1E future historian of China will have some difficulty in making up his mind what to say when his time to dose! the Empress According to Colonel Denby, for many years U. S. Minister at Peking, she is a sovereign to be ranked with Queen Elizabeth England, the Empress Catherine of Rassia, and Qaeen Victoria. According to Mr. Ka Hung-ming, MA she is so great and good, so wise and kind-hearted a ruler, that he ventured to suggest, "that H.B.M. the Queen as the Doyenne of the Lady Sovereigns of the world, (this he subsequently altered to the Empress Dowager of Russia), be graciously pi to send as soon as possible, a direct open letter to HIM. the Empress Dowager—not in official language, but in'simpie language of the beart—expressing sympathy for the trio's and hardships which H.LM. the Empress Dowager, her son, and her suffering people have through in the present trouble. the Foreign Ministers and es the British Minister should issue an ordinance making it penal for any foreign or Chinese newspapers published in the treaty ports in China, to publish anything which is insulting or disrespectful to the person of HIM. the press Dowager as well as of HIM. the Emperor of China." According to the
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