No sooner was Mr. Cheek dead, than the Siamese government tried to
prevent Mr. Kellett from settling his affairs, and did their best to stop
the sale of Mr. Cheek's property.

It is reported that Mr. Kellett would not submit to this interference, but
did his duty very thoroughly, and tried to make the Siamese government
behave honorably, too.

This enraged the Siamese, so the story goes, and they tried to kill Mr.
Kellett to get him out of the way.

The captain of the gunboat, Commander Reiter, has orders from Washington
to look into the whole affair, and if he finds that the story we have
heard is true, and that Siam is in the wrong, he is to insist that the
King makes proper amends.

The Siamese, having wounded the Consul of one country, soon after had
trouble with the representative of another.

The German Minister to Siam was attacked in the streets, not by soldiers,
as was Mr. Kellett, but by a mob.

The dispatches say that an American named Bennett put himself at the head
of the police, beat back the mob, and saved the German Minister's life.

The reasons for this last outrage have not been given, but in this case
the Siamese government has behaved very well.

An apology has been sent to the German Minister, and the King has