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• v=onepage&q=tamou%20canton%20%20india%20wanted%20slaves%20tought%20found%20nursery%20buy%20youth%20both%20sexes&f=false accessdate "2011-12-14".
• v=onepage&q=tamou%20canton%20%20india%20wanted%20slaves%20tought%20found%20nursery%20buy%20youth%20both%20sexes&f=false author "Samuel Johnson".
• v=onepage&q=tamou%20canton%20%20india%20wanted%20slaves%20tought%20found%20nursery%20buy%20youth%20both%20sexes&f=false editor "Alexander Chalmers".
• v=onepage&q=tamou%20canton%20%20india%20wanted%20slaves%20tought%20found%20nursery%20buy%20youth%20both%20sexes&f=false isCitedBy China–Portugal_relations.
• v=onepage&q=tamou%20canton%20%20india%20wanted%20slaves%20tought%20found%20nursery%20buy%20youth%20both%20sexes&f=false location "LONDON".
• v=onepage&q=tamou%20canton%20%20india%20wanted%20slaves%20tought%20found%20nursery%20buy%20youth%20both%20sexes&f=false page "559".
• v=onepage&q=tamou%20canton%20%20india%20wanted%20slaves%20tought%20found%20nursery%20buy%20youth%20both%20sexes&f=false publisher "J. Johnson".
• v=onepage&q=tamou%20canton%20%20india%20wanted%20slaves%20tought%20found%20nursery%20buy%20youth%20both%20sexes&f=false quote "•ommerce, a subject unworthy of grave history. The political philosopher, however, will esteem it of more importance, and will draw the best of precepts from it The king of Portugal, desirous of the trade of China, sent an ambassador and one of his captains to propose a commercial alliance. The ambassador was gladly received, and sent by land to Nankin, and the honourable behaviour of Pedro de Andrade gained the important traffic of the harbour of Canton. On this officer's return to India, Sequeyra the governor sent Simon de Andrade, brother to Pedro, with five ships to China; and whatever were his instructions, the absurdity of bis actions was only equalled by his gross insolence. As if he had arrived among beings of an inferior order, he assumed an authority like that which is claimed by man over the brute creation. He seized the island of Tamou, opposite to Canton. Here he erected a fort and a gallows ; and while he plundered the merchants, the wives and daughters of the principal inhabitants were dragged from their friends to his garrison, and the gibbet punished resistance. Nor did he stop even here. The Portuguese in India wanted slaves, and Andrade thought he had found the proper nursery. He published his design to buy the youth of both sexes, and in this inhuman traffic ha was supplied by the most profligate of the natives. These proceedings, hou ever, were soon known to tha emperor of China, and the Portuguese ambassador and his retinue died the death of spies. Andrade was attacked by the Chinese itao, or admiral, and escaped with much loss, by the favour of a tempest, after being forty days harassed by a fleet greatly superior to his own. Next year Alonzo de Melo, ignorant of these transactions, entered the harbour of Canton with four vessels. But his ships were instantly seized, and the crews massacred, as spies and robber?, by the enraged Chinese. And though the Portuguese afterwards were permitted to some trade with China, it was upon very restricted and disgraceful conditions1*, conditions which treated them as a nation of pirates, as men who were not to bs trusted unless fettered and watched. While Sequcyra was engaged in a second attempt upon Dio, Duarte de Menezes arrived in India, and succeeded him in office. Unmeaning slaughter on the coasts of Madagascar, the Red Sea, India, and the Maluco islands, comprise the whole history of his regency. About this time died Emmanuel, king of Portugal. If this history seem to arraign his government, it will also prove how difficult it is for the most vigilant prince always to receive just intelligence. For Emmanuel was both a great and a good king. Of great vigilance in council, of great magnanimity in the execution of all his enterprises: of great capacity in distinguishing the abilities of men, and naturally lilieral in the reward of merit. If such a prince as Emmanuel erred, if his administration of Indian affairs in any instance arraign his policy, let it thence be inferred, what exactitude of intelligence is necessary to the happy government of a distant colony. The trial-administration of Indian affairs was now the popular complaint at the court of Lisbon. Tha traffic of India, which had raised the caliphs of Egypt to the height of their formidable power, and which had enriched Venice, was now found scarcely sufficient to support the military method of commanding it, practised by the Portuguese. A general of t he first abilities was wanted, and the celebrated Vasco de Gama, old as he now was, honoured with the title of count de Vidigucyra, was appointed viceroy by John HI. In 1524, Gama arrived the third lime in India. Cochio, the, faithful ally, and chief trading port of the Portuguese, was threatened by a powerful army of the zamorim, and the Indian seas were infested by numberless fleets of the Moors, whom their enemies called pirates. To suppress these Gama sent different squadrons, which were successful in executing his orders. But while lie meditated far greater designs, designs of the same exalted and liberal policy which had been begun by himself, and so gloriously prosecuted by Albuquerque, death, at the end of t hree mouths, closed the regency of Gama. It was the custom of the kings of Portugal, to send commissions, or writs of succession, sealed up, to India, with orders which should be first opened when a successor to government was wanted. Gama, who brought with him three of these, finding the approach of dissolution, opened the first writ •» The Chinese had too much Dutch policy utterly to expel any merchandize from their harbours. A few days after this, the Portuguese, who bioughtgold from Africa and spicery from India, were allowed to purchase the silks, porcelain, and tea of China, at the port of Sanciam. And an event, which refutes all the Jesuitical accounts of the greatness of the power and perfection of the Chinese government, soon gave them a better settlement. A pirate named Tchang-si-lao made himself master of the little island of Macao. Here he built fleets which blocked up the ports of China, and laid siege to Canton itself. In this crisis of distress the Chinese implored the assistance of the Portuguese, whom they had lately expelled as the worst of mankind. Two or three Portuguese sloops effected what the potent empire of China could not do, and the island of Macao was given them by the emperor, in reward of this eminent service. The porcelain of China is not so brittle, nor the figures upon it mure awkward, than the Chinese strength and policy must appear in the light which this went throws upon thesa.".
• v=onepage&q=tamou%20canton%20%20india%20wanted%20slaves%20tought%20found%20nursery%20buy%20youth%20both%20sexes&f=false title "The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: including the series edited with prefaces, biographical and critical".
• v=onepage&q=tamou%20canton%20%20india%20wanted%20slaves%20tought%20found%20nursery%20buy%20youth%20both%20sexes&f=false url "http://books.google.com/books?id=xDcpAAAAYAAJ&q=tamou+canton+portuguese+india+wanted+slaves+tought+found+nursery+buy+youth+both+sexes#v=onepage&q=tamou%20canton%20%20india%20wanted%20slaves%20tought%20found%20nursery%20buy%20youth%20both%20sexes&f=false".
• v=onepage&q=tamou%20canton%20%20india%20wanted%20slaves%20tought%20found%20nursery%20buy%20youth%20both%20sexes&f=false volume "Volume 21 of The Works of the English Poets: From Chaucer to Cowper; Including the Series Edited, with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Dr. Samuel Johnson: and the Most Approved Translations".
• v=onepage&q=tamou%20canton%20%20india%20wanted%20slaves%20tought%20found%20nursery%20buy%20youth%20both%20sexes&f=false year "1810".