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The Grand Secretary Li
Tientsin
11th May, 1882
My Dear Sir,
By letters which arrived yesterday from Japan I am informed of a report that Your Excellency had dispatched an agent to Corea to inform the Government of that country that the American Squadron now on its way to Corea was to be presently followed by a British Squadron for the purpose of negotiating a treaty. From my conversation with Your Excellency a few days ago, I cannot suppose that you have made any intimation of the kind, but the emphasis with which you dwelt upon the timidity of the Coreans induces me to suggest that the simplest method of preventing propagation of rumours so likely to alarm that people would be that, as I have proposed to you, Your Excellency should write a letter to the High Officer in charge of Foreign Affairs in Corea, acquainting him with the plain facts as slated by me in my interview with Your Excellency; namely, that there is in the first place no desire on our part to do anything that may embarrass the negotiations of the Representative of the United States; that the British Admiral proposes to appear off the coast with no more than a single vessel; and that he is prepared to accept a treaty identical in form and conditions with the Treaty which the United States Government is about to conclude.
If it be in Your Excellency’s power to forward me a letter to the above effect and to supply me at the same time with a copy of the Chinese text of the draught treaty, I will hand the letter and the draught to Admiral Willes, whose tender is now in the river. The Admiral could then so time his visit to Corea as in no way to interfere with American negotiations. I should wish of course to be furnished with a copy of the Chinese letter that the Admiral is to carry with him.
I will at the same time telegraph to London to explain the nature of the article which declares the relation of the Kingdom of Corea as a dependency to the Empire of China as her suzerain, and will recommend that upon this point also the Government of Her Majesty shall engage to be content with whatever arrangement may be considered satisfactory by the Government of the United States.
I assume that Your Excellency would wish communication between me and yourself on this subject to be regarded as confidential.
I have, etc,
(Signed) T.F. Wade
Tientsin
11th May, 1882
My Dear Sir,
By letters which arrived yesterday from Japan I am informed of a report that Your Excellency had dispatched an agent to Corea to inform the Government of that country that the American Squadron now on its way to Corea was to be presently followed by a British Squadron for the purpose of negotiating a treaty. From my conversation with Your Excellency a few days ago, I cannot suppose that you have made any intimation of the kind, but the emphasis with which you dwelt upon the timidity of the Coreans induces me to suggest that the simplest method of preventing propagation of rumours so likely to alarm that people would be that, as I have proposed to you, Your Excellency should write a letter to the High Officer in charge of Foreign Affairs in Corea, acquainting him with the plain facts as slated by me in my interview with Your Excellency; namely, that there is in the first place no desire on our part to do anything that may embarrass the negotiations of the Representative of the United States; that the British Admiral proposes to appear off the coast with no more than a single vessel; and that he is prepared to accept a treaty identical in form and conditions with the Treaty which the United States Government is about to conclude.
If it be in Your Excellency’s power to forward me a letter to the above effect and to supply me at the same time with a copy of the Chinese text of the draught treaty, I will hand the letter and the draught to Admiral Willes, whose tender is now in the river. The Admiral could then so time his visit to Corea as in no way to interfere with American negotiations. I should wish of course to be furnished with a copy of the Chinese letter that the Admiral is to carry with him.
I will at the same time telegraph to London to explain the nature of the article which declares the relation of the Kingdom of Corea as a dependency to the Empire of China as her suzerain, and will recommend that upon this point also the Government of Her Majesty shall engage to be content with whatever arrangement may be considered satisfactory by the Government of the United States.
I assume that Your Excellency would wish communication between me and yourself on this subject to be regarded as confidential.
I have, etc,
(Signed) T.F. Wade
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- Li, Willes, T.F. Wade
- 지명
- Tientsin
