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Show ------ ----------- An Embaffage to the Ey, perour o come the Suprea Legiflatives of ¢ bufinefs of cthe Country i in queftion, and whereo hath ledge, though it be bu {mall, and fuch only that the wil give him addref: to hi Majefty about, and fuch as ay be eafic and fafe 5 but reign bufihc? ;] hath no knowledge | at all, ¢l :the have finifhed Ldt 5 nor wa danger to move the Empero it a thing of [jPel r in, left th provoke envy an y who favoured the Hollande to plead, that what Father Fob and we di covetoulne(s to defame the H llanders,. becaufe v Trade of Canton in th hands of the Portuguefie r ons, who proba cxdudin all other Ny ly might be more ad ous to this Empire ftanding all which, Father nom'i‘t}‘dans did adventure to fpea to the Emperoyr ".1,]( was always/ highlyW P pleafed t fayour him . and now to and for his {ake to inéline to tertain his Motion God o ¢q ftop the mouth of all gain-fayers, tha none durft open after to Father Fohn Valleat Your Lordfl)ip owes muc who although he coul egotiate with any abroa of the Palace (as he wif oy ed) was ye in his conftant folicitati Father Fobn Adam, exh n o rting to improve his int reft i the Emperour abou bufinefs, and fuggefii g many reafons to hi iblenefs; and what he d hereinl; we have extra&e out of an Epiftle from to Father Vifidore, as fo loweth The 13. of thisprefent F ebruary I was with the Emperour, who (according to his wont jto honou eing pleafe me with familjar difcourfe,amon the other Sub jedts, he fell upon the Hollanders which fave me occafion to Paint hem in thei lively Colours, and particularly o admonifh the Emperour of tha great| ye,wherewith they had armed themfelves u on their coming hither, in the pro d boaftin of the largenefs of their Dominion » a5 if they had been legal and antien of great Territories, when they the truth 15, were but violent po lours of {mall part of a Countrey, which the at firft had Trayteroufly ufurped, and inc Rebellioufly defended from thejr la ful Soveraign 3 "and thereupon bein Vaga bonds of the Sea, fecking Rapine the e from all people, to furnifh themfelve for maintenance of their Rebellion a home: whereto his Majefty expreffed hi credit, by telling me that two years finc upon their profferatit, he had denie them entrance into his Countrey, and tha he knew not now how they had obtaife it ; fignifying that ‘twas either of egligence, or {urreptitious dealing s Officers 3 which Linterpreted to him to be th bribing thofe of Canton 3 however fince there was a Licenf {ent them for their coming to Co beft waywas t admit them, becaufe ¢ would feem lig t now to revoke it : only he fhould b cautious how he granted the any Commerce in his Countrey5 for where cr they could but once get footing, the immediately fo fortified themfelyes, tha there was then no expulfion of them, no preferving the adjacent parts from bein infefted with them. The Emperour was ve y well pleafed at my information, n::_ red inits proper feafon Few days after the » I was fummoned by the Mandprines to b prelenitn the Tribunal, Propofals, and to give my judgment up ppearing there were twenty Dutchmen reof, ter de Goyer, and Facob de It eyfer, were th chief, whom the Tartars called Co pim, thatis Captain, and (hewed them a fair refpe they faluted me very civill after the European fafhjon, calling me by my name,wh earned in Ca7to or Couchinchina Here they prelently produced man Boxesan Fardels which they opencdfbf or |