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AGENT

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Law Officers

Foreign Office.

the piece of hand in question, the

Amerian Commodore Les citabelichid

stipendiary Magistrate and this Conventions upon the Principial Eland, but I am inclined & receive the statement with qualification, although shall not fail to test its truth when

Opportunits of speaking

I have

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with Commodore Perry, which i hoque will be at no distant period Is. will peresine the are Overbeck conferius the opinion thave expressed as regards the few capabilities which these Islands popess, and the little probability there exists of their ofthen

proving opservice toning western

His proper that I should advise

Is that the United States Enpclition to Japan is entirely under the contract of Commodore Perry and that the "United States minister Cole Marshall has no voice whatever in its direction. :-

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