Jonathan Mirsky summed up his feelings in the Observer with a quote made by the Earl of Macartney in 1793: "The Empire of China is an old, crazy, first-rate Man of War.
星期天觀察家報的 Jonathan Mirsky 引用一七九三年英國伯爵 Macartney 晉見中國皇帝後的一段話作為北平之行的結論﹘ ﹘「中國皇帝既老且瘋，是第一流的好戰者。