3-003-886 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. George Staunton Morrison, Her Majesty's Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, 1861. British diplomat. Engraving from a photograph by Negretti and Zambra. 'At the commencement of our intercourse with a jealous, sensitive, and ignorant people like the Japanese, it was of some importance to the public interests that those to whom the conduct of affairs was in any degree intrusted should be men of experience and discretion. It was, therefore, complimentary to Mr. Morrison that, in anticipation of the rights we had acquired by the treaty of 1858, he should have been offered the post of senior Consul in Japan, and to act as Chargé d'Affaires in the event of the death or absence of the Minister'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.