Japan and the Japanese

CHAPTER XLV.
8ENEWAL OF THE DUTCH TRADE. CAPTAIN GORDON IN THE BAY OF TEIHJ
FISSCHER. MEYLAN. SIEBOLD. BRITISH MUTINEERS. VOYAGE OJ
THE MORRISON. JAPANESE EDICT. THE SARAMANG AT NAGASAKI.
THE MERCATOR IN THE BAY OF JEDO. COMMODORE BIDDLE IN THE BAY
OF JEDO. SHIPWRECKED AMERICANS. FRENCH SHIPS OF WAR AT NA-
GASAKI. THE PRKBLE AT NAGASAKI. SURVEYING SHIP MARINER IN
THE BAYS OF JEDO AND SIMODA. NEW NOTIFICATION THROUGH THE
DUTCH. A. D. 1317135,).
GREAT was the delight of Hecr Doeff, when, in the year 1817, two
vessels arrived at last from Batavia, bringing news of its restoration
to the Dutch ; also what was hardly less welcome a supply of
butter, wine, and other European creature comforts ; together with
goods for renewing the trade, and a decoration of the order of the
Lion for Doeff, whose conduct in holding out against
the
English
had been highly approved in Holland.
On board these ships were several women, among others the wife
of Herr Blomhoff, appointed to succeed Doeff as director, who had
with her an infant child. This novelty greatly disturbed the Japanese.
It was with the utmost difficulty that permission was ob-
tained for the wife of the new director to land ;
her remaining was a
thing not to be listened to, and she was obliged to leave her husband
and to return to Batavia in the departing ships.*
Shortly after this renewal of the old Dutch intercourse, a new
English attempt was made at commerce with Japan. Captain
* The old East India Company having become extinct, the Dutch trade to
Japan had been revived as a government
nftair. A new Dutch East India
Company having been formed, it was handed over to that company in 1827,
but, after a two years' trial, was restored again to the government, in whos
hands it still remains.