then representing.
Yasin informs me that there are points in Letter to which his reply is directed "to make no specific allusion" as the "natural principle of which is clearly under reference to the Supreme Governments of our respective Countries."
I had no disposition to renew correspondence upon that unpleasant subject and his Excellency will do justice to remember that it was no act of Mine that caused its renewal. When acts that my Government gives me to understand are acts of aggression, committed upon my Countrymen, I owe them a duty from which I cannot escape, howsoever unpleasant the subject may be :
And here I beg permission to suggest, that as the "Natural Principle" is under reference to the Supreme Governments of our respective Countries and yet Undecided, we might be permitted to claim exemption for the time, if not a matter of right at least a matter of courtesy, from the extreme of what we are brought to look upon as acts of aggression.
I have no disposition to continue the correspondence upon this latter...