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Memorandum.
446
His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General bege to acknow- -ledge the receipt of the Wai Chiao Sau's letter of yesterday's date having reference to the joint interview which took place on the 28th. instant at the Tutu's Yamen when the question of the
supply of limestone to the Green Island Cement Company was dis-
-cussed.
From a perusal thereof it would appear that the argumenta put forward by Mr. Jamieson have been imperfectly appreciated.
While it is acknowledged that the Tutu laid stress on the
fact that he wished to treat the matter on a commercial, as dis-
-tinct from a Treaty, basis, it must not be forgotten that Mr. Jamieson throughout professed inability to grasp this distinction.
The whole intercourse between Chinese and British officials is
regulated by the Treaties, the rights of British subjects to trade
in China and to deal in Chinese produce freely rest on the same
foundation, and any cases, therefore, connected with the commercial
transactions of British subjects, with wich British Officials may
be called upon to deal, must form subject of diplomatic negotia-
-tion.
As was pointed out in Mr. Jamieson's Memorandum
addressed to the Tutu on the 2nd. May last, a proclamation issued
at the instance of the Canton Cement Works practically created a
monopoly in so far as limestone was concerned, and monopolies
being contrary to Treaty a protest was accordingly lodged.
Whether or not as a consequence of such protest, the
proclamation was withdrawn Mr. Jamieson has no means of knowing
but, action having been initiated by a breach of Treaty, sub-
-sequent happenings certainly gave strong colour to the suppositi-
-on that, having failed on one direction to cut off the Green
Island Company's supplies, those in whose favour the monopoly was to operate endeavoured to attain their ends by other means.
Limestone for delivery under contract to the Green
Island Company was seized and, in spite of all offers to secure