr. <HI>Thomas Povey,</HI> without the Lord <HI>Phaulkons</HI> privity, of whom he &s;till was jealous; though indeed &s;oon after it appeared he had no rea&s;on &s;o to be, for the Captain having al&s;o brought out Letters from his Brother to his Honour, which gave him a full account of the Reception of his Pre&s;ent at the Court of <HI>England,</HI> and of his vigorous endeavours to have with&s;tood tho&s;e powerful Enemies, which his Lord&s;hip had in <HI>England;</HI> together with a &s;hort Letter from his pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty; he was &s;o well &s;atisfied with the account he had received, as one night to &s;end for Mr. <HI>White,</HI> and tell him, that he found his Brother <HI>George</HI> &s;o fa&s;t and real a Friend to him, that for his &s;ake Mr. <HI>White</HI> might ask what he would, and it &s;hould be granted him; Mr. <HI>White</HI> wi&s;ely taking opportunity by the foretop, mode&s;tly replyed, That he de&s;ired nothing but liberty to return to his former &s;tation, and that his Lord&s;hip would for the future be plea&s;ed to pre&s;cribe him &s;tated Rules for the management of that employ, that &s;o he might not hence forward be left in the dark how to proceed without hazard of offending.</P>
<P>He had his de&s;ires granted, and returned home more chearful than ever I ob&s;erved him to have been &s;ince <HI>May</HI> la&s;t, telling me, that now God be thanked he did not fear <HI>Forbiens</HI> &s;upplanting him, for he was to return to <HI>Mergen;</HI> and &s;ayes he, his Lord&s;hip made me offer of fifty <HI>Cattees per</HI> month, be&s;ides the perqui&s;ites of my Employ &s;hould be worth as much more to me, if I would &s;tay here with him, and take upon me the place of <HI>Viador D'as Fazendas,</HI> for the King; and that I &s;hould be Enroll'd in the Court Regi&s;ters as his Succe&s;&s;or, in ca&s;e of his Mortality; but I have with much ado evaded it; for 'tis true, I know he wants &s;ome body near him, that might be capable of a&s;&s;i&s;ting him with advice; and that he has no body, is his great unhappine&s;s; but I do not on any terms like to be the man, though he has more money in his Coffers, and is Laden with as much Honour as he can well bear; yet I &s;hall look upon my Head to &s;tand a great deal fa&s;ter on my Shoulders than his, &s;o long as there's ere a Ship or Ve&s;&s;el belonging to <HI>Mergen.</HI> The whole Kingdom is under a general di&s;content at this new way of Government; and when|ever this King comes to dye, not only his Honour, but all <HI>Europeans</HI> for his &s;ake, mu&s;t expect a Bloody Cata&s;trophe, which is no more then what his Lord&s;hip, but not like a Politician, openly declared a while agone at his publick Table; and though the King &s;hould live many years, yet to tell you truly, I am not without &s;trong apprehen&s;ions that his Lord&s;hip &s;tands but a &s;lippery place; nor would it be a miracle to &s;ee a man that hath been rai&s;ed from &s;o low a degree to &s;uch an exorbitant height of favour with a Prince, unable to with&s;tand the &s;hock of an envious Court, and oppre&s;&s;ed Kingdom; and in ca&s;e he once &s;lips, how can I, or any other dependant on him, expect to keep our footing; &s;o that if once I get to <HI>Mergen</HI> again, I'm re&s;olved never to &s;ee <HI>Syam</HI> more upon &s;uch a &s;core as now I came up, but ene make Hay whil&s;t the Sun &s;hines, and draw all my Stock, which now lyes &s;cattered abroad, into as narrow a compa&s;s as po&s;&s;ibly I can, and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1 letter"> be in a readine&s;s for any Revolution that may happen</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="torn page" EXTENT="1+ letters">is Month al&s;o Arrived Captain <HI>Grimes</HI> from <HI>Atcheen,</HI> in a great Junk of the Kings, who had been a long time out, but at length brought with him the Colwans and Letters which the <HI>Jo&s;iah</HI> had brought out of <HI>England,</HI> who brought the Original Letters, of which tho&s;e which came <HI>per</HI> Captain <HI>&V;dall</HI> were Duplicates.</P>
<P>The Contract made with Captain <HI>&V;dall,</HI> was to carry what Goods Mr. <HI>White</HI> &s;hould &s;hip of the growth of <HI>China,</HI> or the&s;e parts for <HI>London,</HI> at 31 <HI>l. Sterling per</HI> Ton; accounting of <HI>China</HI> Raw Silk, four Che&s;ts to the Ton, and of Cambodium, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> heavy Goods, fifteen <HI>Peculls;</HI> 'twas al&s;o agreed, that Mr. <HI>White</HI> &s;hould give Captain <HI>&V;dall</HI> 100 <HI>l. Sterling,</HI> to oblige him to car|ry home no Tea in his Ship, but what Mr. <HI>White</HI> &s;hould Lade on board him, paying Freight fo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> the &s;ame as for Raw Silk, but his Lord&s;hip having a parcel, which Mr <HI>White</HI> came to under|&s;tand, he was re&s;olved to &s;end for <HI>England</HI> for his own Accompts; and Captain <HI>&V;dall</HI> could no<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> with &s;afety refu&s;e to carry, that Bargain was afterwards revoakt.</P>
<P>Having towards the end of this Month fini&s;hed the mo&s;t material of Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> Letters, which he deligned for <HI>England;</HI> &s;o that little remained, &s;ave for his Writer, to tran&s;cribe them fair over, and affix their Dates; the <HI>Maximilian,</HI> Mr. <HI>Norrington</HI> Cape Merchant being de&s;ign'd for <HI>Hughly,</HI> I de&s;ired Mr. <HI>White</HI> to di&s;mi&s;s me his Employ, that &s;o I might embrace that fir&s;t oppor|tunity
<PB N="13" REF="7" MS="y">of returning to the <HI>Bay,</HI> but he would by no means con&s;ent, prote&s;ting, that &s;o &s;oon as he came to <HI>Mergen,</HI> the fir&s;t thing he would do &s;hould be to di&s;patch me in a Ship of his own, with Tynn and Tutenage to <HI>Bengala,</HI> &s;o that I needed not doubt of being on my way thither in <HI>November.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="September" TYPE="month">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>SEPTEMBER, Anno</HI> 1686.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>About this time Arrived Mr. <HI>Robert Freemans</HI> Ship, called the <HI>Rubie,</HI> from <HI>Metchlepatam,</HI> Laden with the Goods of that Port, and con&s;ign'd to the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> in all probability likely to have come to an extraordinary great Market, had not Mr. <HI>White</HI> interpo&s;ed to Mr. <HI>Freemans</HI> prejudice, what lay in his power; for Mr. <HI>White</HI> declaring to me, that now he had an opportu|nity to cry quit with Mr. <HI>Freeman,</HI> for the trouble he had formerly undergone at <HI>Metchlepatam</HI> with <HI>Ally Beague,</HI> through his in&s;tigation, he was re&s;olved to improve it; and accordingly, not|with&s;tanding he had by this Ship <HI>Rubie,</HI> received a Letter from Mr. <HI>Freeman,</HI> mode&s;tly making demand of a Debt, which Mr. <HI>White</HI> had for &s;ome years owed him, with promi&s;e of &s;ending a Ship to him&s;elf at <HI>Mergen</HI> very &s;peedily, yet at one and the &s;ame time, he prepares a &s;ubtle an|&s;wer to be &s;ent him <HI>per</HI> Captain <HI>Fenn,</HI> wherein he profe&s;&s;es him&s;elf heartily di&s;po&s;ed to a Recon|ciliation, prote&s;ts his readine&s;s to &s;erve Mr. <HI>Freeman</HI> with all &s;incerity, in ca&s;e he did &s;end a Ship to <HI>Mergen,</HI> and promi&s;es to remit on her, or <HI>per</HI> the fir&s;t pre&s;enting opportunity, the Ballance of his old Accompt, and endeavours to invite the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> to make &s;eizure of the Ship <HI>Rubie,</HI> with her Cargoe, by a Remon&s;trance which he pre&s;ented him in the&s;e following words.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it Plea&s;e your Lord&s;hip,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THE Duty I owe my great Ma&s;ter, his Imperial Maje&s;ty lays me under an in|di&s;pen&s;able Obligation of Pre&s;enting to your Lord&s;hips con&s;ideration, what&s;oever to me appears nece&s;&s;arily conducive to his Honour and Intere&s;t, and yet may perhaps in the croud of tho&s;e momentous Affairs, which employ your Honours Thoughts, e&s;cape your notice; which makes me pre&s;ume to tender your Honour this Remon&s;trance in Writing, that &s;o it may lye by you for peru&s;al at your more lea&s;ure hours.</P>
<P>That the di&s;affection of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Company to this Place, and their di&s;gu&s;ts again&s;t you in particular, are as great as they are unrea&s;onable; your Honour may plainly di&s;co|ver, not only from the Account lately received, of their endeavours to your prejudice in the Court of <HI>England,</HI> but by their withdrawing their Factory hence, and <HI>Childs</HI> employing &s;uch a malapert fellow as <HI>Lake</HI> in the bu&s;ine&s;s, who has the impudence to affront his Maje&s;ty in his own Port; nor can I but admire your Honours Lenity, in conniving at it; but yet I have to offer in behalf of the Company, That it may not per|haps be &s;o much their choice, as their misfortune, to have a parcel of Servants in <HI>India,</HI> who make it their &s;tudy to put all Places in a flame, more then to con&s;ult the advan|tage of their Ma&s;ters, of which number <HI>Yale</HI> and <HI>Freeman</HI> are the main Incendiaries on the Coa&s;t of <HI>Chormondel,</HI> that endeavour to &s;upplant your Honour, and u&s;e all probable methods to effect your downfall; as to the former, your Lord&s;hip has had &s;uffi|cient demon&s;tration of his malicious temper about the Jewel concern, by that Scurrilous Pamphlet &s;ent you, which he was a&s;hamed to &s;ign; and the latter, if throughly unra|vell'd, will not appear to fall a whit &s;hort of him in fal&s;ene&s;s or &s;pleen: 'Tis to him his Maje&s;ty is beholden for a Prote&s;t against Captain <HI>Coats, &amp;c.</HI> in the Companies behalf, for pretended dammages by his Maje&s;ties War with <HI>Golcondah.</HI> 'tis he that mu&s;t be thanked for the re-delivery of the Trea&s;ure out of the Ship <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and &s;urrender of the Enemies Ship; and not to de&s;cend to particulars; 'tis to him his Maje&s;ty owes all the di&s;appointment of his Affairs the la&s;t Year, upon the Coast; and yet after all this, he can a&s;&s;ume the confidence to con&s;ign his Ship and Cargoe to you, I hope your Honour will not give him and the World occa&s;ion to laugh at your ea&s;ine&s;s, but make him &s;en&s;ible that you &s;ee through his ma&s;que, and can re&s;ent the abu&s;e, which in this very in&s;tance he would cunningly put upon your Lord&s;hip.</P>
<P>I would not have your Honour think, that I move this with an Eye to my own Re|venge, for I am perfectly reconciled to him, and have re&s;olved upon a &s;peedy cour&s;e, to remit him the Ballance of his Accompt; but it is purely in due regard to his Maje&s;ties
<PB N="14" REF="8">Honour, and your Lord&s;hips Reputation, that I humbly offer my Advice to detain the Ship <HI>Rubie</HI> and her Cargoe, until you &s;ee what the i&s;&s;ue of the&s;e proceedings of the Company, and their hot-headed Servants, will be, which is the needful relating to this Subject, and is freely &s;ubmitted to your Lord&s;hips better judgment, by</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE><LB>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t Obliged, Devoted,<LB> and Humble Servant,<LB> <HI>Samuel White.</HI></SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>This aforegoing is a True Copy of the Original.</HI></P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>The <HI>Maca&s;&s;ar</HI> Con&s;piracy, &s;aid to be di&s;covered and prevented the latter end of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t, was now totally quell'd, and the major part of the Plotters utterly cut off. The occa&s;ion is this: The Prince of the <HI>Maca&s;&s;ars</HI> de&s;pairing to make his e&s;cape by flight to his own Country (one of his Captains, and fifty of his Men with their Ve&s;&s;el being cut off at <HI>Bankoke</HI> Fort, where they were intercepted by private Orders from the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> to <HI>Forbien,</HI> though they had a Tarrae to pa&s;s the Chain) re&s;olved to &s;ubmit him&s;elf to the Kings Mercy; and accordingly, one Evening, comes boldly at the head of One Hundred of his Attendants, all Armed with their Cree&s;es, to the Pallace Gates; where being demanded his bu&s;ine&s;s, he replyed, 'twas to throw him&s;elf at the Kings Feet, and accordingly de&s;ired admittance into his pre&s;ence; An&s;wer was brought him, that the King would admit him, but it mu&s;t be in another po&s;ture, and not with Arms, and tho&s;e numerous Attendants: To which, with &s;ome di&s;dain, he again replyed: Tell your Ma&s;ter the King, 'tis the Prince of <HI>Maca&s;&s;ar</HI> that came to have &s;ubmitted, but not &s;o ba&s;ely as I find he expects; if he has any thing to &s;ay to me, he may find me at my own Hou&s;e: I expect no other but to fall, yet tell him, 'twill be like the fall of a &s;turdy well Rooted Tree, that cru&s;hes all the under Wood near it: So he went away without any thing more &s;aid to him. The <HI>Syammers</HI> privately making all po&s;&s;ible preparations to be&s;et and fight the <HI>Maca&s;&s;ars</HI> by Land and Water. On the 14th In&s;tant, the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> in Per&s;on, accompanied with about Sixty <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> (among&s;t whom were Captain <HI>&V;dall,</HI> and another Gentleman, that came out of <HI>England</HI> with him) and about Seven Thou&s;and <HI>Syammers</HI> with &s;ome <HI>French,</HI> began the fight with the <HI>Maca&s;&s;ars:</HI> Captain <HI>&V;dall,</HI> the &s;aid Gentleman, Captain <HI>Coats,</HI> Moun&s;ieur <HI>d' Roan,</HI> and three other <HI>French</HI> men were killed the fir&s;t part of the Battle, but ere night, the <HI>Maca&s;&s;ars</HI> were utterly de&s;troyed, Men, Women, and Children; &s;ave only of the Princes Sons, a Boy of about Twelve Years of Age; who being taken Pri&s;oner, the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> begg'd his Life of the King; it being now re&s;olved, that all the Natives, which could be di&s;covered to have any hand in the forementioned Con&s;piracy (of whom by this time were more then One Thou&s;and in durance) &s;hould on the Kings return to <HI>Levo,</HI> &s;uffer death without Mercy.</P>
<P>Captain <HI>&V;dall</HI> being now unluckily killed before Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> Goods could be Shipt, he mu&s;t wait Captain <HI>Rea</HI>'s coming up to Town; who being &s;atisfied by the Pur&s;er, of the Captains Contract about them, but not knowing that 'twas the major part <HI>Bengala</HI> Raw Silk, which was to be Shipt under colour of <HI>China</HI> Silk, promi&s;ed to &s;tand to it, and &s;ign the Bills of Lading.</P>
<P>Now began we to make preparation for <HI>Mergen,</HI> the quantities of Copper and Tutenage de|&s;ired, not being procureable, Mr. <HI>Heath</HI> is ordered to buy up all the Gold he could meet with; Provi&s;ions are al&s;o made by his Lord&s;hip for a <HI>Moco</HI> Voyage, on the Kings Account; Mr. <HI>Franklin</HI> de&s;ign'd on the <HI>Armenians</HI> great Ship, <HI>Sancta Cruz</HI> thither, from <HI>Mergen,</HI> with a very rich Cargoe of <HI>China</HI> Ware, Tynn, Copper, Tutenage, Aggala, Sappan, <HI>&amp;c</HI> to the amount of One Thou&s;and <HI>Cattees;</HI> be&s;ides Mr. <HI>White</HI> had liberty, for his care in di&s;patching her, to Lade for his own Account One Hundred Tons, in what Commodities he plea&s;ed, except tho&s;e above &s;pecified; Mr. <HI>White</HI> &s;aying to me, that this was meerly a Complement of his Lord&s;hip, for that he knew not any thing el&s;e that would be worth his while to &s;end for <HI>Moco;</HI> but how|ever, he would &s;ee what he could do when he came to di&s;patch her.</P>
<P>Mr <HI>White</HI> now pre&s;ented his Lord&s;hip with &s;ix large and fair <HI>Ruby</HI> Rings, two curious <HI>Saphire</HI> a couple of <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Hor&s;es, and &s;ilver Furniture very Noble; and her Lady&s;hip with two Deli|cate Rubies, one Diamond Ring with five &s;tones, and a &s;triking Watch; which la&s;t returned him a pre&s;ent not de&s;picable, con&s;i&s;ting of twenty pieces Rich <HI>Silks,</HI> and &s;everal Curio&s;ities of &s;uperfine <HI>China</HI> Ware: Thus is he again fully re&s;tored to his former place, in the Lord <HI>Phaulkons</HI> Favour.</P>
<PB N="15" REF="8" MS="y">
<P> And now he is order'd to make tho&s;e propo&s;als he had formerly hinted at in writing by way of Articles, what he thought mo&s;t conducive to the Government of the province of <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> for his Maje&s;ties mo&s;t advantage, and the &s;atisfaction of the people. In compliance wherewith he draws up &s;ixty di&s;tinct Articles, which he pre&s;ented to the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> for Approbation: Among&s;t the re&s;t was, That no <HI>Europe</HI> Nation what&s;oever (the <HI>French</HI> onely, if his Lord&s;hip &s;aw good, excepted) &s;hould be exempted henceforward from paying the Cu&s;tomes of all Goods Imported, as all <HI>Indian</HI> Nations had been formerly us'd to do; and de&s;ired that tho&s;e &s;ixty Articles might be the &s;tanding Rules of Government in his province of <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> which his Lord&s;hip, that could now &s;carce deny <HI>Mr. White</HI> any thing Ratify'd by &s;igning them with his own hand. Though the power therein granted the <HI>Shabander</HI> was in effect unlimited, and &s;uch as rendred the Gover|nours both of <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery</HI> and <HI>Mergen,</HI> no better than Cyphers, and meerly Titular Officers, not|with&s;tanding there was for Forms &s;ake a Commi&s;&s;ion I&s;&s;u'd out in <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> under the Lord <HI>Phaulkons</HI> Broad Seal and delivered into Mr <HI>White</HI>'s Cu&s;tody, which nominated and con&s;tituted the Coun|cil, who were jointly to con&s;ult about all Affairs in that Province, whether relating to the Sea or Land, in times of War or Peace, and to re&s;olve at lea&s;t the Major part of them, on what&s;oever was to be done, and though the <HI>Shabander</HI> Mr. <HI>White</HI> was the la&s;t mentioned in the &s;aid Com|mi&s;&s;ion, as being the lowe&s;t in Rank and Title, yet by Virtue of the afore&s;aid Articles, the re&s;t of the Council were &s;o ty'd up to his Opinion in all matters of moment, that in effect all the po|wer was lodg'd in him, &s;o that now the Government was become meerly Arbitrary, and his plea|&s;ure to be the mea&s;ure of all their proceedings.</P>
<P>There was only One thing which the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> refu&s;ed to grant him, which was a Com|mi&s;&s;ion for what he had done the la&s;t year, in I&s;&s;uing out all Orders, and In&s;tructions under his own hand, which he de&s;ired, alledging, that perhaps he might one time or other be call'd to an Account by the Company for what had pa&s;t, and he had nothing to &s;hew for his Warrant: which the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> told him, he could not give him, nor was there any rea&s;on for him to expect it; and he thought it might be &s;ufficient, That having acted as he had done the la&s;t year, he had befriended him &s;o far, as to keep it from his Maje&s;ties Ear; be&s;ides, &s;hould he Grant &s;uch a Com|mi&s;&s;ion <HI>Ex Po&s;t Facto,</HI> it might one time or other prove his Ruine.</P>
<P>The Per&s;ons &s;pecified in the foremention'd Commi&s;&s;ion to Con&s;titute the Council of the Pro|vince of <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> were</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Oyea Tannaw.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Opra Ballat.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Olveing Incabat.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Olvang Narine.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ocone Hurelay.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Opra Marrat,</HI> Mr. <HI>Burneby.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Olvang Chomoung,</HI> Mr. <HI>S. White.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Mr. <HI>White</HI> finding he could not obtain a Commi&s;&s;ion for what he had acted the la&s;t year, now de&s;ires, that all the Council may be obliged to affix the Seals of their Re&s;pective Offices to all Di&s;|patches, Orders or In&s;tructions what&s;oever, which he &s;hould for the future have occa&s;ion to I&s;&s;ue out, to any Commanders of His Maje&s;ties Ships, whether on Account of War or Mer|chandize, which was granted him in a Po&s;t&s;cript to the forementioned &s;ixty Articles.</P>
