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GREAT BRITAIN.
譬
CONVENTION OF
PREAMBLE OF CONVENTION.
HER Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, being alike desirous to bring to an end the misunderstanding at present existing between their respective Governments, and to secure their relations
agaiust further interruption, have for this purpose appointed Plenipotentiaries; that is to say, Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Trelaud, the Earl of ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, and His Imperial
Majesty the Emperor of Chinn, His Traperial High- ness the Prince of Kuxo, who having met, and communicated to each other their full powers, and finding these to be in proper forui, have agreed upon
the following Conventien in Nine Articles :—
PEKING (1860).
火
*歡上錄
裝麵
岁兩國有所不诓.
大君主合意修好保其
大清大皇帝特派和碩米親王奕新
大君主特
約排列於左 停件亙剖較側均渙尖善現將商定條
公司會議各將
欽羨全權大臣便宜行事之
ARTICLE 1.
A breach of frit udly relations having been occasioned by the act of the garrison of Taku, which obstructed Her Britannic Majesty's Repre- sentative when on his way to Peking for the purpose of exchanging the Ratifientious of the Treaty of Pence concluded at Tientsin in the wath of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, His Imperiul
Mujesty the Emperor of China expressa his deep regret at the misunderstanding so occasioned.
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