To which as a personal impression I would add that he, already appears to have a very close apion of the special questions '8, Minister, he will have to meet in. China, further personal impressions may be allowed without Impertinfnce, there is no doubt that Mtr. and Lady Theodosia an will well-liked in China both by Chinese and foreigners. Mr. Cadogan is Tittle "above middle height, athletic figure, who looks a" good deal younger than his age (not quite forty-nine). Mis manner is quiet, but very pleasant and sincere, and one might venture to say' the he has a mind of Lis own. f have Yeason to believe that he has for some time been specially "saved up" for his fitness for China, when he might have been promoted elsewhere. He is a keen golfer, shot and rider, and was delighted' to hear that' there for all these pursuits his leisure hours,
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