<P>Now al&s;o is Mr. <HI>White</HI> order'd, to let all his Letters, which henceforward he &s;hould have occa&s;ion to remit to Court, relating to His Maje&s;ties Affairs, be General, &s;ign'd by Mr. <HI>Burneby</HI> and him&s;elf, but never to omit in an accompanying particular from him&s;elf to give the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> an Account of what&s;oever he thought not proper to come before his Maje&s;ty in Council.</P>
<P>The <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Emba&s;&s;adour being de&s;ign'd over Land to <HI>Mergen,</HI> and thence to <HI>Per&s;ia.</HI> The <HI>Shabander</HI> fore&s;eeing the great trouble, and di&s;advantage 'twould be to him and his Concerns, earne&s;tly &s;olicited to have that de&s;ign put by, and at length prevail'd, to his great &s;atisfaction to have them &s;ent <HI>Via Surrat.</HI></P>
<P>When all things &s;eem'd thus to go according to wi&s;h, an unlook'd for, and &s;urprizing Accident happen'd, which damp'd Mr. <HI>White</HI> at &s;uch a Rate, that for two days time I thought no other than that either a Relap&s;e into his former Sickne&s;s, or &s;omewhat wor&s;e would have been the E|vent. The Letters written to Mr. <HI>Burneby, &amp;c.</HI> in <HI>July</HI> la&s;t, and committed to <HI>Don Jo&s;eph</HI>'s Servant to be carryed to <HI>Padree Fran. Perez,</HI> had been intercepted at <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery</HI> by the <HI>Oyea,</HI> and remitted to the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> (who cut off Mr. <HI>White</HI>'s Corre&s;pondence, whil&s;t he lay under a Cloud, had given expre&s;s Order that no Per&s;ons &s;hould pa&s;s between tho&s;e two Cities without a <HI>Tarrae</HI> from him&s;elf) he pre&s;ently conculding Senior <HI>Ant. Perez,</HI> Brother to the &s;aid <HI>Padree</HI> to
<PB N="16" REF="9">have a hand in the private conveyance of that Pacquet, thus Intercepted and Return'd, claps him up clo&s;e pri&s;oner in <HI>Syam</HI> Goal. This comes to the <HI>Shabanders</HI> Ear, and &s;o Examinates him to think that the Lord <HI>Phau kon</HI> would open his Letters, that I could &s;carce imagine him to have any Soul; and indeed, had the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> peru&s;ed that Pacquet, Mr. <HI>White</HI> had inevitably been ruin'd, but what I u&s;ed for an Argument to cheer up Mr. <HI>White</HI> prov'd a real Truth, <HI>viz.</HI> That if the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> were reconcil'd to him, as we had all the rea&s;on in the World to be|lieve he was, he would think it not only below him, but an unfriendly part to &s;hew any jealou&s;ie of One, whom he &s;o much re&s;pected, by breaking open his Letters; and therefore I advis'd him not only to Patience and Cheerfulne&s;s, but to an ab&s;olute Silence concerning them to his Lord&s;hip, until he &s;aw further of the matter, and accordingly after three days detention of them, the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> &s;ends him the &s;aid Pacquet, with the Seals untouch'd, which Mr. <HI>White</HI> receiv'd with no &s;mall Joy, and after him&s;elf had open'd them all, he order'd me to throw both them and the Origin I Regi&s;ters of them into the Fire; and the next day, he interceeded for, and obtained the Relea&s;ement of the old <HI>Portugueze</HI> Gentleman, but the &s;uddenne&s;s as well as unju&s;tne&s;s of his Impri&s;onment (for he had no hand in the matter) had made &s;uch an Impre&s;&s;ion upon his aged Spirits, that he could not recover the Fright, but in a few days after dyed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="October" TYPE="month">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>OCTOBER,</HI> 1686.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>In the beginning of this Month, Mr. <HI>White</HI> recollecting what he had by this conveyance, and &s;everal others <HI>Via Madra&s;s,</HI> order'd to be remitted to his Brother <HI>George,</HI> and finding it all to Amount to about Twelve Thou&s;and pound <HI>Sterling,</HI> thought be&s;t for Mortality-&s;ake to con&s;titute his &s;aid Brother, and Mr. <HI>Thomas Povey</HI> of <HI>VVe&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> his joynt Attorneys, impowering them to make a Purcha&s;e with the &s;aid Moneys of Lands for his two Daughters <HI>Mary</HI> and <HI>Su&s;an,</HI> and to do the like with what&s;oever Sum he &s;hould at any time hereafter Con&s;ign to them, or either of them; which Letters of Attorney being drawn in Duplicates, one was &s;ent on the <HI>Herbert,</HI> and the other de&s;ign'd to be &s;ent by Mr. <HI>Francis Heath,</HI> who was to go for <HI>England, Via Madra&s;s.</HI> The <HI>Shabander</HI> having made the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> acquainted (who out of a Principle of Genero&s;ity, never order'd his la&s;t years Books to be Examined) that the en&s;uing Mon&s;oons Expedition, which then was de&s;ign'd to employ Eight Sail of Ships, would require a &s;upply of ready Ca&s;h for the payment of Soldiers and Seamens Sallaries, and Arrears from the Fir&s;t of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t, be&s;ides three Months advance according to the la&s;t years Cu&s;tom; his Lord&s;hip order'd the <HI>Syam Clong</HI> to fur|ni&s;h him with Three Hundred <HI>Cattees</HI> to carry down with him; but told him that he expected that he &s;hould out of the penalties of Offenders, Rents, Incomes of <HI>Tynn,</HI> and &s;ale of a parcel of <HI>Prize Goods,</HI> which yet lay at <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> rai&s;e what&s;oever &s;hould be requirable more for that Account: And that for the future, the <HI>Shabander</HI> (being now impower'd to lay &s;everal con&s;ide|rable Taxes on the <HI>Jelinga</HI> Boats, <HI>Je&s;&s;ook</HI> Gardens, and Natives Converted to the <HI>Mahometan</HI> Religion, which according to his own propo&s;als could not Amount to le&s;s than Two Thou&s;and <HI>Cattees per Annum;</HI> be&s;ides the Cu&s;tom of Foreign Goods Imported, none now being to be ex|cu&s;ed but only the <HI>French,</HI> and Six Thou&s;and <HI>Peculls</HI> of <HI>Sappan-wood,</HI> to be yearly cut for the Kings Account, with the Engro&s;&s;ing of all Forreign Salt, and impo&s;ing it on the Natives at the Kings price, <HI>viz.</HI> ten <HI>Ta.</HI> per <HI>Quogan</HI> (which was nothing but a neat invention of Mr. <HI>VVhite</HI> to rid his hands of about five Hundred <HI>Quogans</HI> of that Commodity, then lying in his own <HI>Godowns</HI>) none being henceforward allow'd to make <HI>Salt</HI> with <HI>Paddy</HI> &s;traw, he was not to expect any more Ca&s;h from <HI>Syam,</HI> but be careful that the Port of <HI>Mergens</HI> Charges were defray'd out of the In|comes of the Province, it being hoped that by his prudent management of matters, there &s;hould be in a little time a con&s;iderable Bank of Ca&s;h founded in <HI>Mergen,</HI> &s;o that His Maje&s;ty might reap benefit proportionable to the va&s;t Expence, which for the&s;e three years la&s;t pa&s;t he had been at, in fortifying that Province, with Garri&s;ons and Shipping.</P>
<P>The Impo&s;ition on the Natives turn'd <HI>Mahometans,</HI> or who&s;e Parents, one of them was a Na|tive, and that other a <HI>Mahometan,</HI> which was Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> propo&s;al in one of his &s;ixty Articles, out of the &s;pleen he bore the <HI>Moors,</HI> looking on them as his Enemies and Competitors, was.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>Ca.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>Ta.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>An Oyea</HI></CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL><HI>A Duke</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>An Opra</HI></CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL><HI>An Earl</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>An Olvang</HI></CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>per Head for</CELL>
<CELL><HI>A Lord</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>An Ocone</HI></CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL><HI>An E&s;quire</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>An Omone</HI></CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>05</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL><HI>A Gentleman</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>The Mnony</HI></CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>02</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL><HI>The Commonalty</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<PB N="17" REF="9" MS="y">
<P> Doctor <HI>Ralph Harwarrs</HI> Opium (&s;ent the latter end of <HI>April</HI> la&s;t, by Mr. <HI>Heath</HI> to <HI>Syam</HI> not an&s;wering Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> expectation, it yielding then (by rea&s;on of the <HI>Maca&s;&s;a</HI> di&s;tur|bance) but Six Teculs <HI>per</HI> Catte) ehe now took for his own Account, at that price, and &s;ent it <HI>per</HI> Mr. <HI>Jo&s;eph Norrington</HI> to <HI>Malacca,</HI> de&s;igning to draw a Bill on Mr. <HI>Tho. Lucas</HI> of <HI>Madra&s;s</HI> for payment of the Amount to the &s;aid Doctor.</P>
<P>The remains of the <HI>Delights</HI> Cargo amounting to about Forty Cattees of Silver, being a parcel of Longcloth and Bettelees, Mr. <HI>White</HI> re&s;olved to take wholly upon his own Ac|count, and allow Mr. <HI>Lucas</HI> for his Moiety, but yet thought be&s;t to make u&s;e of his Name to the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> in the matter, de&s;iring him to order it into the Kings <HI>Ciong,</HI> and &s;end the Amount in Copper, at 6 &frac12; Tale <HI>per</HI> Che&s;t, on the Arrival of the <HI>Jappan Juncks,</HI> &s;o early, that he might have an opportunity to remit it to his Friend Mr. <HI>Lucas,</HI> or For want there|of in <HI>Copangs,</HI> it being &s;o reque&s;ted of him by his &s;aid Friend, as he pretended, for I ob|&s;erv'd, that though his Lord&s;hip knew very well, that Mr. <HI>White,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Lucas</HI> maintain'd an intimate corre&s;pondence with each other, yet he was kept wholly ignorant, that they were Partners in the <HI>Delight,</HI> and her Cargo, nor did Mr. <HI>White,</HI> as he would often &s;ay, think it prudence to let his Lord&s;hip know either what his Stock was, or how, or where em|ploy'd, more than that part of it, which he had in Company with his Lord&s;hip in the <HI>China</HI> Trade, which now he was re&s;olv'd to make it his bu&s;ine&s;s, by little and little, (with what circum&s;pection he could to avoid &s;u&s;picion) to withdraw, whereas his Lord&s;hip, though in vain) endeavoured what he could, to draw on Mr. <HI>White</HI> do deeper engagement, to tho&s;e Trade of the Seas, thinking by that means to make &s;urer of him, but that not &s;ui|ting with Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> inclinations, or de&s;igns, he as &s;ubtly finds Eva&s;ions, as the other could Arguments to per&s;wade.</P>
<P>The Sixteenth of the Month we left <HI>Syam,</HI> and with Five <HI>Merua's</HI> began our Voyage to|wards <HI>Queal,</HI> The Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> ju&s;t before our going, &s;ent his Trumpeter to me with Four Cattees of Money, and Two pieces of <HI>China</HI> Silk, who told me his Lord&s;hip had &s;ent me that &s;mall Token, and expected my acceptance of it for old acquaintance &s;ake, which I did, and returning him my thanks by the &s;ame Bearer, had only time enough to inve&s;t it, in what was mo&s;t likely to yield me good advantage at <HI>Mergen,</HI> and &s;o took Boat that Night.</P>
<P>The Eighteenth we met Mr. <HI>James Wheeler</HI> at <HI>Bankoke,</HI> the Ship <HI>Phoenix</HI> from <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> be|ing coming (though not yet entred the River) for the Copper his Lord&s;hip the la&s;t year had promi&s;ed him, He gave Mr. <HI>White</HI> an Account, that the Coyn, and Bullion, Gold, and Silver which Mr. <HI>White</HI> had committed to his care in <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, (being part of what he had taken out of the Ships brought in from <HI>Pegu</HI>) was &s;old, and the Amount according to order paid into the Diamond Traders, Senior <HI>Bartholomew Rodriguez,</HI> and Company, for inve&s;t|ment and remittance to his Brother <HI>George</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> which they de&s;igned to do by the <HI>Kempthorn.</HI></P>
<P>By him al&s;o Mr. <HI>White</HI> had an Account, how the bu&s;ine&s;s was managed in the Jewel Affair at <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> and of Mr. <HI>Yale</HI>'s di&s;gu&s;ts again&s;t the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> and that the Company had a de&s;ign meerly for the conveniency of annoying <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> to &s;ettle upon <HI>Poynt Negraes,</HI> which Mr. <HI>White</HI> &s;eemed to be very much troubled at, and after Mr. <HI>Wheelers</HI> parting from us, &s;wore mo&s;t bitterly he would prevent them, if they were not got thither already, for if they were not there now, they could not po&s;&s;ibly get thither, until <HI>February</HI> next from <HI>Madra&s;s.</HI></P>
<P>In three dayes arriving from <HI>Bankoke</HI> at <HI>Queal.</HI> Mr. <HI>White,</HI> Mr. <HI>Heath,</HI> and Captain <HI>Le&s;ley</HI> po&s;ted away for <HI>Mergen,</HI> with <HI>Doolys</HI> doubly mann'd, leaving me to follow with the Trea&s;ure, with which I ha&s;ten'd &s;o &s;peedily after them, as to arrive at <HI>Mergen,</HI> the fir&s;t of <HI>November,</HI> where I found they had got but three days before me.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="November" TYPE="month">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>NOVEMBER</HI> 1686.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>In <HI>May</HI> la&s;t I had noted, that the <HI>Clong</HI> Accounts were ballanced, by being charg'd (I mean all Ships &s;tores) as expended on the &s;everal Ships, &s;o that the Kings <HI>Godowns</HI> being thus emptied, none remain'd, but what the <HI>Shabander</HI> called his own; and now on our re|turn, the fir&s;t work was to acquaint the <HI>Coromocon,</HI> with the indi&s;pen&s;ible nece&s;&s;ity of buying into the <HI>Clong</HI> a competent quantity of Stores, for the fitting out of the Kings Ships to Sea, and that Mr. <HI>Tuttie</HI> had a parcel lying by him, fit for the purpo&s;e. Thus did Mr. <HI>White</HI> at one clap, &s;ell the King his own Goods, to the Amount of Two Hundred and Eighty Cattees of Silver, which now he appointed the <HI>Syammers</HI> to keep account of their Expence, as he &s;hould from time to time appoint the delivery of them out, pretending 'twas a thing he would no longer trouble him&s;elf with, or &s;pend Paper about, and 'twas fitte&s;t they &s;hould be &s;atisfied, which way the Kings Stores were di&s;po&s;ed, that &s;o he might not be &s;u&s;pected of imbezling them, or converting them to his own u&s;e.</P>
<P>The next thing was the payment of the Garri&s;on, and Sea-mens Arrears, which was &s;o dexterou&s;ly managed by Mr. <HI>White,</HI> in ob&s;ervance of the method u&s;ed at the la&s;t payment, as to make Three Hundred Cattees do the bu&s;ine&s;s of Five Hundred Forty Six Cattees, which I thought was a very &s;mart beginning, after his &s;o narrow e&s;cape of a &s;evere ex|amination
<PB N="18" REF="10">at <HI>Levo,</HI> and &s;uch an Action as made me wi&s;h his promi&s;ed Ship in a readine&s;s, that I might be freed from &s;uch a kind of Book keeping.</P>
<P>The Tenth of this Moneth putting Mr. <HI>White</HI> in mind of his promi&s;e, made me the latter end of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> last, he put me off, telling me that he had a great jealou&s;ie (from Mr. <HI>Wheelers</HI> di&s;cour&s;e at <HI>Bankoke</HI>) that the Company had Wars in <HI>Bengala,</HI> which made it ha|zardous to adventure a Ship thither; be&s;ides he doubted Mr. <HI>Edward Ingli&s;h</HI> in the Ship <HI>Revenge,</HI> had been &s;eized on by the Companies Ships; however, if I would have patience to &s;tay till he had certain Advices of Peace or War; if 'twas peace in the Bay, I &s;hould without fail proceed in <HI>February,</HI> and if War, I &s;hould not only have liberty to take the fir&s;t oppor|tunity of a pa&s;&s;age, but be&s;ides my Sallary, be gratified for the good Services I had hitherto done him, &s;o as not to complain of the di&s;appointment, in his not &s;ending a Ship of his own: But at length, with much importuning, I obtain'd his con&s;ent to take my pa&s;&s;age on <HI>Authony de Cruz,</HI> who de&s;igned to &s;ail from <HI>Mergen</HI> towards the <HI>Bay,</HI> twelve or fourteen days hence, there being at this time in Port, no le&s;s than four Ships bound for <HI>Bengala,</HI> who had put in here to Winter, <HI>viz.</HI> The afore&s;aid <HI>Anthony d' Cruz, Skipper, Michael Don Joan d' Leon,</HI> and <HI>John Graunt.</HI></P>
<P>In this interim (Moun&s;ieur <HI>D' Houtmeniel</HI> in a <HI>French</HI> Ship, being on the di&s;patch for <HI>Pul|licherry,</HI> the <HI>Delight</HI> for <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> the <HI>Dorothy</HI> now called the <HI>Mergen</HI> Frigat, and <HI>Robin,</HI> now called the <HI>Advice,</HI> being to go and crui&s;e upon the Coa&s;t of <HI>Pegu,</HI> with &s;trict orders to bring in what&s;oever Ships they &s;hould meet, and could over-power (without any re&s;pect to their Pa&s;&s;es) that &s;o they might be examin'd in this Port, and clear'd or condemn'd, as &s;hould appear rea&s;onable. I had no want of bu&s;ine&s;s to employ my time Night and Day.</P>
<P>The Day that Senior <HI>Athony de Cruz</HI> &s;ailed, being the 24th In&s;tant, early in the Morn|ing) I carried Mr. <HI>White</HI> the Keys of his E&s;cretores, wherein were all his Books and Papers, de&s;iring that Forenoons liberty to carry my things on Boad, the Ship being to &s;ail in the Evening; he then told me that he could not po&s;&s;ibly &s;pare me at that time, but <HI>Don Joan d' Leon</HI> would be going in <HI>December,</HI> and then he would not offer to detain me any lon|ger, whereupon I con&s;ented to &s;tay &s;o long, rather than di&s;oblige him.</P>
<P>The 26th of this moneth, all the Soldiers and Seamen were paid advance money, to the fir&s;t of <HI>January</HI> next, in which payment the &s;ame method was ob&s;erv'd by the <HI>Shabanders</HI> expre&s;s order, to his no &s;mall advantage.</P>
<P>The la&s;t year, check for di&s;patching the <HI>Phaulkon</HI> to <HI>Atcheen,</HI> without order, did not re&s;train the <HI>Shabander</HI> from the like practice now, only he was re&s;olv'd to have a plau&s;ible pretence for &s;o doing, if it &s;hould happen to come to the Court Ears, and &s;o on pretence of her crui&s;ing to the South-ward, &s;ends her with ready money to <HI>Junkselone,</HI> for procura|tion of <HI>Tynn,</HI> and thence to <HI>Atcheen,</HI> to enquire out, and call hither Mr. <HI>William Soam,</HI> who had now been near twenty moneths gone on a Trading Voyage to tho&s;e parts, with a Car|go of a Hundred and Twenty Cattees, the Amount.</P>
<P>This moneth the <HI>Armenians</HI> two Ships, <HI>viz.</HI> the <HI>Sancta Cruz,</HI> and the <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> (now cal|led by new Names, <HI>viz.</HI> The <HI>St. George,</HI> and <HI>St. John,</HI> the former being called the Kings, and de&s;igned, as has been &s;aid, for the <HI>Moco</HI> Voyage; and the latter, the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> order'd to <HI>Pullicherry,</HI> with a Lading of <HI>Sappan-wood,</HI> which his Maje&s;ty had given him along with the Ship) were both carreen'd, and got into a readine&s;s, to take in their La|ding, both of them being to wear <HI>French</HI> Colours, and their Officers, if procurable, to have been <HI>Frenchmen,</HI> by a late order grounded upon Mr. <HI>Wheelers</HI> Account of the Compa|nies threatnings at the <HI>Syam</HI> Ships.</P>
