House o Common Admiralty
gent
Foard of Tr
B
Foreig
Office
be a
very unmanageable character. It would kind greatly
to lower us in
the estimation of the Chinese government evere British subjects enabled in this manner to
evade or defy the authority of their Sovereign,
and I therefore
own
am led to consider
the favorable settlement of the tivo points in- question as of essential importance to British
interests in China.
I have the honor to be,
with the highest respect,
Your Lordship's
most obedient,
humble servant,
Izdani
ft
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Extract of a private letter from Mr. Consul. Macgregor to His Excellency John Francis Davis dated 23th July
July 1845.
"Governer Hanson, who has been
my "quest since his arrival here, finding that I have no longer autherity to secure Danish vessels,
" considers it expedient under these circumstances, "to appoint Consuls himself funding the King's "pleasure. There being but few Danish subjects "in China eligible for such appointments, he
11
" contemplates nominating provisionally a British "subject in the person
"Mr. Mathewn. Being
"doubtful whether the appointment of British
subjects in such
capacity
in China would be
"agreeable to our Government, considering the
"power it would give them of evading
in various
neans
ways by mea
our laws
of the control they foreign shipping,
"would be enabled to excercise over