Lord Macartney arrives in Beijing in 1793 in an ultimately unsuccessful aim to open trade with China. George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, 1737 – 1806. British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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