Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-23
GREAT BRITAIN AND MOROCCO.
American Hardness to Chile Not to Be
Compared TO JOHNNY Bulls.

American Hardness to Chile Not to Be
Compared TO Johnny Bulls.
TANeIER, July 22.-Sir CHARLES Euan Smith,
the British Minister to Morocco, who some
time ago went on q mission to Fee, and con-
corning whose safety some anxiety was felt
owing to the fact that he had not been
heard from for some time, arrived here to-
day on board the British warship Amphion.
The British Minister had very exciting
experience at Fez. After the attack on the
mission the Sultan received Sir Charles IN
the greatest agitation, and said: "You and
your wife and people are in dangeri you
must come to the palace to spend the
night"
Sir Charles replied: "My life is in no
danger, for / am in the Sultan's keeping"
The Sultan replied: 81 am powerleSs co
protect you II you return to the mission;
/ am sure You will be killed"
Sir Charles retorted "Perhaps am to be
be killed and the whole mission massacred
If. you will permit it, but can assure you
that there will be another British Minister
In Fee within month accompanied by a
better equipped staff than mine. But" he
added deliberately. "there will not be
Sultan in Fez them"
The Sultan. astounded at the envoy's de-
meanor, repeatedly appealed to him to re-
main at the palace but Sir Charles adroitly
turned the conversation to the subject or
the treaty. The Sultan Immediately said
Cnat ne WOulQ sign the treaty, aQulng. 'AlIer
the afronts which my unhappy people have
heaped upon you how can l make atone
ment?" Sir Charles then asked for the pun
ishment of the Pasha of Fee, etc., as already
published.
The Sultan accompanied Sir Charles to the
door of the palace when the latter was de-
parting, which was q breach of Moorish
etiquette. Sir Charles left the palace with
the understanding that the treaty would Dc
signed within a day, but negotiations
dragged along until the 9th. when the treaty
was at length signed by Sir Charles and the
Minister OF War. 1t was then taken to the
palace for the purpose of having the Sultan
sign it, and was returned on the 10Th with
the Sultan's seal attached. Sir Charles
found, however, that the treaty had been
tampered with, certain of the clauses having
been nullifled by additions, and demanded
an explanation.
The Minister of War admitted that the
| alterations in the treaty had been done by
the Sultan's orders. He said he was author
lied to pay Sir Charles the sum OF sloO, 600 II
he would sign the treaty as 1t stood Sir
Charles then ordered the Minister out of the
embassy, tore the bogus treaty into pieces,
broke on communications with the palace
and prepared TO return to the coast. BY the
Sltan's orders all the horses and mules be-
longing to the Mission were stolen. How
| ever, . swift horse was procured for Drago-
man Carleton, whom Sir Charles instructed
to ride to the coast with Il request to the
Governor of Gibraltar to send armed escort
and baggage train. just as Carleton was
| starting the Sultan returned the stolen ami
mails, and on the following day the mission
departed. The Sultan sent several high
officials after Sir Charles, who refused to re-
| ceive them, declaring that after the insults
| to which he had been subjected all d1plo-
| matte intercourse between the two countries
| must end.