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from Lord Cowley reporting that the French forement hard proposed that if the Commipioner of the Allied

Powers should but succeed "in reaching Peking and shock consent to negotiate at Shanghay, it should be stipulated in the New Treaty that Shanghain Should be the place where Communication betweenth Chinese and Foreign foxcomment should for the future take place. The various points to be taken into consideration by other Majesty's foremment with

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reference to such a change, at

this office is

least as far

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concessed were stated in

my

letter, together with the wish of Lord Malmesbury which

His Lordship still Entertains, to be made acquainted with Lie Coward Bulwer Lytton's opinion upon the matter, but I am now to add that it is obvious that the Brikel Plenipotentiary would be Exposed

to much inconvenience

in his communications with

the Chinese foxernment if le

were to remain in a state

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