CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7] — Page 203

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Her Majesty's Government - my reiterated. instructions from Her Majesty's Secretary of

State

abundantly prove.

for Foreign Affairs, Lord John Russell in a Despatch of the 15th

Sebruary 1860 writes "you

make use

Nested in

~

will not hesitate to ~

of, to the fullest extent, the powers

you

and in Her Majesty's Consuls,

for the maintenance of peace order and good

for

Government Among

and

ti Jakan,

regulations as

you

will

British

subjects resorting firmly enforce such ~

you may publish for that purpose","_

And again under date November 9 of the

"and people, will not be thwarted by the inconsiderati

British

and reckless conduct

1)!

you will have

мо

r

in firmly

of

subjects; but hesitation in case of need, in

Exercising for the repression of disorder, the extensive

powers entrusted to

It

you by Order in Conneil..

was strictly in accordance with -

these instructions, that proceedings were taken

against the plaintiff

precisely

one

in this case, for his

wan

of those in which inconsiderate and

rectiless conduct tended to thwart all efforts to establish a

good understanding with the Authority and people of Japan, to the manifest injury

Aame

the

year-

мегу

prisoner

Avas

month in which the

offence his

~

of

-

charged with his

Soruship writes. "Heer Abazisty's Government

trust Atral

your efforts

to establish a

good

understanding with the Japanese Authority

our interests and the end.

of Commerce and

dangering of

our relations

peace. He had resisted the

officers of the Tycoon,

in which one of them was

and provoked a scuffle

grievously wounded

by a fowling ficce, after he had deliberately