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A Plan of the city and harbour of Macao : a colony of the Portugueze, situated at the southern extremity of the Chinese Empire. . . |
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A large chart of Macao engraved by Benjamin Baker (fl. 1766-1824) and published by George Nicol. The town of Macao is shown in detail, with a 37-point key in English listing Forts, Parishes, Colleges, Convents, Chapels, and other buildings of interest, including the Customs House and the English Factory and extensive sounding depths. Terrain is shown as engraved hills and the waters are filled with soundings and notations on type of bottom.
The fortified city of Tchinshang is shown well north of Macao. This uncommon map was engraved by B. Braker & Islington and published in George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China', Britain's first official embassy to China.
Lord Macartney was the first British ambassador to China, arriving in 1793 and ordered to leave the same year. However, in the short time the embassy was in the country, much was learned about China, and the groundwork was laid for the founding of Hong Kong less than fifty years later.
Macartney was dispatched to Beijing in 1792, traveling via Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope and Indonesia.Â
He was accompanied by Staunton and a retinue of suitably impressive size, including Staunton's 11-year-old son, who was nominally the ambassador's page.Â
Upon the embassy's arrival in China, it emerged that the 11-year-old was the only European member of the embassy who could speak Mandarin, and thus the only one able to converse with the Emperor. The embassy, the first such to China, had two objectives: the first to register with the Emperor, British displeasure at the treatment that the British merchants were receiving from the Chinese, and the second to gain permission for a British minister to be resident in China.Â
The first objective was achieved, the second was not. Macartney was twice granted an audience with the Emperor, and in December 1793, he was sumptuously entertained by the Chinese viceroy in Canton, and returned to England via Macao and St. Helena, arriving in September 1794.
This important text produced some of the earliest accurate maps of China's interior and provided many invaluable geographical and cultural observations.
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A Plan of the city and harbour of Macao : a colony of the Portugueze, situated at the southern extremity of the Chinese Empire. . .
A large chart of Macao engraved by Benjamin Baker (fl. 1766-1824) and published by George Nicol. The town of Macao is shown in detail, with a 37-point key in English list...
Date: London, 1796
