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received from the Viceroy fully admits the responsi-
bility of the Chinese Government in this matter; but I
regret to add that His Excellency proposes
merely
the usual Chinese method of evading the consequences
of this responsibility, viz. the issue of orders to
subordinate functionaries which it must be perfectly
well known will not and cannot be obeyed. In my reply
to the Viceroy's despatch closing the correspondence,
I have reminded His Excellency of the necessity for
special measures of a very different description from
mere formal orders addressed to Authorities residing at
a distance of from one to two hundred miles from the
spot in question, if any actual steps are to be taken
for affording security to life and property at the
Pratas, and have hinted to His Excellency that the
failure to discharge a duty which he has now plainly
recognized exposes his Government to claims for in-
demnity for losses that may occur hereafter.
A claim of this kind has indeed given the Viceroy
dtos edt of gnivrsteI
much trouble, special orders having been received last
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bevies
year by the French Consul here from the Imperial Gov-
ernment to exact compensation for a French vessel which
was