Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-31
Sir Julian PaunceiOto Graphically
aud pIe,sauety Sfkesched

and Pleasantly SHescheO.
Edmund Yates in the New YORK Tribunal
Sir Julian Pauncefote, X. G. b., G..
C. NJ. g., lives in Cromwell Place. As
the clock of the neighboring church
strikes 10 a sedate messenger from the
Foreign Office bearing Il green-calico
bag filed with red morocco dispatch
boxes of various sizes announces his ar
rival at one OF the most unpretending
houses in the street by ring loud
enough to disturb the after-breakfast
meditations of Sir Charles Lopes, Six
doors away, if he has not already set
out for the High Court of Justice. Not
one of the Thousands who drive in sum-
mer-time through ThuIlow Place on the
way to birmingham is probably aware
of the important part which the modest
home of the permanent Under Secretary
Of State for Foreign Affairs in South
kensington has played in contemporary
history during the last few years. 1t
will not he until the emIs2aries Of Down
ing street cease their morning visits and
take the bag OF boxes elsewhere that
people will realize the fact that Sir Ju-
Ian Pauncefote, transformed into Min
lister Plenipotentisry, has really crossed
the Atlantic TO pour oil upon the trou-
bled waters at Washington. For three
hours every working day there is a cease
less exchange OF communications be-
tween Arlington street, the toreign Or
fee, and the Permanent Under Secre-
rary's abode, and it is not until luncheon
arrives that the stalwart guardian Of a
hundred state secrets can find time to
see anybody but Official visitors.
In spite OF the exigencies OF the
ominous pink labels which abound both
on the floor and the desk, Sir Julian
contrives to find time to tell you some
thing about the traditions OF his ances-
tors aud the story OF his own active life.
There were Pauncefotes in toe west
of England when the Domesday
Book was written. Ono Sir Grim
bald Pauncefote was knighted 10y Sir
Edward Bohun at the taking OF
Gloucester castle during the wars
of the barons and obtained from
him the honcels which have constituted
the armorial bearings OF the family ever
since. Sir Grimbald married an heiress
in the church Of Much Cowarne, III Here
fordshire. There is still to be seen an
elfigy of the Pauucefote who sailed with
Prince Edward to Tunis N 1910, and
was taken prisoner by the Saracens, and
whose wife is supposed to have obtained
his release by sending her right hand as
ransom to the inideis. This incident
gave rise to the legend of the couped"
hand, which is still implicitly believed at
Much Cowarne.
The Pauncefotes possessed their cha
racteristic motto, "Pensez Forte, Blk
centuries at least before Julian Paunce-
fote was born at Munich, Just sixty-one
wears ago. An education at Paris and
Geneva gave him practical knowledge
OF foreign languages and lucky accl-
dent led him 10 exchange a military
cadetship in Madras for forensic studies
in the inner temple. Sir William MOles-
worth first introduced him 10 the Colo.
NAL Office and diplomacy. lie praciced
diligently as cOnveyancer at home be-
fore he went to bong Kong to become
the Attorney General and draft q code
of civil procedure. The year 1872
brought him the chief justiceship OF the
Leeward Islands and knighthood. Alter
successfully opening the Federal SUI
preme Court, putting the whole Judicial
administration in working order, and Civ
ing the Leeward Islands civil code,
Sir Julian returned to England to sue
coed Lord Knutsford as the legal assist
ant TO the Under Secretary Of State at
the Colonial Office.
The chief iusticeship of Ceyloa could
not tempt him 10 return to the tropics.
Two years later Lord Derby offered him
the newly-created legal assistant under
secretaryship at the Foreign Office. Lord
Beaconsfield gave him the ribbons Of the
Bath and the colonial order. Lord
Granville selected him to succeed Lord
Tenterden as the permanent Under Sec.
rotary OF State for Foreign Affairs. His
good work on the Suez Canal In
terpational Commission made him
q. g. NJ. G.. Daring six years Sir 'Iu-
Ian has watched over our relations with
the Great Powers and has gained repu-
tation for energy, clear-headedness,
calmness, and tact which fairly sstonish-
ed those who put their faith in the abso-
lutte necessity OF long training in the
routine of the Foreign Office. The po-
sition OF British Minister 10 the United
States is one OF peculiar difficulty. but
the past achievements OF Sir Julian
Pauncefote, his special aptitude for deal.
ing satisfactorily with burning questions,
inspire cheering confidence that he will
soon bs a. much liked in Connecticut
avenue % in Cromwell Placa