CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7] — Page 305

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have

tra

1-

authenticating not Seamen and Agents to relieve foreigners, - of British Vessels __ though wrecked in such Vessels, and

where granting such relief would either have to pay direct, i.e. without any Government intervention, or recover from the individuals relieved or the Government of the Country to which those individuals were subjects.

On these points my information was contradicted by the Gentlemen I saw at the Foreign Office, who also told me that relief given to Shipwrecked foreigners by British Authorities in this Country abroad would be deemed Charity, which the relieving party could not claim to recover. They were unable to recollect any instance of such a claim having been made in the Consular Department of the Foreign Office; nor could Mr. Conyngham, the Chief Clerk, recall any such instance, though he mentioned that a despatch from Bermuda, dated 2:101/1880, probably passed through some other Department of the Foreign Office.

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302 have tra 1- authenticating not Seamen and Agents to relieve foreigners, - of British Vessels __ though wrecked in such Vessels, and where granting such relief would either have to pay direct, i.e. without any Government intervention, or recover from the individuals relieved or the Government of the Country to which those individuals were subjects. On these points my information was contradicted by the Gentlemen I saw at the Foreign Office, who also told me that relief given to Shipwrecked foreigners by British Authorities in this Country abroad would be deemed Charity, which the relieving party could not claim to recover. They were unable to recollect any instance of such a claim having been made in the Consular Department of the Foreign Office; nor could Mr. Conyngham, the Chief Clerk, recall any such instance, though he mentioned that a despatch from Bermuda, dated 2:101/1880, probably passed through some other Department of the Foreign Office.
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302

have

tra

1-

authning

not Seamen

and Agents to relive forciquers, - of British Pessels __ though wrecked in such Vessels, and

.-

where granting serch relief- would either have to pay

ar

to

recovers

et direct, ie without

our

any

Government

intervention of - from the individuals relived or the Government of the Country to which those

ind coiduals

NBub

were

subjects..

these points my

contradicty.

information was

ان

evad

also told by the

Gentlemen I saw at the

Forign

ايكم

Foreign Office that relief given to Shipwrecked foreigners by British Authorities in this Country

be

ar abroad would

deenved Charity which. the relieving party could

not claim to recover,

they

and

were unable to recollect.

in the Consular Department

of the Foreign Office, instance of such

to recover

relief

a

ever

any elain

having

been made: nor could

Mr. Conyaghan the Chief click

2:101/1880 Bermuds which probably passed through

some

acher Department of the thig

Offer

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