<P>The la&s;t of this moneth, <HI>Robert Melli&s;h</HI> is di&s;patcht with the <HI>Delight</HI> for <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> on whom Mr. <HI>Francis Heath</HI> takes pa&s;&s;age, with a parcel of Gold for Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> Account, to the Amount of between Three and Four Thou&s;and Pound <HI>Sterling,</HI> which he was to remit by Bill on good &s;ecurity of Diamonds, or otherwi&s;e for <HI>England,</HI> on the &s;ame Ship he him&s;elf &s;houl proceed; by him al&s;o went Duplicates of the Letters &s;ent for <HI>England</HI> on the <HI>Herbert</HI> from <HI>Syam,</HI> with an additional Letter, giving his Attorneys an Account of the above&s;aid remi&s;&s;ions, and motioning their &s;ending out of a permi&s;&s;ion Ship to <HI>Atcheen,</HI> wherein him|&s;elf would be concern'd Stock and Block Eight Thou&s;and Pounds, and be obliged to have in a readine&s;s, a <HI>China</HI> and <HI>South&s;ea</HI> Cargo for <HI>England,</HI> to the Amount of Thirty Thou&s;and Pound prime Co&s;t in <HI>India,</HI> de&s;igning al&s;o him&s;elf to return on her to his Native Country, to which end he further informs them, that he would now make it his bu&s;ine&s;s to con|tract his &s;cattered &s;tock into as narrow a compa&s;s as po&s;&s;ible, and doubted not but to an&s;wer the expectations of whom&s;oever of his Friends in <HI>England,</HI> &s;hould be concern'd in the &s;aid Ship along with him, referring them to Mr. <HI>Heath,</HI> for a more particular information of the feizablene&s;s of his de&s;ign.</P>
<P>At this time he &s;ends the procced of the <HI>Delights</HI> Cargo in Rice, Tynn, and Teculs, de&s;iring Mr. <HI>Lucas</HI> to remit his Moity of her Stock and Block for <HI>England,</HI> &s;etting, or ta|king to him&s;elf his half of the Ship at &s;uch rates, as in Con&s;cience he &s;hould think rea&s;ona|ble, and that he would do the like with his &frac14; of the Ship <HI>Phoenix,</HI> and her Stock, &s;moothly excu&s;ing his breaking o&s;&s; of Partner&s;hip, and prote&s;ting his readine&s;s and devotion to his &s;aid Friends Intere&s;t, de&s;iring al&s;o an Account to be remitted him by the fir&s;t opportunity,
<PB N="19" REF="10" MS="y">how matters &s;tood between them, and earne&s;tly &s;olliciting Information, how the Gentiemen at <HI>Madra&s;s</HI> &s;tood affected towards tho&s;e on this &s;ide, by whom is meant the Lord <HI>Phaul|kon</HI> and him&s;elf. The like reque&s;t for News is made to &s;everal other Gentlement at <HI>Ma|dra&s;s,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Atford,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Heathfield</HI> de&s;ired to &s;end an Account, how they &s;old the Rubies con&s;igned to them on the <HI>Revenge,</HI> and whether as they de&s;igned, they had remitted the proceed on the <HI>Kempthorn.</HI> The&s;e very Rubies Invoiced at about eighty <HI>Cattees</HI> were parcel of tho&s;e mentioned in <HI>May</HI> la&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="December" TYPE="month">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>DECEMBER</HI> 1686.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>A new &s;hip which had been ordered by the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> to be &s;et upon the &s;tocks for the King, being Lanch'd this la&s;t month, and called the <HI>Re&s;olution,</HI> was now Rigg'd and appoin|ted to Crui&s;e on the Coa&s;t of <HI>Chormondell, Alexander Le&s;ly</HI> being Commi&s;&s;ionated under the &s;aid Lord <HI>Phaulkons</HI> Seal to Command her, and follow &s;uch in&s;tructions, as &s;hould from time to time be given him by Mr. <HI>White</HI> the <HI>Shabander</HI> of <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery.</HI></P>
<P>The In&s;tructions Mr. <HI>White</HI> gave him, were to make the Land, on the Coa&s;t <HI>Gingerlee</HI> in eighteen Degrees of North Latitude, to feize all Ships or Ve&s;&s;els what&s;oever he &s;hould meet with, (tho&s;e of <HI>Europe</HI> Nations only excepted) and &s;uch as he thought not convenient to bring to <HI>Mergen,</HI> or keep in his company, having fir&s;t taken out all their Goods, and Men, and &s;ecu|red them as pri&s;oners of War, to burn, &s;ink and de&s;troy the Ve&s;&s;els; To &s;end his Boat on &s;hoar at <HI>Chi&s;kercol,</HI> and if po&s;&s;ible &s;urpri&s;e the Governour, or &s;ome of the mo&s;t eminent Inhabitants, and carrying them on board his &s;hip, there propo&s;e to them their liberty on &s;uch terms, as he might think their E&s;tates, by the be&s;t information would reach; which if they complyed with in a limited time, then to relea&s;e them without any harm to their per&s;ons, if they proved ob&s;tinate, or broke promi&s;e in their payment, then to fire the town, burn or &s;ink all the Boats in the River, and bring off as many Men, Women, and Children as they could &s;eize, &s;ecuring them on board as Pri&s;oners of War; thence to pro|ceed to all the Ports, Rivers, Harbours, Creeks, or Bays along the Coa&s;t of <HI>Chormondell,</HI> betwixt that place and <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> except only &s;uch places where the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> or <HI>Dutch</HI> had Factories, u&s;ing the &s;ame method of proceeding; and yet for as much as it had been re|ported, the King of <HI>Golcondab</HI> would &s;end an Emba&s;&s;adour to the Court of <HI>Syam,</HI> if any &s;uch motion were made to Captain <HI>Le&s;ly,</HI> he &s;hould grant them a &s;afe Pa&s;s-port to come to <HI>Mergen,</HI> where order would be taken for his Reception, according to his quality; but he was not to con&s;ent to any Ce&s;&s;ation of Arms, or de&s;i&s;tance from the pro&s;ecution of the above faid in&s;tructions, until he &s;hould receive an expre&s;s Order for &s;o doing, or the time therein limited was expir'd, which was the fir&s;t of <HI>May</HI> next, for he was to follow this method of Ho&s;tility until that day, and then directing his cour&s;e to <HI>Pullicherry,</HI> there re|ceive &s;uch Letters, Packets, or Goods as the General, Mon&s;ieur <HI>Martin,</HI> and mon&s;ieur <HI>Des Lan|dres Borean</HI> &s;hould put on Board his &s;hip, and &s;o making all convenient di&s;patch thence, re|turn directly to the Port of <HI>Mergen.</HI></P>
<P>But being thus in readine&s;s to be gone, an accident fell out, which for &s;ome days de|tarded his di&s;patch. Thus,</P>
<P>Unexpected notices arrived from <HI>Syam,</HI> that a Pre&s;ent for the <HI>French</HI> King, from his Ma|je&s;ty of <HI>Syam,</HI> and the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> were upon the Road hitherward, which Dr. <HI>Hoatme|niel</HI> was required to take into his &s;hip, and carry for <HI>Europe,</HI> taking al&s;o the &s;hip <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> under his Convoy to <HI>Pullicherry;</HI> now 'twas true though Dr. <HI>Hoatmeniel</HI> went out of the Harbour the la&s;t month with his &s;hip, yet having occa&s;ion for &s;ome Timbers, for u&s;es at <HI>Pullicherry,</HI> which he could not be &s;upplyed with at the Town, he &s;top at <HI>Ilha Grande</HI> to cut &s;uch as he wanted with his own people, and not being gone thence when this news arrived, Mr. <HI>White</HI> &s;ends down Mr. <HI>Burnebey</HI> to inform him of it, and propo&s;e his &s;taying a few days, for the Pre&s;ents which were coming. Dr. <HI>Hotamentiel</HI> tole Mr. <HI>Burnebey</HI> he was willing on his part to oblige the King of <HI>Syam,</HI> and his Excellency, what lay in his pow|er, but his Ma&s;ter the King of <HI>France</HI> had a&s;&s;ixed him a day to &s;ail from. <HI>Pullicherry,</HI> and the General had limitted him a day for his &s;ailing hence, which would be the next Sunday, and if the Pre&s;ent came in that time, he would be glad of opportunity to &s;hew his readine&s;s for the King of <HI>Syams</HI> Service, but if not, no con&s;ideration could prevail with him to trau&s;|gre&s;s his orders, the Pre&s;ent not arriving in the time pre&s;ixt by. Dr. <HI>Hoatmeniel,</HI> the <HI>Sha|bander</HI> &s;tops the <HI>Re&s;olution,</HI> and concludes that he &s;hould carry it to <HI>Pullicherry,</HI> and take the Saint <HI>John</HI> with her Cargo of <HI>Sappan-wood,</HI> for his honour, and <HI>Allome</HI> for him&s;elf under her Convoy.</P>
<P>Two days after Dr. <HI>Hoatmeniel</HI> failing from <HI>Ilha Grande,</HI> the Pre&s;ent arrived at <HI>Mer|gen,</HI> accompanied with the u&s;ual &s;tate of the Country mu&s;ick, <HI>Le&s;ly</HI> taking it into the <HI>Re&s;olution,</HI> was di&s;patcht with additional Orders to this purpo&s;e. That taking the &s;hip <HI>Saint John</HI> under his Convoy, he &s;hould conduct her &s;afe to <HI>Pullicherry,</HI> and there deliver her and her Lading to Mon&s;ieur <HI>Des Landres Borean</HI> (no <HI>Des Landres</HI> was to &s;end her in his own name to the Bay of <HI>Bengala,</HI> there to lade Butter, and Oyl, with &s;ome Cloth, and &s;o to return to <HI>Syam</HI>) and to deliver the Letters with the King, and Lord <HI>Phaulkons</HI> Pre&s;ents
<PB N="20" REF="11">for the <HI>French</HI> King to the General <HI>Martine,</HI> &s;iring twenty one Guns at his putting them out of the &s;hip. And becau&s;e Mr. <HI>White</HI> would make u&s;e of all opportunities to his own advantage, more or le&s;s, he now draws a Bill on Mon&s;ieur <HI>Des Landres</HI> for delivery of four hundred Pagodos to Captain <HI>Le&s;ly,</HI> on the King of <HI>Syam</HI>'s account, advi&s;ing up to Court that he had done it for the &s;upply of what&s;oever occa&s;ions the &s;hip might have, during that her expedition on the Coa&s;t, whereas at the &s;ame time he gave Captain <HI>Le&s;ly</HI> li|berty to make u&s;e of only one hundred of the Pagodos, and ordered him to inve&s;t the other three hundred in Brown <HI>Bettelees,</HI> which he was to keep in the &s;hip untill his return hi|ther.</P>
<P><HI>Le&s;ly</HI> was al&s;o ordered by Mr. (<HI>White</HI> in the nature of a Warrant) to di&s;card, and turn out of this &s;hip, whom&s;oever by word or action, he &s;hould during this Expedition per|ceive to be di&s;affected towards the King of <HI>Syam</HI>'s Service, and to entertain, and en|courage as many new men as he could po&s;&s;ibly meet with, only not to agree with them for Sallary, or give them any office untill their Arrival here, when according to the Character he &s;hould give of them, each man &s;hould have encouragement and Employs.</P>
<P>By this Conveyance of <HI>Le&s;ly</HI> in the <HI>Madra&s;s</HI> Pacquet <HI>Via Pullicherry,</HI> went al&s;o a Let|ter from Mr. <HI>White</HI> to his Attorneys in <HI>England,</HI> under cover to Mr. <HI>Francis Heath,</HI> to give them notice, that upon later thoughts, and clearer pro&s;pect into the un&s;etled po&s;ture which the Af&s;airs of <HI>India</HI> were po&s;ting to, he had altered his opinion, as to the &s;eiza|blene&s;s of &s;ending out a permi&s;&s;ion &s;hip to him, and therefore advi&s;ed their di&s;i&s;tance from the undertaking.</P>
<P><HI>Le&s;ly</HI> being thus di&s;patcht, Mr. <HI>White</HI> (computing the time, when he might rea&s;onably get into eighteen Degrees North Latitude on the Coa&s;t of <HI>Gingerlee</HI> from <HI>Pullicherry,</HI> allowing fourteen days for his pa&s;&s;age from <HI>Mergen</HI> thither) accordingly drew up orders for Cap|tain <HI>Cropley</HI> on the fifteenth of <HI>January</HI> next to leave <HI>Mergen</HI> and <HI>Elves,</HI> with their &s;loops at the Bar of <HI>Sirian,</HI> and make the be&s;t of his way towards that Coa&s;t, in eighteen Degrees Latitude, where he was to ply off and on, (being every day once at lea&s;t in &s;ight of the Land) untill he &s;hould meet with <HI>Le&s;ly</HI> in the <HI>Re&s;olution,</HI> with whom he was to joyn Company, Con&s;ult, and be a&s;&s;i&s;ting each to other in the vigorous, and punctual execution of the fore|&s;aid orders, of which a Copy was remitted to <HI>Cropley,</HI> and now Mr. <HI>White</HI> called to mind, what Mr. <HI>Wheeler</HI> had told him of the de&s;ign at <HI>Madra&s;s</HI> to &s;ettle upon <HI>Point Negraes,</HI> and &s;end Mr. <HI>Thomas Yale</HI> for Governour, which he apprehended would be of very ill con&s;equence to this Port, and therefore re&s;olving to kill two Birds with one &s;tone, he concludes to &s;end two &s;mall Ve&s;&s;ells, which taking <HI>Cropley</HI> in their way at the Bar of <HI>Siri|an,</HI> &s;hould deliver him tho&s;e Orders, and carry to <HI>Point Negraes</HI> twenty <HI>Lulongs</HI> or <HI>Syam</HI> Soldiers, with a Commander furni&s;hed with all nece&s;&s;aries for twelve months time, who &s;hould keep po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the place for the King of <HI>Syam,</HI> and on the appearance of any &s;hip, let fly his Flag, for which end they were to erect a Flag-Staff near to the mo&s;t convenient Landing place, and for the better declaration of their bu&s;ine&s;s there, they carryed this following In&s;cription in Capital <HI>Portuguees</HI> Letters, pa&s;ted on a &s;mall board, with a &s;mall boarded hou&s;e to &s;helter it from weather, which was to be placed near the Flag-&s;taff, Mr. <HI>White</HI> ordering it to be Forged in <HI>Mergen,</HI> and dated, as if done the foregoing <HI>October</HI> at <HI>Syam.</HI> The words the&s;e.</P>
<Q><HI>Por Mandado D' Su Imperial Maje&s;tade D' Syam Ningam Fora&s;teiro de qual&abque; Naqa pode Abitar on fabricar Algunas Ca&s;as on Poragoes Ni&s;ta Ilha &s;em Licenqua D' Dita Maj. &s;ob|pena de &s;er Tidos por Inimigos D' Su Imperial Coro's Dado em Syam ao</HI> 26. <HI>De Outobro Anno,</HI> 1686.</Q>
<P>Now whereas Captain <HI>Le&s;ly</HI> was ordered on the fir&s;t of <HI>May</HI> next, to &s;hape his cour&s;e for <HI>Pullicherry</HI> as afore&s;aid, Captain <HI>Cropley</HI> had orders &s;ent him on the &s;ame day, to direct his cour&s;e to <HI>Saint Thome,</HI> and thence &s;end a Letter to the Pre&s;ident and Council at <HI>Ma|dra&s;s,</HI> to inform them that he had a me&s;&s;age from the Court of <HI>Syam,</HI> which he was to de|liver to &s;ome of the Council, if they plea&s;ed to give him a meeting at <HI>Saint Thome,</HI> and in ca&s;e any of them came thither, he was to &s;end his Boat on &s;hoar, and invite them on Board his &s;hip, where he was to read them a Declaration (which for that end was now &s;ent him open) wherein was &s;pecified, That he was ordered by his Maje&s;ty to repre&s;ent to them the great abu&s;es M. <HI>Elihu Yale</HI> had put upon him in the Jewel Affair, as al&s;o the affronts done him by the Companies Servants in his own Royal City, To certifie them, of his Maje&s;ties kindne&s;s for &s;ixty years pa&s;t to the &s;aid Company, and that &s;atisfaction being made by Mr. <HI>Yale,</HI> the Lord Trea&s;urer would pay the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> fraight, and relea&s;e what&s;oever he had hitherto detained of theirs, willing them, if they had any Grievances to complain of (though he knew of none) that they would &s;end over two Gentlement fully impowered to treat with his Maje&s;tys Mini&s;ters of State, and they might expect all the ju&s;tice they could de&s;ire, but if they &s;lighted this propo&s;al, his Maje&s;ty had no rea&s;on to Court their Friend&s;hip.</P>
<PB N="21" REF="11" MS="y">
<P> This Declaration was drawn up by the <HI>Shabander,</HI> and according to the Lord <HI>Phaulkons</HI> order to him, &s;hould have been &s;ign'd by him, but he (upon my earne&s;t pre&s;&s;ing of him to de|&s;i&s;t, as thinking it not convenient, for that to me it appear'd but one remove from a Decla|ration of War) was prevailed with, not to &s;ign it, but &s;ent it un&s;ign'd to <HI>Cropely,</HI> ordering him in a Letter, which accompany'd it, That he and the re&s;t of his Officers after the Publication of it, &s;hould &s;ign it, and deliver it to tho&s;e Gentlemen that &s;hould come off to him.</P>
<P>At this time al&s;o, the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> &s;ends down expre&s;s orders to unrig, and lay up the <HI>Ar|menians</HI> great &s;hip, and put by the <HI>Moco Voyage,</HI> keeping all the Kings Goods in the <HI>Tena&s;&s;ary Clongs,</HI> for their better &s;ecurity, &s;ince he had apprehen&s;ions, that the Gentlemen on the other &s;ide would not fail to intercept her on her Voyage, nor could he think it &s;afe for any &s;hips to go abroad this year upon a Mercantile Account, but gave &s;trict charge, that what&s;oever Frigats went out on a de&s;ign again&s;t the Enemy, &s;hould be &s;o well equipt, as to be able to encounter any force, the Company could make again&s;t them.</P>
<P>To this the <HI>Shabander</HI> (who was mighty fearful of being call'd up to re&s;ide at Court, if once the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> &s;hould grow apprehen&s;ive of a breach with the Engli&s;h) return'd for an&s;wer; that his Lord&s;hips orders in laying up the St. <HI>George,</HI> and putting the <HI>Moco</HI> Cargo in the <HI>Tena&s;&s;ary Clongs,</HI> &s;hould not fail of all due ob&s;ervance, though he was clear|ly of a different opinion, nor could he apprehend any danger, had &s;he proceeded; Twas true, he did not que&s;tion, but <HI>Yale</HI> had malice enough to put him upon any attempt what&s;oever, to the prejudice of his Maje&s;ty and his Lord&s;hip, but yet he could not believe him &s;o ra&s;h, as to break out into any open act of ho&s;tility, without order from <HI>England,</HI> and &s;uch a power could not po&s;&s;ibly arrive him, until the next year, and that he &s;uppo&s;ed his Lord&s;hip gave too much ear to the reports of Mr. <HI>Wheeler,</HI> and &s;uch as were either &s;trongly prejudiced again&s;t Mr. <HI>Yale</HI> in particular, or took delight in putting the Kings Affairs into a di&s;traction.</P>
<P>And indeed this putting by of the <HI>Moco</HI> Voyage on the St. <HI>George,</HI> for fear of Mr. <HI>Yale,</HI> was an acceptable hit to the <HI>Shabander,</HI> who was clearly of opinion, That if the Company had bro|ken into a War in <HI>Bengala,</HI> their hands would be &s;o full, they would not at pre&s;ent break with <HI>Syam,</HI> e&s;pecially con&s;idering the conveniency their &s;hips by continuing in amity, might have, in the free u&s;e of this Point, on any occa&s;ion, wherefore having a great quantity of the Kings Goods in his hands, which were likely to lye by in the <HI>Clongs,</HI> he thought it a brave opportunity to &s;ecure into his own hands, to the value of what &s;tock he had em|ployed with his <HI>Honcur</HI> at <HI>Syam,</HI> with whom he did not conceive if &s;afe, being doubtful, that if ever a &s;econd difference &s;hould happen, the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> would detain it for reimbur&s;e|ment of the Two Hundred <HI>Cattees,</HI> which His Maje&s;ty had lent Mr. <HI>White</HI> for Six Years, at his fir&s;t entrance into his <HI>Shabander&s;hip,</HI> and accordingly he fits out with all po&s;&s;ible expe|dition the &s;hip <HI>Tokely,</HI> which now he names the <HI>Satisfaction</HI> for a two-fold rea&s;on, as &s;he &s;a|tisfied the <HI>Moor</HI> Mans Debt to him, and as her Cargo would &s;ecure him that part of his &s;tock, which he otherwi&s;e lookt upon to be in Huck&s;ters hands, though he thought it not convenient, to let his Lor&s;hip know one word of it, nor any of the Natives whither the &s;hip was bound.</P>
