dated the 25th of September, says:—It is A private Chinese dispatch from Peking
confidently asserted that one of the last memorials by Kang Yii-wei to the Emperor was an curnest warning to his Majesty to be on his guard against his enemies. Kang strongly urged the advisability of removing the Empress Dowager to some other Palace where she could not interfere with the reform measures of his Majesty. Another suggestion was that Li Hung-chang should be deported to his native city and placed under surveillance. For if allowed longer tw go ubout at pleasure within the palace precincts, his close intimacy with the Empress-Dowager and underhand treachery would one day put " stop entirely to the new regime and all this hard Tabour would be lost. for ever, by the formation of a powerful league against the Emperor. In this connection Kang denounced x number of the most bigoted of the Imperial Clansmen, who he thought were anxious to make away with his Majesty in some way or other. Although this memorial was opt. strictly secret by the Emperor it somehow leaked out and so forced the Empress Dowager and her party's hand, and she was compelled to assert herself at once. Under advice of the senior members of the Imperial Clan she deposed his Ma jesty, ordering the instant arrest of the author of the secret memorial for high treason, and of all who had unduly influenced the ex-Emperor." Had the Empress-Dowager's hand not been forced in this way, the decline of his Majesty's power would doubtless have been much more gradual.
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