and encourage the Boxers. Their close relationship to your
Majesties, or their position as Imperial clansmen, should in
no wise protect them from the penalty of their guilt. Thus
only can the foreigners be led to recognise that this Boxer
madness, this challenge to the world in arms, was the work
of a few misguided officials, and in no sense an expression
of the intentions or wishes of the Throne. War will then
immediately give way to peace, and the altars of our gods
will remain inviolate. And when these things have come
to pass, may your Majesties be pleased to order the execu-
tion of your Memorialists, so that the spirits of Hsü T'ung,
Kang Yi, and their associates may be appeased. Smilingly
should we go to our death, and enter the realms of Hades.
In a spirit of uncontrollable indignation and alarm, we
present this Memorial with tears, and beg that your Majesties
may deign to peruse it."

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