Letter
Memorandum for Mr. Brenan., December 18, 1879
[Inclosure 1 in No. 542.]
Memorandum for Mr. Brenan.
December 18, 1879.
If the ministers who receive Mr. Brenan at the Tsung-li Yamên to-day request any explanation, they must be informed that Mr. Brenan is not authorized in the present instance to do more than present the memorandum with which he is charged; that he is not at liberty to discuss the construction of the treaty right to which it refers; but that it will be of course his duty to report to the foreign representatives, through his minister, as doyen of the corps diplomatique, any observations that it may seem good to their excellencies to make.
T. F. WADE.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.