Letter

Otin to the Yamun, October 14, 1873

Author

Otin

Recipient

the Yamun

Date

October 14, 1873

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 3 in 8 in No. 9—Translation.]

Mr. Otin to the Yamun.

Peking, October 14, 1873.

To His Highness Prince Kung and the Ministers of the Yamun:

I have had the honor to receive the dispatch of yesterday’s date from your highness, &c., and have carefully examined it.

In it you say that the articles which I submitted to you are totally unlike the points which were generally agreed upon at the Russian legation on the 1st August. I can, therefore, henceforth have no further transactions of a public nature with the Yamun; and have accordingly requested the dean of the diplomatic body to attend to all Spanish affairs on my behalf. I shall remain in Peking only on my private affairs until I start on my journey, and have to request that I may henceforth be regarded by the Yamun as only a private individual, in which position, if I have any business, I shall ask the good offices of the clean of the diplomatic body to attend to it.

I have, &c.

F. OTIN.

Notes

1. The expression in the Chinese text for this discrepancy is far stronger than in the preceding dispatch from the Chinese authorities, almost equivalent to a declaration of antagonism; while theirs was disagreement, like the two parts of a check.u2014Note by S. W. W.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

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.