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APPENDIX.
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TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND CHINA.
CONVENTION AND TREATY OF PEACE | CONVENTION OF PEACE BETWEEN HER BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN & CHINA. } 1860.
PROCLAMATION.
MAJESTY AND THE EMPEROR OF CHINA.
Signed at Pekino, October 2trtt, 1560. Tho Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., G.C.B., Hor Britanuie Majesty's Special Ambas- Her Majesty the Queen of tireat Britain and sador in China, &c., ke, &c., has inuch satisfac- Ireland, and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor tion in informing Her Majesty's subjects in China of China, being alike desirous to bring to an end that a Convention for the re-establishment of the misunderstanding at present existing between Peace betweeu Great Britain and China was their respective Governmeats, and to secure dicir concluded, and the Ratifications of the Treaty of relations against further interruption, have for Tien-tsin of the year 1858 duly exchanged, at this purpose appointed Plenipotentiaries, that is Peking, on the 24th of October 1860.
to say :-
The Earl of Elgin now publishes for general information the text of the mid Convention, and Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Treaty, together with the text of the Tariff, and Ireland, the Fart of Elgin aml Kincardine; and Rules which form part of the Treaty, and were|His Imperial Majesty this Emperor of China, His agreed to by him and the Plenipotenlincies of the Imperial Highness the Prince of Kung; who, Emperor of China at Shanglaac, on the Bil of having met, aml cuaounicated to each other November 1USB,
their full powers, and finding these to be în pro- The Carl of Elgin trusts that by a considerato per form, have agreed upon the following Cun- treatment of the natives with whom they may vention, in Nine Articles": come into contact, and a Káthful ofiservanco of their obligations towards the Chinese Guvern ment, Iler Majesty's subjects in China will do been occasioned by the act of the Garrison of what in them lies, to reconcile the people, and Taku, which obstructed Her Britaunie Majesty's authorities of China, to the changes in their rela-Representative, when on his way to Peking, for tion with Foreigners which are about to be the purpose of exchanging the ratifications of tho introduced under the international compacts Treaty of Peace, concluiled at Tien-tsin in the herewith promulgated-changes which, if they be month of June, one thonsand eight hundred and carried into effect in such a tunnuer as to afford fifty-eight, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of greater scope to the commercial activity of the China expresses his deop regret at flu misunder- Chinesu peuple, without doing unnecessary via-standing 90 vecasioned.
Art. 1. – A breach of friendly relations having
lence to their habits and traditions, will, it may Art. 11.—It is furtlur expressly declared, that he hoped, prove Lunoficial to them, and to all who the arrangement entered into at Shanghay, in the havo dualings with them.
month of Octolur, nnm thousand eight bread Duo notice will be gives, whenever the serango- and fifty-eight, between Ber Britannic Majesty's ments for carrying into execution the provisions Ambassador de Earl of Elgin nad Kinenriling, of this Convention and Treaty, at the Ports and flix Imperial Majesty's Comunissioners Kwei-
thereby opened to British Trudo, shall bo com- plutod. Datul at Tien-tsin, this twentieth day of Articl 114, of the Treaty of me thatisand right
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN,
November, 4.1. [1860,
ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.
linng and 18washuna, regarding the residue of Her Britannic Majesty's Representative in China, | is hereby cancelleil, nid that, in accordanco with hmudrost and fly-eight, Hoy Britamme Majesty'n Representatore will henceforward rejde, perman-