authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the emperor of China; including cursory observations made and informations 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 H.M.S. Lion and Hindostan in the East India Company's service to the Yellow Sea and the Gulf of Pekin; As well as the return to Europe with notes.etc. taken chiefly from the papers of H.E. the Earl of Macartney