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15. While I thus verbally and in writing expressed to the
Consul-General my regrets for an oversight, and did my best to
remedy it by informing him fully, and while I have in addition
expressed to Your Excellency my regret that the reply on the subject of extradition did not take the form of an official
letter to the Consul-General I may perhaps invite your attentio
to the extract from Mr. Jamieson's letter which I have quoted
above.
The result of the informal negotiations was to arrive
at a complete and very satisfactory arrangement in an unpreced
ently short space of time regarding a matter which urgently demanded solution, and the urgency of which was greatly enhanced
by the revolutionary outbreak at Canton. Mr. Jamieson somewhat naively observes that had the matter been in his hands he would have used it in order to extort from the Viceroy a concession
on a totally different question, --a question of which I have no
The result knowledge and on which I have not been consulted.
and
would have been no doubt to complicate and delay the issue, to considerably diminish that feeling of gratitude which the Viceroy has repeatedly informed me he entertains for what has
been done.
16.
The arrangement regarding the co-op eration between the two Police Departments which consisted as you are aware chiefly of reciprocal action in a variety of petty details, was mainly reached by verbal discussion and has not even now been embodied in any formal document. Questions of Emigration,
Extradition Subsidiary Coinage, the regulation of newspapers,
&C.
"
have in the past been-- and still are being-- conducted through the Consul-General who is fully recognised by this Government as the proper channel of communication with the Canton Authorities, and I have explained the circumstances in which an informal allusion to them was made in conversation in
order