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account of the Wars in Europe. Even lately in 1859 to 1862, Lord Elgin and M. Bruce their moral support to the____
were
giving representative of the King of Portugal.___
negotiating at Peking the
who was
luso Chinese treaty, and Sir John
Bowring
who
was
then holding the
same honourable and high post with
which
Your Excellency. repeatedly
used to come.
is now invested.
to Macau to
: confer with the Portuguese Plenipotentiary,
who was also Governor of this Colony,
relative to the measures which it would
bec
expedient to adopt in consequence of the struggle between China and France and England, thus showing Macau to be out of the tutalage or Imperial
Sovereignty of China and dependent only on the King of Portugal.
There
are, in short, the facts Known
to the world which more than sufficiently
show the general European accord as to the rights of the Portuguese Crown over this Colony
In
OWL
Court of Setting
relations with the
right of foundation
and undisputed possession for three
centuries
us the right of dominion.
gave s But if any thing
was
wasiting to make this right clearer, if it required to be
sealed before the whole world in a
not even
solemn and terrible manner,
that ratification
was wanted... It was
-sealed with the blood of an heroie Governor