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ambassadors performed the ceremony of the Tiu-tu before the Em- 

 peroi;, Lord Amherst and Sir H. Ellis wished that they should do 

 so, but Sir George was so satisfied that it would be regarded by 

 the Chinese as an act of humiliation, and something like the homage 

 paid to a feudal lord, that he positively refused his consent. The 

 Chinese were aware of this, and threatened to dismiss the rest of 

 the embassy, but to detain him as a prisoner. But he declared that 

 this made no alteration in his view of the subject ; that being con- 

 vinced that he was right, he was quite ready to take his chance of 

 whatever might befall him rather than swerve from what he re- 

 garded as the strict line of his duty. 



Sir George was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1830, and 

 remained one of its Trustees until his death. 



Commander Charles Tindal, r.n., entered the Eoyal Navy in 

 1800, and was employed for two years in the Mediterranean and 

 Channel, and during the four following years served on the home 

 station. He received his promotion as lieutenant in 1806, and was 

 subsequently appointed to several ships ; and in 1809, in the Nar- 

 cissus, assisted at the reduction of the various islands in the West 

 Indies ; and contributed during a cruise in the Channel, in 1810, 

 to the capture of the privateers Duguay Trouin and Aimdble Josephine, 

 carrying between them 28 guns and 180 men. During the ensuing 

 summer he was employed in active co-operation with the patriots 

 on the north coast of Spain. He also made a voyage to Newfound- 

 land, and in 1814, being then on the coast of North America, in the 

 Niemen, took command of the boats of that ship, and in a very 

 gallant manner cut out from Little Egg Harbour the letter-of- 

 marque schooners Quiz, pierced for 14 guns; Clara and Model, each 

 pierced for 12 guns. He retired with the rank of Commander, 

 subsequently took the management of the Branch Bank of England 

 at Birmingham, and afterwards that in Burlington Gardens. He 

 became a Fellow of this Society in 1834. 



Eear- Admiral Henry Dundas Trotter entered the Royal Navy 

 in 1815, sailed in 1818 in the Eden for the East Indies, and in 1819 

 accompanied the expedition under Sir Francis Collier against Eas-al- 

 Khyma, the head-quarters and principal resort of the pirates of the 

 Persian Gulf. Continuing on that station until 1823, and serving 

 in several ships, he returned in the early part of that year to Eng- 

 land, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. He next served 

 for some years in the AVest Indies, and was made commander in 

 1826. He was afterwards employed on the West Coast of Africa, 



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