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  • PREFACE

  • Samuel Holmes
  • Book:
    The Journal of Mr Samuel Holmes, Serjeant-Major of the XIth Light Dragoons, During his Attendance, as One of the Guard on Lord Macartney's Embassy to China and Tartary
    Published online:
    29 August 2010
    Print publication:
    10 June 2010, pp iii-viii
    First published in:
    1798

  • Summary

    MR. SAMUEL HOLMES, lately, from merit, promoted to the rank of Serjeant-Major of the 11 th Regiment of Dragoons, was one of the Guard who attended Lord Macartney on his Embassy to China and to Tartary, and kept a regular Diary of what passed on the occasion, within the sphere of his own knowledge and inquiries. On careful perusal of this Diary or Journal, it appears to bear every mark of authenticity, and to carry internal evidence of its being written, as it professes to be, on immediate and local impression from the objects and circumstances within the view of a person in the writer's situation. On such grounds, the Journal of a Voyage to China, written by a worthy, sensible, but unlearned man, is recommended to notice: on such ground it humbly rests;—and if therein little is added to the stock of intelligence already received of what was remarked, or what occurred, during the expedition alluded to, yet that little may not appear wholly uninteresting; and specially as it is presumed, from the character of the writer, to have the value of Truth, and that the curious reader may with confidence place it to his account of knowledge respecting that great and secluded nation, to which the inquiries of the politician and philosopher have been so long and much directed.

  • VOYAGE TO CHINA AND TARTARY

  • Samuel Holmes
  • Book:
    The Journal of Mr Samuel Holmes, Serjeant-Major of the XIth Light Dragoons, During his Attendance, as One of the Guard on Lord Macartney's Embassy to China and Tartary
    Published online:
    29 August 2010
    Print publication:
    10 June 2010, pp 1-256
    First published in:
    1798

  • Summary

    On Friday the 14th of September, 1792, the troops destined to accompany Lord Macartney, on his Embassy to the Court of Pekin, received orders to embark at Spithead, in the following order: twenty of the royal artillery, on board the Lion man of war of sixty-four guns, commanded by Sir Erasmus Gower; twenty infantry, and ten light dragoons, on board the Hindostan, a fine new Indiaman of 1200 tons burthen, under the command of Captain William Mackintosh.

    On Tuesday the 25th, his Lordship and suite came on board, and on the following day the ships weighed anchor, in company with several merchantmen bound to the westward. On Thursday the 27th, we saw the Isle of Wight, bearing eastnorth-east, distant five leagues, it blowing very hard from the south-west, the Jackall brigantine, which was to accompany us, being at this time far astern; on the following day we lost sight of her entirely, and were apprehensive that some disaster had happened to her, which had obliged her to put back again to Portsmouth.

    About noon we came to an anchor in Torbay, where we continued till the 1st of October, when a smart breeze springing up from the eastward, we weighed anchor once more, and in a few hours lost sight of our native country. Several ships in sight, some homeward, some outward bound.

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