No. 261.
Mr. De Long to Mr. Fish.
United States
Legation, Japan,
June 17, 1873.
(Received July 22.)
No. 427.]
Sir: I have the honor to advise you that on
yesterday I received a note from the Peruvian envoy here, (inclosure No. 1,)
accompanied by a copy of a note addressed by him to F. F. Low, esq., at
Peking, (inclosure No. 2,) requesting me to forward the original (which was
also inclosed in a sealed envelope) to Mr. Low, with a personal request on
my part to him to extend the assistance required. Also inclosing a sealed
note addressed to a Chinese official at Tien-Tsin requesting me to forward
the same for delivery to the United States consul at that port.
I at once addressed Mr. Low a note (inclosure No. 3) forwarding the sealed
dispatch therewith, and also addressed our consul at Tientsin, Mr.
Eli T. Sheppard, a note (inclosure No. 4)
forwarding the other letter for delivery. Also on the same day I replied to
the Peruvian envoy, informing him of my proceedings, (inclosure No. 5.)
I am, &c.,
Mr. Garcia to Mr.
De
Long.
[Translation.]
Legation
del Peru,
Yedo,
June 15, 1873.
No. 5.]
Sir: In accordance with the conversation I had
lately with your excellency, I have the honor to inclose herewith a
dispatch which I addressed on this date to his excellency Frederick F. Low, minister of the
United States in China, relating to my approaching journey to Peking.
Please also find inclosed copy of that dispatch.
I beg your excellency to forward my communication to Mr. Low, with a note
from yourself in support of the request which it contains. It will be
one more service on your part which my government will highly
appreciate, and for which I offer your excellency my
acknowledgments.
As I request Mr. Low to send his answer to the consulate of the United
States at Shanghai, I hope that he may send your excellency a copy of
it, in order that I may lose no time in learning its contents in case I
should be still in Japan when it arrives.
At the same time, and in connection with the above, permit me to further
trouble you, begging you to request the consul of the United States at
Tien-Tsin to be so good as to have the inclosed letter from his
excellency M. de Bellounet, French minister at Lima, safely delivered to
his excellency Echong Hiou, member of the foreign office and
superintendent of the northern ports at Tien-Tsin.
I am happy to assure your excellency once more of my highest regard and
most distinguished consideration.
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Mr. Garcia to Mr.
Low.
[Translation.]
Legation
del Peru. Yedo,
June 15, 1873.
Sir: I have the honor to address your
excellency the present communication, in reference to the mission which
my government has intrusted to me in the empire of China, and in
anticipation of my approaching journey to that capital.
Your excellency will remember that in the year 1870 the Peruvian
government being desirous of entering into treaty relations with China
and Japan, and not finding it convenient to immediately send out a
legation, invoked the friendly relations of the United States, and
begged the American Government to instruct their minister at Peking and
Yedo to represent Peru until such a time as the republic could dispatch
a mission. On the 10th of May of the same year, General Hovey
transmitted to the minister of foreign affairs at Lima the answer of the
honorable Secretary of State acceding to our request, and advising him
that your excellency and Mr. De
Long had been so instructed.
Two years afterward, in August, 1872, his excellency Señor Don Manuel
Pardo, having inaugurated his liberal administration, one of his first
cares was to attend to the very important interests of Peru in China,
with which country our republic had had constant intercourse for upwards
of thirty years. President Pardo in consequence appointed the
undersigned his envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in
China, with the object of concluding treaties of amity, commerce, and
navigation, and regulating on bases mutually convenient, protective of
persons, and similar to those adopted by other nations, the emigration
of Asiatics to Peru. When this legation was to be appointed the Peruvian
government advised the Government of the United States of it and of the
purpose of the mission, and also requesting that the American
representatives in Peking and Yedo might extend their good offices to it
upon its arrival in announcing it, and lending such other friendly
assistance as the occasion might require. To this request the American
Government assented most gladly, and the Hon. Mr. Fish advised Colonel Freyre that
instructions had been given to that eflect.
Your excellency may already have heard of my arrival in Japan, and of the
very flattering reception with which the Peruvian mission was honored by
His Majesty the Tenno.
I am happy to be able to state to your excellency that the opportune and
friendly action of his excellency C. E. De
Long, minister of the United States at this court, has
contributed in a most efficient manner to bring about that result and to
facilitate my work with this government. In addressing your excellency
this dispatch, I am convinced that the representative of the American
Union at Peking is animated by the same friendly sentiments toward Peru
which have on all occasions been shown to her by the Great Republic; and
although I cannot, as yet, fix the day of my departure for China, as it
is not remote from this date, I beg to express the hope that your
excellency will please announce my approaching arrival to the Chinese
government, and will endeavor to incline that government favorably to my
legation, conveying to their mind the very friendly spirit in which it
comes, the importance of its object, and bringing to their knowledge the
fact that the government of Peru has just enacted a new code of
regulations for the protection of Chinese emigrants, making it
impossible that they should be subject to any abuses which my government
has always condemned and endeavored to punish, and at the same time
assuring them all the rights which the constitution and liberal laws of
the country guarantee to all foreigners in their persons and
property.
For these good offices allow me to give your excellency my government’s
and my own anticipated thanks, which it is my earnest hope to be able
soon to express personally to your excellency.
Begging your excellency to please send your answer to the American
consulate at Shanghai, with instructions that it be kept for me there, I
have the honor to assure your excellency of my highest regard and most
distinguished consideration.
Mr. De
Long to Mr. Low.
United
States Legation,
Yokohama,
Japan, June 16,
1873.
No. 140.]
Sir: To-day I received from the Peruvian
minister a letter for you, (inclosure No. 1,) accompanied by a note
addressed to myself, requesting me to forward the same to you and
bespeak your assistance as requested by him.
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It affords me much pleasure to be able to assure you that during his stay
in Japan his excellency has established most cordial relations with all
of the diplomatic corps present here, and also has received at the hands
of the Japanese officials many evidences of kind personal and official
consideration, notwithstanding the business he had to lay before them
was not entirely free from features calculated to prove annoying.
Entertaining, as I do, for his excellency and the gentlemen comprising
his suite the liveliest feelings of personal regard, I earnestly solicit
you to extend your official assistance to obtain for them a kind
reception by the Chinese government.
I beg you to address his excellency your reply in duplicate, one copy in
care United States consul at Shanghai and the other to himself at this
port, as he desires it at the earliest possible moment, and may probably
not be able to leave here prior to the receipt of your reply.
I have, &c.,
Mr. De
Long to Mr. Sheppard.
United
States Legation,
Yokohama,
Japan, June 16,
1873.
No. 141.]
Sir: At the request of his excellency Aurelio
Garcia y Garcia, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of
Peru in this empire, I inclose a letter to your care for safe delivery
as addressed.
I will thank you to reply, advising me of your having delivered the
same.
I am, &c.,
Mr. De
Long to Mr. Garcia.
United
States Legation,
Yokohama,
Japan, June 16,
1873.
No. 142.]
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge your kind
note of this date, with its inclosures. I at once addressed Mr. Low a
note, (inclosure No. 1,) forwarding therewith your note to him, and also
addressed a note to the American consul at Tien-Tsin forwarding your
other letter to him for safe delivery, (inclosure No. 2.)
I beg to thank you for the kind and flattering expressions contained in
your note to Mr. Low, and also beg leave to assure you of my great
willingness to continue any good offices you may see proper to request
of me. I embrace this opportunity to renew my assurances of profound
consideration.
I am, &c.,
