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Annam
avowed by
the
stationed at Hong
Trent. Agents Rong and Hue.
With
regard
to the appertion
Health the Annamese are not empowered
to Negotiate with Foreign Powers
within the concurrence
of the
French Government, I am
to
Forward to you confidentially
the accompanying printed correspondence
respecting
the relations of France
and Annam, together
with
a
copy of a short memorandum by the City
Librarian of this Department.
the rights of the King of
Annam
to
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to appoint consular officers.
I am to request that, in
communicating these papers before the Lord Derby you
will state to His
Lordship, in view of the operations
now being
undertaken by
in Tonquin, and
The fact that the question of the Establishment of a Consular Agent
at Kiung Chow is still unsettled, to
which attention is called in
your
despatch
Lord Granville
is of
opinion that it would be advisable that the question of the appointment
of the Annamese Consul at that
place should be allowed to drop