Thomas Francis Wade to the Tsungli Yamen, April 2, 1875

Mr. Wade to the Tsungli Yamen.

The minute mentioned in my note of the 15th March as containing my own views upon the propositions of Mr. Otin, and the counter-propositions of the Tsungli Yamen has been made the base of a note, to which my colleagues and myself have agreed, and which will be sent to your imperial highness as soon as it can be translated. My minute, which was at great length, has not been put into Chinese, and there will not now be any occasion to trouble your imperial highness with it.

I should be glad to find that the note now on its way from my colleagues and myself induced acceptance of the adjustment of the emigration question we have been striving so hard to promote.

Should it be otherwise, and the Tsungli Yamen and the Spanish legation still entertain a desire to submit the issue between them to arbitration, I shall be ready, as before, to join my colleagues in whatever course it may be found practicable to follow.