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that ground remain still unsettled. Sir Harry Parkes is, of course, in correspondence with Lord Granville on the subject.
Mr Young informed me that, on his recent visit to Canton, he pressed on the Viceroy that it would be sound policy to gain the goodwill of both England and Germany at the present crisis by paying also the English and German claims. The Viceroy replied that the German claims were exorbitant; and that the English claims were still unsettled.
I may take this opportunity of reporting that Admiral Kopilioff, commanding the Russian Squadron in these seas, has been my guest this week. Having very little trade with China except overland, the Russians appear to interest themselves but little in the questions affecting the Treaty Ports, and I am informed that the Russian Legation at Peking is not implicated in the questions which have arisen concerning Logan and the persons accused of causing the death of certain Chinese at the time of the Canton riots.
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