Retrope? of Domeftic Literature.—Vayages, Travels, and Tours. 603 
ftate of Indian affairs, is conduéted after 
the manner of the Englifh Annual Re- 
gifter: itexhibits tous, in a fmall compafs, 
and at an eafy expence, the principal tran{- 
attions, civil and military, which have oc- 
cured in India during the year, together 
with the ftate-papers, and an account of 
the proceedings of the Britith parliament, 
as well as thofe of the India-houfe. Bio-. 
graphical fketches follow : the fubjeéts of 
thofe in the prefent volume, are the late 
Sultaun, Behader Shah, Afoph Shah, 
Ahmed Shah, Governor Holwel, Mr. 
Hugh Boyd, Sir William Jones, Lieute- 
nant-colonels Montague and Hartley, and 
‘Mr. Lambert. We are next prefented with 
mifcellaneous traéts, accounts of voyages, 
travels, poetry, reviews of publications 
relative to India, &c. &c, The editors 
have alfo followed the example of the 
New Annual Regifter, by prefixing a 
hiftory of India, which is brought down 
to the year 1603. .The work, on the 
whole, is conducted with great judgment 
nd ability, and without doubt will re- 
ecive a very extenfive patronage. 
Mr. Rosson’s ‘ Perfian Diary” was 
in all probability penned in London. 
VOYAGES, TRAVELS, AND TOURS. 
“‘ An Account of an Embaffy to the 
Court of the Tefhoo Lama in Tibet; 
containing a JNarrative of a Journey 
through Bootan, and part of Tibet. By 
CaptainSamMuEL TurNER. Towhich 
are added, views taken on the fpot, by 
Lieutenant SAMUEL Davis; and ob- 
fervations, botanical, mineralogical, and 
medical, by Mr. RopeRT SAUNDERS.” 
This is a moft curious and interefting 
work: it introduces us to the acquaint- 
ance of g people and a country, re{pect- 
ing both which we have hitherto had no 
ether authentic information than that 
partial account which appeared in the 
Philofophical TranfaGtions, of the jour- 
ney of Mr. Boyle, who was fent thither 
from Bengal, in the year 1774, by the 
Governor-general Mr. Haftings. Mr. 
Haftings, in order to explore anunknown 
region, and afcertain whether any of its 
productions might be ferviceable to Eu- 
ropean commerce ; in order, moreover, to 
facilitate, if poffiole, a communication 
with China, the weftern frontier of which 
1s contiguous to Tibet; direéted thither a 
miffion, which was favourably received 
by the Lama. Thefe objeéts, however, 
were for a time defeated by the death of 
Mr. Boyle, and of Vefhoo Lama, which 
happened at about the fame timg; a fe- 
cond deputation to the court of Tibet, 
however, was determined on by the gover= 
nor-general, fo foon as the Grand Lama, 
who in the opinion of the people never 
dies, had reanimated the body of a fuc- 
ceflor, and Mr. Turner was the gentle= 
man deputed to conduét it. In the year 
1783, he accordingly left Calcutta, ac- 
companied by Lieutenant Davis, as draft{- 
man and furveyor, and by Mr. Saunders, 
a furgeon of celebrity. Bootan is the 
name of the country which lies directly 
in the way to Tibet : the embafly arrived 
at Taffigudon, the capital of Bootan, om 
the firft of June, and it was not til! the 
beginning of September that a meffen- 
ger arrived from Tiber, with permilfion 
to the Englifh to enter that country. Ina 
confequence of this delay, Captain Tur- 
ner had abundant opportunity of ftudy- 
ing the charaéter of the Booteeas, and of 
becoming acquainted with their country 
and its productions. This was facili. 
tated by the courtefy and kindnefs wick 
which the raja received him. The know- 
ledge thus obtained, Mr. Turner has im- 
parted to us in a very elegant and very 
interefting manner. Tefhoo Lama, at 
the time of the embaffy, was only eigh- 
teen months old ; Captain Turner’s mef- 
fenger was introduced to the regent, a 
man of benevolent difpofition and ftrong 
natural capacity, who exprefled great 
friendfhip for the governor-general and 
the Britifh nation. The embafiy has 
not been immediately productive of any 
commercial advantages, but there is rea- 
fon to believe that it may prove benefi- 
cial tothe Britith intereft in Afia, and 
at any rate it has much enlarged our 
limited knowledge of the eaftern world. 
A tranflation has appeared of “© A 
Voyage to the Ifle of France, the Ifle of 
Bourbon, and the Cape of Good Hope, 
by J.-H. B. Sv. Pieere.” (his ele- 
gant and accomplifhed writer has here 
prefented us with thofe *‘ obfervations 
and reflections upon nature and man. 
kind,’ which could only have fuggefed 
themfelves to an acute obferver, a man of 
correct tafte, lively genius, and refined 
fenfibilicy. 
Captain WxHITE has published his 
‘¢ Journal of a Voyage performed in the 
Lion, extra Indiaman,-from Madras to 
Columbo and Da Lagoa Bay, on the 
Eaftern Coat of Africa, in the Year 
1798.” This work, which contains only 
feventy pages of letter-prefs, is not with- 
out intere{t and entertainment : it gives 
fome account ef the manners and cuftoms 
of 
