Ambassades.

VESTALE.

Voir une lettre du Sr. De Guignes, gérant du Consulat de France à Canton, au Ministre de la Marine, Macao, du 20 Décembre 1788, dans le Vol. V, No. 77 des Papiers tirés des Archives des Affaires Etrangères, cités dans l'Introduction de la France en Chine, p. LXI, 6 Vol. in-fol. : INDES ORIENTALES, CHINE, COCHINCHINE.

Un grand nombre des pièces de cette Collection offrent le plus grand intérêt pour l'histoire des relations des Anglais avec les Chinois. Voir par exemple dans le Vol. VI, No. 37, une lettre de Canton, 25 Février 1809, dans laquelle est racontée l'expédition anglaise contre Macao en 1808.

SIR GEORGE LEONARD STAUNTON. -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 places where they stopped in their (VESTALE. LORD MACARTNEY: Staunton.)

way out and home; being the islands of Madeira, Teneriffe, and St. Jago; the port of Rio de Janeiro in South America; the islands of St. Helena, Tristan d'Acunha, and Amsterdam; the Coast of Java, and Sumatra, the Nanka Isles, Pulo Condore, and Cochin-China. Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Knight of the Bath, His Majesty's Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China; Sir Erasmus Gower, Commander of the Expedition, and of other Gentlemen in the several departments of the Embassy. By Sir George Staunton, Baronet... In two volumes, with engravings [in-4]; beside a folio Volume of Plates. London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. For G. Nicol.... MDCCXCVII [quelques-uns 1798]..

Vol. I, pp. XXXIV-518:

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Advertisement. Table of Contents of the First Volume. List of the Plates contained in the folio volume. A List of the Engravings contained in the two quarto volumes. - I. Occasion of the Embassy. II. Preparations for the Embassy. III. Passage to Madeira. Notices of that Island. IV. Passage to Teneriffe; To St. Jago. Notices of those islands. V. Passage of the Line. Course across the Atlantic. Harbour, City, and Country of Rio de Janeiro. VI. 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 of those of St. Paul and Amsterdam in the latter. VII. 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

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the Straits of Banka to Pulo-Condore. VIII. Cochin-China. IX. Passage to the Ladrone Islands near Macao; and thence to Chusan. Transactions and observations there. X. Navigation through the Yellow Sea. Embassador's entrance into the River leading to Tien-Sing.

Vol. II, pp. XX-626 : Table of Contents.

I. Progress of the Embassy along the River Peiho, towards the Capital of China. Departure of the Ships from the Gulf of Pe-che-lee. II. Embassy lands near Tong-choofoo; proceeds through Pekin to a palace in its neighbourhood. Returns to the Capital. III. 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. IV. Return to Pekin. Observations and occurrences there, and at Yuen-Min-Yuen. V. Departure from Pekin. Journey to Han-choo-foo, partly upon the Imperial Canal. VI. 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. VII. Residence of the Embassy at Canton, and at Macao. VIII. Passage to St. Helena; Notices of that Island. Return Home. Appendix.

L'Atlas (in-folio) contient 44 planches (cartes, plans et vues). Notice par E. C. Bridgman dans The Chinese Repository, II, pp. 337/350, réimp. dans The Cycle, 22 Oct. 1870.

Le compte-rendu de la réception à Péking de Lord Macartney est réimprimé d'après l'ouvrage de Staunton dans The N. C. Herald, No. 476, Sept. 10, 1859.

- 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... with notices of the several places where they stopped... 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, Baronet,... London, G. Nicol, MDCCXCVII, 3 vol. in-8.

Il y a une carte au commencement de chaque volume. Il y a une seconde édition, corrected, MDCCXCVIII, 3 vol. in-8, pp. XVI-429, XV-383, XVII-490.

A Journal of His Majesty's Ship Lion beginning the 1st of october 1792 and ending the 7th september 1794. British Museum, Ms. add. 21106; cf. Revue de l'Extrême-Orient, II, No. 4, 1884, p. 578.

C'est le journal de sir Erasmus Gower qui commandait le Lion, l'un des navires qui portaient lord Macartney et sa suite dans la première ambassade anglaise en Chine. Ce Ms. est un gr. in-folio de 157 ff. c. et on y a ajouté 29 dessins ou aquarelles. Nous extrayons cette petite note caractéristique à la date du samedi, 15 juin 1793, dans la baie de Tourane :

<< There is no attempting to give the Prices of any of the Productions that we met with, for the Chinese are the most notorious cheats, and the most difficult to deal with of any people in the world, they at first asked 25 spanish dollars, for a buffaloe, which we afterwards got for nine, the animal weighing when ready to be dressed from three to four hundredweight, and we latterly got 12 ducks for a dollar which at first we,paid the same price for four, everything else in proportion, except Pine Apples, which never exceeded a dollar for 100 and they were extremely good, their other fruits are Water Melons, Jacks, Cocoa Nuts, Limes and Bananas; there are very few vegetables, the sweet Potatoe, a very small Onion, Garlic, Cucumbers and Pumkins were the only ones we knew. >

- An Historical Account of the Embassy to the Emperor of China, undertaken by order of the King of Great Britain; including (LORD MACARTNEY: STAUNTON.)

An abridged account of the Embassy to the Emperor of China, undertaken by order of the King of Great Britain; including the Manners and Customs of the inhabitants; and preceded by an account of the causes of the Embassy and Voyage to China. Taken principally from the Papers of Earl Macartney, as compiled by Sir George Staunton, Bart. Secretary of Embassy to the Emperor of China, and Minister Plenipotentiary in the Absence of the Embassador. Embellished with a Frontispice by Stothard, and a Map of China, with the Track of the Lion, and Route of the Embassy. London: Printed for John Stockdale... 1797. Price 3s 6d in Boards. Pet. in-8, pp. XII-288.

Voyage dans l'intérieur de la Chine, et en Tartarie, Fait dans les Années 1792, 1793 et 1794, par Lord Macartney, Ambassadeur du Roi d'Angleterre auprès de l'Empereur de la Chine; Avec la relation de cette Ambassade, celle du Voyage entrepris à cette occasion par les Vaisseaux le Lion et l'Indostan, et des détails trèscurieux sur les Colonies Espagnoles, Portugaises et Hollandaises, où ces Vaisseaux ont relâché : Rédigés sur les Papiers de Lord Macartney, sur ceux de Sir Erasme Gower, Commandant de l'expédition, et des autres Personnes attachées à l'Ambassade; Par Sir George Staunton, de la Société royale de Londres, Secrétaire de l'Ambassade d'Angleterre, et Ministre plénipotentiaire auprès de l'Empereur de la Chine Traduit de l'Anglais, avec des Notes, par J. Castéra. Avec des Figures et Cartes gravées en taille-douce. A Paris, Chez F. Buisson... An 6 de la République (1798). 4 vol. in-8, pp. vш-515,412,399,526.

Le quatrième volume se termine par une « Table générale et raisonnée des Matières», pp. 257/326.

Not. sig. A. J. D. B. dans le Mag. Enc., 1798, I, pp. 466/9.