St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-24
A DARING DIPLOMAT.
Sir Charles Euan-Smith's Thrill.
ing Experience in Morocco.

Sir Charles Euan-Smith's Thrill
ing Experience in Morocco.
Sir Charles Euan-Smith, the British
minister to Morocco. who some time ago
went on mission to Fee, and concern
ing whose safety some anxiety was felt,
owing to the fact that he had not been
heard from for some time, arrived at
Tangier recently on board the British
warship AmphiOn. He was accompa-
MED by Col. Parr, Of the Somerset regi-
ment; Maj. Baynes, of the Kings rifles;
Surgeon Captain MACPHERSON and Mai.
Mends, of the Gibraltar garrison. Lady
Euan-Smith, Miss Smith and Miss Ker-
rison were also of the party, which
travelled from Fee to Rabat, where they
embarked On the Amphion.
1t Is apparent that the sultan has re-
considered his determination to nego.
tate treaty with Great Britain on the
basis OF having it all his own way. tits
now announced that the grand yiZier
and several of the sultan's ministers
are expected to arrive shortly in Tan
gier with the object of reopening nego-
tiations for a new treaty.
A dispatch from Tangier, giving a
detailed account of the experiences of
the British mission to Fee, SAYS: After
the attack on the mission the sultan
received Sir Charles Euan-Smith in the
greatest agitation, and said: You and
your wife and people are in danger;
you must come to the palace to
spend the night Sir Charles re-
piled: My life is in no danger,
for l am in the sultan's keeping The
sultan answered: II am powerless to
protect you if you return to the mission;
L am sure you will be killed. Sir
Charles retorted:- Perhaps l am to be
killed. and perhaps Vice Consul Nc
Leod will be killed and the whole mis-
Sion massacred if you permit it. But
can assure you that there will be anoth-
er British minister in Fee within a
month. accompanied by better
equipped staff than mine. But he
added, deliberately, there will not be a
sultan in Fez.'
The sultan.astounded at the envoy,s
demeanor, repeatedly appealed to him
to remain at the palace, but Sir Charles
adroitly turned the conversation to the
subject of the treaty. The sultan imme-
diately said that he would sign the
treaty, adding: After tie affronts
which my unhappy people have heaped
upon you, how can l make atone
ment"
Sir Charles then asked for the pun
ishment of the baSha OF Fee, etc., as
already published.
1.-The sultan accompanied Sir Charles
to the door of the palace when the lat
ter was departing, which was breach
of Moorish etiquette. Sir Charles left
the palace with the understanding that
the treaty would be signed within a
day, but the negotiations dragged along
until the 9th, when the treaty was at
length signed by Sir Charles and the
minister of war.
".'It was then taken to the palace for
the purpose of having the sultan sign
1T, and was returned on the 10th with
the sultan's seal attached. Sir Charles
found, however, that the treaty had
been tempered with, and that certain
of the clauses had been nullifed by adj
dltions.
'Sir Charles demanded an explana-
ton. The minister of war admitted
that the alterations in the treaty had
been done by the sultan's orders. He
said that he was authorized to pay Sir
Charles the sum of $500 if he would
sign the treaty as it stood.
''Slr Charles thereupon ordered the
minister out of the embassy. tore the
bogus treaty into pieces, broke off COM
munications with the palace and pre-
pared to return to the coast. But by
the sultan'S orders all the horses and
mules belonging to the mission were
stolen. However, a swift horse was
procured for Dragoman Carleton, whom
Sir Charles instructed to ride to the
coast with request to the governor of
Gibraltar to send an armed escort and
baggage train. just as Carleton started
the sultan returned the stolen animals.
On the following day the mission de-
| parted. The sultan and several of the
high officials called Oh Sir Charles, who
refused to see them. declaring that after
the insults to which he had been sub
| jected all diplomatic intercourse be-
tween the two countries must end"