A Narrative of the British Embassy to China, in the Years 1792, 1793, and 1794: Containing the Various Circumstances of the Embassy, With Accounts of ... of the Country, Towns, Cities, &c., &c - Softcover

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Excerpt from A Narrative of the British Embassy to China, in the Years 1792, 1793, and 1794: Containing the Various Circumstances of the Embassy, With Accounts of Customs and Manners of the Chinese; And a Description of the Country, Towns, Cities, &C., &C

The wife attentions of government were not, however, to be turned afide from fuch an important, national object as a commercial alliance between the Courts of London and Pekin: the character of Ambafiador to China was accordingly revived, with additional fplendor, in the per fon of Earl Macartney; and an embafl'y was re-appointed in fuch a manner as became the empire it was to repre fent - and the empire before which it was to appear.

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