Anson Burlingame And the First Chinese Mission to Foreign Powers
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Pass- ing over this non sequitur, we come to one still more glaring. The British minister in Peking, he thinks, must be authorised to bring about ' He explains this carefully to Sir Rutherford in the following words: " I requested Mr. Burlingame to bear in mind, and to make known to the Chinese Government, that we should henceforward have a right to expect on its part the faithful fulfilment of treaty engagements, the prompt redress of grievances referred to the Central Government, and friendly... treatment of British subjects by the Chinese authorities. This, I said, was not only just and reasonable in itself, but also necessary in order to enable her Majesty's Government to give full effect to the policy which they desired to observe toward China, particularly with reference to not having recourse to measures of force unless for the immediate 182 ANSON BURLINGAME AND hostilities whenever he regards it to be abso- lutely necessary. "So long," he argues, "as a question or complaint is in the hands of a min- ister it is one for negotiation to be settled by strong language or a gunboat; but the moment the case is referred to London the question becomes international and the honour of the British nation demands vindication by an ap- peal to arms." It was impossible for a censor with such prepossessions to realise that in due time direct telegraphic communication with the Far East would curtail and practically vitiate the sovereign power in which he wished to clothe the British envoy, or that a Chinese legation in London would presently have its share in effect- ing the settlement of disputes.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Pass- ing over this non sequitur, we come to one still more glaring. The British minister in Peking, he thinks, must be authorised to bring about ' He explains this carefully to Sir Rutherford in the following words: " I requested Mr. Burlingame to bear in mind, and to make known to the Chinese Government, that we should henceforward have a right to expect on its part the faithful fulfilment of treaty engagements, the prompt redress of grievances referred to the Central Government, and friendly... treatment of British subjects by the Chinese authorities. This, I said, was not only just and reasonable in itself, but also necessary in order to enable her Majesty's Government to give full effect to the policy which they desired to observe toward China, particularly with reference to not having recourse to measures of force unless for the immediate 182 ANSON BURLINGAME AND hostilities whenever he regards it to be abso- lutely necessary. "So long," he argues, "as a question or complaint is in the hands of a min- ister it is one for negotiation to be settled by strong language or a gunboat; but the moment the case is referred to London the question becomes international and the honour of the British nation demands vindication by an ap- peal to arms." It was impossible for a censor with such prepossessions to realise that in due time direct telegraphic communication with the Far East would curtail and practically vitiate the sovereign power in which he wished to clothe the British envoy, or that a Chinese legation in London would presently have its share in effect- ing the settlement of disputes.
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