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I have now examined them to see how far Sir. P. P. Hennessy's statement in par : 6 is correct, because it seems to me beside the point, not that he had not brought the question before Council but that he was expressing his own personal opinions.

Despatches explaining how his own personal opinions showed that he was aware ...

It is worth while to say with regard to my having sent it, it does not seem right that in his lifetime should be taken to task for remarks made by him, justified or not.

I reply that Lord Kimberley will not undertake to go through Abu ...

Part of Lord Carnarvon's Despatch also is what Sir. J. Hennessy takes exception to, as implying that he was acting without his Council, which he says the minutes of Council enclosed in 10141 ought to have shown was not the case.

It might be said that Lord Carnarvon's allusion to his speech, enclosed in 132.52, par ... refers to the Council, but then he refers to the particular despatch he be refers to, which he does not understand as having been written without consulting his Council, but that the opinions expressed in his various despatches were his own rather than those of his Government - that with regard to the Minutes ...

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