 Titsingh stayed a total of three years and eight months in Japan before finally leaving Nagasaki at the end of November 1784 to return to Batavia, where he arrived on 3 January 1785.In 1785, Titsingh was appointed director of the trading post at Chinsurah in Bengal.Titsingh was described by William Jones, the philologist and Bengal jurist, as "the Mandarin of Chinsura".