39
to make
a.
ravenous attack.
The Ecclesiastical endowment,
well des...
The great property of its Subjects both at home and in the Colonies; and the
richest Merchant of Macao almost
the only
one that deserved the
sole refuge in London,
where he now lives. The remaining property of the place was
dependent on the English residents,
who rented the best houses
there;
and spent their money when the expulsion of the British trade from Canton in 1839, and the necessity of
warehousing our Merchant's Goods,
gave a
short-lived prosperity to
Macao, which, like the
free, was
surprised by
the
20.
But at the
very
moment when:
greatly benefited by the connexion, and when they had the opportunity of asserting their independence
of the Chinese would have been promptly met by British
co-operation, the Portuguese silently acquiesced in the hostile preparations of Commissioner Lin's persons of the Bogue, and when Capt. Smith made his well-timed attack on the Chinese force at the Barrier Wall, a portion of the Enemy's Troops marched from
the