No. 1.
Large 12
295
Mr. Petre to the Marquis of Salisbury.-(Received April 2.)
(No. 27.)
My Lord,
Lisbon, March 29, 1887.
I TELEGRAPHED to your Lordship on the 26th the fact that the Protocol relating to Macao had been signed that day by M. de Barros Gomes, the Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. James Duncan Campbell, on behalf of the Chinese Government. I have now the honour to inclose the translation of a note which I received yesterday evening from M. de Barros Gomes, informing me officially that the Protocol in question had been signed, and transmitting the accompanying copies of it in the Portuguese and English text, and of the notes interchanged on the 26th instant explanatory of Article 4.
In a private letter which I received from M. de Barros Gomes at the same time as the official documents, his Excellency expresses the wish that I should direct the attention of Her Majesty's Government to the provisional nature of the engagement entered into by Portugal to co-operate with China from the 1st of next month in the opium revenue work at Macao.
GEORGE G. PETRE.
I have, &c. (Signed)
Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
(Translation,)
Your Excellency,
Senhor Gomes to Mr. Petre.
Foreign Department, Lisbon, March 28, 1887.
I LOSE no time in informing your Excellency that on the 26th instant I signed the Protocol referred to in your Excellency's note of the 23rd instant. The Portuguese Government learnt thereby that, owing to the obliging intervention of Lord Salisbury, an Imperial Decree of the Chinese Government had been issued authorizing Mr. Duncan Campbell to sign a Protocol, laying down the conditions with reference to Macao, in order that the same might come into force on and after the 1st April next, independently of the negotiations for a Commercial Treaty, which negotiations would be conducted by a Portuguese Plenipotentiary in China. I transmit herewith to your Excellency a copy of the Protocol which was signed in consequence of the above-mentioned Declaration, and in which the results of the recent negotiation between Portugal and China are set forth. I likewise communicate to you the letters exchanged between me and Mr. Duncan Campbell, which throw light upon, and define the precise meaning of, the 4th Article of the Protocol.
Trusting that your Excellency will acquaint your Government with all the particulars above stated as speedily as possible, it only now remains for me to express my thanks to them for their friendly co-operation, with a view to hastening the conclusion of the negotiation, and also for me to convey to your Excellency the assurances of my high consideration,
BARROS GOMES.
(Signed)
(Translation.)
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Extract from the "Diario" of March 29, 1887.
THE Government of His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves, and that of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, having decided to regulate the friendly relations existing for more than three centuries between the two countries, have agreed for this purpose to a preliminary Protocol. To this effect the undersigned, Henrique de Barros Gomes, of His Majesty's Council, His Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Knight Grand Cross of the orders of Our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Legion of Honour, of Pius IX, of the Saints Maurice and Lazarus, of Charles III, and Leopold of Belgium, &c.; and James Duncan Campbell, Commissioner and Non-resident Secretary of the Inspectorate-General of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, of Second Class Chinese Civil Rank, with Double Dragon Decoration
[258]
No. 1.
Large 12
295
Mr. Petre to the Marquis of Salisbury.-(Received April 2.)
/No. 27.)
ly Lord,
Lisbon, March 29, 1887. I TELEGRAPHED to your Lordship on the 26th the fact that the Protocol relating to Macao had been signed that day by M. de Barros Gomes, the Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. James Duncan Campbell, on behalf of the Chinese Government. I have now the honour to inclose the translation of a note which I received yesterday evening from M. de Barros Gomes, informing me officially that the Protocol in question had been signed, and transmitting the accompanying copies of it in the Portuguese and English text, and of the notes interchanged on the 26th instant explanatory of Article 4.
In a private letter which I received from M. de Barros Gomes at the same time as the official documents, his Excellency expresses the wish that I should direct the attention of Her Majesty's Government to the provisional nature of the engagement entered into by Portugal to co-operate with China from the 1st of next month in the opium revenue work at Macao.
GEORGE G. PETRE.
I have, &c. (Signed)
Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
(Translation,)
Your Excelleney,
Senhor Gomes to Mr. Petre.
Foreign Department, Lisbon, March 28, 1887. I LOSE no time in informing your Excellency that on the 26th instant I signed the Protocol referred to in your Excellency's note of the 23rd instant. The Portuguese Government learnt thereby that, owing to the obliging intervention of Lord Salisbury, an Imperial Decree of the Chinese Government had been issued authorizing Mr. Duncan Campbell to sign a Protocol, laying down the conditions with reference to Macao, in order that the same might come into force on and after the 1st April next, independently of the negotiations for a Commercial Treaty, which negotiations would be conducted by a Portuguese Plenipotentiary in China. I transmit herewith to your Excellency a copy of the Protocol which was signed in consequence of the above-mentioned Declaration, and in which the results of the recent negotiation between Portugal and China are set forth. I likewise communicate to you the letters exchanged between me and Mr. Duncan Campbell, which throw light upon, and define the precise meaning of, the 4th Article of the Protocol.
Trusting that your Excellency will acquaint your Government with all the particulars above stated as speedily as possible, it only now remains for me to express my thanks to them for their friendly co-operation, with a view to hastening the conclusion of the negotiation, and also for me to convey to your Excellency the assurances of my high consideration,
BARROS GOMES.
(Signed)
(Translation.)
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Extract from the "Diario" of March 29, 1887.
THE Government of His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves, and that of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, having decided to regulate the friendly relations existing for more than three centuries between the two countries, have agreed for this purpose to a preliminary Protocol. To this effect the undersigned, Henrique de Barros Gomes, of His Majesty's Council, His Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Knight Grand Cross of the orders of Our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Legion of Honour, of Pius IX, of the Saints Maurice and Lazarus, of Charles III, and Leopold of Belgium, &c.; and James Duncan Campbell, Commis sioner and Non-resident Secretary of the Inspectorate-General of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, of Second Class Chinese Civil Rank, with Double Dragon Decoration
[258]
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.