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The Macartney Embassy, also called the Macartney Mission, was the first British diplomatic mission to China, which took place in 1793. It is named for its leader, Viscount Macartney, Great Britain's f
Lord Macartney's embassy, 1793
1749 illustration of Canton
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
Sir George Thomas Staunton, 2nd Baronet,, FRAS was a British writer, orientalist and politician.
Portrait by Martin Archer Shee, c. 1820
Lady Jane Staunton (d. 1823) with her son, afterwards Sir George Thomas Staunton Bart. (1781–1859), and a Chinese attendant holding a chest of tea. (John Hoppner, circa 1792)
One of the follies that Staunton had built on his Leigh estate