조미 교섭에 관한 李鴻章, 總署 王大臣과 면담 보고
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Granville
no. 23
Tientsin
23 May 1882
My Lord,
The copy of the Treaty for which I was still waiting when I wrote my Despatch No. 22 of the 17th instant, was not forwarded until the evening of the 19th. I called on the Minister Wang on the 18th, after receiving from the Grand Secretary Li, (I find that he is still to be so designated), a promise to send me the Treaty in a day or two. Wang Ta-jen himself did not admit any knowledge of this promise, though he undertook to speak to the Grand Secretary next day. The attitude of both was so little encouraging that I felt bound to inform Admiral Willes of my misgivings. The Admiral had warned me privately that, as his squadron was assembling at Nagasaki, he could wait at Chefoo only a few days.
My note to him was dispatched on the 19th, but in the afternoon the Grand Secretary sent to say that the Treaty was on its way, and in the evening it arrived. The Minister Wang returned my call upon the 20th and informed me that he had recommended the Grand Secretary to supply me with a letter to Ma Taotai; also that Ma Taotai should be for a time left in Corea. This of course, to watch proceedings in the interest of China and Corea. On the 21st the letter to Ma Taotai was forwarded me. As it was sealed, of course I know nothing of its contents.
I give these details, for they are illustrative of the difficulty of dealing with officials in this country, even when it might be supposed that their position was eminent enough to secure them against their own fears of accepting responsibility. The Grand Secretary who has gone farther in a forward direction than any man in China, although he knows the fairness of my intentions and positively desires that England should be the first power after America to make a treaty with Corea, for he believes that if England accepts what is accepted by America, all the rest will follow suit, the Grand Secretary Li was nevertheless afraid of being named as the single supporter of a treaty between England and Corea, either by his own countrymen or by foreigners. When he first promised me the Chinese draught, he conjured me not to let M. Von Brandt know that I had got it from him. But the Minister Wang learned from M. Von Brandt that he was already in possession of the text, although he declined to say whence he had obtained it. I think it most likely that he got it from the Grand Secretary Li himself, who cannot possibly love him but is surely in fear of him. As the matter now stands responsibility for anything that has been done will be divided between the two Ministers.
The papers being all now in my hands, I resolved to send Mr. Maude over to Admiral Willes with them by a gun vessel, the “Sheldrake” which was by the Admiral’s orders, waiting to take anything I had to send. This I explain in a separate Despatch.
I had much conversation with Wang Tajen regarding opium, as I shall report elsewhere.
I have, &c.
Thomas Francis Wade
no. 23
Tientsin
23 May 1882
My Lord,
The copy of the Treaty for which I was still waiting when I wrote my Despatch No. 22 of the 17th instant, was not forwarded until the evening of the 19th. I called on the Minister Wang on the 18th, after receiving from the Grand Secretary Li, (I find that he is still to be so designated), a promise to send me the Treaty in a day or two. Wang Ta-jen himself did not admit any knowledge of this promise, though he undertook to speak to the Grand Secretary next day. The attitude of both was so little encouraging that I felt bound to inform Admiral Willes of my misgivings. The Admiral had warned me privately that, as his squadron was assembling at Nagasaki, he could wait at Chefoo only a few days.
My note to him was dispatched on the 19th, but in the afternoon the Grand Secretary sent to say that the Treaty was on its way, and in the evening it arrived. The Minister Wang returned my call upon the 20th and informed me that he had recommended the Grand Secretary to supply me with a letter to Ma Taotai; also that Ma Taotai should be for a time left in Corea. This of course, to watch proceedings in the interest of China and Corea. On the 21st the letter to Ma Taotai was forwarded me. As it was sealed, of course I know nothing of its contents.
I give these details, for they are illustrative of the difficulty of dealing with officials in this country, even when it might be supposed that their position was eminent enough to secure them against their own fears of accepting responsibility. The Grand Secretary who has gone farther in a forward direction than any man in China, although he knows the fairness of my intentions and positively desires that England should be the first power after America to make a treaty with Corea, for he believes that if England accepts what is accepted by America, all the rest will follow suit, the Grand Secretary Li was nevertheless afraid of being named as the single supporter of a treaty between England and Corea, either by his own countrymen or by foreigners. When he first promised me the Chinese draught, he conjured me not to let M. Von Brandt know that I had got it from him. But the Minister Wang learned from M. Von Brandt that he was already in possession of the text, although he declined to say whence he had obtained it. I think it most likely that he got it from the Grand Secretary Li himself, who cannot possibly love him but is surely in fear of him. As the matter now stands responsibility for anything that has been done will be divided between the two Ministers.
The papers being all now in my hands, I resolved to send Mr. Maude over to Admiral Willes with them by a gun vessel, the “Sheldrake” which was by the Admiral’s orders, waiting to take anything I had to send. This I explain in a separate Despatch.
I had much conversation with Wang Tajen regarding opium, as I shall report elsewhere.
I have, &c.
Thomas Francis Wade
색인어
- 이름
- Granville, Wang, Li, Wang Ta-jen, Willes, Wang, Ma Taotai, Ma Taotai, Ma Taotai, Li, M. Von Brandt, Wang, M. Von Brandt, Li, Maude, Willes, Wang Tajen, Thomas Francis Wade
- 지명
- Tientsin, Nagasaki, Chefoo
