The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-04-01
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IcoPY OF MEMORANDUM.

COPY OF MEMORANDUM
The Government Of the United States desires to
have Minister at Picking If this demand be
waived, it becomes lndspensably necessary that
other means be provided, by which the Government
of the United States may make known its wishes to
that Of China. The Secretary of State of the United
States will not transact the business Of the two ma
tons with a mere provincial Governor Nor, if he
willing to do 80, would that be satisfactory; be-
cause it may well happen that the Government of
the I'm ted States desires to invoke the nterposition
Of the Imperial Government TO correct the
chastise the misconduct of some Provincial Cover
nor And this is quite important to China it is
TO Amerca-for it the United States should have
casion to redress any wrong and all access to the
Court is closed up, so that communication be
addressed TO it, then the United States has
dy but recourse to arms Ii was in this way that
the late war with England came to take place. If
the English Government, had possessed any means Of
directly addressing the Court and thus bringing its
views and wishes to the know ledge OF the Emperor
il would have sought redress from the justice and
magnanmity of the Emperor, instead Of bringing
soldiers into China have perfect confidence in the
good faith and irmness Of he KuDg Pow, but some
one of his successors may be bad man, and may
conduct ILL., and it is for the life of this generation
but for all future time, that arranging
the affairs Of the two nations am the Emperor
will always do right but am equally sure that Pro
vincal Governors will sometimes do wrong. My
person or board at Picking whom the Government of
the United States may address, is because it is
Of the means of preventing all occasion possible.
ty of breach Of peace between China and the Uni
ted States. Such questions not provincial af-
fair, but national one, because the peace of the
whole nation is involved. They must Of course come
before the Court sooner later and it is better they
should 60 TO il directly And ifthere be any obiec-
ton to the Lii Pu, propose the Noy no, the Gen
eral Council
Presented June %, 1914, by C. Cushing, to Tsi-
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mo. 76.l MACAO, July IS, 1874.
Sir From the contents of sundry dispatches pre-
ceding this you will have gathered the general rea.
sons for my conserving TO negotiate at Macao instead
of Picking but am desirous to lay these before YOU
in more specific form.
|, is to be observed, in the first place that the I'm
perisl Government entertains the strongest repug.
nance to receiving embassies Of the Western Govern.
ments Its policy, far as regards these is one of
seclusion II has no proper Department Of Foreign
Affairs. II sends no embassies Of its own to Europe
America. II is accustomed to receive only tribute
bearing embassies from various minor States in Asia
which recognise, IN different degrees Of submission
the supremacy Of the Ia Using Empire.
When European embassies have made their way
to Picking, they have been compelled with the single
exception Of that Of Lord Mccartney to submit TO
the degrading acts Of vsssssge and religious worship
which the forms Of the Tartar court exact from ali
men or, refusing this, they have been compelled 10
leave Pekng without beng presented TO the Ia Bo
wang Tel. ifreceved, they are expected 10 remain
only few weeks and in no case have they succeed
ed IN transaciing any important public business at
Picking.
This general policy Of the Tartar Court has been |
fortified by recent eventsthe with OF Great Britain
having rendered the Court more AYERS. than ever TO
admit embassies from the western States.
Accordingly, the Imperial 0ovsnssset, ims.~di-