Series 12.06: 'Copy of the Postscript of a Letter from the Select Committee of Supra Cargos at Canton in China to the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated the 5th of December 1779', 5 December 1779 - No. 0001

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Copy of the Postcript of a Letter from the Select Committee of Supra Cargos at Canton in China to the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated the 5th of December 1779.

We received Letters this Morning from the Captains Gore & King, of His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery acquainting us they were arrived off Macao after a voyage of three Years from The Cape of Good Hope, and that they were in want of Stores and Provisions - They take no notice, either of the Death of Capt Cooke or Capt Clarke 

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