22.
with other nations to have
Consul here. We told Prince King
what it was have the
reasonable China should
-RAND)
right to appoint a
Consul "to reside in
Hong Kong
as the
"Treaty Powers had, and to exercise "The same authority in matters "connected with the trade of Chinese "subjects
00
any
other nation in Treaty
"with Great Britain might exercise
"in British Colonies."
21.
Me
Avo es
nearly identical
language to myself, when he told me that "the right of appointing a Consul "with all privileges conceded to Consuls "of other Powers in the comity of nations. "Turks and Persians
amongst
The rest
Enclosure 2
in Govt to AA.
2252-70.
has
23.
239
"cannot be refused without great
inconsistency. that the asserted
I may almost say
right of China to insist on such an
appointment
main
Sir Rutherford Alcock's
argument, and therefore I hope it will not be thought discourteous,
that not merely
if I at one
do say such
an
assertion misrepresent
extraordinary
manner
the
exceptional position of China, but
1:1th how that so far from being
the greatest that
"incorrect
*
incorrect
exact it is
of that
in the case
specially untried in the
case of /pecially
substituted
untrue
"Denver "is
country.
in the Diplomat was sent
22.
This subject is well handled
Pars. 6 to 9. in the enclosed Memorial, independent
of the proof the founded character of a
A
of
given
claim by China based on the
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