<P>Only one thing was likely to thwart the &s;orting of the Cargo to his own mind, that was the want of a &s;ufficient quantity of Tynn, for his Lord&s;hip had now &s;ent down an Order to him to deliver Mr. <HI>John Thredder,</HI> One Hundred and Twenty Baharrs, at one Cattee <HI>per</HI> Baharr, which would &s;o exhau&s;t the Kings &s;tore of that Commodity, that he mu&s;t be forc't to go without it for his <HI>Moco</HI> de&s;ign, But to remedy this, he at length finds a way; for Mr. <HI>Thredaer</HI> coming to demand his Tynn, and producing an order from the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> for it, he readily tells him, he &s;hould have it when he plea&s;ed; but his &s;hip being not yet fitted, and being to be laid a&s;hore, and <HI>Caulkt,</HI> if not new &s;heath'd, he could not expect to be in a readine&s;s to take it in, until the beginning of <HI>February,</HI> and therefore 'twould &s;ave him &s;o much Warehou&s;eroom, to let it lye where it was in the Kings <HI>Clong,</HI> till his &s;hip was fitted; Mr. <HI>Thredder</HI> little thinking of the Snake in the Gra&s;s (for Mr. <HI>White</HI> had &s;trictly enjoyn'd my &s;ilence) thanks him for his courteous offer, and Mr. <HI>White</HI> puts the Tynn on board his own &s;aid Ship <HI>Satisfaction,</HI> and then writes up to the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> to incen&s;e him what he could again&s;t Mr. <HI>John Tyler</HI> in <HI>Bengala,</HI> taxing him with the neglect of His Maje&s;ties Affairs, in not &s;ending any Advices how they &s;tand there, and in&s;inuating a jealou&s;ie of his imbezling the Kings &s;tock, therefore thinks it but rea&s;onable, that his Honour would plea&s;e to attache the Tynn which Mr. <HI>Thredder</HI> was to receive, until they had a more &s;atisfactory Account how <HI>Tyler</HI> had behaved him&s;elf.</P>
<P>At the &s;ame time, with Mr. <HI>Thredder</HI> came Mr. <HI>Nathaniel Ru&s;&s;el</HI> and his Lady from <HI>Syam,</HI> full of complaints of the di&s;appointment they had met with there; whither his Lor&s;hip had invited them from <HI>Surrat,</HI> howerver <HI>Ru&s;&s;el</HI> brought an Order for the <HI>Shabander,</HI> to give him an employ at this place.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="January" TYPE="month">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>JAN&V;ARY</HI> 1686/7.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>The fir&s;t of this Moneth (<HI>Don John de Leon</HI> de&s;igning to &s;ail the third day) I went again to Mr. <HI>White</HI> to de&s;ire liberty to make ready for my Voyage to the <HI>Bay,</HI> he, was them more aver&s;e to part with me, than ever, asking whether I could be &s;o unkind to leave him now, when he
<PB N="22" REF="12">had no body be&s;ides my &s;elf, that could a&s;&s;i&s;t him in his bu&s;ine&s;s, or keep him company; now all the &s;hips were gone and going out of the Port, and Mr. <HI>How</HI> was to go upon the &s;hip <HI>Satis|faction</HI> to <HI>Moco,</HI> if I had a mind to &s;end any thing to <HI>Bengala,</HI> he would not only pay me what was due to me on Account of my Sallary, but freely give me half a &s;core <HI>Cattees</HI> to &s;end by the <HI>Don,</HI> and he doubted not, but my Friends would be well enough &s;atisfied in my &s;taying a Month or Six Weeks longer, for he would not de&s;ire me to &s;tay any longer, than till Mr. <HI>Thredder</HI>'s &s;hip was ready to go: As to his offer of the Money, I told him I did not think it &s;afe to adventure any thing by a Stranger, If I went not my &s;elf with it, in trouble&s;ome times, and therefore I thinkt him for his kind offer, but would not accept of it, but upon a&s;&s;urance that I &s;hould go in <HI>February,</HI> with Mr. <HI>Thredders</HI> &s;hip (for Mr. <HI>Thredder</HI> I thought would hardly go him&s;elf without his Tynn) I con&s;ented to &s;tay till then, and Mr. <HI>White</HI> &s;o|lemnly vow'd I &s;hould go, if I pleas'd, without further delay upon the &s;hip <HI>Agent,</HI> and &s;o I con&s;ented to wait a moneth longer.</P>
<P>Now when I permitted my &s;elf to be prevailed with, to make an implicite promi&s;e of continuing a moneth longer, depending on a pa&s;&s;age in the &s;hip <HI>Agent</HI> to the <HI>Bay,</HI> I little &s;u&s;pected Mr. <HI>White</HI> would have employ'd the next night <HI>I&s;mael Gee,</HI> the <HI>Serange</HI> of the Kings yard, to go and bilge that &s;hip as &s;he lay upon the <HI>Ways,</HI> which by his own relation to Mr. <HI>White</HI> the next morning he &s;aid he did, by raving open three Butt-heads of her Plank under her Bilge, and that he was then come to tell him the bu&s;ine&s;s was done, and the &s;hip now was full of Water at &frac34; Flood. 'Twas then about &s;even a Clock in the Morning, and being charg'd to keep it private, the fellow was di&s;mi&s;t, and no &s;ooner was he gone, but Mr. <HI>White</HI> told me to this effect: Mr. <HI>Davenport,</HI> your <HI>Bengala</HI> Voyage in the <HI>Agent</HI> is over, but you &s;hall be as &s;oon there, as if &s;he had proceeded, only let me enjoyn you, not to &s;peak a word of what you have now heard; I could have kept it from your knowledge, had I not an intire confidence in, and full experience of your &s;ecrecy: I promi&s;ed him that as I had hitherto, &s;o I would &s;till keep my &s;elf free from interfering with all matters, not proper|ly belonging to me. About an hour after Mr. <HI>Thredder</HI> ignorant of what had pa&s;t on Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> part, came to him, and complain'd his &s;hip was full of water, and began to lay the fault upon the carele&s;ne&s;s of the Skipper <HI>John Bunt,</HI> and the Mate <HI>Nathaniel Carter;</HI> they two transferr'd the blame upon each other, though neither of them could well tell wherein; Mr. <HI>White</HI> glad to &s;ee them all in the dark, as to the truth of the matter, ask't why they would offer to lay an old worm-eaten, weak, rotten &s;hip a&s;hoar, that could not bear her own weight with &s;o much balla&s;t in her. The Skipper reply'd, there was no more in her, than what was requi&s;ite; at la&s;t Mr. <HI>White</HI> promis'd when the Tide was ebb'd away, to go and view her, and if 'twas po&s;&s;ible to get her off again; he would lend them all the a&s;&s;i|&s;tance the Port could afford, with which an&s;wer they departed, and the &s;hip being after|wards review'd, was &s;entenced to be irrecoverably lo&s;t.</P>
<P>The &s;ixth in&s;tant, the Ship <HI>Satisfaction</HI> failed for <HI>Moco, William Ranns</HI> Commander, at fifteen Tales <HI>per</HI> Month, and one <HI>per Cent.</HI> Commi&s;&s;ion. <HI>William How, Cape</HI> Merchant, at four <HI>per Cent.</HI> Commi&s;&s;ion, with a Cargo of near five hundred Cattees, the amount of which being &s;o con&s;iderable, all po&s;&s;ible care was taken to prevent interception for want of the Companies Pa&s;s, and Mr. <HI>White</HI> gave Mr. <HI>How</HI> a Letter of Reque&s;t to all Engli&s;h Comman|ders, and other Officers, &s;ignifying his Re&s;idence in the Kingdom of <HI>Syam,</HI> and incapacity to procure their Pa&s;s, by rea&s;on of his di&s;tance from their Garri&s;ons, therefore de&s;ired not only that they would permit the &s;aid Ship to proceed without mole&s;tation on her Voy|age out, or home, but grant her their Pa&s;&s;es to &s;ecure her from any farther &s;toppage, or interruption, which &s;aid Letter Mr. <HI>How</HI> had orders on any occa&s;ion to produce, and pre&s;ent to any per&s;on that &s;hould pretend to &s;top them; and if that would not do, to tender Bond to the amount of the Ship and Cargo, their value, to an&s;wer what&s;oever charge or claim &s;hould be laid again&s;t the Ship, in any of the Companies Ports in <HI>India,</HI> after her Voyage &s;hould be compleated. And if that would not do, then he had a Pro|te&s;t ready drawn, with a Blank for the Commanders and Ships name, that &s;hould pretend to intercept him, and carry him into any of the Companies Ports, which he was to in|&s;ert and deliver in the pre&s;ence of the Ma&s;ter, and chief Mate of the Ship <HI>Satisfaction,</HI> but if it proved to be one of the King of <HI>England</HI>'s Frigats, then he was only to in&s;ert the Com|manders name, in the Prote&s;t, and not mention the Frigats name, <HI>i. e.</HI> not to Prote&s;t a|gain&s;t the Frigat becau&s;e &s;he was the Kings, but only again&s;t &s;uch a one Commander of &s;uch a Ship, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Thredder</HI> having lo&s;t his Ship as afore&s;aid (though the manner of lo&s;ing her was more than he or any belonging to her knew) writes the next day to acquaint the Lord <HI>Phaul|kon</HI> with his di&s;a&s;ter, and reque&s;ts, that now in&s;tead of Tin he might be paid in money the Ballance of his account, he not knowing how to get Freight for &s;uch a quantity of Goods as he had to carry: This Letter he gives to Mr. <HI>White</HI> to be forwarded to <HI>Syam,</HI> and de&s;ires him al&s;o to intercede in his behalf for money in&s;tead of the Tin, which he fairly, pro|mi&s;ed he would do. The Letter indeeed Mr. <HI>White</HI> enclo&s;es in his own Pacquet, but writes cerning the Tin in a quite different &s;train, again pre&s;&s;ing the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> to Embargo the Tin on account of Mr. <HI>John Tyler,</HI> u&s;ing all the arguments he could, to &s;hew the rea|&s;onablene&s;s of &s;o doing.</P>
<PB N="23" REF="12" MS="y">
<P> The eighth in&s;tant, the &s;hip <HI>Bom Succe&s;s, John Graunt</HI> Ma&s;ter (which as formerly hin|ted, put in here from <HI>Atcheen</HI> to winter) &s;ailed hence, having Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> Pa&s;s-port to pre|vent their interception by any of the Kings &s;hips; &s;he belongs one half to <HI>Arthur Seymour,</HI> and the other half to the <HI>Moors</HI> merchants in <HI>Bengala,</HI> her Burthen about a hundred Tuns. The day after her going over the Bar, the <HI>Shabander</HI> pretending he had been informed, that &s;he had carryed away &s;ome Pa&s;&s;engers with a Ticket from him, there being then nei|ther &s;hip nor &s;loop in the Harbour, ready to &s;end after her, di&s;patch'd away his own Barge with nine <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> men well arm'd, to bring her in again: That night they brought her, and the next day being the tenth, the <HI>Nocquedah,</HI> and all the re&s;t being examined, nothing could be found again&s;t them, for he had taken out Tickets for all his Pa&s;&s;engers, but how|ever Mr. <HI>White</HI> could not be prevailed with to the contrary, but orders the &s;hip to be unrigg'd and unladen, &s;aying if &s;he appear'd to be clear, 'twas time enough to go to <HI>Ben|gala</HI> a month hence, when the Goods were unladen, and weighed off at the Cu&s;tome-hou&s;e &s;cales, comparing them with the <HI>Nocquedahs</HI> accounts of the Cargoe, there were four Ba|hars of Tin more, than what he had in his Invoice: This was pretended by the <HI>Shabander</HI> to have been Tin clande&s;tinely bought from the Officers of the <HI>Clong,</HI> and not having been entred in the Cu&s;tome-hou&s;e before it was &s;hipt, made the &s;hip lyeable to &s;eizure; however Mr. <HI>White</HI> kindly offered to write up to <HI>Syam</HI> about it, and according to the Kings plea|&s;ure &s;he &s;hould be condemned or cleared: The <HI>La&s;cars</HI> came and own'd the&s;e four Bahars of Tin, &s;aying 'twas what them&s;elves had bought among&s;t them&s;elves, <HI>i. e.</HI> The <HI>Serango,</HI> &amp;c. Officers at <HI>Atcheen,</HI> and privately laden it without the <HI>Nocquedahs</HI> knowledge, and that it had never been &s;tow'd in hold, but in their own Births, and that it was not any of the Tin of this place, was ea&s;ie enough to be &s;een from the form into which it was ca&s;t. But all would not do. Mr. <HI>White</HI> alledged he could not clear her without the Kings order. The Pilot alledged in behalf of Mr. <HI>Athur Seymour,</HI> that one half of the &s;hip could not be liable to &s;eizure, it being only let to freight by him, to the re&s;t of the Owners, who were <HI>Moors,</HI> nor had he on his part broke any orders of the Port, and if the <HI>Nocquedahs</HI> had, he did not conceive the &s;hip to be liable, but rather the <HI>Nocquedahs</HI> Pur&s;e, Mr. <HI>White</HI> reply'd, that one half mu&s;t go with the other, and no man ought to pre&s;ume to in&s;truct him what was Law or Equity, and the more the Pilot prated, the wor&s;e he &s;hould find it.</P>
<P>He pre&s;ently writes up to <HI>Syam</HI> to acquaint the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> with his indu&s;trious ob&s;er|vance of the Rules of the Port, for his Maje&s;ties Intere&s;t, and that a <HI>Moors</HI> &s;hip from <HI>Ben|gala</HI> having pre&s;umptuou&s;ly broken the orders of it, by carrying off &s;everal of their Coun|try men pri&s;oners of War (which was an ab&s;olute untruth) without Licence, and lading Tin clande&s;tinely, without entring it in the Cu&s;tome-hou&s;e, he had fetcht her back from <HI>Ilha Ferro,</HI> and did &s;uppo&s;e her a lawful Prize, de&s;iring to know his Maje&s;ties and Lord&s;hips plea&s;ure concerning it, with all convenient &s;peed.</P>
<P>The twelfth of this month, a <HI>Moor</HI> who had been accu&s;ed of breaking into the <HI>Shaban|ders</HI> Godown under his hou&s;e (before our going to <HI>Syam</HI> in <HI>May</HI> la&s;t) and &s;tealing two pieces of cour&s;e Cloth, having ever &s;ince been kept in Irons, had his tryal now before the <HI>Co|romocon,</HI> the fact not being proved again&s;t him, he was cleared, only on the <HI>Shabanders</HI> motion, he was to continue ten days longer in Irons before his di&s;charge; four or five days after this the fellow broke, or got off his Irons privately, and made his e&s;cape to his Ma|&s;ter a Merchant at <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> whom the <HI>Shabander</HI> mortally hated, but was pre&s;ently by the <HI>Shabanders</HI> order pur&s;ued and caught, and on the twentieth of the month being brought back, when the <HI>Shabander</HI> was in no good humour, he immediately ordered his head to be &s;truck off, which was accordingly done by a <HI>Syammer,</HI> at one blow. The interce&s;&s;ion of many people to the contrary, not prevailing for the poor mans life, he being re&s;olved, as he vowed with many horrid oaths, and execrations, to make that fellow an example and terrour to all others, that &s;hould offer to make their e&s;cape, when he had ordered them pri&s;oners. This action was &s;everely cen&s;ured by all men in private, but none dur&s;t openly complain, for fear of coming under the la&s;h of Mr. <HI>White</HI>'s di&s;plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>At this time was the <HI>Derrea, Dowlet</HI> di&s;patcht to <HI>Atcheen,</HI> Captain <HI>Ru&s;&s;el</HI> Commander laden with three hundred and twenty Quoyens of Rice, two hundred being for the Kings account, and con&s;igned to Captain <HI>Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> and one hundred and twenty for Mr. <HI>White</HI>'s account, con&s;igned to Mr. <HI>William Mallet,</HI> with &s;ix mortevans of <HI>Mergen Arrack,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Mallet</HI> having no conveniency to inve&s;t his money in Goods proper for <HI>Atcheen,</HI> de&s;ired Mr. <HI>White</HI> to accept it, at two <HI>Teculls</HI> a month <HI>per Cattee,</HI> who accordingly did, and gave his account credit for twenty <HI>Cattees</HI> in his Books, the &s;um he left with him.</P>
<P>Now al&s;o came an order from the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> to prepare a &s;hip to be in a readine&s;s, for the tran&s;port of two of the King of <HI>Syams Colwans</HI> to <HI>Gombroone.</HI> who were to go with a me&s;&s;age to the Court of <HI>Per&s;ia,</HI> the &s;hip being to go with a <HI>French</HI> Pilot, and a Pa&s;s &s;ent from the <HI>French</HI> Chief at <HI>Syam,</HI> Mr. <HI>White</HI> immediately returns an&s;wer, that the latene&s;s of his Lord&s;hips advice, and the want of men, &s;o many &s;hips being already abroad, rendred it impo&s;&s;ible to comply with tho&s;e orders, and farther, that there was not one <HI>French</HI> man in the King of <HI>Syams</HI> Service capable to take any Office in a &s;hip, much le&s;s to be a Pilot.</P>
<PB N="24" REF="13">
<P> The <HI>Shabander</HI> having now &s;ome jealou&s;ie, that all was not well in the Bay, or at the Coa&s;t, having no news either of Captain <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> or the <HI>Deans</HI> Barge (both of them long &s;ince expected) did this month di&s;patch the &s;mall &s;loop <HI>Mary,</HI> to <HI>Pullicherry</HI> with &s;ixty Che&s;ts of Copper, con&s;igned to Mon&s;ieur <HI>Des Landres Boreau,</HI> and Letters to the General <HI>Martine</HI> and him, entreating them to write him back word with all expedition what&s;oever news was &s;tirring, which they thought might import the King of <HI>Syams,</HI> his Lord&s;hips, or his own notice, that &s;o they might govern them&s;elves accordingly. By her al&s;o he ad|vi&s;es, that he had ordered Mr. <HI>How</HI> on his return from <HI>Moco,</HI> which he hoped would be in <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> or <HI>September</HI> next, to touch at their Port, and deliver Mon&s;ieur <HI>Des Landres</HI> twenty thou&s;and <HI>Dollars</HI> for his account, concerning the di&s;po&s;e whereof, he would write to him more fully by another conveyance, which was to follow in <HI>March</HI> next. By this con|veyance, al&s;o his Invitatory Letter for &s;ending out a permi&s;&s;ion &s;hip, was contradicted once again in a Cover to Mr. <HI>Heath,</HI> to be forwarded along with the Packet to <HI>Madra&s;s.</HI></P>
<P>in order to the promi&s;ed <HI>Pullicherry</HI> expedition in <HI>March</HI> next, Mr. <HI>White</HI> having long &s;ince ca&s;t his eye on <HI>Don Jo&s;eph d' Haeredias</HI> new &s;hip, and vowed that let what would come, that &s;hip &s;hould fall into his hand, and no bodies el&s;e; He now effects his de&s;ign after this manner. He frames and orders to be tran&s;lated into <HI>Portuguees</HI> a Summons to the <HI>Don,</HI> to &s;urrender his &s;hip to the King of <HI>Syam</HI> for the &s;ecurity of the Pagodoes three thou|&s;and he owed him on the <HI>Metchlepatam</HI> Voyage; pretending (though there was no &s;uch thing) a fre&s;h and &s;trict order from the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> &s;o to do, and that if he would take two hundred <HI>Cattees</HI> of Silver for her, fir&s;t deducting what he owed the King, the <HI>&s;uper</HI> Amount &s;hould be paid him when&s;oever he plea&s;ed, if not the King expected that he &s;hould immediately pay in his Debt, which having (as he &s;aid) po&s;itive orders forthwith to recover of him, to &s;ell her out right on the terms afore&s;aid, or if not, that if he would let him have her for a Voyage to <HI>Pullicherry,</HI> he would di&s;count part of his Debt to the King for her freight, and in the interim u&s;e his utmo&s;t endeavour at Court to al|leviate, and if po&s;&s;ible divert the Kings Demands for the re&s;t. The poor <HI>Don</HI> quite &s;ca|red at this unlooked for har&s;hne&s;s, conde&s;cended to the la&s;t propo&s;ition, becau&s;e he could not avoid it, and the &s;hip was immediately ordered to be &s;itted.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="February" TYPE="month">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>FEBRVARY</HI> 1686/7.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>The fir&s;t of this month came an An&s;wer from the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> to Mr. <HI>White,</HI> concerning Mr. <HI>Thredders</HI> Affair, not at all &s;utable to his expectation; for he writes word, that 'twas very indi&s;creet to grow jealous on every occa&s;ion of tho&s;e he emplov'd, nor could it found well for him to deal &s;o unhand&s;omly by Mr. <HI>Tyler,</HI> as to detain his E&s;tate without &s;ome more ju|&s;tifiable ground, than a bare po&s;&s;ibility, that him&s;elf might be knavi&s;hly dealt with; there|fore though he could not comply with Mr. <HI>Thredders</HI> reque&s;t (which arrived him the very day he di&s;pacht this Letter to the <HI>Shabander,</HI> in paying him money, in&s;tead of Tinn, nor had Mr. <HI>Thredder</HI> any rea&s;on to expect it, having made his Contract for Tinn) yet he po&s;i|tively charged the <HI>Shabander</HI> to deliver him the 120 <HI>Bahars</HI> of that Commodity, and let Mr. <HI>Thredder</HI> look out for Freight, where he could meet with it, that not being his bu&s;ine&s;s, which when the <HI>Shabander</HI> had peru&s;ed, and given me to file, well, &s;ays he, I &s;hall have Tinn enough for M. <HI>Thredder,</HI> before he'll meet with a &s;hip to freight it on.</P>
