Certainly I do not feel myself precluded from stating in formal terms, that: Shaw formed an opinion upon the Subject, founded upon the average prices here for the
4 months
preceding the delivery, upon the accumulation of Stocks in China and India at that time, and upon
the prices in Bengal and Bombay that day. If the funds
already
earmarked
are to be
available for the discharge of those claims, it is not more
to the
Government and the public
to declare that all further difficulty upon that point seems to me to be at
an end; and I shall dismiss the
Subject, with the expression of a
confident opinion, that there can
be no more suitable
in all respects upon
impartiality,
than the Indian Government
as Referee in
the matter.
The Instructions
in the draft of Treaty contemplate the recovery of the expenses of the Expedition, after the whole shall
have been ascertained & a statement
laid before the Chinese Government. It is a great inconvenience,
however, of this mode of procedure that prosecutions must continue to be held, and considerable force kept, ...