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THIS MONTH'S ARTICLE: Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China: Henry Ellis' account of his visit to St Helena
ELLIS Henry
, 1817
Following the failure of the British embassy to China in 1816, the three representatives (Henry Ellis, Sir George Staunton, and William Amherst) stopped over on St Helena on their way back home. Henry Ellis' account of the trip includes a record of a number of interviews that the men were granted with Napoleon Bonaparte, the French emperor exiled to the island.