<P>In this Letter came al&s;o a very &s;evere check to the <HI>Shabander,</HI> (whereas he indeed had expected a commendation of his care) that he &s;hould offer to &s;end the Kings Subjects out of the Land, without order from Court, and that too upon a matter of &s;uch weighty concernment, as to keep po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of an I&s;land, which he had no a&s;&s;urance was properly belonging to, or within the dominions of his Maje&s;ty, by which act, he had not only ex|po&s;ed the Lives of &s;o many of the Kings Maje&s;tyy's Subjects to the rage of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> if they &s;hould come there with a de&s;ign to fortifie, but for ought he knew laid the foundation of a War with his Neighbour Princes, who&s;e property it &s;hould appear to be, and therefore he &s;trictly charg'd him, immediately to di&s;patch a &s;mall Ve&s;&s;el to bring back <HI>Opra Qua,</HI> and the twenty <HI>Lulongs</HI> with all their nece&s;&s;aries, and be more cantious for the future, how he pro|ceeded in &s;uch weighty affairs, without fir&s;t advi&s;ing up to Court.</P>
<P>In ob&s;ervance of this Order, <HI>Anthony Highoe</HI> was di&s;patcht the next day, in a &s;mall &s;loop, who was to take <HI>Elves</HI> in his way at the Bar of <HI>Sirian,</HI> and they two, to go and fetch back the Soldiers from <HI>Negraes,</HI> but to leave the In&s;cription there.</P>
<P>The third of this month, <HI>Morgan</HI> in the <HI>Advice</HI> &s;loop brought into Port the <HI>No&s;&s;a Sen|hora d' Monte, d' San Thome, Gabriel d' Ro&s;ayro Pilot,</HI> whom <HI>Cropley,</HI> going from <HI>Sirian</HI> Bar, to <HI>Negraes,</HI> to carry the <HI>Lulong,</HI> and water his &s;hip, before he put for the Coa&s;t of <HI>Gingerlee,</HI> had met with, and being ordered expre&s;ly by the <HI>Shabander,</HI> not to take notice of the Com|panies Pa&s;&s;es, in any &s;hips he &s;hould meet with, not manned with all <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> men, had &s;ent her under the charge of <HI>Morgan;</HI> On her came Mr. <HI>Noden,</HI> from whom the <HI>Shabander</HI> un|der&s;tanding how Affairs went at the Coa&s;t and Bay; he was at fir&s;t fully determin'd to de|tain, and make prize of the &s;hip; but at length, through my earne&s;t interce&s;&s;ion for her relea&s;ement, u&s;ing tho&s;e very Arguments for his clearing of her, which he brought for the rea&s;onablene&s;s of his proceeding to condemn her: He was prevailed with, to think it his
<PB N="25" REF="13" MS="y">wi&s;e&s;t cour&s;e to di&s;mi&s;s her again, without waiting order from <HI>Syam,</HI> yet becau&s;e he would appear zealous for the Kings intere&s;t, he takes out all the <HI>Madapollam</HI> Pa&s;&s;engers, paying their <HI>Tallicooly</HI> to the Captain, and makes them the Kings &s;laves, and buyes as many more as the free Merchant, or any of the Officers of the &s;hip were willing to part with, and &s;o forcing the Commander to withdraw a prote&s;t, which he had made again&s;t <HI>Cropley, Triggs,</HI> &amp;c. in behalf of the owners of the &s;hip for damages, that had and might accrue, and in behalf of the honourable <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Company, for the contempt of their Pa&s;s, he &s;upplyed him with fre&s;h Provi&s;ions for his money, water, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and &s;o &s;uffered him to pro|ceed for <HI>Pegu.</HI></P>
<P>The eighth of this month came the Lord <HI>Phaulkons</HI> Letter concerning Mr. <HI>Graunts</HI> &s;hip, wherein he advi&s;ed Mr. <HI>White</HI> to be very cautious in his proceeding to the condemnation of her, &s;ince things of that nature might prove of very bad con&s;equence, if incon&s;iderately ru&s;h'd upon, and though he would not have the King lo&s;e any thing of his Right, yet he would not have his authority improv'd in every little circum&s;tance to the height of rigour, and therefore if the fault did not appear to be de&s;ignedly, and notoriou&s;ly con|frontive of the Kings Authority, and the E&s;tabli&s;hed Rules of the Port it might be &s;uffici|ent to exact &s;ome rea&s;onable Fine from the <HI>Nocquedah,</HI> and di&s;mi&s;s the &s;hip, without fur|ther delay, that &s;he might not lo&s;e her pa&s;&s;age to the <HI>Bay,</HI> and &s;o perhaps have occa&s;ion given them to complain of as hard u&s;age, as if totally confi&s;cated.</P>
<P>But Mr. <HI>White</HI> de&s;igning the &s;hip for <HI>Atcheen</HI> in <HI>March</HI> next with a lading of Rice, had now laid her on &s;hoar, new fitted her, and new ma&s;ted her, and was re&s;olv'd not to part with her, but &s;eize upon both her and Cargo, which con&s;i&s;ting of Coppar, Tin, Benja|min, Ganja and <HI>China</HI> Ware, to the amount of one hundred ninty two <HI>Cattees Mergen,</HI> according to the <HI>Nocquedahs</HI> Invoice of prime Co&s;t at <HI>Atcheen,</HI> he thought would not be ami&s;s to &s;end on the <HI>Don</HI>'s &s;hip to <HI>Pullicherry</HI> for his own Account; whom he de&s;igned &s;hould &s;ail the tenth of <HI>March,</HI> &s;o there was nothing more to be &s;aid concerning either &s;hip or cargo; Mr. <HI>White</HI> pretending both to the <HI>Nocquedah</HI> and Pilot, that the King had &s;eiz'd upon all, and on the other hand he thought it not convenient to let the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> know any thing farther of the matter, but that he cleared and di&s;mi&s;t her; by which means not only the <HI>Moors,</HI> but poor <HI>Arthur Seymour</HI> mu&s;t lo&s;e all, and the Pilot his Sallary, though he paid the re&s;t of the men their wages, becau&s;e he would not be conti|nually haunted by them, and refu&s;ed the payment of the Pilot, becau&s;e he happened to &s;ay, <HI>Morgan</HI> was a &s;econd <HI>Tunis.</HI></P>
<P>The tenth of this month, <HI>Morgan</HI> in the <HI>Advice</HI>-Sloop, under pretence of going to cha&s;e the <HI>Salitres</HI> off the Coa&s;t to the Southward, was privately di&s;patch'd to the <HI>Nin|combers,</HI> with a Cargo, which was &s;uppo&s;ed very proper for barter there.</P>
<P>The twentieth of this month, the <HI>Mergen</HI> Frigat came unlookt for from <HI>Negraes,</HI> on pretence they could not meet with water enough to recrute them for the Coa&s;t de&s;ign. Now <HI>Cropley</HI> owned to me, that he was not in want of water, or any thing el&s;e, but receiving orders to publi&s;h and &s;ign &s;uch a Declaration at St. <HI>Thoma,</HI> to &s;ome of the Coun|cil of <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> as might (for ought he knew) one time or other hazard his Neck, and that too upon the &s;ingle hand writing of Mr. <HI>White;</HI> he was &s;o far from re&s;olving to execute that his order, that had it not been for the &s;ake of his Wife and Children at <HI>Mergen,</HI> and that he was afraid the <HI>Shabander</HI> would utterly ruine them, He would have gone directly to <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> and have &s;urrendred up the &s;hip to the Company, for he was very &s;ure tho&s;e proceedings of Mr. <HI>White</HI> could never end well, either for him&s;elf, or tho&s;e that &s;erved under him. Mr. <HI>White</HI> though he had ever after this no good will for <HI>Cropley,</HI> as thinking his pretence of not finding water at <HI>Negraes,</HI> to be a forgery, yet he was very glad of her return, for ever &s;ince Mr. <HI>Nodens</HI> arrival, he had been very doubtfull of <HI>Re&s;olutions</HI> &s;afety, and whereas before for want of men, he had endeavoured to wave the <HI>Per&s;ia</HI> Voyage, now he thought it a good opportunity to carryon another de&s;ign, under pretence that this &s;hip was proper for the <HI>Per&s;ia</HI> Voyage, as being a good failer and well man'd, and that &s;he might be fitted, and victualled time enough to proceed in the latter end of <HI>March;</HI> and gain her pa&s;&s;age, by going to the South-ward of the <HI>Line;</HI> under which colour, when once &s;he was got ready, and well furni&s;hed with Provi&s;ions, and all things nece&s;&s;ary, without any &s;u&s;picion of the Natives, it would be no difficult matter to flam them, as he &s;aid with a hundred pretences, to excu&s;e her proceeding, and &s;o keep her in a con&s;tant readine&s;s (provided the &s;hip <HI>Re&s;olution</HI> &s;hould mi&s;carry) all the mon&s;oon, for any emergency what&s;oever, nor was <HI>Cropley</HI> to know, but that he was to proceed upon her to <HI>Per&s;ia,</HI> untill &s;he was got into a &s;ailing po&s;ture, and then he would pitch upon &s;ome other per&s;on to Command her.</P>
<P>Now it is to be noted that Mr. <HI>Phillip Noden</HI> before his departure hence, gave Mr. <HI>White</HI> cer|tain information of the Hon. Companies intentions, ere long to make demands from the King of <HI>Syam</HI> of Reparation for damages them&s;elves, and &s;undry Merchants under their protection had received through the ra&s;h and unwarrantable proceedings of the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> his chief Mini&s;ter of State, and that Mr. <HI>Robert Freeman</HI> was the per&s;on de&s;gned for the City of <HI>Syam,</HI> on that affair, and al&s;o that they were much di&s;gu&s;ted with Mr. <HI>White</HI> him&s;elf, for be|ing &s;o active an in&s;trument in the prejudices they had received; this (having been as be|fore
<PB N="26" REF="14">hinted, clo&s;ely urged by me as an argument for the &s;aid &s;hips being cleared, plain|ly a&s;&s;erting that in my opinion to add this extravagance to all the re&s;t, would be like a mans willfully precipitating him&s;elf into danger, and then putting out his Eyes becau&s;e he would not &s;ee it) did &s;o work with Mr. <HI>White,</HI> that he not only &s;hewed &s;ome re&s;pect, as afore&s;aid to the Companies Pa&s;s, but al&s;o after her di&s;mi&s;&s;ion, and a more calm re|flection on the pre&s;ent &s;tate of matters, put him upon a more inten&s;e and impartial re|view and con&s;ideration of what he had done, during his <HI>Shabander&s;hip,</HI> that might give the Company any occa&s;ion of offence, or ju&s;t ground of complaint again&s;t him, &s;aying, that as the Company could not have pitcht upon &s;o &s;it a per&s;on as Mr. <HI>Freeman</HI> to repre|&s;ent their grievances at Court, nor one that could more cunningly in&s;inuate him&s;elf into the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI>'s favour, &s;o no man in <HI>India,</HI> he was &s;ure, was either &s;o capable, or &s;o much inclined to do him a prejudice at Court, wherefore he ordered me to peru&s;e all his books of Regi&s;ters, Letters &s;ent or received, orders, in&s;tructions, di&s;patches, or what|&s;oever Papers might more or le&s;s relate to his management of Affairs in the King of <HI>Syams</HI> Breach with <HI>Golcondah</HI> and <HI>Pegu,</HI> and to make my punctual, and impartial Remarks of every individual pa&s;&s;age I &s;hould happen to meet with, that to me might &s;eem any way ei|ther unwarrantable, or but tending to di&s;oblige the Company, or any of their Servants on the other &s;ide.</P>
<P>The di&s;patch of &s;everal Ve&s;&s;els abroad being then in hand, a good part of the month was &s;pent before I had lei&s;ure to apply my &s;elf to the ob&s;ervance of that order, but when I had at length repre&s;ented to him, what to me appeared of mo&s;t importance, relating to the Premi&s;es, he declared him&s;elf very apprehen&s;ive of the danger he was in, having never had any Commi&s;&s;ion from the King of <HI>Syam</HI> for making War upon the Kings of <HI>Golcondah</HI> and <HI>Pegu,</HI> or their Subjects; and that he had no other warrant for &s;o doing, but bare word of mouth from the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> or which was of no more validity in Law, perhaps an approbation of taking that cour&s;e in a private Letter, and that he did not like it, when his Lord&s;hip in <HI>September,</HI> la&s;t refu&s;ed to grant him a Commi&s;&s;ion, <HI>Ex po&s;t facto,</HI> though he did &s;o earne&s;tly de&s;ire it, which he took for an argument, that his Lord&s;hip being apprehen&s;ive of the of the&s;e Commotions, was re&s;olv'd, if po&s;&s;ible, to keep his own neck out of the Collar. And continued Mr. <HI>White</HI> to me, 'tis only for the di&s;covery of &s;uch over-&s;ights, and &s;lips as might prove of dangerous con&s;equence, that I &s;poke to you to do what you have done, and as you have, <HI>primo limine,</HI> met that grand one, my want of a Commi&s;&s;ion, our bu&s;ine&s;s mu&s;t be to &s;tudy &s;ome remedy for it. And now, &s;ays he, what do you think be&s;t to do in this ca&s;e? Upon which I replyed, that a que|&s;tion of &s;uch moment, would require time for a deliberate and well dige&s;ted an&s;wer; no &s;ays he, but tell me your pre&s;ent thoughts of the matter. Then Sir, &s;aid I, I know not at pre&s;ent what to advi&s;e you, other than, that if the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> be &s;incerely (as by the kind invitation you two days &s;ince received from him to live with him at <HI>Syam,</HI> he pretends to be) your friend, and that you have acted nothing in relation to that War, but either what he was privy to before you did it, or approved it when done, or if once offended at you for it, hath &s;ince been throughly reconciled to you again; you, once more, notwith&s;tanding his former refu&s;al, plainly lay open to him your over|&s;ight in not having a Commi&s;&s;ion to act by, when you fir&s;t undertook the concern, and that to obviate all prejudices that may at any time hereafter, for want of one, accrue to you from the pretences of your own Country-men, you do now reque&s;t that one may be granted you, with which he may, if he plea&s;es, &s;afely favour you, without any hazard of damage to him&s;elf. And in the interim, for as much as it will be <HI>May</HI> or <HI>June</HI> be|fore any &s;hip will be di&s;patched from the Coa&s;t for <HI>Syam,</HI> I would advi&s;e you to lay a&s;ide the <HI>Pullicherry</HI> de&s;ign, and &s;end the <HI>Dons</HI> Ship laden with Rice, as a pre&s;ent to the Go|vernour and Council at <HI>Madra&s;s</HI> for the relief of their Garri&s;on, where you hear there is at pre&s;ent a very &s;harp Famine, which act would in my opinion &s;o &s;ea&s;onably take off the edge of their ill opinions concerning you, that in all probability they may alter their minds, and totally de&s;i&s;t from either making any complaints again&s;t you at this Court, or &s;ummoning you hence. To the former propo&s;al, Mr. <HI>White</HI> replied, he knew the King would not now grant him one, and that the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> would do no &s;uch thing, without fir&s;t acquainting his Maje&s;ty, nor was he willing the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> &s;hould take any further alarm from the di&s;covery of any fears in him, &s;aying that it repented him very much that he had already acquainted him with &s;o much of Mr. <HI>Nodens</HI> news, for, continued he, though he only, t'other day invited me up to Court, I am afraid on that news, he will &s;ummon me up, but to prevent that, I'll e'en make it my bu&s;ine&s;e to con|tradict what I have written him concerning it, and &s;o keep him as &s;ecure, and unacquain|ted with the matter as I can, lea&s;t I become the object of his jealou&s;ie; and &s;o be &s;er|ved as I was the la&s;t year. To the &s;econd he an&s;wered, that he could be glad with all his heart to &s;tand fair in the opinions of the <HI>Madra&s;s</HI> Blades, at the co&s;t of three or four hundred <HI>Tonns</HI> of Rice, but to &s;end it at &s;uch a juncture as this, when they were plotting and re&s;olving his prejudice, would look too like a peace of precariou&s;ne&s;s, and fear of them; and rather than do any thing that might expo&s;e him to &s;uch thoughts among any of them, he would run the hazard of the wor&s;t they could do to him.</P>
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<P> From this we pa&s;t on to many other In&s;tances, which &s;eem'd to be as well not Ju&s;tifiable to his Ma&s;ter the King, and his Friend the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> as prejudicial to the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Inte|re&s;t, and reflective on their Honour; in which I u&s;ed all &s;incerity and freedom to give him the truth of my Opinion, back't with the be&s;t Rea&s;ons I had to confirm it; &s;ome of which he was plea&s;ed to cen&s;ure, as the product of too much timorou&s;ne&s;s in his behalf, who was not wholly unacquainted with tho&s;e <HI>Salvoes,</HI> which he re&s;erved as yet in his own Brea&s;t, for what|&s;oever exigence, or emergency, but &s;aid, he would in their proper &s;ea&s;on communicate them to me, and for that time he told me he was very highly &s;atisfied to find me deal &s;o freely, and candidly with him, and that had been &s;ome, if not the major part of his unhap|pine&s;s, that he never, until he met with me, found one that had Courage enough to di&s;|approve to his face any one Enterprize, that ever he propos'd to attempt, or di&s;cover'd to them when he had effected, and &s;ays he, theres not a Man upon the place, that has the ap|prehen&s;ion of a Goo&s;e; here's Mr. <HI>Burneby</HI> is fit to conver&s;e with no body, but his Crim. <HI>Catwall,</HI> and take delight in being the Town Pimp, and di&s;po&s;ing of all the Whores to any body that wants one, or keeps company with a parcel of Sailors, that over a Bowl of Punch, will lye wor&s;hipping him up, till he thinks him&s;elf a Petty Prince among them, and in the mean time near minds the main chance, nay, he's &s;o &s;oft a fellow, as to let his own Ser|vants cheat him to his face, and run away with the Perqui&s;ites of his Office; for I my &s;elf have offered him Fifty <HI>Cattees</HI> a year, for that he never made Five <HI>Cattees</HI> of, &s;ince he came to the place, and to tell him a &s;ecret is the &s;ame thing, as to publi&s;h it about the Town with a Drum, or take a Woman into Council; therefore &s;ince I intend to hide nothing from you, I expect your Secrecy, and not only give you the liberty, but enjoyn you on all occa&s;ions, that may come under Debate, to deal plainly with me, and &s;peak your own &s;en&s;e of things, and you &s;hall be no lo&s;er by it, for I fore&s;ee there will be no &s;mall bu&s;tle, e&s;pecially &s;ince Mr. <HI>Yale,</HI> the mighty Man of Power at <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> has been &s;o highly exa&s;perated about the Jewel Affair, and I am apt to think, di&s;gu&s;ted at me, becau&s;e I have alwayes declined a Corre&s;pondence of Trade with him; which no doubt he will, if he can revenge, (though I cannot apprehend how they &s;hould have any Order &s;o &s;oon out of <HI>England</HI>) under the Ma&s;que of the Companies Demands, for the wrongs they pretend to have received by his Lord&s;hips ill Conduct; in which, 'tis impo&s;&s;ible I &s;hould e&s;cape &s;cotfree, (for with him, and <HI>Robin Free|man</HI> together, the Devil will not be able to deal) unle&s;s I take &s;ome timely cour&s;e to pre|vent falling in their Clutches; and continued he, I have in view four &s;everal ways to keep out of their reach, which I would have you well con&s;ider of, and in eight or four dayes time, give me your Opinion, which of them, (all things well weighed) &s;eems to you mo&s;t conducive to the &s;ecurity of my Intere&s;t, or Reputation, or both; and in the mean time, I my &s;elf will make it my bu&s;ine&s;s to con&s;ider them.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>I. Whether I &s;hould accept of his Honours late Invitation to <HI>Syam,</HI> and &s;o take that op|portunity to throw my &s;elf into the Kings protection, before the arrival of an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Ship.</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. Whether I &s;hould continue upon the place, and keeping the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> and the Na|tives in ignorance and &s;ecurity, purcha&s;e my reconciliation to the Company, and Gentle|men on the other &s;ide, by &s;urrendry of the Port up to them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. Whether I &s;hould apply my &s;elf to the fortifying of the place, which I could ea&s;ily make tenable again&s;t any force, the Company can &s;end, and &s;o defend it again&s;t them. Or,</ITEM>
