In 1793, when he held the rank of a lieutenant, he was a member of the Macartney Embassy to China, led by Lord Macartney, who was his mother's cousin.
This multi-volume work was taken chiefly from the papers of Lord Macartney and from the papers of Sir Erasmus Gower, who was Commander of the expedition.
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Gower was to proceed to Edo and deliver a letter to the "Cubo, or Temporal Sovereign of that Country" (公方 i.e. the Shogun).
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Images de l'Empire immobile ou le choc des mondes. Récit historique. Paris: Fayard.
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Having learned about the British Macartney Embassy to the Qing court in 1793, he requested that the commissioners-general in Batavia send a VOC embassy to the court of the Qianlong Emperor for the celebration of his sixtieth year on the throne.
The book gives a sweeping narrative of the British Embassy of Sir George Macartney to the Qianlong Emperor of China in 1793.