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Commodore Matthew Perry, Humphrey Marshall, and the Taiping Rebellion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Chester A. Bain
Chester A. Bain
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University of Bridgeport
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The leadership of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry in the opening of Japan to Western commerce has received just renown. Rarely, however, does one hear even the most casual reference to Perry's other activities in the Far East. Of these activities, perhaps the most neglected is his controversy with Humphrey Marshall over the diplomatic policy to be pursued by the United States regarding the Taiping rebellion.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , May 1951 , pp. 258 - 270
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Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951

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References

2 MSS. China instructions, 1:76–78, letter no. 1, Daniel Webster to Humphrey Marshall, August 11, 1852. (This Department of State manuscript is now to be found in the United States Archives, Washington, D.C.)

3 Tyler, Dennett, Americans in eastern Asia (New York, 1922), 206.Google Scholar

4 House executive document, no. 123, 33rd Congress, first session, 9–12 (hereafter abbreviated HED 123). Letter from Marshall to secretary of state, Canton, February 7, 1853.

5 Ibid..

6 HED 123, 20–21, Aulick to Marshall, Hongkong, Feb. 4, 1853.

7 HED 123, 21–24, Marshall to Aulick, Canton, Feb. 7, 1853.

8 HED 123, 9–12, Marshall to secretary of state, Canton, Feb. 7, 1853.

9 HED 123, 163–69, Marshall to Marcy, Shanghai, May 30, 1853. Marshall tells of the loss of his letter, but on the pretext that he cannot remember its contents with sufficient exactitude, the commissioner gives none of the details. Marshall appears to have preferred to forget the unfortunate affair.

10 HED 123, 87–89, Marshall to Marcy, Macao, March 19, 1853.

11 Ibid.

12 Senate executive document no. 34, 33rd Congress, 2nd session, Correspondence relative to the naval expedition to Japan, 17, Perry to secretary of the navy, Hongkong, Apr. 9, 1853. (Hereafter abbreviated as SED 34.)

13 Senate executive document no. 22, 35th Congress, 2nd Session, Correspondence of the late commissioners in China, 64 (quoting the North China herald, no date given).

14 Joseph Callery and Melchior Yvan, The history of the insurrection in China (London, 1853) and Charles MacFarlane, The Chinese revolution (London, 1853) are two contemporary books which give details of the first voyage of the Susquehanna on the Yangtze.

15 Callery and Yvan, 185.

16 Callery and Yvan, 239–40; MacFarland, 111.

17 MacFarland, 111–12.

18 HED 123, 98–102, Marshall to Marcy, Shanghai, Apr. 28, 1853.

19 Senate executive document 34, 19, Perry to secretary of the navy, May 7, 1853.

20 HED 123, 132–35, Marshall to Perry, Shanghai, May 13, 1853.

21 Ibid..

22 HED 123, 135–36, Perry to Marshall, Shanghai, May 16, 1853.

23 SED 34, 21, Perry to secretary of the navy, Shanghai, May 16, 1853.

24 HED 123, 136–37, Commander Kelly to Marshall, Shanghai, May 18, 1853.

25 HED 123, 122–28, Marshall to Marcy, Shanghai, May 20, 1853.

26 Ibid..

27 HED 123, 162–63, Marshall to Messrs. Maclay and Cummins, Shanghai, May 25, 1853.

28 HED 123, 122–28, Marshall to Marcy, Shanghai, May 20, 1853.

29 HED 123, 182–84, Marshall to Marcy, Shanghai, June 21, 1853.

30 HED 123, 203–25, Marshall to Marcy, Shanghai, July 6, 1853.

31 Ibid..

32 Ibid..

33 SED 34, 59–60, Perry to secretary of the navy, Macao, Aug. 31, 1853.

34 HED 123, 253–55, Marshall to Marcy, Shanghai, Sept. 7, 1853.

35 HED 123, 263–71, Marshall to Marcy, Shanghai, Sept. 21, 1853.

36 MSS. China instructions, 1:84–86, Marcy to Marshall, Washington, D. C., June 7, 1853.

37 HED 123, 275–76, Marshall to Perry, Shanghai, Sept. 22, 1853.

38 HED 123, 293–95, Perry to Marshall, Macao, Sept. 29, 1853.

39 Ibid..

40 Ibid..

41 HED 123, 284–93, Marshall to Marcy, Shanghai, Oct. 30, 1853.

42 HED 123, 350–52, Marshall to Perry, Canton, Dec. 26, 1853.

43 HED 123, 352–53, Perry to Marshall, Hongkong, Dec. 29, 1853.

44 HED 123, 353–59, Marshall to Perry, Canton, Jan. 4, 1854.

45 HED 123, 333–37, Marshall to Marcy, Canton, Jan. 9, 1854.

46 Ibid..

47 HED 123, 368, Marshall to Marcy, Canton, Jan. 25, 1854.

48 SED 34, 76, secretary of the navy to Perry, Navy Department, Oct. 28, 1853.

49 SED 34, 57–59, secretary of the navy to Perry, Washington, Nov. 14, 1853.

50 MSS. China instructions, 1:90–95, letter no. 2 to Robert McLane, November 9, 1853.

51 SED 34, 106–108, Perry to secretary of the navy, Hongkong, Jan. 14, 1854.

52 SED 34, 141–43, Perry to secretary of the navy, Liu Chiu Islands, Feb. 2, 1854.

53 SED 34, 145–50, Perry to the secretary of the navy, Tokyo Bay, April 1, 1854.