ABSTRACT
It also alarmed Li Hongzhang, who had Mollendorff recalled, and as Henry F. Merrill, whom the head of the Chinese customs, Sir Robert Hart, was sending to take his place, would be an instrument of British interests, he persuaded Judge Owen N. Denny, a former American consul-general at Shanghai, to accept a separate post as adviser to the King. He also concluded that the return of the Taew ngun would be preferable to leaving Queen Min in control, a proposal to which the Japanese agreed, and with Judge Denny as a fellow passenger the Old Tiger was taken home to be ceremonially welcomed by Yuan Shikai, who appeared to be about to put him back on the throne.