<ITEM>IV. Whether I &s;hould make all nece&s;&s;arie and &s;peedy provi&s;ion to be gone hence for <HI>Eu|rope,</HI> &s;ome &s;uch way as not to fall into the Companies Clutches.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>Having taken the&s;e Four</HI> Quaeries <HI>in Writing for my</HI> Memorandum, <HI>according to his own Di|ctate,</HI> verbatim, <HI>quoth Mr.</HI> White, <HI>give me your An&s;wer, after you have well con&s;idered them, and &s;o he left me.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="March" TYPE="month">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>MARCH</HI> 1686/7.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>The patching up of a Cargo for the <HI>Dons</HI> new &s;hip to <HI>Pullicherry,</HI> which Mr. <HI>White</HI> now looking upon as his own, named the <HI>Adventure,</HI> and the preparing of Letters both for that Port and <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> to go upon her, together with the endor&s;ing of Mu&s;ters for <HI>Metchelapa|tam,</HI> and the Northern Paintings which the King had ordered the <HI>Shabander,</HI> and he recom|mended to Mr. <HI>Lucas</HI> to provide, the &s;hip being to fail the Tenth of this Moneth by a prede|terminate re&s;olution of the <HI>Shabander,</HI> took up my time, until her departure.</P>
<P>In few days after her di&s;patch, Mr. <HI>Tracyes</HI> unlookt for return with the <HI>Armenians</HI> &s;mall Ship from <HI>Pullicherry,</HI> where the <HI>French</HI> would not give her entertainment, together with the fre&s;h news of the Companies de&s;igns to break with the King of <HI>Syam,</HI> confirmed al&s;o <HI>Via Bengala,</HI> by a <HI>French</HI> Sloop, which arriv'd the &s;ame day with <HI>Tracy,</HI> and brought Mr. <HI>White</HI> a &s;tartling Letter from the Pre&s;ident and Council at <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> Dated in <HI>April</HI> la&s;t, con|cerning his u&s;age of the black Merchants on their return from <HI>Pegu,</HI> but Mr. <HI>White,</HI> under &s;uch apprehen&s;ions, that nothing could &s;carcely plea&s;e him, that was not precipitantly re|&s;olv'd on; whereupon delivering all his Letters to me, Here, &s;ays he, peru&s;e them: You'l
<PB N="28" REF="15">find the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> (as I alwayes &s;u&s;pected) is &s;napt in the <HI>Bay,</HI> and 'tis not for nothing, that I &s;o long &s;ince repented my giving him that unlimited Bill drawn on Mr. <HI>Lucas,</HI> to &s;upply him with what&s;oever he &s;hould require, and to be &s;ure, the King will never allow it me back again, but more than all, the Gentlemen at <HI>Madra&s;s</HI> are re&s;olv'd to have a fling at me for what I had out of the Black Merchants; yet if they have nothing el&s;e to &s;ay to me, I fear them not: Agent <HI>Ma&s;ters</HI> came well enough off in a like ca&s;e, and &s;o I hope I &s;hall do: But I wonder, this Letter bearing date in <HI>April,</HI> they did not offer to meddle with <HI>Cropely,</HI> when he was at <HI>Madra&s;s</HI> in <HI>June</HI> following, and that they never complain'd of me to the Lord <HI>Phaulkon,</HI> however, continued he, I have thought better of the Commi&s;&s;ion you propo&s;ed to me to &s;end for, and would have you draw me one up pre&s;ently, as authenticity as you can, in the Names of the Governour and Council of the Province, who&s;e Names and Titles you will find particularly, and at large expre&s;s'd, in that which his Honour gave out in <HI>Septem|ber</HI> la&s;t, to con&s;titute the <HI>Coromoron,</HI> let its Date be &s;ometime in <HI>January,</HI> 1684/5, and its Te|nor to warrant and Authorize me, to i&s;&s;ue out all Orders and In&s;tructions to Commanders, and other Officers of the King's Ships in the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Tongue, &s;ign'd by my &s;elf, conform to the Original Regi&s;ter in the Rolls of this Province, kept in the <HI>Syam</HI> Language, and &s;ays he, when you have done it, I'le &s;end it to <HI>Syam,</HI> for his Honours peru&s;al, and de&s;ire him to remit it to the Governour and Council here, with Orders for them to Tran&s;late it into the <HI>Syam</HI> Language, and &s;ign it, which will be &s;ufficient vindication for me, and may be done without troubling the King about it; to which I reply'd, Sir, Your <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Orders being corre&s;pondent with the Original Rolls of this Province, in the <HI>Syam</HI> Language, would in|deed prove your Commi&s;&s;ion of &s;ufficient validity, to &s;ave you harmle&s;s, at lea&s;t from any blame at this Court, but there never having been any &s;uch Rolls kept, nor the Governour, or Council ever more privy to the In&s;tructions, or Orders you have from time to time given out, than is your Cook: How can you expect, though the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> &s;hould &s;o order it, that the&s;e men, without fir&s;t acquainting the <HI>Barcalong</HI> (which may be of dangerous con&s;e|quence to both his Honour, and your &s;elf) will now be brought to &s;ign any &s;uch Commi&s;&s;i|on, and &s;o pull, they know not what mi&s;chief on their own heads: Be&s;ides, &s;ince that time, the <HI>Coromoron</HI> have been new modell'd, and &s;everal men &s;hifted, and if they &s;hould do it, yet I do not apprehend, that &s;uch a kind of &s;econd hand Commi&s;&s;ion, without apparent proof of their Power, and Deputation to grant it, could &s;tand in any &s;tead in the Courts of <HI>England.</HI> At this, Mr. <HI>White</HI> (with &s;ome anger contrary to his former promi&s;e) told me, I needed not trouble my &s;elf with that, Draw up the Commi&s;&s;ion, and he would take care of the re&s;t; which accordingly I then immediately did to his approbation, and when he had ordered Mr. <HI>John Turner</HI> to tran&s;cribe it fair over, cancelling the fir&s;t Copy; he returns the fair one to me, with orders to enclo&s;e it in the Pacquet, which was preparing for <HI>Syam</HI> in two or three days, and to in&s;ert a clau&s;e in his particular Letter to the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> con|cerning it.</P>
<P>In this Pacquet he was as good as his word, to contradict the news Mr. <HI>Noden</HI> brought, and he had (as he pretended) ra&s;hly given an Account of to his Lord&s;hip, alledging, that by his Advices from <HI>Pullicherry,</HI> though Moun&s;ieur <HI>Martin</HI> had ungentilely, and no way &s;u|table to the treatment their people found at this Court, refu&s;ed the Saint <HI>John,</HI> yet the true rea&s;on was not either his care of di&s;obliging the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> becau&s;e they proclaimed, or threatned War with this Crown; for 'twas no &s;uch thing, or his good inclinations to the King of <HI>Syams,</HI> or his Lord&s;hips Intere&s;t, which made him not detain, what he had not at pre&s;ent &s;trength enough to protect, but merely becau&s;e his Lord&s;hip had con&s;ign'd the Ship &s;olely to his Son in Law, Moun&s;ieur <HI>Des Landres,</HI> without taking notice of him, who as he was General, took it for an affront, and that he had now receiv'd good a&s;&s;urances, that the reports of the Companies &s;ucce&s;&s;es in <HI>Bengala,</HI> or intentions of &s;ending any Ships hither, or to <HI>Syam,</HI> were equally fal&s;e, though 'twas true, the Company had broken out in|to a War in the <HI>Bay,</HI> but had no better &s;ucce&s;s than (what commonly, as he &s;aid, attends all their Enterprizes) to be forc't out of their Factories, and in a fair way to lo&s;e all their footing there.</P>
<P>When the&s;e Letters were fini&s;hed, I put him in mind of the Commi&s;&s;ion, &s;uppo&s;ing he had forgot it, to which he an&s;wered no, arid bad me keep it by me, until he called for it,</P>
<P>What fell next in cour&s;e, was the forming of his Re&s;olutions, what cour&s;e to take, and when he askt what, I thought of the propo&s;als he had given me to con&s;ider of, I pre|&s;ented him with this following An&s;wer, which I had kept by me, in a readine&s;s for &s;everal dayes.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<Q><P>SInce you enjoyn'd me to u&s;e freedom, and declare my own &s;en&s;e of what&s;oever matter &s;hould come under Debate, I &s;hall do it with as much plainne&s;s, as if the Ca&s;e were my own.</P>
<P>As to your fir&s;t <HI>Querie,</HI> I mu&s;t needs &s;ay, that I look upon it no way &s;afe for you, and that for &s;everal rea&s;ons. The King of <HI>Syams</HI> protection is un&s;ecure, nor can any pretence of your being his Debtor, and detain'd by him on that &s;core, exempt you from the impu|tation
<PB N="29" REF="15" MS="y">of Contempt, of your Native Soveraigns Authority, when once you are &s;ummon'd by his Royal Proclamation to leave this Kingdom, and repair to <HI>England,</HI> or any of his Garri&s;ons in <HI>India;</HI> or if it could be con&s;trued in your favour, yet when this Kings Ports come to be block't up, and his Trade &s;topt, you'l find the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> in danger of coming under a Cloud, and if he once totters, you mu&s;t not expect to &s;tand firm: This was your own Opinion in <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> la&s;t; and to follow the method your &s;elf took at <HI>Peraun</HI> in our Journey towards <HI>Syam:</HI> I have briefly recollected &s;ome of tho&s;e many Slips in your management, &s;ince you la&s;t came from thence, which I really think you will be blam'd for, if ever you return thither again, and they are the&s;e, <HI>viz.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>I. The notorious overcharge of Seamen, and Soldiers Salaries.</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. Di&s;patching the <HI>Phaulkon</HI> without older, for private Account.</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. Drawing a Bill on Moun&s;ieur <HI>Des Landres,</HI> for Four Hundred Pagodoes on the Kings Account, and converting Three Hundred to private u&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>IV. Lading the King's Goods for private Account on the <HI>Moco</HI> &s;hip, expre&s;ly contrary to the order, for keeping them in the <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery Clongs,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>V. Converting the <HI>Sancta Cruz</HI> Gold to private u&s;e, expre&s;ly deviating therein from the Court order.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VI. Detaining One Hundred and Twenty Baharrs of Tynn from Mr. <HI>John Thredder,</HI> con|trary to order.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VII. Sieving of the <HI>Bom Succe&s;s,</HI> and her Cargo, and converting both to private u&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VIII. Forcing Two Hundred and Twenty Quoyens of Rice from the <HI>Queans,</HI> on pretence of Lading it for the King, and converting it to private u&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>IX. Charging One Hundred and Thirty Quoyens more to the King's Ships, which from <HI>Oluang Naces</HI> Account, will appear never to have been delivered, but di&s;po&s;ed as above&s;aid.</ITEM>
<ITEM>X. Selling the King his own Stores two or three times over, in the &s;pace of five moneths.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XI. U&s;ing the King's Name to &s;eize <HI>Don Jo&s;eph</HI>'s Ship, and converting her to private u&s;e, in which particulars, the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> will e&s;teem him&s;elf abu&s;ed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XII. Di&s;patching the <HI>Advice Sloop</HI> (on pretence of crucing) to the <HI>Nicobarrs.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>XIII. Impo&s;ing your own Salt on the Natives, on pretence of the Kings, contrary to the expre&s;s intent of that Article.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XIV. Di&s;patching the <HI>Lulong</HI> to <HI>Negraes,</HI> without order.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XV. Contradicting your fir&s;t true Reports made of the Companies intentions to proceed with their Complaints at this Court.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XVI. Beheading of a <HI>Moor</HI> Man in a pa&s;&s;ionate Humour, when the Law of the Country had clear'd him of the Accu&s;ation brought again&s;t him.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>All which I pre&s;ent not to your view with any de&s;ign to di&s;turb your Spirits, but to let you &s;ee, how plain I will be to one, whom I e&s;teem my friend, and I really believe, the mo&s;t of the&s;e In&s;tances, if not more than the&s;e, would be &s;everely urg'd again&s;t you, to your extreme hazard, when once di&s;cover'd, and 'twould be impo&s;&s;ible to conceal them, after your &s;urrender of your pre&s;ent employment, and repair to Court. I need urge no more, than put you in mind of the Lord <HI>Phaulkons</HI> Predece&s;&s;or, who&s;e Story I had from your own mouth, though I might add the many Enemies you have in this Country, both <HI>Moors</HI> and Natives, who lye upon the advantage again&s;t you.</P>
<P N="2">II. As to your &s;econd propo&s;al, be&s;ides the unhand&s;omne&s;s of the act in it &s;elf, if you can effect it, (as 'tis true, your Power being in a manner unlimited over the Natives, will en|able you to go a great way in &s;uch a de&s;ign) it is odds, if it prove not &s;o far from pur|cha&s;ing you any e&s;teem with your own Country-men, that 'twould not rather expo&s;e you to the &s;corn of all that pretend to either Honour, Hone&s;ty, or Policy; and &s;ubject the whole Kingdom of <HI>England</HI> to the reflection of all other <HI>European</HI> Nations, as well as the jealou&s;ie of all <HI>Indian</HI> Princes.</P>
<P N="3">III. As to the third, I &s;uppo&s;e you only mention'd it to try, whether I could believe you a Man of &s;uch Principles; for I dare affirm, though you are well read, both in Books and Men, yet you cannot bring one in&s;tance, wherein Acts of &s;uch a nature have not at one time or other met with their ju&s;t reward, or the Actors, at lea&s;t been branded with Eternal infamy.</P>
<P N="4">IV. As to the la&s;t of the four, I look upon it as a Cour&s;e, not altogether &s;o di&s;commen|dable, or at lea&s;t, not &s;o de&s;perate as any of the former, but of great difficulty, for 'twill be <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> before you can well be in a readine&s;s to go from hence, and then you may expect a Man of War here; or if you can get ready to go in <HI>July,</HI> and hide among&s;t the I&s;lands to the Southward, until the <HI>Mon&s;oon</HI> pre&s;ents to get off this Coa&s;t, yet, your pre|paration mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily be &s;o extraordinary great, that the whole Country will take no|tice of it, and you may perhaps be unawares prevented on that hand; &s;o that if I might advi&s;e, I look upon it mo&s;t conducive both to your Reputation, and Intere&s;t at home, and here, immediately to adju&s;t your Account with the King to the la&s;t of <HI>February,</HI> and re|mit
<PB N="30" REF="16">them to the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> for Approbation, and pleading your want of Health, and great de&s;ire to return to your Native Country, in order to your recovery. Petition his Maje&s;ty to di&s;pen&s;e with your retirement from his &s;ervice, In the mean time, let the <HI>Mer|gen</HI> Frigat be made ready, and &s;o you may early enough, in the latter end of <HI>April</HI> fetch <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> where when it appears, that nothing has accru'd through your means to the prejudice of the Honourable Company otherwi&s;e, than as an accidental con&s;equence of the King of <HI>Syams</HI> Commands, (but to make that appear, you mu&s;t not omit to procure the Commi&s;&s;ion) you will no doubt not only &s;top the mouths of a great many, that otherways you will in all probability find widely open to bla&s;t your Name with all the detraction, which the &s;ufferings of &s;ome, and the envy of others can dictate; but al&s;o prevent a ma&s;s of inconveniencies, which at this di&s;tance you may not perhaps di&s;tinctly fore&s;ee. Thus Sir, have I ob&s;erved your Commands by a free declaration of my Opinion, which is humbly &s;ubmitted to your own more &s;olid Judgment, by</P></Q>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Faithful Servant,</HI> Francis Davenport.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>This foregoing is a true Copy of the Paper I deliver'd to Mr.</HI> White, <DATE>March 29th 1986/7.</DATE></P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>All the Reply Mr. <HI>White</HI> gave to this Paper at this time, putting it after he had read it into his Pocket, was, That he was going to <HI>Mary Le&s;lyes,</HI> and it &s;hould not be long before he re&s;olved on &s;omething or other.</P>
<P>The next day he calls for me, and tells me, it mu&s;t now be his whole bu&s;ine&s;s to get what Money he could into his hands, that he mu&s;t now play at &s;mall games, rather than &s;tand out: He would take the <HI>French</HI> Mans Cargo off his hands, which amounted <HI>per Invoice</HI> to Four Thou&s;and Rupees, and give him Seven Thou&s;and for it, and he doubted not, but to double his Money in a few dayes time, for he would make the Merchants take it off his hands at his own Rates; and be&s;ides, tho&s;e that would have any Butter, or Oyl, &s;hould take a proportion of Cloth off his hands, by which means he hoped to get rid of a great part of the Rubbidge that lay by him: To all which I had little to &s;ay.</P>
<P>But after this his Di&s;cour&s;e, hapned a pa&s;&s;age, which &s;o far amazed me, that it put me by inquiring of him the rea&s;on of it, and 'twas thus. This day the <HI>Bengala</HI> Ship, (which formerly was called the <HI>Bom Succe&s;s,</HI> but now by him named the <HI>Re&s;i&s;tance</HI>) being to &s;ail for <HI>Atcheen</HI> with Rice, which &s;he was to unlade into the <HI>Derrea Dowlet,</HI> and with all po&s;&s;ible expedition return directly hither, with what&s;oever Gold Captain <HI>Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Mallet</HI> &s;hould have in readine&s;s, about two, or three hours before the Ship was to &s;ail, he bids me fetch the Commi&s;&s;ion aforementioned, and in my pre&s;ence, making marks with a Pencil, where the <HI>Oyea,</HI> and the <HI>Coromocon</HI> &s;hould fix their Seals over the writing (The Commi&s;&s;ion being writ|ten length way, on a &s;heet of large Paper, and begun about the lower half of the &s;heet) he orders <HI>Lewis Lobo</HI> his <HI>Okone Tuzerkon</HI> to carry it to the <HI>Coromocon</HI> for them, to affix each man his Seal, and tell them it was the di&s;patch of the <HI>Bengala</HI> Ship, according to an or|der from <HI>Syam,</HI> which I knowing to be &s;o palpable a fal&s;ehood, trembled to imagine, where|in this might i&s;&s;ue, fully concluding that the requiring the <HI>Coromocon</HI> to affix the Seals of their re&s;pective Offices, to &s;uch a Paper, wherein nothing was written, that they were to under|&s;tand, and yet any thing more might be written afterwards, above tho&s;e Seals in their own Language, without their privity, was a clear argument of &s;ome dark de&s;igns in Mr. <HI>White,</HI> and that he never intended to acquaint his friend, the Lord <HI>Phaulkon</HI> with it. When the <HI>Tuzerkon</HI> brought it back &s;eal'd as above directed, 'twas again committed to my keeping, un|til Mr. <HI>White</HI> &s;hould call for it, which, pur&s;uant to his orders, I took care to put up, but with more regret than I can expre&s;s, to find my &s;elf al&s;o in &s;ome mea&s;ure &s;lurr'd, by being privy to &s;o mean and di&s;ingenuous an Action.</P>
<P>The 23d of this Moneth Mr. <HI>White</HI> calls me into his Lodging-Room, and tells me to this effect, Mr. <HI>Davenport,</HI> I have con&s;idered your motion for my going to <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> but alas, tho&s;e Arguments you urge from the &s;topping of peoples mouths, are not of weight enough, to induce me to take that Cour&s;e, nor do I know what you mean by that Ma&s;s of Inconveni|encies, which may in&s;ue, upon my taking any other; if God &s;end me well to <HI>Europe,</HI> I &s;hall have as fair play at the Law for my Money, as my Adver&s;aries; and be&s;ides, I have by the <HI>Dons</HI> Ship, <HI>Via Pullicherry</HI> ordered, you know, the payment of <HI>Freemans</HI> Debt, if he will be content with the Principal, &s;o that his Mouth will be &s;topt, and I know of no Debts that I am owing to any body el&s;e on that &s;ide, &s;o that I expect the le&s;s Clamours to follow me to <HI>England:</HI> To which I reply'd, Sir, Methinks what you now &s;ay, &s;hould be rather an induce|ment to you to go to <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> for if Mr. <HI>Freeman</HI> be &s;atisfied, and not your Enemy, &s;ince you value no body, but Mr. <HI>Yale</HI> and him, there may be &s;ome hopes that Mr. <HI>Yale</HI> may al&s;o be made in time your friend too; however, if Arguments drawn from the probability of en&s;uing inconveniency, are of no validity, I have only one more from the Conveniency that will attend your going now to <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> to offer to your con&s;ideration, and &s;o leave it to your own Judgment, to determine.</P>
