The Chinese : a general description of the empire of China and its inhabitants . f the Hindostan, full 1200 tons, nor forthe purchase of the European goods on board her,better calculated for a larger city. They wouldtherefore expect specie for most of the articles theycould furnish for the Hindostan, which had not beenprovided by her commander. He found it thereforeexpedient to proceed to Canton. As it was hoped that the embassy had not beenwithout its effect in conciliating the good-will of theChinese government to the British trade, it was re-solved, shortly afterward, to follow it up by a l
The Chinese : a general description of the empire of China and its inhabitants . f the Hindostan, full 1200 tons, nor forthe purchase of the European goods on board her,better calculated for a larger city. They wouldtherefore expect specie for most of the articles theycould furnish for the Hindostan, which had not beenprovided by her commander. He found it thereforeexpedient to proceed to Canton. As it was hoped that the embassy had not beenwithout its effect in conciliating the good-will of theChinese government to the British trade, it was re-solved, shortly afterward, to follow it up by a letteifrom his majesty to the emperor, accompanied bypresents. These accordingly reached Canton inJanuary, 1795, with letters and presents from theministers, and the chairman of the East India Company, to the viceroy; and the whole were conveyedinto the city by the chief of the British viceroy received the address to the emperorwith much satisfaction, and forwarded it, togetherwith the presents, to Pekii g, from whence a reply, * Stauntons Embassy, vol. ii., p. 523. Th» Emperor Kien-loons AFFAIR OF THE PROVIDENCE 79 with corresponding presents, was afterward returned. Objections, however, were made to accept-ing the letters and gifts intended for the heads ofthe Canton government, on the ground of its notbeing allowable for Chinese ministers to entertaina correspondence with the officers of a foreign gov-ernment. It was recorded on this occasion, as wellas on a subsequent one in 1805, that tribute had beensent by the King of England to the Son of Heaven,and the record was quoted not long since by theCanton government in an official paper addressedto the writer of this, as president of the select com-mittee in China, who stated, of course, in reply,that presents had been sent, but no tribute. No untoward events occurred, for several yearssubsequent to the embassy, to interrupt the quietprogress of commercial affairs at Canton. Themandarins had improved in their condu
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