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A PROJECTED CONQUEST' OF
JAPAN.
BY INGLAND AND RUSSIA IN 1776.
des Debate of April 8tb.)
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"with as much speed as secrecy." Less than iwo years before, in 1774) "without any apparent necessity" 14,000 "Zaprove Cossacks," and ESPECIAL OLD TOM GIN.
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a number of sailors had been despatched to that district. An unusual activity in naval construction had been displayed in all the ports of the Northern Pacific. deprived as they were, for thirty years still, of all direct com.
Europe. Finally, in the interior of Siberia, at munication with the maritime routes from Irkutsk, a school of Eastern languages had been established, whose purpose might be guessed without difficulty-n school where there appeared Japanese, "clever and learned men," on whose part "much affection for Russia" was displayed. To these armaments, to these careful preparations on Russia's part, England had just offered directors and officers, with a pilot at once unexpected and superan nuated, the famous navigator, James Cook.
England and Russia amicably sharing be- tween them the Empire of the Rising Sun, Catherine II and George III establishing Japanese condominium, and jointly supplant For further Particulars, apply at the Coming Shogun and Vikado, can we believe that pany's Local Branch Office in PRINCE'S
the end of the eighteenth century narrowly BUILDINGS, First Floor, Chater Road.
missed witnessing such an unsuspected cast of fortune? Fact or dream, a fantastic outgrowth of a diplomatist's brain, or a plan roughly
Without equal as a navigator and as a leader sketched-out, concern about an intention of of men, by his two recent voyages across the the kind did netually, for a time, set chancet- void of the South Seas, circumnavigator after leries and cabinets on the alert, soley to work, the manner of Columbus and Magellan, by the fringe of the Australian continent, and the and adventurers ascouting. The present threshold of the terrors of the Antarctic, James moment gives the recollection of this shadow-Cook was at this very moment, in July 1776, sailing from England on a third voyage, the hunt a curious retrospective interest.
end of which he was not to see, with two ships whose names are emblematic of the whole reign of Louis XVI, there arose an inquiry of man and his character, the Resolution and the
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In the summer of 1776, the second year of American independence, third year of the
a most exciting kind. An entente cordiale between England and Russia, already known and settled, in the watching of which French diplomacy was exhausting itself at the time, concealed, it would seem, a most sensational project. This combination, actually concerted by Pitt and Potemkin, which had narrowly missed securing the co-operation of a Muscovite army in the colonial war in the new world, and setting Washington to fight with Souvaroff or other, ended in an enterprise of quite another character. intended to astonish the world, the conquest of the Japanese Empire and its storied islands, closely shut up, with whose products and resources Holland, ever since the famous expulsion of foreigners in 1641, was left the sole and exclusive trafficker.
It was the perind of gentle torpor and gener al sleepiness when the distant power of the Far East, relieved from the intestinal struggles which had again so severele shaken it about the time of the Reformation in Europe, had become NE-A Sperial Charge is made for Lines languid amid a material prosperity, continually
of more than average length.
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increased by the Shoguns of the dynasty of the great lye-Yasu. These men were carried into hower, at the end of feudal apheavals, both hernic and sanguinary, which would have de- lighted the heart of Froissart to relate. By the end of the sixteenth century, the famous en- counter at Sekipbara rendered them practical- by masters of the land af Nippon, as against their other rivals, in the decisive eclipse of the
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goddess of the sun, and progenetrix of the im- perial family. The national riches, promoted by them, and reaching their height under the peaceful and benefcent rule of Yoshe-Mune, the popular monarch, who was called "the Rice-Shogun, much like the Béamais, attained stability under the rule of Ive-fiara, who reign ed at Vedo (1762-1786). These enviable riches were without defence, were no protective curi- ass, save the systematic isolation of the foreigner and the holding of him at arm's length, since the close shutting up of the islands by the law of exclusion, the most noteworthy law of the Shogan lye-Mitsu. who had confined Japan, since the middle of the seventeenth century, in an artificial prison, whose walls did not fall till our own day.
