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ment, should receive evidence of any person so returning having been guilty of an offence against the Foreign Enlistment Act, he should be prosecuted for such offence.

2. By directing the Colonial authorities at Trinidad and Grenada to enforce strictly the Foreign Enlistment Act, Her Majesty's Government has done all that can properly be done to meet the second demand of the Venezuelan Minister.

3. We do not think the steamers belonging to the expedition should be detained unless evidence is adduced that either the offence of piracy, or some breach of the Foreign Enlistment Act, has been committed.

We are further of opinion that the proceedings of the Governor of Trinidad, as described in his Despatch of the 7th July 1885, may be approved.

18,485.

The Marquess of Salisbury.

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We have, &c.,

(Signed)

R. E. WEBSTER. J. E. GORST.

J. PARKER DEANE.

MY LORD,

No. 54.

(TRINIDAD.)

LAW OFFICERS to FOREIGN OFFICE.

We were honoured with your Lordship's commands, signified in Sir Julian

Royal Courts of Justice, August 27, 1885. Pauncefoto's letter of the 20th instant, stating that, with reference to his letters of the 8th and 13th August, relating to the complaints of the Venezuelan Minister at this Court against Her Majesty's Government for neglecting the duties of neutrality, and giving aid and countenance to the rebel subjects of his country, he was directed by your Lordship to transmit to us the further correspondence noted in the margin.

That Sir J. Pauncefote was to inclose the draft of a letter which your Lordship proposed to address to General Guzman Blanco, and to request that we would he good enough to inform your Lordship, at our earliest convenience, whether we concurred in its terms, or whether it required any modifications or additions.

In obedience to your Lordship's commands we have the honour to

Report

That we recommend the omission at the end of the draft of the words

a matter of fact, no such breach has taken place."

In other respects we concur in the terms of the draft letter.

The Marquess of Salisbury,

We have, &c.

(Signed)

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and, as

R. E. WEBSTER.

J. E. GORST.

J. PARKER DEANE.

▲ 15927-58. 95.-12/85.

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OFFICE

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