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 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 ... 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, Band 3G. Nicol, 1797 |
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Seite 38 - This mode of reception of the representative of the King of Great Britain, was considered by the Chinese court, as particularly honourable and distinguished : embassadors being seldom received by the Emperor on his throne, or their credentials delivered by them into his own hands, but into that of one of 'his courtiers. These distinctions, so little material in themselves, were however understood by this refined people as significant of a change in the opinions of their government in respect to the...
Seite 63 - The princes, tributaries, embassadors, great officers of state, and principal mandarines, were assembled in a vast hall ; and upon particular notice, were introduced into an inner building, bearing, at least, the semblance of a temple. It was chiefly furnished with great instruments of music, among which were sets of cylindrical bells, suspended in a line from ornamented frames of wood, and gradually diminishing in size from one extremity •to the other, and also triangular pieces of metal arranged...
Seite 336 - ... reaching the outer rim, and those proceeding from the exterior extremity of the same axis reaching the inner and smaller rim. Between the rims and the crossings of the spokes is woven a kind of close basket-work, serving as ladle-boards...
Seite 314 - These arms are shaped like the letter T, and made round and smooth for the foot to rest upon. The axis turns upon two upright pieces of wood, kept steady by a pole stretched across them. The machine being fixed, men treading upon the projecting arms of the axis, and supporting themselves...
Seite 35 - He wai clad in plain dark filk, with a velvet bonnet, in form not much different from the bonnet of Scotch Highlanders; on the front of it was placed a large pearl, which was the only jewel or ornament he appeared to have about him.
Seite 309 - The Chinese husbandman always steeps the seeds he intends to sow in liquid manure until they swell, and germination begins to appear, which experience...
Seite 37 - Embassador, instructed by the president of the tribunal of rites, held the large and magnificent square box of gold, adorned with jewels, in which was inclosed his Majesty's letter to the Emperor, between both hands lifted above his head ; and in that manner ascending the few steps that led to the throne, and bending on one knee, presented the box, with a short adress, to his Imperial Majesty...
Seite 64 - ... were much pleased with their execution. The whole had indeed a grand effect. During the performance, and at particular signals, nine times repeated, all the persons present prostrated themselves nine times, except the ambassador and his suite, who made a profound obeisance. But he whom it was meant to honour continued, as if it were in imitation of the Deity, invisible the whole time. The awful impression...
Seite 216 - ... by an embankment, lightly ploughed and harrowed, and the grain, previously steeped in dung diluted with animal water, is then sown very thickly on it. A thin sheet of water is immediately brought over it, either by a stream or the chainpump.
Seite 25 - Colao gave not the least opening to be more particular in the disavowal of any aid against the people of Thibet. His Excellency found it necessary to use great tenderness, and many qualified expressions, in conveying any idea that a connection between Great Britain and China could be of any importance to the latter, either by the introduction of European commodities, of which taken in barter, the necessity was not felt ; or by the supply of cotton or of rice from India, which some of the Chinese...