An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China; 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 by 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; with notices of the several biblio_places where they stopped in their way out and home; ... 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, ... In three volumes. Printed for G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, Pall- Mall.