64 EMBASSY TO iCHINA.'
Passage Up" theljpl8slp
be&iKj^efeaietl^ias, menfippesy^in 'The .beginning off this
work, l^ ;th n eun&mel^ th^.g£n/tleman then’
appointedlas Ills
p^seiwi^s there would/have probably pjrekektec|a©iy ®n4si
understanding- -takings efFejct. ort‘jQ^si©h dfiTkei Thibet
wkr.r ItJ’ia^eifc possible, that.nd such jwaTmould*bavb
been c a r r i e d * t h e . repfeated|pr^oc^ticjii'S
pfithe.ISLapaul RajahueQf^^h^g ^ r c ^ ^ ^ ^m p j e r o Q t^
enaaggrin ;an;und§rtakinge§a distant;and preoaripjiso I n
his dormer war against the Elepjh S}ijaTartary. p thift»^t^%^
minated im the subjugation ofTheki
gejd.59 in the^ourse oft/it,t (V^ith df^pMTto isug^gsse^ikHis
trpops- [were often wprsted.y, Ajgr^ad proJ)drMon oiLtkeiri
perished. The contest lasted/ajongttime-ian^c|i||ji'm‘-
meip# #nms>( His Qhinesetministers^,fer,e ^j^Fs^^ja-b
-jyajs; and his-own ad v ^ n g ^ ^ fijto o k ^ Ia ^ e rly ^ ’mubh
awayfrpm the relish of any coacftEffiffHad a'hytperspir
frpift^hp K in g G r e a t Britain bee%-accrfedited ineGi^inaY
in 1 % 8-%ppl.7 9^ by whose means the govemmentof Bend
gal might havftbeep requested to exert its influence^atdre
early periqd,» with ;the Rajah of Napaql j,tqid©sisf from-his
preferred, such a mpthod o f attaining his purpoiev with-:
put a risk, upon the same principle which induced afterwards,
* the, commander of: hi$ .Toroes. to appljl :to the
Governed of.Bengal to^bping about the same effect| And
Thibet might have been productive of more advantage
EMBASSY TO CHINA. 65
to Bengal in its independent state, than as a province of pb* ^
mother>eirrpi$er’w . - the?d-h6-
If, fortunately^ the events of the Thibet ' war had
reached the present Embassador before he had left the
•neighbourhood of Canton, he might havehefen enabled
to destroy the effect eff|toy misrepresentation of them;
but in the present instance, fh e :WatPjet'Wfcferly unaci
quainted^with .every rireumManbflffoin. whence the late
groundless and injurious rumour against the English had
arisen ; and had nap t, therefore; -the- common' resources
for fefuting calumny, by a Statement of the' particulars to
Which it was» meant to be applied. The pains which,
indeed, his Excellency took to convincfe'Hhis principal
Chinese fellow-travellers, that the story-they had heard
coaid baveinP foUndation^Md, from their cdhfidehte^
§t#s assprtlons, their full effect on thefr own minds; but
theyvWfere not authorized to hold any immediate com-
munkation with the court; and were 1 apprehensive
thaitv ;prfejndiced as it was,; a favpnrabk^elarati®! on .
their part would be construed in f o j corrupt partiality
for their new acquaintance^ They had beside,1 being of
a Chin esesee as-well a's hirth, -sort-of influence ovef
the Tartar Lega%> aSecreb buto strong antipathy still
subsisting between those^Wt^ nations*. T
To thq EegaftCf who Was aloMillowed to correspond
With the government concerning the^ Embassy,, and
whoseigpod will tb# Jhnbassador tried 'every meansf-to
: voi,, 11. £