Japan and the Japanese

458 JAPAN. A. D. 1792-1817.
been obliged to contract for its sustenance. Ainslie was also to
remain as factory physician, but passing as an American.*
The cost of the cargoes, as given by Raffles, with freight and
charges, amounted to two hundred and seventy-three thousand one
hundred and fifty Spanish dollars. Out of the proceeds in Japan
had to be paid forty-eight thousand six hundred and forty-eight
dollars, debts of the factory ; and twenty-five thousand dollars foi
copper to make up the cargo, bought of Doeff at a higher rate than
was paid the Japanese. There were left at the factory four thou-
sand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars in cash, and fifteen thou-
sand dollars in woollens, and advances were made to persons on
board, to be repaid in Batavia, to the amount of three thousand six
hundred and seventy-eight dollars; thus swelling the whole expenses
to three hundred and seventy thousand one hundred and sixty-lour
dollars ; whereas the copper and camphor of the return
cargo, produced
only three hundred and forty-two thousand one hundred and
twenty-six dollars, thus leaving an outgo on the voyage of twenty-
eight thousand and thirty-eight dollars, which the credits in Japan
and Bataviu were hardiy sufficient to balance. These ships carried
out an elephant as a present to the emperor; but, though it excited
the dif-
great curiosity, the Japanese declined to receive it, alleging
ficulty of it
transporting to Jedo.
In 1814, a single ship was sent from Batavia with Heer Cassa
again on hoard. He brought tidings of the insurrection in Europe
against France, and relied upon the probable speedy restoration of
Java, as an argument for inducing Doeff to submit temporarily to
the
English, an object which Sir Stamford Raffles had very much
at heart. When Doeff refused, Cassa resorted to intrigue. He
gained over two of the interpreters, through whom he endeavored
to induce at Jedo a refusal to allow Doeff (whose term of office had
already been so unusually protracted) to remain any longer as
''This is Doeff 's account, but, according to Golownin, at that time a pris-
oner in the north of Japan (see next chapter), and who learnt from the Japanese
the arrival of the two vessels above mentioned, he communicated to the
Japanese the fict of the capture of Batavia by the English ; which fact, it
Was afterwards reporU-d to him, the Dutch had confessed. Raffles also, in
bis memoirs, in speaking of Ainslie and his good treatment by the Japanese,
slearly implies that he was known .1 be English.