133 also named Amaral arrived at Tientsin to exchange ratification Authorities the Chinese declined to ratify until the Portuguese should have satisfactorily explained their understanding of the 2 clauses to which they attached one any importance, the re-asserting the territorial Sovereign right of the Chinese Govt, which, however, did not pretend otherwise to disturb the status quo of the Portuguese Govt at Macao, the other prohibiting the appt of Merchant Consuls at the open Ports by Portugal.
The last provision had been Violated before the ink was dry, and as the Portuguese Mission of 1862 had regards the first, its return to Macao published with the Treaty a Preface which set forth with triumph that the territorial question