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order to have the alleged offenders delivered. up but rested his demand on a claim to have them placed at his disposal by reason come

to wh as we have

supposed right, usage, or comity said does not in our opinion txist in

the

the subject.

absence of Freaty bearing upon the suy

We think that directions similar to those

J. C. Lewis' despatch of 30th to the powers of Foreign Consuls

Contained in Sir S.C July 1860

City

the extent of the power & jurisdiction. of British Authorities abroad to aid such. fomente might properly be forwarded to bongkong for the guidance of the Authorities

there.

We have ap

B. Karolake

J. Selwyn

R. Thillimore

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Conf? Cerealer

22 August 188

(Circular.)

Confidential.

Extract from Sir J. Harding's Letter.

Duke of Newcastle's Despatch, 188, June 1860.

Sir,

Downing Street,

370

22 August 1860.

Questions have recently arisen respecting the

position occupied by the Consuls of foreign countries in Her Majesty's possessions, and as it is of great

ar

cause

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at

importance that matters of this kind should be so treated as neither to give just

cause of offence to foreign powers, nor to invest the agents of those powers

with

privileges immunities not recognised by British law, I think it expedient to communicate to you copies of various letters despatches in which the opinion of Her Majesty's Government has been expressed the several claims which from time to time have been preferred by foreign Consuls.

1st. On the appointment of a Spanish Consul for Her Majesty's Settlements upon the Gumbia, the opinion of the Queen's Advocate in this country, which forms the first of the Enclosures to this despatch, mitted to the Governor for his guidance.

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The second Enclosure is the copy of a Despatch addressed to the Governor of British Guiana, where the Portuguese Consul, in accordance, as he wrongly imagined, with the terms of a treaty between England and Portugal, and of certain instructions conveyed to him in a Circular from his

Government, advanced claim

✡ administer the property of Portuguese subjects dying in British Guiana,

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to

951.

E. & S.-100.-/60.