Page 20 line 12. _add_ a between of and crime 23. -- 2. _for_ twice _read_ thrice 39. line last, _for_ Mario _r._ Marco 44. -- 26. _for_ Toftanague _r._ Tootanague 46. -- 18. _for_ Geraffe _r._ Giraffe 81. -- 1. _add_ to between master and which 103. -- 17. _for_ monuments _r._ Monument 122. -- 7. _add_ the between of and palaces 127. -- 3. _for_ ther _r._ their 142. -- 1. _for_ whit _r._ with 183. -- 13. _for_ the _r._ a 186. -- 4. _for_ loose _r._ lose 224. in the note. _for_ A. Calpurnius _r._ T. Calpurnius 239. -- 13. _after_ cross place X 295. -- 20. _for_ numercial _r._ numerical 394. -- 15. _for_ an _r._ in ---- -- 16. _for_ in _r._ on 416. -- 1. _for_ blook _r._ stock 568. -- 12. _for_ from _r._ form ---- -- -- _for_ form _r._ from 583. -- last. _for_ thegr and _r._ the grand ADVERTISEMENT. The sentiments advanced in the present Work, and the point of view in which some of the facts are considered, being so very different from the almost universally received opinion, and some of them from the opinion of those to whose friendship the Author is particularly indebted for various literary communications, he thinks it right to declare, that they are the unbiassed conclusions of his own mind, founded altogether on his own observations; and he trusts that the Public, in considering him alone responsible, will receive them with its usual candour. TRAVELS IN _CHINA_. CHAP. I. PRELIMINARY MATTER. _Introduction.--General View of what Travellers are likely to meet with in China.--Mistaken Notions entertained with regard to the British Embassy--corrected by the Reception and Treatment of the subsequent Dutch Embassy.--Supposed Points of Failure in the former, as stated by a French Missionary from Pekin, refuted_.--Kien Long's _Letter to the_ King _of Holland.--Difference of Treatment experienced by the two Embassies explained.--Intrigues of Missionaries in foreign Countries.--Pride and Self-Importance of the Chinese Court.--List of European Embassies, and the Time of their Abode in Pekin.--Conclusion of Preliminary Subject_. It is hardly necessary to observe that, after the able and interesting account of the proceedings and result of the British Embassy to the court of China, by the late Sir George Staunton (who was no less amiable for liberality of sentiment, than remarkable for vigour of intellect) it would be an idle, and, indeed, a superfluous undertaking, in any other person who accompanied the embassy, to dwell on those subjects which have been treated by him in so masterly a manner; or to recapitulate those incidents and transactions, which he has detailed with equal elegance and accuracy.