CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7] — Page 260

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Governments of our respective

Countries; and as it is now this

subject of their correspondence, it is to be presumed that their decision will not be long

delayed. The impossibility of

settling that

you point, but I have to ask that

His Excellency will have the kindness to forward to Her Britannic Majesty's Government, a copy of the protest that I presented to the Police Court upon the trial of Mr Shipps ; and in order to avoid

any

misunderstanding later,

I respect-

fully request that should a similar

case unfortunately occur, Government will Consider the same

protest as extended to each case,

until the decisions of the Supreme Governments has been learned. You further inform me that none of my predecessors in office," Nor the Consuls of other Nations" have ever

claimed the exemption that I desire to establish . Quite likely they have not. My Predecessors in Office

were Merchants

His Excellency is well aware

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Governments of our respective Countries; and as it is now this subject of their correspondence, it is to be presumed that their decision will not be long delayed. The impossibility of settling that you point, but I have to ask that His Excellency will have the kindness to forward to Her Britannic Majesty's Government, a copy of the protest that I presented to the Police Court upon the trial of Mr Shipps ; and in order to avoid any misunderstanding later, I respect- fully request that should a similar case unfortunately occur, Government will Consider the same protest as extended to each case, until the decisions of the Supreme Governments has been learned. You further inform me that none of my predecessors in office," Nor the Consuls of other Nations" have ever claimed the exemption that I desire to establish . Quite likely they have not. My Predecessors in Office were Merchants His Excellency is well aware Page 257 I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "on" to "our", "how" to "now", "desision" to "decision", "impossible" to "impossibility", "aste" to "ask", "lycillency" to "Excellency", "cappy" to "copy", "amais" to "avoid", "implinisant" to "misunderstanding", "pritet" to "protest", "predexpress" to "predecessors", "Gourment" to "Government", "ayoun" to "unfortunately", "infact" not present but "infortunately" corrected to "unfortunately", "littly" to "likely", "Armace" to "aware"). 2. Fixed spacing issues (e.g., removed extra spaces, added missing spaces). 3. Rejoined broken sentences. 4. Restored paragraph breaks where necessary. 5. Indicated no missing words as the text is mostly coherent after correction. 6. Formatted the output in HTML using `` for paragraphs. 7. Preserved the original "Page 257" as it follows the page numbering rule.
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Governments of on respective Countries; and as it is how this subject of their correspondence, it is to be presumed that there desision will not be long. delayed. The impossible of letter however settles that you point, but I have to aste that His lycellency will have the kindness to forward to Hear Britannic Majesty's Government, a cappy of the protest that I presented to the Police Cant upon the trail of Mr Shipps ; and in order to amais implinisant lection becofter, Avoid And to save myself from bability .257 to insult similar to that I received when I made that pritet. I uspect- the - fully request that should a similar Case ayoun infortunately accou, Gourment will Consider the same _ protest as extended to each case, tntil the decisions of the Supreme Governments has hun learned. You further inform me that none of my predexpress in office," Nor the Carsuts Consuls other Nation" have ever to of any My his Excellency, Unowledge claimed the exemption that I desire to establish . Quite littly they have not. My Predecorssons in Office And & were Merchants His Excellency is well Armace
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Governments of on respective

Countries; and as it is how this

subject of their correspondence, it is to be presumed that there desision will not be long.

delayed. The impossible of

letter however settles that

you point, but I have to aste that

His lycellency will have the kindness to forward to Hear Britannic Majesty's Government, a cappy of the protest that I presented to the Police Cant upon the trail of Mr Shipps ; and in order to amais implinisant lection becofter,

Avoid

And to save myself from bability

.257

to insult similar to that I received

when I made that pritet. I uspect-

the

- fully request that should a similar

Case ayoun infortunately accou, Gourment will Consider the same _

protest as extended to each case,

tntil the decisions of the Supreme Governments has hun learned. You further inform me that none of my predexpress in office," Nor the Carsuts Consuls other Nation" have ever to

of any

My

his Excellency, Unowledge claimed the exemption that I desire to establish . Quite littly they have not. My Predecorssons in Office

And

& were Merchants

His Excellency is well Armace

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