Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Complete View of the Chinese Empire: Exhibited in a Geographical Description of That Country, a Dissertation on Its Antiquity, and a Genuine and Copious Account of Earl Macartney's Embassy From the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China
The general curiosity excited by tbc publication of an autbentic account of Earl Macartney's Embassy to Cbina bas induced tbe Editor to compile tbe' present volume, wbicb will be found to give a better and more copious account of tbat Empire tban bas bitberto ap peared. T be ?imsy abridgem'�n ts cf Sir George Staun ton's work give but a very ind 'i?'erent view, either of ibe Mission itself, or tbe obje�i's of it.
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