Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-11-27

the person of Gen. Sir Neville Chamber
lain, whose name and family are helc
in high esteem by the Ameer. The
| dispatch goes on to say the conduct O.
the Ameer in refusing to receive the
mission was wholly without justifca
| ton. He was aware from various com
| munications addressed to him by your
excellency's predecessor, that the Rus
! sian government had given assurances
to the government Of her majesty, tc
regard his territories as complete
ly behind his sphere of action
He was equally aware that the whole
policy of the British government, since
his accession to the throne, had been to
strengthen his power and authority and
to protect him from foreign aggression
although the methods adopted for doing
SO may not have accorded with his
highness' own views. He had received
from the British government evidence
of good will, manifested by large gifts
OF money and arms, as well as by its
successful efforts in obtaining from the
czar's government It's formal recognition
of fixed boundary, agreeable to MIN
self, between his kingdom and neigh
boring Khanate.. His subjects had
been allowed to.pass freely throughout
India, to the great benefit of trade and
commerce of his country; and in no
single instance has the ameer himself or
any of his people been treated unjustly
or inhospitably within British jurisdic-
ton. By every bond of international
courtesy, as we'll as by the treaty en-
gagement of 1866 existing between the
two countries. binding him to be friend
of our friend, and enemy of our enc
mics, the ameer was bound to q line
of conduct the reverse of that which he
adopted. Her majesty's government
were unwilling to accept an evasive let
ter brought from Cabul by Naval Gho-
lam Husslim Khan as Sheere Ais
final answer, and determined to give
him a short time for reconsideration.
While, therefore, her majesty's govern
ment acknowledged fully as binding on
them the pledges given by Sir Neville
Chamberlain to friendly chiefs and peo-
pie who undertake the safe conduct
of his mission. They desired
to make an effort to avert the calamity
Of war, and with this object instructed
your excellency to address to his high
ness demand, in temperate language,
requiring full and suitable apology with
in a given time, for the affront which
he has offered to the British govern
ment in refusing the reception of the
permanent British mission within his
territories, and reparation for any injury
inflicted by him on the tribes who at
tended Gen. Sir Neville Chamberlain
and Maj. Canagnari as well as under
taking not to modest them hereafter.
These Instructions were promptly car
ried into effect by your excellency's
government, and ameer has been in
formed that unless clear and satisfac-
tory reply be received from him by the
Goth of November, you will be compelled
to consider his intentions as hostile,
and to treat him as declared enemy.
1t only remains for me to assure your
excellency of the cordial support of her
majesty's government in the onerous
circumstances in which you are placed,
and to state that l have received the
commands Of her majesty to publish
this dispatch for the general information
of the public, in anticipation of papers
connected with the important question
with which it deals