Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . h which all business in connection with the Roman CatholicChurch and Roman Catholic missionary enterprise might be con-ducted. Leo XIII sent a favorable reply, and the negotiations t!iusbegun were conducted with so much discretion and success that itwas not until an eminent prelate, since promoted to the rank ofCardinal, was sent out to Pekin as Papal Ablegate
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . h which all business in connection with the Roman CatholicChurch and Roman Catholic missionary enterprise might be con-ducted. Leo XIII sent a favorable reply, and the negotiations t!iusbegun were conducted with so much discretion and success that itwas not until an eminent prelate, since promoted to the rank ofCardinal, was sent out to Pekin as Papal Ablegate for the purposeof taking all Roman Catholics under his wing and superseding theFrench Protectorate that the Paris government obtained any ink-ling of the scheme. M. de Freycinet was then Premier and Foreign Minister of France. Realizing that his country would lose much of itsimportance as a factor in Chinese affairs if divested of the protect-orate of the Roman Catholic missions in the Far East, he at ouceaddressed an ultimatum to the Vatican threatening to cut off the$10,000,000 voted annually to the French clergy and to deprive theRoman Catholic Church in France of all financial State support MYSTIC INDIA AND ITS RELATION. 481. unless the Papal Ablegate were immediately recalled from Pekinand the projected transfer of the control and charge of RomanCatholic interests in China from the French envoy to a Papal lega-tion abandoned. That closed the affair for the time being. The Pope unwillingto deprive the entire parish clergy of France at a moments noticeof the financial help from the State had no alternative but to recallhis envoy. The Chinese authorities, on perceiving the predica-ment of Leo XIII, set towork to put an end to theFrench protectorate in adifferent manner. Realizing that itsexistence had only beenmade possible by a waiverof right and a derelictionof duty on the part of theGerman, Italian, Spanish,Portuguese and Belgiangovernments, they askedthem, especially Germ
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