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Code of the Chinese Empire,' published in 1810, ' A Narrative of 

 the Chinese Embassy in 1821,' and a ' Journal of Lord Amherst's 

 Embassy,' printed, I believe, for private circulation. In addition 

 to these, however, he published a biography of his father, under 

 the title of ' Memoirs of the Life and Family of the late Sir Gr. L. 

 Staunton.' His great command of the Chinese language was evinced 

 in a work on Vaccination, written in that tongue, and which it is 

 believed has been the means of introducing, or of extending, a 

 knowledge of Dr. Jenner's salutary discovery among the natives 

 of that vast empire. 



In 1853 Sir G-. Staunton edited, for the Hakluyt Society, Parke's 

 Translation from the Spanish of Mendoza's ' History of the Great 

 and Mighty Kingdom of China;' thus concluding his literary 

 labours, as he had commenced them, with a work devoted to the 

 country in which he spent so many of the most valuable years of 

 his life. 



He was admitted into the Linnean Society, November 20, 1797, 

 and concluded his long and useful life on the 10th of Augvist, 

 1859, in the 79th year of liis age. 



George Suitor, Esq., was born in the year 1774. In 1778 he 

 became known to Sir Joseph Banks, by whose advice and under 

 whose auspices he undertook a voyage to New South "Wales, with 

 the double object of introducing into that country a variety of 

 European fruit-trees, and of making botanical collections. He 

 started accordingly towards the end of 1798, taking with him a 

 large collection of European plants, especially fruit-trees and vines. 

 The voyage, however, was not very successful in its main object, 

 for the vessel in which Mr. Suttor sailed (the ' Porpoise ') was 

 either so badly handled, or so unfortunate, as to be compelled 

 to return to England for provisions : thus it was more than two 

 years before she reached her destined port, and during tliis pro- 

 longed passage the greater part of Mr. Suttor' s plants necessarily 

 perished. 



On reaching Australia, Mr. Suttor appears to have determined 

 upon remaining in the colony, of which consequently he may be 

 regarded as one of the earliest settlers ; and he selected the vicinity 

 of Bathurst for his permanent abode. 



Here he cultivated tlie vine to a considerable extent, naming 

 one of his estates the "Vineyard." 



In 1842, Mr. Suttor returned to England, and shortly after 

 visited several of the wine-producing districts of the Continent, 

 The result of his investigations was published in 1843, in a volume 



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