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Mr. Bathurst was appointed Vice Consul and attached to this mission at Copenhagen in May 1845, and Vice Consul at Cape Station in June 1846. He remained at the latter post till the end of 1849, when it was abolished.
Lord Russell granted him, in 1863, on his own application, Letters of Introduction to the ministers and Consuls in the East. But in a letter which he addressed to Lord Stanley on the 30th ultimo, he stated that, notwithstanding his intention of proceeding thither, he had not, in consequence of private affairs, carried out his intention, but was about...