has been instructed to give effect to the
Views
Embodied in
the letter from this Dept
to the Foreign Office on
the 13 March last, of which a copy was forwarded to you
in my
Confidential
despatch
No 70 of May.
Lord Landsdowne considers
although advantage may result from such direct Communication between
the Subordinate authorities
that when circumstances
under an
appeal
If the Superior Chinese
authority at Canton
necessary,
that
appeal should be made to him
by the HM Consul
alone and not by any
Colonial authority
without his intervention
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