The following Memorial on Foreign Pass-Edition of the Peking Gacette, ofthe 10th ria, waa published in the Manuscript
October Your Majesty's servants Yi-Sin and others, (the Prince of Kung and his gues of the Tsung-li Yamen,) upon it knees present a memorial to the Throne, In order to the more perfect exposition of [x provision in] the traatin foreign states, they pray Your Majesty to issue " Decree' directing the cial governments to take cognisance be obediently ad-libered to, and deps: tire from it avoided.
They would humbly represent, with reference to the question of foreigners travelling in the interior, that by the express language of the treaties of the aoveral treaty-powers, a passport lias to be applied for which is sealed by a Chinese authority, Persons holding passports are to produce them for i spection demand when are travelling, and, inspection made, they are to be allowed' to proceed, and must not be hindered or domined to their inconvenience, It la further laid down that where a passport has been fast, or were a pamport t yenvine, Misra a bros of vw i committed [the foreigner concerned) is to be handed over to the nearest con-il, that notion may be taken, but that [eel a yerwn) is simply to be taken charge fi tte be maltreated, (+r, cruel farther Inid down Uhat jue inntted only to respectable persons, oF, aa itt amic trentien it is at forth, tha no person not being respectable and of pencrable cliaracter, 18 on any account to be giver: a passport, Such are the provisions of the trentis which with slight variations are on the whvlo identical; their general ain being simply to enable the local authorities to comprehend exxetly how the treaty affects persons carrying passports, and what mur ec they are to deal with them under different sets of circumstance In the case of the British 1 Blurgary, who was tier of Yunnan, Ye the honour to receiv, from Your Majesty, directing Li Han-ch'ang to proceed thither, to make enquiry and take action, How it was that he came to be murdered, there will, of course, be no difficulty in establishing. As the water Geaceuds, the rock will appear. Meantime, however, while the facts are being ascertained, it is too possible that the autho in the provinces, not understanding what the treaty provision really mexu! may be led by this case to entertain mi givings, each one doubting what course his colleague may pursue, (I) and instead of affording protection to" persona entitled to it, may abstain from affording auch protection for fear of difficulty; or that from the circulation of falke statements passed on from one to the other of the common people, some fresh complications may arise, Against either event it duty to take precaution, and it therefore behoves (Your, servants] to place the truth before ihe Throne, and to request Your HI j-sty to issue a Decree commanding the "high officers in Chihli and the other provinces to transmit orders to the local authorities, one and all, to inform themselves without mil of the real meaning of the treaties, and to tae what-
(0) This is wins the tart appear to mana, ever action may be proper under this or that set of circumstances; that so (2) both ud foreigner may be set at ense.
'The treaties of the different treat powers have earlier been forwarded by Your servants' Yamen to the provincial governments, and if Your Majesty now prayer of their memorial], the father forward to the pro-ied in the protection of persons travelling under p"seport, and other proceedings affecting them, are provided for, with instructions that orders be passed on to the local authorities to act uniformly in accordance therewith.
Upon their statement of the reasons why the treaty provision should be more perfectly explained (or declared,) prostrate they beg the sacred glance of Their Majesties, the Empresses and the Emperor.
A respectful memorial,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.