5
12
WOLD
then moved
y which
C
acted on bye
by our chery
Nury.
I declined to postpone notice of the only flag, the Admiralty up to that date had recognized:
5. Subsequently when our Naval Authorities decided on recognizing a square flag the Officer Administering the Government here during my temporary absence last year reported to that effect, and if there has been major parallel any omission it would appear to consist in his not having given as much Gazette publicity to the latest fashion of flag as I had preconized by Admiral as given to the first.
t. I am happy to be instructed by Secretary of State No 618 26 Nov 1868.
566-68
Enclosure now to supply that information of which till receipt of Your Lordship's despatch I was not aware. I
No 2.
cannot moreover see how I can better carry out Your Lordship's instructions of cancelling the notice which I gave last October. To prevent misapprehension, I conclude by enclosing a copy of that notice which probably Your Lordship will be surprised to find merely the publication of an Official letter from the British Admiral quoting the instructions of the British Admiralty and describing the Chinese National Flag as settled by the Chinese Government itself.
It therefore seems impolitic to cancel, in the ordinary meaning of the word, publication of the Admiral's letter.
I cannot say that the Admiral did...
Neither can I write that letter on the grounds that the Admiralty...