"And I say that they have boundless stores of gold," was the prophecy of Marco Polo, the first revealer of those islanders, scarce dreamed of till then. At the word of that Venetian Herodotus, the carvels of Columbus and of the WIRE, conquistadores were at once put in commission to seek Japan by one of the gradients of the globe. In the time of Catherine the Great, and of the Third George, the greed of ages revived. Japan, by the now classic route towards the sunrise, lay open for sudden bold adventurous attacks, as formerly did Mexico, with an abdi. cating sovereign, a people without arms, with its idols dumb, and with the secrets of its temples, and the treasures of its enchanted metal, to Ferdinand Cortez.
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The secret of this scheme, a risky one to say the least, was let out by the secretary to the Russian ambassador in England, Count Mussin-Pushkin, during his stay in France, in the course of an interview, for the purpose of getting out of him something as to the existing relations between his Government and the Court of London.
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Now, from one point of his course, this time directed towards the discovery of the North- West passage. Cook in making towards the men, eth August, 100. morthern lands of Asia, had received instrac- tions, it was alleged, to touch at the Siberian establishments, there to advise the completion of the preparations in progress, and finally to take in band the maritime operations in the difficult parts of the Tartar Channel and the Korean Sea. Elsewhere, a "blind" was en- gineered for the continent. As for the pro- testations of Europe, the diplomat in question stated, not without a touch of the picturesque in his diction that "England undertakes to clear away the obstacles that might turn Russia away from this scheme, and to amuse Germany, if that were necessary, by raising a through her allies? To a joint aggression so unforeseen, what obstacles could be offered in a hurry, at such distances, at the very Back of Beyond, with Cook already on his way to the Cape, under the Trade winds, taking his secret with him?
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A curious coincidence put into the power of the French Government an irregular force of the right kind to a face up to this conjuncture and defeat the project. Chance had even al- ready placed the person involved half way to the place of the possible meeting. A wild,
was that of improbable, prodigal career Maurice, Count Beniowski Known to history
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But who would go to hant him up in Mada- gascar, where he had established himself three years before? What sea captain is to be found
adversary to James Cook, already in full sail NOT PEAK. towards the Equator? It is his rival in glory that will be raised against him-Bougainville. The fortunate and brave commander of the Boudeuse and L'Etoils, the first French navi- gator to put a girdle round the earth, the damenbridor of Tahiti with its coral strands, its wonders, and its delights, beld a reputation The clever man who got hold of this inform-well Stted to rival Cook on the new stage ation was Jean Benoit Scherer, a native of where a widening world-politie could bring Strasburg, an orientalist, a scholar, and anthem face to face. occasional employee of the Russian Govern- Starting off for Madagascar, with the quote ment, who had recently returned to Paris of light ships that were readily put under his Pensioned by Vergennes, author of several charge, Bougainville there took up Beniowski. treatises on Russian advances in Asis, he was | Thus prepared and commanded, the counter- one whose solidity of character and technical expedition was able to get ahead of the English knowledge put him in a better position than any and Russian designs against the empire of the W. STUART HARRISON, one else, to understand and make use of what mysterious islands, on the countries of that WILDARCHAI ROAD, Comfortable and
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at once reduced to writing the main points of i "Which Japan ripens in its distant mines." this conversation, with some personal expla Such was the aspect, to the diplomatists of nations, and put the whole at the disposal of 1776, of the Japanese venture, the traces of the Foreign Office. The document alsope on which thus survive. The feeling that its dis- there, its repose rarely disturbed, preserving covery was calculated to excite, so quickly evidence of the scheme, and giving it at least allayed, seems to have provoked, for sometime the right to be inscribed on the margin of the longer, a prolonged distrust of that which the historic page.
language of the time called "the secret of the According to information he had just col- Halions of England and Russia. At any rate, lected, Russia, for some years, had been pre- this recollection of an Anglo-Russian selaure of paring herself, for the conquest of Japan, Japan, perceived and preserved by Frence, this taking as her base her possessions in Eastern resurrection of a schame which might have turn- Siberia, even then ready to extend themselves | ed Bougainville's guns on Cook in the Korean from the other side of the ses christened by Strait or in the Bay of Yedo, causes to rise Bebring as far as an (increasing) part of the out of the mists of the past a vision-which almost seems millenarian-in which the supres American continent.
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