08
2
147
one
Offices in China and Japan, and I
may
remind Your Grace that I then stated I saw only
difficulty in canying out the Suggestions of those Officers, namely, that it placed under control of this Givernment, for certain purposes, Consular Officers, who are
jimmediately connected with a different Department.
2. I may add that I
ifully
om
dwelt
more
this difficulty in my private Communications with Mothea but I
was at the timme led to believe that
care would be taken by the proper Departments of Her Majestijs Government to make such anangemento Subject as would prevent any disagreeable.
that
conflict of authority, which, indeed, could
only, as I thought, be apprehended in the
event
of
Some
very unpardonable
mismanagement.
3. In the 35+ Taragraph of the
33
Report of Mr. Rea and M. Mitchell it
was
of the
therefore requested that
mew
errangements
a due nolice
should be made
by the starcign Office to the bonsular
Authorities, I
may
add also that 16?
Rea, when at Peking, conferred with Sir
Rutherford Alcock
the details of which
on the whole scheme,
were
Subsequently
very fully explained to him by both MTMia and M2 Mitchell when they met sir Rutherford at Shanghui.
4. On the 22nd February last I received.
Page 150Page 151