March 6

March 22

Visit to Ningpo. Its condition. Measures for the protection of the foreign settlement. Depredations of the rebels on their approach to Shanghai. Steps taken for the defence of the city by French and English troops and American volunteers. Establishment of a consulate at KinKiang.

Instructions in regard to relations with the imperial government, and co-operation with the French and British ministers for the protection of the lives and property of Americans. Identity of the interests of Great Britain, France, and the United States in China. Payment of claims in accordance with the award of the commissioners. Progress of the war. The imperialists defeat the rebels in several battles, and propose attempting to recapture Ningpo. Notice for the removal of foreign merchants. Opening of ports of Tungchow and Newchang to certain specified trade. Appointment of consul at Tein-tsin. Approval of Mr Burlingame's proceedings.

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April 22 Mr. Burlingame to May 19 Mr. Seward.

14 Mr. Seward to Mr. May 29 Burlingame.

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Exclusion of vessels of the insurgents from Egyptian ports. American manufacturers placed on equal footing with those of England in regard to facilities for obtaining cotton in Egypt. Evidence of the Viceroy's good will towards the United States. Punishment of perpetrators of the outrage in Upper Egypt on an agent of American missionaries. Letter of the Viceroy to the President of the United States. clusion of insurgent vessels from Egyp tian ports.

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Effects of news from America upon public opinion abroad. Privateers in the Mediterranean. The cotton trade in Egypt. Visit of the Prince of Wales to Egypt, and of the Viceroy to the great exhibition, England. Opening of a new railway. Generous gift of the Viceroy to American missionaries.

Gratification with the liberality of the Viceroy to American citizens and missionaries. The privateers in the Medi terranean.

Mr. Seward.

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Mr. De Long to

1862. Feb. 20

Feb. 27

Arrest and confinement of Messrs. Myers, Tunstall, and circumstances connected therewith.

The same subject. Unsuccessful attempt of a inob to rescue the prisoners. Correspondence with the Moorish minister of foreign affairs and the commander of the Tuscarora. The prisoners put on | board the Ino, and sent to the United States.

The same subject. Correspondence with the diplomatic agents of European governments at Tangier. The same subject. Despatches from the American chargé at Madrid to the captain of the Tuscarora. Friendly action of the Moorish government. The same subject