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to the United Kingdom. The effect of any attempt to throw on the Colony of
Bermuda
or
other Colony,
upon any
or
any foreign State, the expense of relieving Shipwrecked British Subjects would be to prevent relief being afforded to them
at all
3. Lord Grey is therefore strongly of opinion that so
present relief
far as
the
whether in the passages provided,
incurred
or
the expenses
thus incurred,
has been afforded to British
Subjects
Subjects belonging to the United Kingdom, the charge
should be borne
by
the
Funds of this Country. Lord Grey
would propose
that Colonial Governments affording relief to the subjects
of other Colonial Governments
or
of foreign
States should
be understood to do
so at
their
own
risk,
and
any
claims
which
may
thus arise
upon
foreign Governments should
be communicated to this Office in order that the Secretary of State for the
Foreign