57.
(Expy)
Dir,
Honghing,
14 Nr: 1855.
51.
292
I love the hour to acknowledge
the receipt of your
Communication
N. 651. I must pretend, at this lapse of time, to remember the exact words
that were used at the interview which took place between Mr. M. Lane, MacKenan and myself last year, on the subject of Colonial jurisdiction over American Ships, but their purport was certainly, as I believe, to the following effect. Mr
Keenan asserted that the American flag protected every
under it and everywhere. I maintained that the territorial jurisdiction of England comprised all within ...
The Honorable
The Colonial Secretary.
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