Macartney
GEORGE MACART- NEY, EARL OF, a British administrator and diplomatist; born in Lissanoure, Ireland, May 14, 1737. As envoy-extraordinary to Russia, he concluded (1767) a commercial treaty; from 1769 to 1772 he was Chief-secretary of Ireland; and from 1775 to 1779 governor of Grenada, W. I., but was compelled, after an honorable defense, to give up the island to Count D'Estaing, and was himself carried prisoner of war to France, though he soon contrived his exchange. The first diplomatic mission to China from Great Britain was headed by Macartney, now an Irish viscount, in 1792; before his return home he was made an Irish earl (March 1, 1794). After undertaking a confidential mission to Italy (1795- 1796), he went out as governor of the new colony of the Cape of Good Hope (1796); but ill-health compelled him to MACASSAR return home in November, 1798. He order to prosecute this work, refusing a, died in Chiswick, England, March 31,