Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-22
AN ANGRY AMBASSADOR.
Efforts Of England to Negotiate . Treaty
With Morocco,


With Morocco.
A dispatch from Tangier, giving a detailed
account Of the experiences Of the British mis-
sion to Fee says: After the attack on the mis-
sion the sultan received Sir Charles Euan Smith
In the greatest agitation and said: "You and your
your and people are in danger; you must come to
the palace and spend the night" Sir Charles re-
piled: MY life is in no danger, for / am in the
sultan's keeping" The sultan answered: II am
poweriess to protect you il you return TO the
mission; am sure you will be killed" Sir
Charles retorted: Perhaps am to be killed
and perhaps Vice Consul Mcleod will be killed
and perhaps the whole mission massacred il you
permitit But can assure you that there viii
be another British minister in Fee within q
month, accompanied by better equipped staff
than mine. Bot" he added deliberately,
there will not be a sultan in Fee then"
The sultan, astounded at the ENJOYS de-
meanor. repeatedly appealed to him to remain
at the palace, but Sir Charles adroitly turned
the conversation TO the subject of the treaty
The sultan Immediately said that he would sign
the treaty, adding: ''After the affronts which
my unhappy people have heaped upon you how
can make atonement?"
Sir Charles then asked for the punishment of
the Basha of Fee, &c. as already published
The sultan accompanied Sir Charles to the
door OF the palace. when the latter was depart
ing, which was a breach Of Moorish etiquette
Sir Charles left the palace with the understand
ing that the treaty would be signed within day.
but the negotiations dragged along until the eth
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 h, and was returned on the 10th
with the sultan's seal attached. Sir Charles
found, however, that the treaty had been tam
pered with and that certain of the clauses had
been nullified by additions
Sir Charles demanded an explanation. The
minister OF war admitted that the alterations in
the treaty had been one Of the sultan's orders.
He said that be was authorized to pay SIR
Charles the sum Of 800, 900 if he would sign the
treaty as II stood. Sir Charles thereupon
ordered the minister out Of the embassy tore
the bogus treaty into pieces, broke Of comnu-
nications with the palace and prepared to
return to the coast. But by the su1tanfs orders
all the horses and mules belonging 20 the mis-
procured for .Dragoman Carleton, whom Sir
Charles instructed 10 ride to the coast with
request to the governor of Gibraltar TO send an
armed escort and a baggage train. Just o.
Carleton was starting the sultan returned the
stolen animals. On the following day the mis-
sion departed. The sultan sent several high
officials after Sir Charles who refused to receive
them, declaring that after the insults to which
he had been subjected all diplomatic inter-
course between the two countries must end.
The treaty Of Sir Charles required the forma-
ton OF police system in the coast towns, to be
jointly controlled by the sultan and the foreign
powers; the establishment Of . water supply In
Tangier; the removal Of the export duties on
goods going from one province Of Morocco 10
another Stewards; the reduction of the export
duties on cereals, except wheat, from ten 10
four reals; the prohibition Of slave trading in
the coast towns and the removal of the clause
in the Madrid treaty requiring Europe to OBJ
tain the co -snt OF the csdi Of q province be-
fore acquiring property in the territory, such
consent having never been given.