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of the Prince
he reviews the whole case Albert, and discredits all explanations
offered by her
owner
whilst he instructs
the Consul to publish his commentary,
which has accordingly been done in the
"China Mail", I generally used
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I
confess
as
of the local journals,
the medium of Consular
that I cannot but
regard such a step as very questionable,
both as
reason
policy. The
to its propriety and policy. given for such a departure from
usual Official procedure, viz
the
Chairman the
necessity for correcting a mistake of the
Chamber of Commerce is
palpably insufficient, whilst Sir Rutherford's mode
of treating the topics, which he discusses
Enclosure No.
in connection with the "Prince Albert," exhibits such a gratuitous disbelief of
owner
and
everything favorable to her, such a hasty adoption of everything
unfavorable, that his letter reads somewhat like the address of
an
Advocate retained to throw discredit
proceedings
on the owner and all the proceedings of his repel. Reference to a few of Sir Rutherford's observations will easily
establish this.
Thus it cannot be supposed that
if he read the evidence at all, he should so soon have forgotten that
the fact, otherwise patent and notorious, had been stated by the
CH.
Master, of the "Prince Albert having