:
Copy.
7862
1900.
10000
Reef 23 MAY 00,
TREASURY CHAMBERS,
16th May, 1900.
531
Sir:-
I have laid before the Lords Commissioners of
Her Majesty's Treasury your letter of the 1st in-
stant with its enclosures relative to the case of
a lunatic, named Edward Wallace, a native of Hong
Kong, who was sent to that Colony from Shanghae
under an Order from the Supreme Consular Court for
China and Corea.
The special point as to which My Lords under-
stand the Marquess of Salisbury to desire Their ad-
vice is the objection taken by the Secretary of
State for the Colonies to a sentence in the draft
despatch to the Acting Consul General at Shanghae,
enclosed in your letter, which says that "It appears
to Lord Salisbury that, prima facie, the liability
The Under Secretary of State,
Foreign Office.
to
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