Tue death of the late King of Burmah is hardly an event to be felt in the political position of Asia, yot in his way the King was a representative man, and was determined to stretch to the utmost the small means of aunoyance left in his power, Ho bad the spirit to resent the annexation of half his kingdom, yet his mode of display. ing resentment was far more hurtful to himself and to his people than to the British Government in lower Burmah, to embarrass which in every way left in his power was for many years the chief aim of the departed potentate. Once in connexion with the murder of Margary and the negotiations with the Chinese Government, be came on the scene of Chinese politics, and the attitude which he then presented was on a par with most of his previous career. Indeed, much of his life was spent in attempts to establish diplomatic intercourse with foreign nations, and though in the long ran he generally succeeded in getting himself snubbed, there is little doubt that to his professed unfriendly feeling, if not to his direct interference, the murder of Margary and the failure of the Mission is to be attributed. The connexion between the King and the Chinese officials in Yunnan was of the most extraordinary nature. For
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