Lay, has just passed away from this life, and leaves many regrets that a British official who has been so closely associated with one of the most disastrous events in the relations of foreigners with China during the last decade, should have succumbed prematurely, at the age of forty, to the rude shock which the Tientsin Massacre and the trying incidents of those perilous days gave to his constitution This sq@ event no doubt shortened hig
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