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.
Publisher: W. Bulmer & Co
Published: 1797
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: China -- Description and travel -- To 1900.; China -- Foreignrelations -- Great Britain.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- China.