General Intelligence: War With The English And Japanese

No soonerhivc tlio Englisli seeurod to themclvera lirm Fctoting in t!-e "Ceiestiül" Empire. Imn ihey discover th.it Uu íich country ol Jopan vould be an admirable ground (o aitcinpt a lootng.ilso; recent ftiilures of líritisli inerchants to negoiiaie íor a commercial iutercourse. nnl úcrniyiiig an English brig, ihrce ycars ago, at Tapan, nave detennined the English to insist on a commercial treaty after hc most approved pacific inanner, so successfully practiced in China. Vv ■ would not be (he least surpris id to soe. withn the present year, the Enst India Heet dmxnd eparation for losses and inautts, (rea! or imagiinry) and iftbey be rcsisieJ, (as of conrsc (li'ey víll I be.,) con menee nn attack and forcé opeñ he Japanesc porte, iliat liave been closed iwo íundred years. Aíier India and China. Japan may rank tlio hírd country in importance l'or European Ínter eourse. At present the Japanese are independnt of rvery foreigh pqWer. Thcir religión 3 the wdrehip of Idols - tlu-y 1 ive gold in the grentëst abitmlanee. its aonrcèa erig inexhniistnbie; Uie entice roofa of the p.ita:es. - aceording to whnt we are told by those who lavo neress to ihe pilace. aro covored with plum& 'f gold, in the same manner as we cover 'ousp, or moro pioperly chnrchcs, with lend. "he Islan.is'abound in pearls of largo sizos. of a ink or red color, exceeding in valué tlnt'of the vhite. Kaempfer compares the anpcaronce of tlie apáñese Jslands to the British" lslands- the foríer lying II the coast of Asia; in each group íeie is one large or chiefísland, containing the rincipal. constttuting the inain body of iho'fem)iic. The populatioti is about tweiuy five millotiR- the nnmber of Islanc's composing the emrebl Jupan is unknown; the three principal nes are Kiousion. Sitkof. and Niphor., the lareat; Thes: cover as niany deereea öf latitude froni North to South as do the British fslands. and contain about onc liundrcd and sixty thoiusandsq.iare gíiJes. So carly as 16:50 t!iu Dutch had U feciöry establishment. In IC38, disscniiona líóvmg occurred with the Dutch nnd the Japanese uil forefrJfrs from that pcriod have been den.cd commercial tbm The Pon ügureb. Duicí, Englmh une Russ.nns have in vain aifempted ló coqcihate tlie nuihoi tiesto admit their véasele I he enineror mainmitisa tJetermined and rígurous non-intercouisesysrem: the comrnerce ofihc JopaneBewcntirely imo.nal: huí wffl.in porfanpa a year the .Jiriiisl, ,l5ay add MJannfl" (o iheir Z.