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Unvé occurred tows. We faruised_ offers supplied arms, lent troops, and, in return, satisfied ourselves with mere promises, which we now well know have never been fulfilled.
Tt is to be feared that nothing short of massacre upon & gigantic scale will open the eyes of those to' whom the direction of our grossing it to have been the its in China is intrusted. Their sole en-Sroppints up of the Manche dynasty. " Treaty Fights have been suffered to stand in abeyance, the most important provisions to be relinquished. But, while thus indifferent to our own interests, we have been studious teaching the Chinese the art of war, liberal our loan of British subjects for Chinese military and naval services, and have, itis calt to say to what extent, supplied them with all the armaments and munitions of war. ive been mare remarkable fo zeal thas, is cee their dealings with the people; croton note cnfortanstely, the Powers which have obtained a footing in China by themselves more or less Chi pire in the loathing with which the Chinese regard the religion of the foreigner. i ing what we there read, an Order in Council was passed in July, 1864, constituting ourselves afresh the supporters of the Government against the people. The Tientsin massacre has filled Europe with disgust, but that Order in Council still stands, The result of our policy has been in brief this, We have fawned upon a dynasty ax hostile to ourselves as to its own subjects, and we have taken up the sword against the people. Without our interference, the people might have redressed their grievances, augurated " more liberal policy, and been induced to us with favour, All who have travelled in China have no doubt about the fact that the people themselves are well disposed, that they make the fact of our inter-that ince they now lend more wilh ference x grievance, and that. prejudiced by designi who, rather than take the ear to the anti-forei tions of their
responsibility upon themselves of open war, foment popular agitation in secret.
Yours faithfully, every cane has arisen out of olipea ntrga nearly a The we now Haman Catholic nia out of es.
has nover; been amt ling have been' alway to engage, Grimean War, Nor even now" after the terthe
ible lesson of Tien-tsin, can we be sure that the French missionaries will cease to meddle, We have not, however, to look far for the trath. The primary object of the Treaty of Tientsin was to pat an end to our being com-li ease of dispute to have resort pleading their 2 me of policy is very clear. The Ting us to Pekin. By our treaty this state of Protestant] missionaries in China do not interthings was at remedied and direct com-fore with the '80 persistently and annoymunication with the capital was conceded. ingly as those of the Catholic Church, but But no sooner had we secured this object, they sometimes make themselves troublesome which would have made an end of the difticulenough to the authorities, and unfortunately ties referred to, than we failed to avail oura clause in the treaty gives us a protectorate selves of the privilege, nullified the effect of over them, which seems to make us as a na-all our work, reinstated the old condition of fion responsible for their sations. "By insist affairs, convinced the Chinese that we were only galls the Chinese, bat gives the Breach ing on the retention of this clause, which not without any definite policy, afforded them'a Toopholein every complication, and encour an excuse for extorting a more mischievous them to resort to their old policy which they had at one time fairly abandoned. Position of the protectors and encouragers of extent of privilege, we place ourselves in the To those unfamiliar with the relationship Proselytism,—a position we do not attempt to existing between the populace and the Man-assume in India, where we are sojourners, but chu dynasty, the part we took in connexion rulers. Supposing, however, the clause pro-with the Taeping rebellion is calculated to tecting the missionaries as such to be erased from the treaty, we should still have the proton the most erroneous. A right to guard ti lives anc rty as tote of British subjects, and it is hardly fair light on this subject. The so-called Tacping few words, however, may tend to throw some rebellion was in fact, a popular demonstration to ask the Chinese for more than this. We against universally recognized tyranny. In-are of opinion, therefore, that this clause of stead of restricting our interference within the treaty should: be abandoned, and, thou, the proper limits of ion to our mer-concessions are of little avail to conciliate the cantllcacttlements, we rushed heedlessly into unreasoning animosities of Asiatics, we should place ourselves in a better position for demanding redress in case of future outrages by ment. two years' warfare, the rebel-the struggle as hot partisans of the Govern-
ion was extinguished. Our whole course was full justice now. It would, however, from the first, however, marked by so much be absolutely essential to obtain the co-opera vacillation and inconsisteney—at one time we tion of France in this matter, for unless the avowed ouraclves the supporters of the French Government ceases. to extend special Government at all hazards, at another we favour to the missions at the same time that declared our resolution to' stay our hand we do, we shall gain little or nothing in the—that the Chinese Government got the way of sédurity ora.clear conscience. If the notion, partly true, that they had cajoled us Renan Catholic missions pursue their meddle-into the contest..We had, moreover, em-some intrigues, riots which the Chinese Go-barked in the internecine war without -any vernment now predict or threaten will break matured plan or notion as to where our inter-out, and a Chinese mob, once roused, will not Position was to lead us. The policy of pro-trouble itself to make & distinction between viding ourselves with some guarantee that the Catholics and Protestants, between missiouaassistance given would not in the end be ies and merchants. The restraint which is tamed to our own disadvantage seems not to HN, Lay. November 2.
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