The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-04-01
THE CHINESE NEGOTIATION.
| CONTINUED.
MACAO, July l3, 1874.
c. DREW, Secretary,


MACAO, July 10, 1874.
SIN: Heretofore it has been the policy of the
Court of Picking not only not to permit resident
bassies, but also not to entertain direct communica
ton, by correspondence, with any Of the Western
Governments, except in the of Russia.
In proof of the rgor with which this rule has been
observed, it deserves to be mentioned that there il
not in the personnel of the Chinese Government any
Minister or Department corresponding to the Minis
| ter or Department of Foreign Affairs in Europe
There are two bureaux at Picking which administer
certain affairs belonging to this class. One is the
| lie Fan Yuen, which has charge of the business oil
this Government with the Mongol and other nomadic
tribes on the West and Northwest of China proper
| This bureau is called the Colonial Board 10 some
English publication 1t more nearly corresponds
both in dgInAnd functions, to our SUPPLEMENTARY
The other 'Lee Poo, or, as it is commonly
| called in En- The Board of Rites. One of the Sec
lions of thf Council, Board, or Commission, has
charge of th0recepton of the Euvoys of certain mi
States in the East, which tributary to the Ia
Using Empire
II it suitable to the dignity Of any indepen-
dent State (Which it is not to address itself to either
of these Boards, the difficulty would remain, tina,
neither of them has jurisdiction of the relations OF
China to the Western Governments
II is utterly absurd and inadmissble for China to
which has arisen, in excluding all direct correspon-
dence of Western Governments with the Court.
Indeed, the Chinese Cover nment has made per-
ceptible advance towards the appointment of Min
lister of Foreign Affairs, in the very extensive com
mission it has conferred on Tsyenp of General S,.
perntendent or Administrator of the Foreign Inter-
course of the Five Ports in virtue of which and of
his authority Imperial Commissioner Extraordl.
nary, he has the power to treat with any and all for
eign Powers
Situated as China now is,--forced into diplomatic
relations with Great Britain, the United States and
France Ministry cannot fail to grow ere
long into proper Department of Foreign Affairs
proposed and steadily insisted upon some provs-
ION Of treaty applicable to this point; but the Impe-
rial Commissioner made much difficulty in regard to
it, as you will perceive from the papers annexed
hereto marked A and b, which consist of n memo.
randum presented by TsyeDg, and of one presented
by myself in reply. 1t at length arranged, that
the Government Of the United States shall have the
power to correspond with the Court and that the
proper Ministers the frontier shall be required TO
receive and forward all such correspondence leaving
the Minister at Peking the Board which shall be
addressed, 10 the choice and discretion of the Lned
States.
Centemporaneousy with the making of this ar
rangement, it has been construed in one respect by
the fact Of the reception and transmission of the lei,
ter of the President to the Ia Howang Tel, or En-
peror as he is commonly called; that H. the Presi.
dent and the Emperor address each other according
TO the forms of usage existing between the United
States and the monarchies Of Europe
In regard TO communications from the Secretary Of
State of the United States, decidedly recommend
that they be addressed either to the Nui Ko that is
the Cabinet, --or TO TO the General Council.
There is no individual Minister at Picking to whom
they ought TO be or can be addressed.
But communications from the President TO the En-
peror, from the Secretary Of State directed either
to the Cabinet or to the General Council must under
tho provisions OF the treaty of Wang Sha, be rccev
et 1t either Of the Ave ports by the Imperial Com
missioner IL Their. be one, N not by the r.sp~c-