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"Messageries Maritimes Steamship

and I have to draw

Your Lordship's attention to the unsatisfactory state of affairs which it indicates, and which I consider grave

and liable to bring miscarriage of justice.

There can be duress

the Attorney General points out

as I refer to, a copy of which I enclose, that the Government has a right to ask that if shipping companies receive the privileges they now enjoy, they should accept also their responsibilities, and that it should not be in their power to deal with irregular cases in which that which forms the subject of this representation is dealt with.

I have the honour to be,

My Lord, Your Lordship's obedient

humble servant,

Eden

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