Indian Antiquary Vol 62

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
I MAY, 1933
in the same coyn. When th[ely send to the Coast of Bengale, thyle allways play these tricks. Cardoso, Master of the last ship from Madras,() has an adventure of the Honble. Governor Hastings with an other sent to me and Mr. Hanson() by the first ship. We have orders to send the produce of both to Mr. Scatergood. Wee left no stone unturned to procure to com. ply, but to no purpose. Notwithstanding, Mr. Hanson and I, we send you fifteen hundred dollars China weigh(t), which is lesse by teale (tale), as per bill of leading, which be pleased to invest in gould for his account. We are all so poor that we could not do better. As for my part, I am actually paying two per cent land interest this long time and no remedy to the contrary.
Ile be obliged to you if you send me via Macao the newes you have of plejace in Europe. I hope youle pardon my bad stile in English, being the best I can afford, as allso to be assured, I am Sirs, Yours most humble and obedient servant
ANTO. BARNEVALL(6) Mr. Benyon allso desirs me to suply Cardozo with some silver to send you to China. I wish in my hart I could suply his request but being imposseble I hope heel excuse me.
[NOTES ON DOCUMENT No. 122.) (1) The Santa (or Sancta) Cruz, Agha Nori owner, arrived at Fort St. George from Pogu on 16 April 1720 (Fort St. George Diary) and must have sailed for Manila shortly after.
(2) Hanoi. () The Marianne or Ladrone Islands seem to be meant. (*) The Trepopilore. See Document No. 121. (5) This individual has not been identified. (6) The name of the ship commanded by Antonio Barnevall does not appear.
In November 1720, when Scattergood received the above letters in Canton, he was busily occupied in getting his private trade aboard the Prince Eugene for Ostend. There are numer. ous receipts by James Tobin, her chief supercargo, for taffaties and other goods to be disposed of on arrival in Europe. In return, Scattergood received from Tobin various consignments that he had not had time to dispose of in China, and gave an undertaking to invest the produce of the same in China products and remit them on Tobin's account to the commanders of the next Ostend ships to arrive.
A receipt from Captain Josiah Thwaites of the Carnarvon for a “shoe of gold" to be delivered to Mrs. Torriano in London and a long list of "goods sent home from China", through the various commanders and supercargoes, to Scattergood's relations and friends in England are all the documents extant that give any hint of his proceedings after December 1720. There is no record of the sailing of the Bonita from Canton, nor of her arrivalat Malacca, beyond endorsements on a couple of letters noting their receipt at the latter place on 29 January. Scattergood's stay at Malacca could not have been protracted, for the Bonita and her supercargoes arrived at Madras on 26 February 1720/1 (Fort St. George Diary). Here Scattergood and Harris appear to have parted company, for the latter petitioned and obtain. ed permission to return to Europe in one of the ships bound home in December 1721 (Consultation of 18 December).
The Papers give no information of Scattergood's movements in Madras nor of his de parture thence in the Bonita with Captain Harry for his sixth voyage to China. That he could not have remained long in Fort St. George is evident from an “Account sale of gundries left with me by Mr. John Scattergood to be dispos'd of for his account "dated 28 February 1720/1 and signed by his attornoy George Torriano.