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Iffice) shews that in one of the cases before Lord Grey a claim to recover slaine relief has been made expon the Prussian Minister, and has been admitted and paid.
For want of the Consular Instructions I have been unable to discover the acts of Parliament concerned, Crabbe's index gives clue.
But although I am compelled to leave obscure the laws and practice of civilized Europe including ourselves, on this subject of Shipwreck, I presume there can be no doubt of the propriety of establishing the rule suggested by Lord Grey, that Colonial Governments should pay for the relief of Colonial vessels and Colonial subjects, and the Government of the United Kingdom for that of vessels and subjects belonging to the United Kingdom; and that the local and Imperial Governments should mutually recover relief advanced on this principle.
There are subsidiary points...