CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7] — Page 259

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with sufficient clearnces, ond therefore that I have been mis __ - understood. It was not my intention to aste his Excellency to abrogate British Laws, or to diverge from the co cuse which his instructions declared to him I moily suggested that it would be gratifying if during the time- that the Material question remained

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Unsettled by the twr Governments, I

witted as a

could be permitted

Courtesy,

diction ener

to ox crvise jenediction

the

internal discipline of our ressets;

that,

doing

And I did not suppose, in

this, I was asking the abrogation

of any British Law or a

from any instructions -

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If I did not mis- understand His Exce

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Taker he informed me shutly after his arrival, that His Excellency the Gererner had assured him, that there should be no repitition of

the boareting of our Assets in such Cases, antil Hi Britannic Majesty's

out should be heard from

Government should hi the subject.

upon

I merely acted for

an extension of

the time of this How intervention,

till the matin should be

by the Supreme

Gettled by

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