SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11556, 18 April 1898, Page 3

SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE.

A TYPICAL BRITISH AMBASSADOR. (Chicago Leader.) ‘ If Great Britain had ransacked the kingdom for a physical representation of’ s John Bull to send to Brother Jonathan, < she could not have found a better than Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British iimbassador in Washington. Sir Julian might sit for a portrait of John Bull and all the world wonldrecogmse the likeness. .He is a typical Englishman. He is British, through and through. He-.is big of frame, with a massive .head and a ruddy face, f suggestive of a beef-eater. He looks the Briton and acts it. There is not a-sug-gestion of democracy about him that is not British. He is affable and gracious, but with him rank is rank, and he is the per- , sonal representative of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. He might travel round the world and keep his mouth closed and no one would be deceived-as to his nationality. He has Great Britain stamped on Ms every feature, his dress, his manners, and his speech. Wherever he should go he would be set down as an Englishman. When Sir Julian appears at the State Department on official business, or at the Capitol or White House on ceremonial ccasions, he is ' ; - JOHN BULL HIMSELF, ?■ ; .; It is not necessary to explain that-as "Ambassador he represents Hie person of • the Queen, His maimer andfiearing suggest that he is the guardian of the, 1 firohe. He represents it all, the Queen, the Lords and Gentlemen —Great Britain, He is aia Ambassador and an Englishman, whether in the Embassy, on-ConnecticutA.venue-or on his .lumbering‘tricycle-on the streets of the national capital. No one would accuse Sir Julian of accentuating Ais importance or trying to impress tMs democratic capital with the-nobility of Ms office. He can’t help being just what he is. He and .Ms office fit intotcach other. The rank of Ambassador was created for him 'and- it rests gracefully on Ms shoulders. He is just the opposite to the American Ambassador at the Court of St James. John Hay has not an impressive figure. He would count for’ little at any affair where his intellect did not take .up the burden of .Ms office. He-would be a ,plain, ©very-day sort of American, a (business man, or an editor, or a lawyer. But Sir Julian would never be mistaken -■ for any of "these. He has no need of any intellectual.effort tofihow what beds. The every-day title of “Mr” would never bo applied to THE. BRITISH AMBASSADOR. ' The Ambassador from Germany prefers this title, and in the diplomatic list he is set -down as “ Mir von ; Holleben, Ambas- j ; sador E. and Pi" He is ! a German baron and doctor., of laws, i but/J he -comes to America as “Mr”, von, Holleben, snd so writfes his name'in the diplomatic- directory; ' . . i ” 4 *' The Minister, from Russia ■ also uses tbo title of “Mr,” and so do all the Ambassadors and Ministers from Europe, China, and Japan, except those from Italy, l Spain, and Great Britain. The Ambassador' from Great Britain is officially known., aa' “ Rt. Hon. Sir Julian Pauncefote," ; G.8.C., G;OM.G., Ambassador Extraordinaiy and Pleiupqtentiary,”. One might as readily address,. .... *• ■ THE QUEEN OP ENGLAND as “ Mrs,” as to address her' Ambataador in Washington as Mr Pauncefote. Thera might be international complications growing out of such carelessness of speech. It is not because Sir Julian belongs to the peerage, for he does not. , He is not a, peer, like Ms predecessor. Lord SackrilleWest. He did not inherit his greatness. He won it, like an American, by hard ; work, big brain power, and hard, common, sense. ’