Rochechouart, Fraser to the Tsungli Yamen, June 27, 1875

Foreign ministers to the Tsungli Yamen.

The undersigned have had the honor to receive from their excellencies the ministers of the Tsungli Yamen, under date of the 15th instant, a note relating to the statement of the Spanish minister, that certain points of the project for a settlement of the question of emigration to the island of Cuba, &c., as well as the note accompanying the project for a modified convention from your excellencies.

The undersigned have communicated the first of these notes to the minister for Spain and have informed him that they could not further give their good offices in the question of emigration to the island of Cuba, since the last declarations of your excellencies and those of Señor Faraldo will not permit them to hope that their efforts to bring about an arrangement by mutual concessions would be successful.

The undersigned see even more the difficulty of further mediation, since the new project of the Tsungli Yamen contains clauses entirely inadmissible, as the undersigned have frequently embraced occasion to explain. Your excellencies, in bringing forward these stipulations, and declaring their unwillingness to renounce them, increase the difficulties of an adjustment. The mediation of the undersigned is impossible under existing circumstances.