HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
where he was saluted with the usual 
honours, and proceeded directly 
towards Tong-choo-foo, in order 
to re-embark on the Pei-ho, on his 
return to Britain. 
It is superfluous to inform our 
readers, that in this account we 
have chiefly followed that compos- 
ed by Sir George Staunton, Secre- 
tary to the Embassy, published at 
an expence, and with a magnifi- 
cence corresponding with the 
splendor of the embassy ; and re- 
presenting all things in the most 
favourable point of view in which 
they can be considered; compared 
and somewhat modified by the nar- 
rative of Mr. Anderson, steward to 
the embassy; which sometimes no- 
tices certain humiliating circum- 
stances not recorded in the other; 
but both concurring in their ac- 
count of all that is of importance. 
From the testimony of these 
respectable writers, sufficient of 
itself, if it were not supported by 
the collateral evidence of others 
engaged in the same expedition, 
the history of Lord Macartney’s 
embassy to China appears to be 
briefly this:—That the Ambassador 
and his suite were received with 
the utmost politeness; treated with 
the utilise hospitality ;_ watched, 
not to say confined, with the ut- 
most vigilance; and dismissed with 
the utmost civility. 
Though it be not probable that 
any embassy will be sent in future 
from London to Pekin for commer- 
cial purpeses, it is not impossible 
that embassies of another kind may 
one day arise out of the constant 
approximation of the Chinese 
and British territories and depend. 
encies in India, on the side of Thi- 
bet. 
In the contest above mentioned, 
between the Emperor of China, 
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on the part of the Grand Lama and 
the Rajah of Napaul, the Chinese 
General had at first threatened to 
exterminate the Rajah’s race, and 
to add his dominions to those of 
China; which would have brought 
the Chinese frontiers into immedi- 
ate contact with those of Hindostan. 
But dreading, very probably, oppo- 
sition from the English, he affected 
to procure a pardon from the Em- 
peror to the Rajah, on the score of 
his country’s being of small extent, 
and its inhabitants of .a foreign 
tribe, on his consenting to pay a 
fixed tribute, and other conditions. 
But over the Soobah, or country of 
Lessa, which he came to protect for 
the spiritual chief, he placed a tem- 
poral governor, to whom he com- 
mitted the care of all affairs, civil 
and political; alleging, “ that the 
territory of Lassa had, for a great 
length of time, been in the PoOsses- 
sion of the imperial throne, and so 
should always remain;” so that it 
would seem that religious, faith, 
and a respect to the inheritance of 
popes, has greatly declined in China 
as well as in Europe. 
Between the advanced frontier 
of the Chinese empire and that of 
the British possessionsin Hindostan, 
there now intervenes only a narrow 
territory, about one degree of lati- 
tude, part of which constitutes Ne- 
paul. Should an interference take 
place in future, it is observed by Sir 
George Staunton, on the part of his 
Imperial Majesty, in the dissensions 
which frequently arise between the 
princes possessing the countries ly- 
ing along the eastern limits of Hin- 
dostan, as has happened of late with 
regard to its northern neighbours, 
there may be occasion for not a lit- 
tle discussion and explanation be- 
tween the governments of Great 
Britain and China, 
OH AP. 