<P>As you have de&s;igned to turn your <HI>China,</HI> and <HI>South Sea</HI> Adventures upon <HI>Clong,</HI> nay, making your &s;elf &s;atisfaction out of the King's effects, laden on your Ship for <HI>Moco</HI> (though by you I mu&s;t needs &s;ay, it will not look well, to leave the Two Hundred Cattees which the King
<PB N="31" REF="16" MS="y">lent you un&s;atisfied) &s;o you may not only at <HI>Atcheen,</HI> in your way take the proceed of the <HI>Bengala</HI> &s;hips Cargo, and your part of what laden on the <HI>Derrea Dowlet,</HI> but at <HI>Madra&s;s</HI> your &s;elf receive the produce of the <HI>Moco</HI> &s;hips Cargo, which, how well 'tis worth your &s;taying for at the Coa&s;t, I need not tell you; nay you will be there too before the re|turn of the <HI>Dons</HI> &s;hip from <HI>Pullicherry,</HI> and &s;o may receive there the proceed of what's &s;ent on her, whereas if you conclude upon going for <HI>Europe</HI> from hence, and an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> man of War &s;hould happen to come hither in the month of <HI>May,</HI> or <HI>June</HI> (as from <HI>Ma|dra&s;s</HI> you know it may be done very well) I do not apprehend how you can well e&s;cape going with him thither, again&s;t your inclinations, and to your far greater prejudice than if you prevented their &s;ending you any Summons.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>White,</HI> with an extraordinay concernedne&s;s told me, that I talk'd like one that knew but the &s;hel and out&s;ide of things, and that if he was &s;ure, going to <HI>Madra&s;s</HI> would keep him from going to Hell, he would choo&s;e to be damned rather then go thither to be laugh'd at by <HI>Yale</HI> and <HI>Freeman,</HI> and, continued he, if ever a &s;hip of the King of <HI>England</HI> comes to this Port, before I am gone, the Commander &s;hall find me as civil to him, as he can be to me, but if once he comes to tell me that I mu&s;t go with him, and pretends the Kings authority here, by the living God, I'll pi&s;tol him with my own hands, and after|wards wipe my breech with his Commi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>Upon this I offered to withdraw, and was got into the next room, when he called me again; come, &s;ays he, I talk what I would do if an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> man of War &s;hould find me here,, but you need not fear, but I'll be gone out of their way, time enough for <HI>Eu|rope,</HI> I am re&s;olv'd, and I think to <HI>Per&s;ia,</HI> and &s;o over Land will be the be&s;t cour&s;e, but whether that way, or by Sea, is time enough to conclude, when I am in a readine&s;s for either. As to the <HI>Moco</HI> &s;hip, I'll &s;ell her, and her Cargo to any man for three <HI>Tekols,</HI> and the <HI>Pullicherry</HI> &s;hip for three more, for 'tis impo&s;&s;ible either of them &s;hould e&s;cape, and therefore I value them not a &s;traw. I am mo&s;t concerned for <HI>Le&s;ly,</HI> I am afraid he'll be &s;napt upon the Coa&s;t, and he is the only man for my turn on this occa&s;ion, for <HI>Cropley,</HI> I know is neither well affected to me, nor fit for the bu&s;ine&s;s, becau&s;e of his Wife and Family, and be&s;ides whoever el&s;e, I &s;hall for want of <HI>Le&s;ly</HI> be forced to employ, yet I am &s;o embara&s;t with that Family, that I mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity carry my <HI>Mary</HI> (for &s;o he u&s;ed al|ways to call Madam <HI>Le&s;ly</HI>) and her young bantlings along with me, nor can I with ho|nour, well leave Mr. <HI>Ru&s;&s;el.</HI> Well but Sir, &s;aid I, what will become of the <HI>Raja</HI> Mr. <HI>Burneby,</HI> will you leave him here expo&s;ed to the fury of the Natives, or at be&s;t to the Kings plea&s;ure; God damn him, replyed Mr. <HI>White,</HI> I dare not tru&s;t him with &s;ecret of &s;uch importance, I had as good publi&s;h it thorough the Town with a Gong, and be&s;ides what tie am I under to take care of him, has not he eyes in his head to fore&s;ee the danger, let him &s;hift for him&s;elf; yet I do not know, it may be when I am ju&s;t ready to go, I may take him with me, and that is time enough to tell him, half a dozen &s;ilver Plates and Spoons, and a few cloths, with it may be fourty or fifty <HI>Cattees</HI> in Money makes up his bag|gage, I need not much fear his over-lading my &s;hip. Thus he broke off at this time.</P>
<P>The twenty &s;ixth of the month, 1687. he comes to me in the writing Room, and finding Mr. <HI>Turner</HI> ab&s;ent, begins to this effect: The <HI>Mergen</HI> Frigat &s;hall take in all the Tin, and I'll continue my pretence of &s;ending her on the Kings Errand to <HI>Per&s;ia,</HI> with the <HI>Colwans,</HI> that &s;o the Country people may not take notice of my putting extraordinary Pro|vi&s;ions aboard her, and three or four days hence we will go and &s;ound all about the I&s;lands to the Southward (as I was before de&s;igning, if you remember) under pretence of vi&s;iting the Fortifications at <HI>Nocklay</HI> (not that there are any &s;uch things as Fortifications there, capable to keep a Tyger from carrying a Buffalo out of the compound, nor indeed is there any occa&s;ion for any there) &s;o under that colour I will make choice of a convenient place to hide the Ship in, until the <HI>Mon&s;oon</HI> will permit my proceeding, and at our return from &s;ounding, I would have you draw up all the Garri&s;on, and Port accounts, for I am re&s;olved to disband all the Soldiers, and di&s;charge all the Seamen, re&s;erving only &s;uch in Pay as &s;hall be fitte&s;t for my de&s;ign, and for the more plau&s;ible doing it, I would have you al&s;o draw up a Declaration to be put up at my Gate, and the Court of Guards, &s;ignifying the Kings plea&s;ure, re&s;pecting the &s;tating and Limitation of Foreigners wages, imployed in his Service for the future, which I would have you to &s;tate according to the <HI>Bankoke</HI> mo|del, for that is &s;o low, that I know they will disband them&s;elves, rather than accept it; nor will the blame appear to them, to lie in me. Be&s;ides, though whil&s;t I had occa&s;ion for men to do my turn, I gave them extraordinary encouragement, yet that being &s;erv'd, I will not be to &s;eek for rea&s;ons to &s;atisfie his honour with my disbanding the Soldiers, and if what I write to him about it will not prevent a broad-&s;ide of Scolding from him, I can bear it well enough, for before it can reach me, it will have lo&s;t its force. The Sol|diers I know when once Disbanded, will &s;oon di&s;per&s;e, and I &s;hall have the fewer ob&s;er|vers of my preparations, and rather than they &s;hould &s;tay here to take notice of what I do, I will find a way underhand to encourage them to go up to <HI>Syam,</HI> and then give them <HI>Tarraes</HI> to pa&s;s to <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> but clap a &s;top upon their proceedings any further: which be&s;ides the Convenience of being rid of &s;o many eyes, will &s;ave an unnece&s;&s;ary ex|pence to my &s;elf, and give me an opportunty (if there &s;hould be any occa&s;ion) to do my
<PB N="32" REF="17">bu&s;ine&s;s better with Natives, again&s;t who&s;oever &s;hall ari&s;e to oppo&s;e me in my e&s;cape, for after the &s;hip is once hid among&s;t the I&s;lands, which the Natives &s;hall not know where &s;he is, I will always keep the Barge and Sloope <HI>Robin</HI> in readine&s;s before my door, and a dozen of Country Boats, divided into four Squadrons, continually out upon the &s;cout, and &s;o when&s;oever an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Man of War comes in &s;ight, I will &s;et fire of the Town, and immediately repair to my &s;hip, where I will give them leave to find me out, if they can, for they had as good look for a Needle in a Bottle of Hay, as for me, if I get but two days &s;tart before them. In the mean time before we go a &s;ounding, I would have you pack in the new Che&s;ts now made, every thing of value in my Hou&s;e, and numbering the Che&s;ts, take an exact Invoice of every thing, valuing it at the real worth in this place, that &s;o I may know both what I have, and where to look for it, upon any occa&s;ion, or if any unexpected accident &s;hould happen, the Invoice one time or other may &s;tand me in &s;ome &s;tead: which I an&s;wered &s;hould be done, but I de&s;ired he would plea&s;e to be pre&s;ent at the pack|ing, and rating of them, for his better &s;atisfaction, he &s;aid he would be the next day at lei|&s;ure to go about it.</P>
<P>The next day, being Ea&s;ter-day was improper for any bu&s;ine&s;s of &s;uch a nature; and Mr. <HI>White</HI> making a noble Entertainment for all the <HI>Europeans</HI> on the &s;hoar, was very liberal to all his immediate Servants, both White and Black, from the highe&s;t to the lowe&s;t; to me in particular he gave two pieces of Silk very rich, telling me at the &s;ame time, that he de&s;igned a more con&s;iderable Token of his kindne&s;s for me in a &s;hort while, and that he gave me that only in cour&s;e, becau&s;e he was minded to give all his Servants &s;omewhat on that Fe&s;tival, which he &s;aid he had de&s;igned to have done on the fifth of the month, his Birth day, had he not forgotten it.</P>
<P>On Munday the twenty eighth, he asked me if I was ready to go about packing of his Goods, as he had &s;poke to me on Saturday, telling me that from <HI>Nocklay</HI> he was intended to go to <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> and thence to the hot waters, and in his way call the <HI>Serpacones</HI> to ac|count, what they had done in examining all the Gardens, and fruit Trees, and that he hop'd to get a hundred and fifty or two hundred <HI>Cattees</HI> out of the Garden Rents; yet before he went for <HI>Europe,</HI> however he would turn all the remains of his Salt that lay at <HI>Te|na&s;&s;ery</HI> upon the <HI>Muong</HI> at eight Tales <HI>per Quoyen,</HI> which was two Tales <HI>per Quoyen</HI> le&s;s then the Kings price in the Articles; and &s;ays he, I will make the <HI>Coromocon</HI> do it, by di&s;tributing it among the <HI>Queans</HI> and <HI>Nayes,</HI> &s;o that I &s;hall have little, or no trouble, nor &s;hall they know but the Salt is the Kings, &s;o I &s;hall receive all my Money at a lump from <HI>Opra Ballat,</HI> for they dare as well be damn'd as refu&s;e to take it, when 'tis to rai&s;e Money for defraying the Garri&s;on, and Port charges, and if it cannot be all collected before I Disband the Soldiers, yet it will be &s;ecure enough, when once <HI>Opra Ballat</HI> becomes obliged to get it in, and I &s;hall have money enough otherways to pay off the Soldiers at my return from <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery.</HI></P>
<P>After this di&s;cour&s;e, ob&s;erving me to look &s;omewhat dejectedly, quoth Mr. <HI>White</HI> to me; Mr. <HI>Davenport</HI> what's the matter with you, are you not well? I an&s;wering, yes, God be thanked, I was very well in health: I perceive, &s;ays he, then you are di&s;&s;atisfied in your mind at &s;omething or other: pray be plain with me, and tell me what it is? To which I replyed, Sir, 'tis very true, I am much di&s;&s;atisfied, both in re&s;pect of you and my &s;elf, in re&s;pect of my &s;elf, becau&s;e as you have been always kind to me, &s;o my circum&s;tances are &s;uch, that I cannot manife&s;ts my Obligation to you in &s;uch a manner as I plainly fore|&s;ee, your occa&s;ions will require, and perhaps you may expect from me, without my extreme prejudice on many &s;cores, the main ones are the&s;e. If I go with you for <HI>Europe,</HI> and you &s;hould have the good fortune to e&s;cape Interception, I &s;hall leave my concerns in the <HI>Bay,</HI> at &s;uch uncertainties, and expo&s;e my &s;elf &s;o much to the cen&s;ure of all our Country-men in <HI>India,</HI> who are many of them, but too apt to put the wor&s;t Con&s;truction upon every per&s;ons proceedings, that hath been but once unfortunate, that I much que&s;tion, whether on my return to the&s;e parts again, I &s;hould be ever able to retrieve my Reputation, and if I continue with you in the &s;phere I now move, untill your departure hence, and then &s;tay behind you, what can I expect but to be expo&s;ed, if not to the rage and fury of the Natives, yet to the Kings and your Friend, the Lord <HI>Phaulkons</HI> indignation, as ha|ving been privy to your de&s;ign'd e&s;cape, and la&s;tly if any Kings &s;hip &s;hould arrive before you are gone hence, and you continue in the mind to oppo&s;e or cut them off that come upon her, how can I, pre&s;erving my Allegiance unblemi&s;hed, concur with you in &s;o dan|gerous an attempt. Now in re&s;pect of your &s;elf I am di&s;&s;atisfied, becau&s;e I am apprehen|&s;ive the cour&s;e you have re&s;olved on will not prove &s;o conducive to your aims, nor Period in &s;o &s;atisfactory an i&s;&s;ue, as I believe you propo&s;e to your &s;elf: Wherefore I de&s;ire you would plea&s;e to di&s;charge me your Service, that &s;o I may live unconcerned, untill &s;ome opportunity pre&s;ents of going hence; upon which he told me that &s;ooner than detain me, in his Service again&s;t my will, he would not only di&s;mi&s;s me but give me a &s;mall Sloop to carry me to <HI>Bengala,</HI> or whither&s;oever I would go; But I mu&s;t have patience untill he had got his &s;hip &s;ecured out of the way. I then de&s;ired him to permit me forthwith to &s;ur|render up my charge of the Ca&s;h, alledging that I met with &s;o many Avocations from his other bu&s;ine&s;s, by being obliged to attend every fellow that came to pay in, or receive ne|ver
<PB N="33" REF="17" MS="y">&s;o &s;mall a &s;um, that 'twas a great trouble to me, whereupon he immediately after peru&s;al of the Ca&s;h-Book, and comparing it with his own Notes, my Receipts, and the Ca&s;h then in&s;tock, under writ the Account accepted, and delivered both the Ca&s;h and Ca&s;h Book to Mr. <HI>John Turner</HI>'s cu&s;tody and care.</P>
<P>This afternoon we packt up all his Plate (except a little for daily u&s;e) Rich Silks, Jew|els, Sea-Books, and in&s;truments, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> as we were about it, he voluntarily began a di&s;cour&s;e to me, to this purpo&s;e, that he did not forget the promi&s;e that he had made to me of one thou&s;and <HI>Rupees</HI> extraordinary, be&s;ides all my Wages, and that if I would but continue with him, and goes only to <HI>Per&s;ia,</HI> he would give me the Sloop <HI>Robin</HI> (for he &s;hould go in Com|pany to <HI>Bu&s;&s;ora</HI>) freely, and not only &s;o, but I &s;hould find him a great deal better to me then all this: To which I replyed, I did not doubt his making good his promi&s;e in the lea&s;t, and I hoped he was well &s;atisfied with the Rea&s;ons I had given him before Dinner of my unwillingne&s;s to proceed with him, either for <HI>Europe,</HI> or any whither el&s;e, except for <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> for things now being likely to fall out un&s;utable to my former expectations, he could not well blame me, if I de&s;ired to be at my own liberty, and live retired, though perhaps it might not prove &s;o much to my advantage, as to be in con&s;tant pay, and that however, I would never be backward in any friendly a&s;&s;i&s;tance, he might de&s;ire from me, only pre&s;erving my &s;elf free from interfering with the de&s;igns he had entred into, relating to his removal hence; He then told me, that I &s;hould be at my own choice, and at my liber|ty to leave him, when I plea&s;ed, and all that he de&s;ired of me, was to accompany him to <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> and help to &s;ettle his particular Accounts with the Merchants. To this I free|ly con&s;ented.</P>
<P>On Tue&s;day the twenty ninth, he orders me once more to bring him the Commi&s;&s;ion, which the <HI>Coromocon,</HI> as already &s;aid, had &s;ealed, and &s;ending for his <HI>Okonta,</HI> with another <HI>Sy|ammer</HI> (an <HI>E&s;crivan,</HI> whom to my knowledge, I had never &s;een before) into the writing Cham|ber, Mr. <HI>White</HI> &s;huts the door, and dictating to the <HI>Okonta</HI> in <HI>Moors</HI> the contents of the Commi&s;&s;ion, he orders him to interpret it into the <HI>Syam</HI> Language to the <HI>E&s;crivan,</HI> and bid him write it fir&s;t in a <HI>Bapote,</HI> and afterwards fair over on the &s;ame paper, above the Seals, and the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> writing. Mr. <HI>White</HI> him&s;elf Ruling the lines with a Lead Pencil, at &s;uch di&s;tance as he thought convenient to contain what the Fellow was to write. The <HI>Okonta</HI> when he &s;aw what was to be done, fell a trembling, and looking mo&s;t wretchedly, which Mr. <HI>White</HI> perceiving, ask'd him what was the matter? The man replied, he was afraid if the <HI>Coromocon</HI> &s;hould come to know it, he mu&s;t certainly lo&s;e his head. Mr. <HI>White</HI> calling him a parcel of foul names, ask'd how he dur&s;t pretend to &s;cruple any thing he bad him do; but withal told him he needed not fear, that Paper was not to be &s;hown to any body in this Country, but was to be &s;ent to <HI>Europe,</HI> whereupon the <HI>Okonta</HI> and <HI>E&s;crivan</HI> went on with their work; and the Commi&s;&s;ion being thus fini&s;hed, and the Names of the <HI>Oyea,</HI> and al&s;o the <HI>Coromocon</HI> (except Mr. <HI>Burnebys,</HI> for he had not been requi|red to affix his Seal, nor did Mr. <HI>White</HI> think fit he &s;hould know of it) written by the &s;ame <HI>E&s;crivan</HI> in the <HI>Syam</HI> Language, clo&s;e to each mans re&s;pective Seal. Mr. <HI>White</HI> de&s;i|red me and Mr. <HI>Turner</HI> to atte&s;t the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> writing to be a true Copy of the Original Com|mi&s;&s;ion in <HI>Syam,</HI> in&s;tead whereof, I underwrote the&s;e words. The <HI>Shabander Okonta</HI> in <HI>Mer|gen,</HI> hath this twenty ninth day of <HI>March,</HI> 1687. declared what is above written in the <HI>Syam</HI> Language to contain the true &s;en&s;e and meaning of the &s;ubjoyn'd <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Writing, Witne&s;s our hands.</P>
<Q><HI>Francis Davenport. John Turner.</HI></Q>
<P>At which Mr. <HI>White</HI> frowned, and &s;aid, I might have been plainer in my Atte&s;tation, but however he gave it me to put in one of the new Che&s;ts above mentioned, which I ac|cordingly did.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="April" TYPE="month">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>APRILL,</HI> 1687.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>The fir&s;t of this month, Mr. <HI>White</HI> began his progre&s;s towards <HI>Nocklay,</HI> in company with the <HI>Oyea,</HI> and the <HI>Coromocon,</HI> and him&s;elf attended with Mr. <HI>Burneby,</HI> Mr. <HI>Thredder,</HI> Don <HI>Jo&s;eph,</HI> and Captain <HI>Cropley</HI> in his <HI>Gambdia</HI> Boat, no man knowing his private de&s;ign, but my &s;elf, who went with only Mr. <HI>Triggs</HI> in the <HI>Shabanders</HI> Pinnace, from whom I al&s;o concealed it, pretending only to heave the Lead now and then for my own curio&s;ity: Cap|tain <HI>Cropley</HI> al&s;o had a Lead in the <HI>Shabanders</HI> Boat, which I put into his mind to carry, pretending according to Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> orders to me, that I thought't would be a good oppor|tunity to acquaint our &s;elves with the Channels among the I&s;lands, which few or no <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> men ever made it their bu&s;ine&s;s to &s;earch out, and might one time or other &s;tand a man in &s;ome &s;tead, if he &s;hould happen to fall into the Southward of <HI>Ilha Grande.</HI></P>
<P>At four days end, I having ca&s;t my eye upon a very convenient place for the purpo&s;e, and giving Mr. <HI>White</HI> privately an account of it, he pre&s;ently goes him&s;elf to view it, I fol|lowing in the Barge, and then finding the inconvenience of &s;o much company, on &s;uch a de&s;ign, return'd to <HI>Mergen,</HI> and the next day being the fifth in&s;tant, after about two hours
