His zeal for seeing that treaty ob-Ligations: were strictly carried out by the Chinese authorities at times led him into serious trouble, and he feceived more than one sharp reprimai from the British Minister In Peking. this account, to which, however, he pears to have paid little attention, A fine student of the Chinese language ind the customs of these people, wax in many ways a remarkable than, but his outspokenness didn't eons duce to his popularity: with the British merchants he ruled, his colleagues the Consular Service, oF his superiors, Nevertheless he was a valuable vant of the British Crown in 4 foreign Tan, Appurentiy altogether serious and without the least sparke of the sayi grace of humour himself, his letters make extremely amusing reading. Undoubtedly: he wax a sore trial those above him and a thorn in the esh of the Chinese "oflcials with his duties "brought. him Into Two Published Works published two very valuable works. namely, "Desultory Notes the Governnient and People of Chit M7) and "The Chinese and The! Rebellions" (1886), while his many Feports, especially on economic sub= fects, were of the greatest value hething to open up. trade between Great Britain and China, He died Suddenly in the midst of ix. work nel wax buried at Newchwang with much pomp and ceremony as his second in command could must His funeral cost the British Crown twenty dollars and some old cents, the payment of which led to a curt statement. irom the British Foreign Office that in future no yueh expendle tures would be tolerated.
To his dying day it was a sore point with him thaw 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 dispel: ing justice (0 Her Britannic Majesty's subjects. It 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 wore hard days for the pioneers of Empire,
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