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from wooden blocks, his invaluable edition of the Acts
of the Apostles in Chinese. In 1812, his father died,
to whose ease and comfort he had most affectionately
and liberally contributed. In 1813, he completed an edi-
tion in Chinese of the whole of the New Testament, of
which he forwarded several copies to his friends in this
country. Large impressions of this work have since
been printed ; they bear date 1815, 1819, 1821, and
1827, and were extensively circulated in China. lie
at the same time wrote and printed a Catechism in
Chinese, with a tract on the doctrines of Christianity, of
which 15,000 copies were printed and circulated.
In 1817, his extensive acquaintance with the language
and literature of China, recommended him as a fit person
to accompany Lord Amherst, on his embasty to Pekin.
Mr. Morrison accordingly accompanied his Lordship, as
his Chinese interpreter, and among the incidents of that
eventful enterprise, it may be worthy of record, that it
was to him that his Lordship was indebted for the know-
ledge of the fact, that the presents for his Celestial Ma-
jesty were forwarded on the Great Canal, in barges,
under flags, which imported that they were tribute from
the King of England to the Emperor of China. Mr.
Morrison's memoir of the embassy has been published in
this country.
The services of Dr. Morrison to the East India Com-
pany are admitted to have been, on some occasions of im-
inense value. He was more than once called into coun-
cil at Canton on very trying occasions, and whenever his
advice was followed, it proved beneficial to the Com-
pany's interests. In the Lin-tin affair, in 1821, he was
the only person at the factory' capable of opposing argu-
ment to the claims of the Chinese, and he did so with
success. There are now but few among the Company's
servants, formerly on the Canton establishment, who
were nut indebted to him for their acquaintance with the
language of China. On the part of the Company he con-
ducted a very extensive correspondence with the Chinese
in the written character, and was the first European who
prepared documents in that language, which the native
authorities would consent to receive.
On the arrival of Lord Napier at. Macao, with his Ma-
jesty's commission, he engaged Dr. Morrison as his
secretary and interpreter. To the 'zealous discharge of
his duties he fell a sacrifice. In his ill state, aggravated
by the hot weather, he had to accompany Lord Napier
on the 24th of July, 1834, from Macao to Canton, where
he did not arrive till the morning of the 25th, having
been exposed during the night in an open boat on the
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alarmed for his life till within an hour of the time when
he became extinct. He expired in the arms of his eldest
son. On the following day, the 2d of August, his re-
mains were carried by water to Macao ; they were fol-
lowed from his residence to the river side by Lord Na-
pier,. and all the Europeans, Americans, and Asiatic
British subjects then in Canton. On the sth of the same
month, they were deposited with those of his first wife
and one of his children, in the. private Protestant burial-
ground at Macao.
Mu. DAVIS.—This gentleman was appointed the se-
"o of the three Commissioners under the Royal sigu-