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Travels in China: Containing Descriptions, Observations and by John, Sir, Barrow

By John, Sir, Barrow

In 1792, a British embassy headed by way of Earl Macartney travelled from Peking (Beijing), China, to Canton (Guangzou) with the purpose of enhancing exchange with China. the total account of the challenge was once recorded through the Earl's deepest secretary, Sir John Barrow, in Travels in China (1804), a piece meant to 'shew this outstanding humans of their right shades' in addition to to 'divest the court docket of the tinsel and tawdry varish' which Barrow idea that missionary debts promoted. either a paean to British imperial objectives and a compelling instance of early nineteenth-century go back and forth literature, Travels in China provides an account of chinese language executive, exchange, undefined, and cultural and non secular practices in the course of the eyes of 1 of England's so much ardent expansionists. Barrow may cross directly to write an account of the mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty (1831), yet Travels in China remained by way of a ways the extra major paintings in his lifetime.

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Hard ftruggle between perfonal pride, and national importance, before they refolved to reject fo fair a propofal, and confent to wave a ceremony which had never, on any former occafion, been difpenfed with. It is eafy to conceive how ftrong an impreflion the refufal of an individual to comply with the ceremonies of the country was likely to make on the minds of the Emperor and his court: how much they muft have fuffered in their own opinion, and how greatly muft their pride have been mortified, to find that by no trick, nor artifice, nor ftretch of power, could they prevail on an Englifh Embaffador to forego the dignity and refpect due to the fituation he held at their court, whither they were now convinced he had not come, as was fignified in painted letters on the colours of the (hips that tranfported the embaffy up the Pei-ba, " to offer tribute to the Emperor of " China:1 With regard to the intrigues of the Portugueze miflionary, mentioned in Mr.

Yet, they did not venture to lodge the latter in a liable, nor think proper to perfevere in demanding unreafonable homage. Neither was any pique or ill-nature apparent in any fingle inftance, after the departure of the embaffy from the capital, but very much the contrary. The officers appointed to conduct it to Canton teftified the mod earned defire to pleafe, by a ready attention to every minute circumftance that might add to the comforts of the travellers, or alleviate, if not entirely remove, any little inconvenience.

May he govern his people with wifdom; and give his fole attention to this grand object, acting always with an upright and fincere heart: and, laftly, may he always cherifh the recollection of my beneficence! May this King attentively watch over the affairs of his kingdom. I recommend it to him ftrongly and earneftly. " The very different treatment which the Englifh embafTy received at the court of Pekin is eafily explained. The Chinefe are well informed of the fuperiority of the Englifh over all other nations by fea; of the great extent of their commerce ; of their vaft pofleffions in India which they have long regarded with a jealous eye; and of the character and independent fpirit of the nation.

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