subjects
This is a matter which is
distinctly provided for in
the Treaty, and the arrangement
is therefore
one which any
friendly state cannot fail
to consent to.
was brought
The subject officially to the notice of the
British G.O. by the Minister
Tseng in a Despatch dated July 1882, and, as the Records will show, the G.O. consented to give the matter careful consideration and to come
to
a decision later on.
Several
years have now
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elapsed,
and the daily increasing
magnitude of commercial interests renders further postponements of this measure absolutely impossible
It becomes therefore the duty of the Prince and ministers to write officially to H.B.M's Chargé d'affs and to beg him to solicit by telegraph the consent of the G.O. to the immediate adoption
of the arrangement proposed
Upon the receipt of a
telegraphic