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in the Chinese service
stationed at the Ports of China.
Now all who knew Englishmen resident abroad will agree in assuring Your Lordship
generally rule, they are more English than the English at home; and that they are
unlikely to sympathize with matters connected with those who resemble those at home.
One of them, a Professor from one of the smaller German Universities,
who has been domiciled in Connaught, has succeeded in making a
favourable impression on most of the English officials with whom he has already come
into contact. However, as he has been sent out here from the Colonial Office, it is the
duty of my Government to give him a fair trial; and he will receive all proper
assistance.
He is a Dane, who has been at a Private Observatory in Dresden; who speaks broken English with a strong Irish brogue; and whose appearance is not...