Lord Marley does not seem to have been sufficiently careful in verifying his references before making known to the Lyceum Club his own peculiar views on French Missionaries in China, "Had, for example, his attention been drawn to Morse's standard work, "The International Relations of the Chinese Empire (Vol. 1I)," he might have carried his investigations 50 far as to find on page 222, the following passage: afer the peace of 1800, and still more after the appeasement of the country. between ite" and 1867, the misson= lari began to look further afield and to socle. for opportunities to. preach Sie ona ae fae Se etveen tae ort found in many hundreds of the cies many provinces of the Empire. These were soppresed and the mission Property confiscated, by the Emperor Ffonecheng in 124: toleration was aga accorded in 1044, and in IMG a further Imperial decree ordered the Fesoration of the confiscated property.
1660 It was further provided by the Peking convention that this proerty should be restored through the French representatives in China: and
2 provision that "it shal Chinese text wat Interpolated for Prench missionaries in any of the Provinces to ease or buy land and Bulla" hous." Privileges which the Catholic. missionaries "enjoyed were, Raturally, also claimed by the Profesante;" tut" the latter also based thet lain on the British treaty, whicn Erented. We. Fight "wheter" at the Bors or at other places" to. bulld Searchouses, churches, eis. That the Clause extended! this Tight to the fern has Been denied consistently official position, both Chinese and foreign, but this. into Dresilon has been" insisted "on by; merchant and misdonary alike, Whatever controversy there may have been regarding the provisions of ing-sing-chi-chow-kan *f 4k J 38
Cunvese $18 ren anxuns, $0.40 PER core the British treaty, as referred to in the last sentence of this extract, the Peking convention's provisions were neither in dispute nor contained any concession concealed from Chinese readers. Possibly someone in London has already drawn Lord Marley's attention to his unfortunate mie-statement, with the result, it Is to be hoped, that he will take the course proper in such circumstances,
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