123
after being
1873
m
2.
cammenced in October
• only finally disposed of
thes 5th Instant.
From the Memorandum
of the Acting Colonial Secretary of the heal
interview which
aw
by
the Annamite Envoy
required there is
reason to believe that some
representations
regarding the
Case
will be made to His Majesty's Government, and however it is
important that
Your Lordship should be supplied with all the information on the subject which
it is
3.
my
power to transmit. Irrespective of this, however,
it is highly advisable that this
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Government should be instructed as to the position of the King of Annam. The question of his being
independent Sovereign
was
not settled in the Supreme
Court, though a decision thereon
The Attorney
Attorney General,
requested by
who in the latter part of the
proceedings was Counsel for the King. Nevertheless,
We
Mercantile relations with Annam
are likely
to increase,
and
similar difficulties to those which have already arisen
may, though it is to be hoped will not,
re-occur,
I would solicit advice as to the nature of the reply