Agents. I am therefore
to instruct
you
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general rule to decline
all discussion on the
acti
of your
administration
or the conduct of Officers engaged in the civil
Service of the Crown with Naval Officers Commanding Foreign Ships of War, unless it be the Ship of a Country not
Consul
having any accredited Agent within
the Colony under your Government,
or unless
there should appear to
you
to be
some
special
circumstances demanding departure from an
usual
practice.
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any
practice. Should difficulty arise in the discussion of questions affecting the relations of this Country with Foreign Powers, the most prudent course for you
to
pursue, unless circumstances should
necessitate immediate
action, will be to reserve the questions for arrangement by the Governments of the
respective Countries.
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