When Macartney returned to England he described her as "an old, crazy, first-rate Man of War ... she may drift sometime as a wreck and will then be dashed to pieces on the shore; but she can never be rebuilt on the bottom." Or was she, as in the view held by 19th-century travelers, a beautiful landscape populated by a backward, semi-civilized race?
馬嘎爾尼回國後形容她是「一艘破爛不堪的頭等戰艦」，略勝一籌的，只是她的體積和外表；還是像十九世紀旅行家的結論：不過是錦繡大地上，住了一群半野蠻的民族？