o's party. The Memorandum read as follows:--

(_Translation_)

_To the Powers_:--

The Revolutionary Government of the Philippines, on being
constituted, explained, by means of a message of the 23rd June
last, the real causes of the Philippine Revolution, and went on to
show that this popular movement is the result of those laws which
regulate the life of a nation ardently desiring progress, and
the attainment of perfection by the only possible road of liberty.

The Revolution, at the present moment, is predominant in the
provinces of Cavite, Batangas, Mindoro, Tayabas, La Laguna, Morong,
Bulacan, Bataan, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Pangasinan, La
Union, La Infanta, and Zambales, and is besieging the capital,
Manila. In these provinces the most perfect order and tranquillity
reign; they are administered by the authorities elected by
themselves in conformity with the decrees of the 18th and 23rd
of June last.

Moreover, the Revolution has about 9,000 prisoners of war, who are
treated with the same consideration observed by cultured nations,
agreeably with the sentiments of humanity, and a regular organized
army of more than 30,000 men fully equipped on a war footing.

Under these circumstances the representatives of the townships
comprised within the provinces above mentioned, interpreting the
popular will of those who have elected them, have proclaimed the
Independence of the Philippines, and requested the Revolutionary
Government to petition and solicit of the foreign Powers
an acknowledgment of their belligerency and independence,
under the conviction that the Philippine nation has arrived
at that state in which it can and ought to govern itself. As a
consequence, the annexed document has been signed by the said
representatives. Wherefore the undersigned, using the faculties
reserved to him as President of the Revolutionary Government
of the Philippines, and in the name and representation of the
Philippine nation, implores the protection of all the Powers of
the civilized world, and beseeches them formally to recognize the
belligerency, the Revolutionary Government, and the Independence of
the Philippines, because these Powers are the bulwarks designated
by Providence to maintain the equilibrium amongst nations by
sustaining the weak and _restraining the am