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his Lordship's temperament, was insupportable, and ac-
cordingly waiving all ceremony, and dispensing with the
honours of a public entry, his Lordship first appointed
his coadjutors, and particularly the late Dr. Morrison, to
conduct his correspondence with the Chinese ; and then
accompanied by them, betook himself to his boat, late
in the day of the 24th July, and after encountering a
stormy and rainy night on the Canton river, landed on
the morning of the 25th, at the factory at Canton, a
building which has been allotted by the Chinese for the
temporary residence of the English merchants. This re-
markable debut acquired for his Lordship the honour of
being reported to the Chinese local authorities b,' the
servants of the Custom-house, as a' Barbarian Eye, who
with three other English devils, had clandestinely stolen
into Canton ; and, according to report, his subsequent
appearance, parading the wharf arm-in-arm with two
offensive Europeans, in a rough sailor's jacket, not at all
tended to exalt him in tho eyes of the Chinese, who are
well-known to attach high importance to appropriate
dresses on public functionaries. Correspondence on this
score then took place between_the English and Chinese,
manifesting pugnacity and defiance and little more.
" The Chinese nation," said Governor Loo, " has its laws,
it is so everywhere. Even England has its laws. How
much more the Celestial Empire ! How flaming bright
are its great laws and ordinances," &c. His Lordship
was then. through the Hong merchants admonished that
he had violated those flaming bright' laws, and was re-
quired by way of atonement to return to Macao, and
there to await a regular permission to go to Canton.
This he refused to do, and said nothing but fixed
bayonets should drive him from the factory. The Hong
merchants, hereupon, considering that they had some
interest in the settlement of all disputes between their
nation and ours, and in the peaceful management of a
hitherto profitable trade, invited the English at Canton
to a conference in the Consoo hall, but in this his Lord-
ship forestalled them, by inviting a public meeting of
those merchants an earlier hour on the same day, in
the Chamber of Commerce. At that meeting the pro-
posal of the Hong merchants was read and rejected, and
the consequence was that the trade was stopped.
.Lord Napier now threatened to'anchor before Canton
with his ships of war. After long discussions with the
subordinate authorities of Canton, his Lordship was
at last compelled to re-embark for Macao, on the 21st
in bad health, vexed by the posture of affairs, and in a'
sort oFcustody, the vessel in which he travelled being
surrounded by Chinese junks, with mandarins and musi-
cians on board, who kept up a perpetual clamour with
their gongs, to bis great annoyance. Soon after his ar-
rival in Macao, on the 27th of September, he fell a vic-
tim to fever, dying there on the 21st of October. He
was buried, at his own request, by the side of his late
Chinese Secretary, Dr. Morrison. Lord Napier's visit
to China was not unattended with bloodshed. The fri-
gates were called up, and fired on the Chinese forts ; the
Chinese returned the fire not without effect, and there
was slaughter on both sides, but most on the Chinese.
Having expelled the Barbarian Eye, the Chinese re-
opened their trade, but at the same time commanding all
British ships of war to quit the Chinese seas.
COLONE4 CATHCARL--ThiB officer was sent from

England, in 1788, in the Vestal frigate, as Ambassador
topassage out, in the Straits
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to the mission for a time,
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and the frigate returned, to England. This measure
was, however, carried out on a larger scale in 1792,
China.
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an deat
when, in conformity with the proposal of Mr. Dundas,
Lord Macartney's embassy was constituted and sent out.
The tomb of Colonel Cathcart is still marked by a
handsome monument, visible from the anchorage of ships
at Angier Point.
CLAVELL, CAPTAIN JOAN.—Commissioned for the
East India station in the Orlando, Aug. 17, 1815. In
October following sailed for Canton with a quantity of
specie on board, and the Hon. East India Company's ship
Thomas Grenville, under her protection. About the
end of 1818, being in want of repair, she returned home
with Captain Clavell, in September, 1819.
HALL, CAPTAIN BASIL—This officer son of Sir
James Hall, Bart., of Dunglass, commanded the Lyra, a
10 gun brig, attached to the Amherst expedition and,
on his return home, in 1817, published his account of the
" Loo-Choo Islands."

CAPTAIN MAXWELL.—This officer accompanied the
Amherst mission, when he commanded the Alceste fri-
gate, and maintained the dignity. of the British flag,
when, on being fired upon by the junks and the forts at
the river's mouth, on their passage to Canton, silencing
the junks with a single shot, while one broadside suf-
ficed to send the garrison of the fort scampering up the
side of the hill, down which that defence is somewhat
preposterously built. The effect of Captain Maxwell's
decisive conduct on this occasion was evinced in the short
space of a day, by the arrival of all sorts of provisions to
the Alceste, and an acknowledgment that the firing at
the entrance of the river was an affair of saluting.
CAPTAIN BLACKWOOD, LATE LORD DUFFERIN.ThiS
officer was actively engaged at the time of Lord Napier's
commission with his ship in the Chinese sea, and con-
veyed his Lordship safely under the fire of the batteries
of the Bocce. Tigris and Tiger island fort in the ship
Imogene, to the anchorage aeWhampoa.

