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THE capture of Pondicherry in 1793 having delayed the remittance of the cuf-tomary funds for the maintenance of the French eftablifhment at Canton, as well forthat as the fucceeding years, I determined, as before obferved, on failing to the Ifleof France in 1796, in view of obtaining there the payment of my arrears. Deceived'in my expe&ations from this quarter, the laws of the ifland not allowing the emiffion,of money for any purpofe foreign to the fervice of the colony, I was indebted whollyto the kindnefs of M. de Malartie, the governor, and M. Dupuy, the intendant, fora fmall loan of four hundred dollars, which enabled me to return to China at theclofe of 1796, but was infufficient to maintain me at the refidence. I therefore, in1 797 > again left Canton for the Ifle of France , as I had there a better chance than atCanton of receiving advices from the minifter, to whom I had already written, and towhom I again wrote on my arrival, requefting a remittance of funds in cafe of mycontinuance in China, or an order for my return to Europe .
After refidence of three years at the Ifle of France in continual expectation of an.anfwer, receiving none, I refolved on leaving that colony, and quitted it 2ill March1801, on board a Danifh fhip. We loft fight of land the 23d, and on the 12th ofApril palled Eel Bank (Le Banc des Aiquilles) in latitude thirty-fix degrees fourteenminutes. The fear of meeting with cruifers prevented our making the Cape of GoodHope, St. Helena, the ifland of Afcenfion, or the Azores , fo that the firft land we defcriedafter palling north of Ireland and Scotland was the northern part of the ifland ofRonaldlha : at length, on 11 th June we anchored in Norway at Fleckerhoe, a fhortdiftance from Chriftianfand, after a palfage of two months and nineteen days.
The Englilh being at war with the Danes I took my palfage in a floop of this laftnation j after traverfing the Categat, coafting along Jutland, and a portion of Fionia, .
I arrived at Korfer, whence I repaired to Copenhagen ; I left this city after a fhorttime for Holland, and thence repaired to Paris , where I arrived 4th Auguft 1801, afteran abfence of feventeen years.