In the first stood Moors and the employes of MacArthur, the two chief rivals of the firm, who saw with jealousy a clerk (or a so-called clerk) of their competitors advanced to the chief power.

The second class, that of the officials, numbered at first exactly one.

Wilson, the English acting consul, is understood to have held strict orders to help Germany.
Commander Leary, of the _Adams_, the American captain, when he arrived, on the 16th October, and for some time after, seemed devoted to the German interest, and spent his days with a German officer, Captain Von Widersheim, who was deservedly beloved by all who knew him.

There remains the American consul-general, Harold Marsh Sewall, a young man of high spirit and a generous disposition.

He had obeyed the orders of his government with a grudge; and looked back on his past action with regret almost to be called repentance.