could be easily avoided by a judicious issue of proclamations. I remarked that a light treatment of Treaty obligations was the last thing his Excellency should encourage; his Government complained of it in others, and it was obviously all the more incumbent on him to avoid the reproach himself.
This view of the matter seemed to appeal to his Excellency, and he promised to let me have a reply to my note in a few days. His Foreign Secretary called this afternoon to say that orders were being issued for the execution of Mr. Morse's scheme, but I have not yet received any written communication to that effect.
I have, &c.
(Signed) C. W. CAMPBELL.
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The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State, and is directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to transmit, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies,
further sections of confidential correspondence, as marked in the margin, being called to Set Salow's Despatch 22.131.
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