MR. JOHN ROBERT MORRISON.—SOII of the cele-
brated Dr. Morrison, the present secretary to the super-
intendents at Canton. He was born at Canton, by the
Doctor's first wife, Miss Mary. Morton, in April, 1814.
A sister of his, Rebecca Morrison, had been born the
year before, and a son in 1811, who died an infant.

REV. Ma. MILNE.—This gentleman long co-operated
with Dr. Morrison. He had been sent out by the London
Missionary Society, and with his friend the late lamented
Doctor, he maintained a constant and cordial friendship.
Part of Dr. Morrison's version of the Books of the Old
Testament was translated by him when he had become
Dr. Milne. Leang-a-fa, a native Chinese, who had been
converted to the Christian faith by Dr. Milne, assisted
in passing the work through the press.
DR. MoRRISON.—The Rev. R. Morrison, DD., so
known to the British and Chinese hemispheres for his
works, labours, and talents, died on the Ist of August,
1834, at his lodging in the Danish Hong at Canton, in
his 53d year. Dr. Morrison's father was Mr. James
Morrison, Of Perthshire, at first a husbandman, and

afterwards a bootmaker. He was a pious man, and an
elder of the Scots Church. Robert, the subject of this
notice, and the eminent Chinese scholar, was horn at
Morpeth, January 5, 1782. He was taught reading and
writing at Newcastle by a respectable schoolmaster, and
afterwards became apprentice to his father. Under the
tuition of the Rev. W. Lawler, minister of a Presbyterian
meeting-house, he afterwards acquired an elementary
acquaintance with the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, some
systematic theology, and the art of writing short-hand.
On the death of his mother he was received as a student
into the dissenting academy at Hoxton, near London, and
on the 28th of May, 1805, placed himself under the pa-
tronage of the London Missionary Society, who sent him to
their seminary at Gosport, to be educated for that ser-
vice. He returned to London in the summer of 1806,
and having chosen China as the field of his missionary
labours, he, the better to qualify himself for them, ob-
tained the assistance, as a preceptor, of a young Chinese,
named Yong-Sam-Tae, by whose assistance, and with
the practice he acquired in forming the Chinese charac-
ter by transcribing a Chinese M.S. of the four Gospels
in the British Museum, and by copying part of an old
Chinese and Latin dictionary, the property of the Royal
Society, he made considerable progress in qualifying
himself fir his undertaking, and in addition to his know-
ledge of the Chinese language, he gained some acquaint-
ance with surgery and medicine.
Thus qualified, on the Bth of January, 1807, he was
formally set apart, or ordained according to Scottish
practice, to the work of a Christian missionary among
the Chinese, and on the 31st he embarked for China,
via America, and landed at Canton in September 1807.
On Mr. Morrison's arrival at that place, he was accom-
modated with lodging in the factory of the American
agents, Messrs. Milner and Bull, where ke assumed the
Chinese habiliments, but relinquished them on finding
them not liked. The first sixteen months of his resi-
dence were attended by many privations and difficulties:
he spent the day with his Chinese teacher, studying,
eating, and sleeping is a room under ground. At the
close of 1808, he informed the Secretary of the Mis-
sionary Society that he had completed his grammar of
the Chinese language, and daily was filling up his M.S.
of the New Testament.

On the 20th of February, 1809, he married Mrs.
Mary Morton, a young lady of 18, the daughter of Mr.
John Morton, of Dublin, surgeon in chief to the Irish
Artillery. On the day after Mr. Morrison's marriage
with this lady, he received information that the East
India Company's supercargoes, to whom he had ren-
dered some assistance in translating their Chinese cor-
respondence, had resolved to give him an appointment
as their secretary and interpreter. He appears to have
been considered, at that early period, as the most expert
Chinese scholar in the factories. The correspondence of
the supercargoes with the Chinese had been previously
conducted in a very circuitous manner, and often with
great difficulty, by the intervention of Portuguese padres,
of the college of St. Joseph, who first rendered the seve-
ral papers of which Chinese versions were required into
Latin, and then, with the aid of their native assistants,
into Chinese.
In 1811, he Printed in Canto, is the Chinese manner,

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. He
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 embassy 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 1)r. Morrison to the East India Com-
pany are admitted to have been, on some occasions ofim-
mense 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 not 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.
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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
Canton river to very boisterous and rainy weather. His
illness was greatly increased, but his friends were not
alarmed for his life till within an hour of the time when
he became extinct. lie 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.
31a. DAVIS.—This gentleman was appointed the se-
cond of the three Commissioners under
_the Royal sign-