<PB N="34" REF="18">&s;tay at his own hou&s;e, he took his journey to <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> where my time was taken up in ad|ju&s;ting Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> Accounts with the Merchants, he in the mean time pro&s;ecuting his bu|&s;ine&s;s, of rai&s;ing what Money po&s;&s;ibly he could, as he had before projected.</P>
<P>Now during our &s;tay here, the Lading of &s;o much Tin and Goods, and provi&s;ions on Board the <HI>Mergen</HI> Frigat at <HI>Mergen,</HI> it &s;eems had not done &s;o privately but the Natives and <HI>Moors</HI> had taken notice of it, it being unu&s;ual to &s;hip &s;o late in the year, when they could not expect to go to Sea. This had occa&s;ioned &s;everal Rumours, and conjectures among the people, and at length one of the <HI>Shabanders</HI> Spys brings him word that one <HI>Namtula</HI> a <HI>Moor,</HI> and Merchant in <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery</HI> had reported that this lading of the &s;hip at this time of the year could never be for any good de&s;ign, and 'twas ten to one if the <HI>Shabander</HI> had not a mind to pack up his Aules and be gone, when every body lea&s;t thought of it. Mr. <HI>White</HI> to prevent the &s;preading of any &s;uch dangerous report, immediately &s;ends for this Merchant, and in great pa&s;&s;ion taxt him with it, The man denyed it, but that would not do; Mr. <HI>White</HI> orders him to be fir&s;t &s;everely whipt with <HI>Rattans,</HI> and then clapt in Irons, and lead through the <HI>Buzzar</HI> into the Common Gaol, there to lie four days, mo&s;t of the eminent Merchants in Town interceded for him, but could not prevail. This action created great animo&s;ity, and heart burnings among&s;t them; but Mr. <HI>White</HI> valued it not, thinking it the be&s;t way thus to &s;top all their mouths for the future.</P>
<P>The fourteenth in&s;tant we went up to the hot Waters, and had good diverti&s;ement in the Natives Fi&s;hing and Hunting, though Mr. <HI>White</HI> had the be&s;t in &s;crewing out of the <HI>Sereacons</HI> for the Garden Rents in that River, to the Amount of one hundred twenty &s;ix <HI>Cattees</HI> of Silver.</P>
<P>The twenty third we returned to <HI>Mergen,</HI> where Captain <HI>Le&s;ly</HI> arrived the &s;ame day, to Mr. <HI>White</HI>'s great &s;atisfaction, for though he had ordered him to &s;tay Crui&s;ing untill the fir&s;t of <HI>May,</HI> and then go to <HI>Pullicherry,</HI> before he was to come hither, yet the <HI>Saint Johns Bengala</HI> news about <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> had made him often wi&s;h <HI>Le&s;ly</HI> here &s;ooner.</P>
<P>Captain <HI>Le&s;lys</HI> arrival put all things upon the &s;pur, there was no time to be lo&s;t. The <HI>Mer|gen</HI> Frigat is pre&s;ently unladen, unrigg'd, and ordered to go up to <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> with the King of <HI>Syam</HI>'s Colours, as his &s;hip (for Mr. <HI>White</HI> had been accu&s;tomed at the clo&s;e of each years-Books, to charge her and the <HI>Phaulkon</HI> to the Kings account, and afterwards to call them his own again) but the <HI>Re&s;olution</HI> and <HI>Robin</HI> Sloop, which were really the Kings, he thought propere&s;t for the De&s;ign he had in hand, and &s;o called them his own, appoint|ing them hence forward to wear <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Colours in Harbour. <HI>Le&s;ly</HI> brings news the <HI>Mary</HI> &s;loop was taken by Captain <HI>Batten</HI> out of <HI>Pullicherry</HI> Road, and carried to <HI>Madra&s;s.</HI> The <HI>French</HI> write word of it, and remitt by him a Copy of a Prote&s;t, which they had &s;ent to <HI>Madra&s;s</HI> concerning her, what further private account <HI>Le&s;ly</HI> gave Mr. <HI>White</HI> of the &s;tate of Affairs at the Coa&s;t, I know not, but he is now the chief man in favour, and Mr. <HI>White</HI> all in a flame to be gone, he now pre&s;ently gives out to the <HI>Syammers,</HI> that he had received orders (which was no &s;uch thing) from Court to fit, and keep in a fai|ling po&s;ture the be&s;t Frigat the King had, which he &s;aid was the <HI>Re&s;olution,</HI> who was to wear <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Colours, and wait the Kings plea&s;ure, for her di&s;patch at an hours warning, whither and when&s;oever his Maje&s;ty plea&s;ed, and therefore required the <HI>Coromocon,</HI> to order with all expedition po&s;&s;ible, a &s;upply of what&s;oever he &s;hould find nece&s;&s;ary for the Com|plete Victualling of her with Rice, Cattle, Hogs, or any other Provi&s;ions, that his Pur|veyor could in &s;o &s;hort a time get in readine&s;s, and to that end he would give them out his <HI>Tarraes</HI> to take all manner of Provi&s;ion where&s;oever it could be found, at the Kings price. In this di&s;traction, and hurry were all things. When</P>
<P>On the twenty eighth of the month di&s;cour&s;ing with me his over-land de&s;ign, and com|plaining, that nothing did &s;o much prejudice his undertaking, as the great di&s;appointment in mi&s;&s;ing his <HI>Moco</HI> &s;hip, &s;ince if &s;he &s;hould happen to return hither &s;afe, &s;he would fall into the hands of either the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> that would lie before the Port, or the <HI>Syammers,</HI> &s;o that he &s;hould never be one farthing the better, for what &s;he brought hither, unle&s;s he could have &s;tayed upon the place until <HI>September</HI> had been over, nor yet could he have the &s;atisfaction to know whether &s;he had put a &s;hoar the 20000 <HI>Ry.</HI> 8/8. as he had ordered at <HI>Pullicherry.</HI> I took upon me to tell him, that I did verily believe, and could not per&s;wade my &s;elf to be of any o|ther opinion, then that we &s;hould &s;ee &s;hips here from <HI>Madra&s;s</HI> before <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> To which he replyed, him&s;elf fear'd it was too true, for Captain <HI>Le&s;ly</HI> had given him a very unwelcome Account, how matters &s;tood.</P>
<P>At this word, he flew out and &s;wore, But God damn him he cared not much, he would make fools of one hundred of the King of <HI>England</HI>'s Captains, &s;aying moreover to the &s;ame purpo&s;e as once before he had &s;aid, That if any of them did come hither, before he could get away, &s;o long as they were civil, he would be civil to them, but if ever a Kings Captain, or Lieu|tenant of them all &s;hould come a &s;hoar and tell him, that he mu&s;t go to <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> and &s;hould pretend a power to force him thither, he would be the man that would Pi&s;tol him upon the place, with his own hands, and wipe his Ar&s;e with his Kings Commi&s;&s;ion, when he had done, that he could &s;oon find ways to di&s;patch them, and all that belonged to them, adding withal, what a Plague do&s;t think I'm to be &s;car'd, with the &s;ight of the Kings Flag at a Boats Bow? No, continued he, with an horrid Oath, I know better things, I look upon
<PB N="35" REF="18" MS="y">the be&s;t Commi&s;&s;ion any man has, that comes out on the Companies concerns, no better than if I had &s;tood by, and &s;een them that bring it, make it under a hedge: However, if I can get away, I will, and if I cannot, who&s;e &s;oevers lot it is to find me here, they &s;hall find <HI>Mer|gen</HI> the hotte&s;t place, that ever they came again&s;t in their lives, as &s;imply as 'tis fortified, for I am re&s;olved never to go to <HI>Madra&s;s,</HI> if there come Ten Sail of Men of War to fetch me, and if it does come to that pa&s;s, that I am intercepted in my de&s;ign, I'le defend the place as long as 'tis po&s;&s;ible, with the Natives, and when I can hold it no longer, I'le burn it down, and go to <HI>Syam</HI> by the Light on't, and &s;ee who will fetch me thence.</P>
<P>I then replying, Sir, I am heartily &s;orry to hear this, and I would fain hope, that you &s;peak not as you mean; at this Mr. <HI>White</HI> was tran&s;ported into a great pa&s;&s;ion, and &s;aid, <HI>God damn thee,</HI> I &s;ee nothing will work with thee; and &s;ince I &s;ee thou art &s;till re&s;olved to prefer hugging thy own fears and jealou&s;ies, before either thy own advantage, or any incli|nation to my Intere&s;t, and art &s;o unwilling to &s;tick by me, when I have mo&s;t occa&s;ion for thee, e'n get thee down &s;tairs out of my Hou&s;e, and never come near me more, but if ever I hear a word out of thy mouth about my bu&s;ine&s;s, <HI>By the Eternal God,</HI> I'le cut thy Tongue out.</P>
<P>I immediately withdrew, and went down to my own Room, not thinking it convenient pre&s;ently to go abroad, le&s;t his Rage might tran&s;port him into a jealous conceit, that I was gone to prattle of his pa&s;&s;ionate humour, which though I thought, had it been in another place, I had been bound in duty to declare his threatning expre&s;&s;ions in contempt of his Maje&s;ty of <HI>England</HI>'s Authority to &s;ome Magi&s;trates, yet to &s;peak of it to any body here, where him&s;elf was ab&s;olute, would be an indi&s;cretion, little inferiour to Mr. <HI>Whites.</HI></P>
<P>Wherefore I continued &s;till in my Room, and went not up to Dinner, but about Three in the Afternoon being told that Mr. <HI>White</HI> had taken his re&s;t, and was now in a calm po&s;ture. I &s;ent my Chri&s;tian Servant one <HI>Lazarus Gomez</HI> up to Mr. <HI>White,</HI> with this following Paper.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Mr. Samuel White,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<Q><P>SIR, That this morning I happen'd by the un&s;ea&s;onable declaration of my opinion to hazard your di&s;plea&s;ure; I can't but acknowledge a great indi&s;cretion, but I hope you will not cen&s;ure it an unpardonable pre&s;umption, at lea&s;t if you plea&s;e to call to mind that plainne&s;s and &s;incerity, which you have &s;o often, not only expre&s;&s;ed your &s;elf highly &s;atisfied with, but charg'd me to continue in the whole cour&s;e of your &s;ervice; and if by the over officious di&s;charge of my Duty, and ob&s;ervance of your repeated Injunctions, I have offended, I have the le&s;s rea&s;on to trouble you with any formal Apology, but &s;ince you are return'd from <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> and your Affairs in the po&s;ture which your &s;elf propo|&s;ed to have them in before I left you. I now humbly reque&s;t the friendly performance of your promi&s;e, which was, that I &s;hould be at liberty to withdraw from your employ|ment, and live retir'd from all publick bu&s;ine&s;s. My rea&s;ons for this reque&s;t I have &s;o fre|quently and fully di&s;cours't you, that to repeat them now, would be altogether need|le&s;s: I make choice of this way of addre&s;&s;ing my &s;elf to you, partly to avoid any further occa&s;ion of offence, and if po&s;&s;ible, to procure a friendly parting, that &s;o the World may not take notice of any jarrings, to the prejudice of either of us, but chiefly to a&s;&s;ure you under my hand, That as I prefer my Allegiance to my Prince, and the Duty I owe my own Country to all private advantages, &s;o no le&s;s a con&s;ideration, than a hazard there|of, could have made me, ever &s;ince Mr. <HI>Nodens</HI> arrival at this Port, &s;o &s;olicitous to have declin'd your &s;ervice, but however you will do me but right, to believe that I &s;hall, not|with&s;tanding my di&s;mi&s;&s;ion, continue as true to your &s;ecrets, relating to the&s;e people as your &s;elf can de&s;ire, and as becomes one who hath been accu&s;tomed to delight him|&s;elf in being ju&s;tly e&s;teemed.</P></Q>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Faithful Servant<LB> <HI>Francis Davenport.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>My Servant on his return told me the <HI>Shabander</HI> had read my Note, and would &s;peak with me, when I came up to him, what &s;ays he, Mr. <HI>Davenport,</HI> then you have no mind to &s;tay with me. Sir, I reply'd, if I have not, I hope you are &s;atisfied in my rea&s;ons for it, why &s;ays he, you &s;eem by the tenderne&s;s, and care of your Allegiance, to &s;u&s;pect that I &s;han't be gone, before a Man of <HI>War</HI> meets with me, well I will not go about to convince you of a mi&s;take, as to your own Intere&s;t I find you to be in love with, but if you will needs go, I will not detain you, only I would have you make good the conclu&s;ive part of this your Paper; you know my Concerns, and your di&s;cour&s;ing them, may do me a di&s;|kindne&s;s, but I have no rea&s;on to &s;u&s;pect you in that particular; you may come when you will for your Money, and you &s;hall have it; nor will I forget my promi&s;e, or be wor&s;e than my word to you, though 'tis too late for you to go now to <HI>Bengala,</HI> I hope you'l come now and then, and &s;ee us. Yes Sir, &s;aid I, and &s;erve you too, in any matter that I can, with|out apparent prejudice to my &s;elf; you &s;ay very well, &s;aid the <HI>Shabander,</HI> and you &s;hall not find me backward in any kindne&s;s I can do you: So he drank to me in a Gla&s;s of Bran|dy, I pledg'd him, and &s;o took my leave. Before I was got down &s;tairs, he called me again; &s;ays he, Mr. <HI>Davenport,</HI> Whither do you intend to remove? Sir &s;aid I, I do not yet know, but I think to Captain <HI>Cropeleys:</HI> Pray tell <HI>Cropely,</HI> &s;ayes Mr. <HI>White,</HI> I would have
<PB N="36" REF="19" MS="y">him come to me in the morning, and receive the Money I borrowed of him la&s;t Moneth, for I'le &s;end him, and his Family up to <HI>Tena&s;&s;ary,</HI> but don't you tell him any thing of that, till I &s;peak to him my &s;elf; not I Sir, quoth I, but if he removes to <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> it will be a very good pretence for me to go along with him, under colour of going again to the hot Waters, for my healths &s;ake: Ay, &s;ayes Mr. <HI>White,</HI> &s;o it will: Thus we parted immediately that Evening, removing all my things from Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> Hou&s;e, to Captain <HI>Cropeleys.</HI></P>
<P>The next day Captain <HI>Cropely</HI> going to attend the <HI>Shabander,</HI> Mr. <HI>White</HI> paid him thirty Cat|tees, which, on occa&s;ion of paying for Moun&s;ieur <HI>Caroons</HI> Cargo, <HI>Cropely</HI> had lent him, and then tells him he mu&s;t forthwith remove his Family to <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> pretending he did not know how &s;oon Ships might arrive here, and if there &s;hould happen any di&s;turbance in the Town, 'twould be inconvenient to have his Family here, who might be frighted, and it may be wor&s;e u&s;ed. <HI>Cropely</HI> on his return told me what had pa&s;&s;ed, and that though he knew very well 'twas for another rea&s;on, and not the care of his Family, or their &s;afety, that made Mr. <HI>White</HI> order him to remove them to <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> yet he would do it, le&s;t Mr. <HI>White</HI> &s;hould take occa&s;ion to do him &s;ome mi&s;chief if he &s;tay'd, for he had told him, that if any Enemy came again&s;t the place, him&s;elf, if he could not maintain again&s;t them, would burn the Town down to the ground.</P>
<P>This Evening <HI>Edward Tuttie</HI> came to &s;ee us, and told us the <HI>Shabander</HI> had ordered him, and his Family up to <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> and had no more di&s;cretion, than to tell <HI>Cropely,</HI> that his bu&s;ine&s;s there, was to give the <HI>Shabander</HI> from time to time an Account how the <HI>Moors</HI> and Natives cen&s;ured the preparations he was making to get the Ship <HI>Re&s;olution</HI> into a &s;ailing po&s;ture, and whether he could learn out of any of them, that they had any &s;u&s;picion of his intentions to leave the place, or any thing el&s;e, that he thought might tend to the <HI>Shaban|ders</HI> prejudice, not to &s;ail of giving timely notices.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>MAY</HI> 1687.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>The Ninth this Moneth, all the Soldiers and Seamen (except tho&s;e employed on the Ship <HI>Re&s;olution,</HI> and Sloop <HI>Robin</HI>) were disbanded and di&s;charged, and the Soldiers the next day po&s;ted away to <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> with promi&s;e of pa&s;&s;age to <HI>Syam,</HI> at the Kings Charge, but when they came to <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> they were there &s;topt, and not &s;uffered either to proceed, or return, on pretence of waiting for the Kings order.</P>
<P>This Moneth the Sloop <HI>Phaulkon</HI> returned from the <HI>Nicobarrs,</HI> and the <HI>Dons</HI> new &s;hip from <HI>Pullicherry,</HI> where the <HI>French</HI> would not entertain her, and both of them were immediately unrigg'd and &s;ent up with the King of <HI>Syams</HI> Colours to <HI>Tena&s;&s;ery,</HI> though the latter far dif|ferent from Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> Solemn promi&s;es to the contrary, or the <HI>Dons</HI> expectations.</P>
<P>The Fourteenth this Moneth, the Ship <HI>Re&s;olution</HI> being richly and deep laden, and provi|ded (by computation) which Eighteen Moneths Provi&s;ions for Forty Men, weighed Anchor, and drove down (without any Sails to the yards) oppo&s;ite to the great Fort, where &s;he rode two dayes, but did not moor. After two days &s;tay there, commonly every other Night, tho&s;e on board according to order, tript &s;ilently the Anchor, and let the Ship drive as low as they thought convenient, it may 1/4 mile, more or le&s;s in a Night, alwayes pretending the next morning that the Ships Anchor came home, and would not ride her; this was practi&s;ed, until by degrees the Ship had drove out of reach of the great Fort Guns, and down &s;o near the <HI>Barr,</HI> that at any time in the Night, with the fir&s;t of the Ebb &s;he might drive over the <HI>Barr.</HI></P>
<P>The day appointed (as Mr. <HI>Burneby</HI> afterwards declared for her going to hide among the I&s;lands) was to have been the 26th of the Moneth; but it plea&s;ed God to di&s;appoint Mr. <HI>White</HI> in the very height of his expectations; as to that project, by the coming up to Town on the 23d In&s;tant, towards Evening, of an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Yawle, which brought news of an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Man of War, being arriv'd near the Port.</P>
<P>This &s;urprizing news put Mr. <HI>White</HI> upon his former re&s;olves of defending the place, and accordingly he i&s;&s;ues out his <HI>Tarraes</HI> to &s;ummon all the Men in the adjacent <HI>Aldeas</HI> from Fifteen to Fifty years, to repair immediately into <HI>Mergen,</HI> on penalty of incurring the King of <HI>Syams</HI> high di&s;plea&s;ure for their neglect, to work upon the Fortifications, and Man the <HI>Giliars</HI> and <HI>Gallies,</HI> as occa&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ion &s;hould require: The next day, &s;ome Thou&s;ands of the neare&s;t Inhabitants flockt into the Town, whom Mr. <HI>White</HI> employ'd in building a great Battery clo&s;e to the River-&s;ide, and planting in it Fifteen great Guns, and making other preparations for defence. Having the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of &s;uch va&s;t numbers of Men, Mr. <HI>White</HI> him&s;elf attending the work on the 24th, 25th, and 26th of <HI>June,</HI> in the Night time, that Battery was fini&s;hed in Three Days and Nights.</P>
<P>On the 26th, Captain <HI>Anthony Weltden</HI> arrived over the <HI>Barr,</HI> and what pa&s;t from that time, until the 14th of <HI>July,</HI> the day of fatal Cata&s;trophe, of &s;o many of our Country|men, will be be&s;t di&s;covered by the di&s;tinct Narrative of his management of Affairs in that Expedition. To which I refer</P>
<CLOSER><HI>The Truth of this foregoing Relation, (agreeing with my own Original Ab&s;tract) I do atte&s;t this 21&s;t day of</HI> February 1687, <HI>in Fort</HI> Saint George, <HI>and oblige my &s;elf to A&s;&s;ert, and maintain on all Occa&s;ions, by this Sub&s;cription of my Name, with my own Hand,</HI>
<SIGNED>Francis Davenport.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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