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Authorities round this Harbor and at
time I
the same time I
gave
some
further
peseplanations of what I believed to be
the tendency of the operations then
Commenced.
2.
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those details by
enabled to Supplement
an extract from
a
despatch of Sir Rutherford Aloook to
konsul Robertson which the latter Officer
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2320 July 1868
transmitted for my information and Consul to consider it fortunate that he has done so, because Your Grace is therely placed fully in popepion of the reasons which Her Majestijo Minister justifies
•his approval of the Palicy funned by
the Chinese. those reasons
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risk
therefore
by
of being weakened by any
misinterpretation or omission of mine
3.
The
impression
which
them produced
a perusal of that Sir
ow me was
commenced
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Rutherford had not comprehended the full scope of the operations by the Chinese Authorities. If the Proclamation of the Nice Ray be placed beside fir Rutherford's despatch it will be at
apparent that the Regulations
orvee
enforced by the former, and to which I have taken
exception
as" "ultra Vires", and
contrary to existing sheaty provisions
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direct
way supported by any
by Sir Rutherford.
used
argument
4.
On the
contrary the
are
argument of the latter is almost entirely confined to
an apertion of the abstract right of the