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privileges from the Chinese
Government. 30 far as existing
Conditions allow, His Majesty's
Government desire to accord to the
Chinese Government the treatment due
to an independent civilized power, and
at the same time to demand that China
shall observe the established
conventions of intercourse between
civilized peoples. It follows that
precedents drawn from the relations
of China with foreign powers in the
years preceding the war are no
longer of any necessary value as
guides to present policy. It is also
clear that it would be contrary to
the policy of His Lajesty's
Government to demand that chinese
consuls should be limited to
purely commercial functions so long
as His Majesty's Government are not
prepared to accept a similar
limitation as binding on British
Jonsuls
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