The Cuinese shine in diplomacy, their State papers are m dels of reasoning It would never be necessity for them to goto wa: with any uatoa if they were not proud and pret: utions. No Foreign Power was willing to endure that ceremonial domination which formerly marked the reception given by Chinese to Fo eign Enbasses. Th: Chinese have often mi-used their col powers of argu in conten ling for objes"s of n real xdvantage. The Arrow War of Great Britain with China gives many instances of Chinese failures in diplomacy and the waste of god Iigic in demands which would have been value when conceded. Professor Charles S. Leavenworth has chosen this subjee: for a monograph in Chinese hist ry. Ton small volume of 215 pages he gives a fall and graphically written sketch vf the events whi-h took place on the occasion of the difrene> between Vicery Yeh ant Governor General Bo sri "s between October 1856 and November 1860.
G eat Britain said by her representatives to the Chinese high authorities at Canton "We will not be ill-treated by you. Your men must not board a British vessel and take away her crew under any pretext. You must act according to the' r-gulations alrendy a: reed upon between us." This the Chinese Viceroy, Yeh, declined to do. He thought h" was in the right, and undertook to show this by argument. Sir Hurry Parkes tri d to bring him to see that he was in the wrong. Yeh was taken prisoner, sent to Calcutta, and died there.
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