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recent action of France with regard to Cambodia, while it enlarges and consolidates the new- Empire in Indo-China, will not (as & am informed), materially alter the condition of affairs previously existing. For, ever --- since the treaty of 1868, which placed Cambodia under the protection of France, that __ Kingdom has been practically a French dependency. It would appear that an administrative
now been added to the
has now
former
seems
-former political Protectorate. It
• probable that Annam and it's covereign, though hitherto somewhat resaleitrant, may, at
distant date, follow the
novery
fate of Cambodia and of its Prince; and, as the French
-
the
journals often repeat, - of King of Oude and of many
other
Potentates in British former India. For, as I have remarked
previous occasions, Frenchmen are never tired of reflecting :the perversity of the English in
on
not
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