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Certainly I do not feel myself precluded from stating in formal terms, that: Shaw formed an opinion upon the Subject, founded upon the average prices here for the

4 months

preceding the delivery, upon the accumulation of Stocks in China and India at that time, and upon

the prices in Bengal and Bombay that day. If the funds

already

earmarked

are to be

available for the discharge of those claims, it is not more

to the

Government and the public

to declare that all further difficulty upon that point seems to me to be at

an end; and I shall dismiss the

Subject, with the expression of a

confident opinion, that there can

be no more suitable

in all respects upon

impartiality,

than the Indian Government

as Referee in

the matter.

The Instructions

in the draft of Treaty contemplate the recovery of the expenses of the Expedition, after the whole shall

have been ascertained & a statement

laid before the Chinese Government. It is a great inconvenience,

however, of this mode of procedure that prosecutions must continue to be held, and considerable force kept, ...

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Certainly I do not feel myself precluded from stating in formal terms, that: Shaw formed an opinion upon the Subject, founded upon the average prices here for the 4 months preceding the delivery, upon the accumulation of Stocks in China and India at that time, and upon the prices in Bengal and Bombay that day. If the funds already earmarked are to be available for the discharge of those claims, it is not more to the Government and the public to declare that all further difficulty upon that point seems to me to be at an end; and I shall dismiss the Subject, with the expression of a confident opinion, that there can be no more suitable in all respects upon impartiality, than the Indian Government as Referee in the matter. The Instructions in the draft of Treaty contemplate the recovery of the expenses of the Expedition, after the whole shall have been ascertained & a statement laid before the Chinese Government. It is a great inconvenience, however, of this mode of procedure that prosecutions must continue to be held, and considerable force kept, ...
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Certainly to not feel myself precluded from stating in forral terms, that: Share formed an spinion upon the Iubject, founded upon the average prices here for the

4 months

preceding the belivery, upon the accumulation of Stocks in China and India at that time, and upon

the prices in Bengal and Banbag Mat very day. If the funds

sheady

heured

on tobe

Au

available for the bischarge of those dans, it is no more

to the

Wan

Povemment and the public

to declare that all further Wifficulty upon that point seems to me tobe at

<

A

bubut; and Ishall Dismiss the

Iubject, with the lepresion of a

201

Expectatte opinion, that there can

be no more Suitable

all respects upon

internity,

bilat

Referee in

the matter. of than the Indian Goran-

The Instructions

the draft of Treaty contemplate the recovery of the lepinses of the lopedition, after the whole, shall

Kerop

have been ascertained & a statement

lain before the Chinese forem ment. It is great inconveniens,

however, of this modes f procedures that prescanters must continue to be held, and considerable force heft,

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