An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China
Subtitle: including cursory observations made, and information obtained in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary. Together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion of His Majesty's ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan, in the East India company's service, to the Yellow sea, and Gulf of Pekin; as well as of their return to Europe ...
By: Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney ... Sir Erasmus Gower ... and of other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy. By Sir George Staunton ...
Contributors: Gower, Erasmus, Sir, 1742-1814; Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806; Alexander, William, 1767-1816, artist; Hickey, Thomas, 1741-1824, artist; Collyer, Joseph, 1748-1827, engraver; Hall, John, 1739-1797, engraver; Nicol, G. (George), 1740?-1828, bookseller; W. Bulmer and Co
Publisher: G. Nicol
Published: 1797
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Description and travel; Foreign relations; Travel; Early works to 1800; Politics and government; Voyages and travels
Notes: ESTC, T108299.
Table of contents: title: Volume 1. Occasion of the Embassy ; Preparations for the Embassy ; Passage to Madeira. Notices of that island ; Passage to Teneriffe, to St. Jago. Notices of those islands ; Passage of the line. Course across the Atlantic. Harbour, city, and country of Rio de Janeiro ; Passage to the southern part of the Atlantic, and of the Indian Ocean. View of the islands of Tristan D'Acunha in the former and those of St. Paul and Amsterdam in the latter ; Entrance into the Straits of Sunda. Visit to Batavia and Bantam in the island of Java. View of the southern extremity of the island of Sumatra. Passage through the Straits of Banka to Pulo-Condore ; Cochin-China ; Passage to the Ladrone Islands near Macao, and thence to Chu-San. Transactions and observations there ; Navigation through the Yellow Sea. Embassador's entrance into the river leading to Tien-Sing; title: Volume 2. Progress of the Embassy along the River Pei-Ho, towards the capital of China. Departure of the ships from the Gulf of Pe-Che-Lee ; Embassy lands near Tong-Choo-Foo, proceeds through Pekin to a palace in its neighbourhood. Returns to the capital ; Journey to the northern frontier of China. View of the Great Wall. Visit to the Emperor's court at his summer's residence in Tartary ; Return to Pekin. Observations and occurrences there, and at Yuen-Min-Yuen ; Departure from Pekin. Journey to Han-Choo-Foo, partly upon the Imperial Canal ; Han-Choo-Foo. Journey from thence to Chu-San and also to Canton. Passage of the Lion and Hindostan from the former to the latter ; Residence of the Embassy at Canton, and at Macao ; Passage to St. Helena. Notices of that island.; title: Return home ; Appendix I: Table of the population and extent of China proper, within the Great Wall, taken in round numbers from the statements of Chow-ta-Zhin ; Appendix II: Acount of revenue received into the Imperial Treasury at Pekin, from the different Provinces of China proper, taken from the same ; Appendix III: A list of the chief civil officers of China, distinguishing their number, station, and salaries ; Appendix IV: A list of the chief military officers of China, their number, rank, and salaries ; Appendix V: Trade of the English and other Europeans to, and from, China ; Appendix VI: Account of teas exported from China to Europe in foreign and English ships, the former from the diaries transmitted to England by the English supercargoes, the latter from the invoices of ships arrived safe ; Appendix VII: An account of the quantities of teas exported from China, in English and foreign ships, in each year from 1776,; title: distinguishing each year ; Appendix VIII: An account of the amount of goods and bullion exported by the East India Company to China, in each year from 1775 to 1795 inclusive, distinguishing the amount of goods and bullion in each year ; Appendix IX: An account of the number of ships, with the number of tons, builders' measurement of said ships, arrived from China in 1776 and following years, distinguishing each year ; Appendix X: An account of the quantities of teas sold by the East India Company since the Commutation Act commenced, including private trade, viz. from the 1st September, 1784 to the 1st March, 1797, with a comparison of what the same would have cost the buyers at the sale prices and duties previous to the Commutation Act. Also an account of the King's duty on teas sold between the 1st September, 1784 and the 1st March, 1797.