As the British became more established in Far Eastern waters they saw little need to learn Chinese themselves. Seeing how Koxinga, the Ming loyalist, had displaced the Dutch from Taiwan, they thought his successor might reconquer the mainland and accordingly sent a letter in English in the name of King Charles Ⅱ to the "King of Tywan".
等到他們在遠東海域的勢力愈趨穩定之後，即認為「並無學習中文之必要」；直到國姓爺一舉在台灣趕走了荷蘭人，還揚言反清復明，英王查爾斯二世才又忙著寫了封英文信給「台灣國王（King of Tywan）」。