392 APPENDIX. 



Hope, and the Chiefs of the Tambookie Tribe, signed nth April, 



1845, it was agreed in the XVIIth Article, as follows : — 



"The contracting Chiefs engage to abstain from making War, as much as 



possible, on the tribes to whom they are adjacent, and that before doing so, 



they will request the Mediation of the Colonial Government, with a view of 



settling amicably the diiiferences between them.'' 



GREAT BRITAIN AND COREA. 



In 1883, in the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce, entered 



into between Great Britain and Corea, and signed 26th November, 



1883, it was mutually agreed by Article II., as follows : — 



" In case of differences arising between one of the High Contracting Parties, 



and a third Power, the other High Contracting Party, if requested to do 



so, shall exert its good offices to bring about an amicable settlement." 



EGYPT AND ABYSSINIA. 



In 1884, negotiations took place for the settlement of differences 

 between Egypt and Abyssinia, and for that object His Majesty 

 Negoosa Negust, King of Abyssinia, Mosoo Bey, Governor of 

 Massowah, and Rear-Admiral Sir William Hewett, representing 

 respectively, Abyssinia, Egypt, and Great Britain, met at Adowa, 

 and signed the Treaty of Peace, 3rd June, 1884, which was ratified 

 July 4th, and September 2Sth, 1884. 



By the Vlth Article of the Treaty, friendly mediation was 

 recommended, as follows : — 



" His Majesty the Negoosa Negust, and his Highness the Khedive, agree to 

 refer all differences with his Highness the Khedive, which may arise after 

 the signing of the Treaty, to Her Britannic Majesty Queen Victoria, for 

 settlement. 



SPHERE OF INFLUENCE. 



Closely allied with the principle and practice of Arbitration and 

 Mediation, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, is the 

 arrangement by negotiation and Treaty between colonising and 

 powerful Empires, for the purpose of defining and circumscribing 

 their separate and distinct spheres of influence over continents and 

 oceans. 



Such arrangements have been entered into by Great Britain and 

 Germany in the Colonisation of the vast territories on the Continent 

 of Africa, and also by Great Britain with Germany and France, in 



