Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The London Review of English and Foreign Literature, 1779, Vol. 8
During Sa's government, the coafling trade of the private adventurers became more and more piratical, and continually gave birth to an endlefs fucce?ion of petty, but bloody wars. Though the king of'cochin had ever been the faithful ally of Portugal. Cabral ordered, without even the pretence of com plaint, one of his richell pagodas' to be plundered. This at tempt, in the true fpirit of the private traders, was defeated but the royal monopoly, already mil'erably inadequate both to its means and objeét, fallen-d by this breach of faith. It was the carafe, fays Faria, that the homeward ?eet, of only three lhips, fct out ill laden, and late in the feafon, when the tempel'ls were coming on.
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