W. Thomas; and others.
Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the International Funeral Directors. ment may print copper notes for circulation in Shanghai in order to prevent copper smuggling here, but no confirmation can be obtained locally.
Two Published Works He published two very valuable works, namely, "Desultory Notes on the Government and People of China" (1847) and "The Chinese and Their Rebellions" (1856), while his many reports, especially on economic subjects, were of the greatest value in helping to open up trade between Great Britain and China, He died suddenly in the midst of his work and was buried at Newchwang with as much pomp and ceremony as his second in command could muster. His funeral cost the British Crown twenty dollars and some odd cents, the payment of which led to a curt statement from the British Foreign Office that in future no such expenditures would be tolerated.
To his dying day it was a sore point with him that his Government refused to refund him the cost of a set of books on law which he deemed it necessary to have in connection with his duties as a Consul dispense ing justice to Her Britannic Majesty's subjects. Tt was maintained by the British Treasury that such books were not likely to be used by his success sors, hence the item in his expense account was not allowed. Those were hard days for the pioneers of Empire.
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