Remarks on Boar a Ship Lion.
% 1795- -. Light breezes... Received wafer. A. M . Sail-makers as before ;
December? gunners thumming a fcreen for the , magazine ; faluted a . mandarin
- qfthe firft ^ e r . with 3 guns on his coming-on board. ^
Thurfday 19. "Weather as yefterday. Spufed a mandarin with 3 gims.;ôh,'his leaving
the lhip ; palled by a lhip under Ehglilh colours? A. M. Arrived
4 Ihips bound to Canton* viz. Ceres, Abergavenny, Ofterley, and
. j[.: fent a boat on board them.
Fridayao. Light breezes and clear. People*-making Hoppers; faiîrn?akers repairing
the Clarence’s forertop-lkil : exêrcijêd the gtais. '
Saturday 21. Moderate and cloudy. Got the guns out of the cahbin, completed 6
on the quarter deck and 2 on the f^re-caftle. A. M. Half-paft 9
weighed with a pilot on board to take us/up the river; received
io53lhs. frelh beef._. ..
gunday **. Light breezes and cloudy. Employed working through, the Bocca
Tigris; 2 fqrts lalut^^us^with.34guns 'eaeh, ^ retuEned equal
- ; number, they likewise difplayed the colours over the guns and drew
themfelves up in ranks : at 5 Ihortencd fad, and came to with the
fmall bower in 5 fathoms water, veered: | o f a. , cable, the north
point offikctop iflmd N.'Nr W . a pagoda pn the.faid ifland N. W.
A .M , Sail-makers making a poop awning; people making • $op-,
pers.
Monday 23. Light breezes,and clear- P. M. \^ighed and. made fail, half-paft 2
anchored with the fmall bower in 61 / fathoms : veered | o f a
câble, the north pqint o f Sketop ifland ,N. N. W. | W. A. M-Sit,
3 weighed, out all boats to tow, which were affilied by 19 Chinefe
boats with another tow-rope; half-paft 3 crofted the bar between
2 lines o f boats full o f lights ; half-paft 7 came to with the Igaall
bower in 6 fathoms ;/, veered away and moored lhip S. W. by S.
and N. E . by N. a cable on the fmall bower to the ebb and | a cable
to the flood, a fquare pagoda S’. E. off fhore i | cable, Wampoa
town W. S. W, 2 miles ; found here the Hindoftan, Royal Charlotte,
Ofterley, Çejes, Earl o f Abergavenny, and Lord Thurldw,
Englifh Indiamen ; Jackall,^ Company ’s mariné, and 2 Americans ;
received on board wood.
4
At anchor in
Wampoa river.
Light
: 'Ren^rks\nBoarS)hi^l^aj6^^^M>lp£ion} inWampoa River. -
Light breezes--and^clear. I) P. MfpEmployed occasionally. i A. Ml
.Read Mr. Ommaney’-sf comroiffiom from the ILoxdsi of dm Admi-
ralty as’ lthEieutehant, but,?as Liefi# do x ’s'commfftian- was-va-~
g carit,'- Capt.' Gpwer or'de^d hfm<to adfc- a ^ th j readme; orders and
Mr. Tippet’s afting order as £tny. likfewife Mr. Wk rum's as.|6th,
alfolthe articles off War,''and Cap!/ Ghwer’s; oiders;-to,, the ftiip’s
company-: waflied'ft ecks> arrived the Glattoai.ff,
Weather aslefoye. People'employgdocc.aftonaljy^s A. M. 'Received
7t5"lte.< o f frelh’beef: at’ho'onlpart M'ihe Aoldie^s; that attended fbfc
■ -Ambaflador to Pekin .returned onboard.’ v r
Ditto wither . P. M. and , A . M? Carpenters fixing; fpait rabbins
under the half deck.
lightbrfeefckandhadyC P. M. 'Employedfoccalidn'ally: Aj.NL.lgeo-
• pe-ftiiking' ^lipe ; iame along^fideTeterd’'COi4tt|',|)o|Ct's w^th, the
Amhaffador’s' baggage' and’. 73 chqfts b f’p ^ i t s Sir tfiSj Ship's
■ “ Company from the’Emperor of Chiba«.’>
Moder^tef'aM-hfoudy^u P. M.'^eceived "watp;, employed Rowing
• the Aitibaffador’s wide;' puniftied ,Kter Alhtom'atp Richard Gur,
feamen, with fa laihes each;.'for dHobed'ience of Riders ; Richard
" Manning, Wm. Tipple.-'Roberf1 Edwards, .and John- Hoganfffea-
/men, with 12 lafhescach, fobdilbbedience and dmnkenpefs.j.w
LigfetWdrel; and hazy. ' Employed flowing the after-ihqld. A i.M .
Receiveft^p^lbs? -frelh beef.- &
Ditto w eatfef/rP .'M. Manned lhip dor htY Excellency. Vifcouflt
Matartrrey, as^ did - the Hindoftan’ and Clarence: his-- Excellency
■ was:, cheered, "by all the Ihips as he gaffedV. atm-he came on board,
'1 -%t 5 h'e left the lhip. A. M-. Employed fleeting the riggihg * q>U-
niflhed James Hervey and John Evans, /earned," with xa laihes each,
•': fo'ffdifobedience oferderl. •J*'
Light breezes’aiid fair;’ Employed fettingup rigging, and in the a-fter-
hold: " cleared haufe; fent 13 talks of beef and 7 o f .pork on-board
the Hindoftan. A . M. Arrived the Lord Walfingham from England
: fent ,30 calks -of beef and 25 of pork on board the Warley ;
employed in the hold.
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^December.
Tuefday WM*
Wednesday
Thurfday 26.
Friday
.Saturday a 8.
Sunday zg?
| Monday -:0 *
Tuefday 31»
Light