Governor I observe by his last Despatch to Her Majesty's Principal Suretary of State for the Celonies seems to have been satisfactorily attained by the opinion given by the law ofpeers of the Grown supplyping the guide he denied for the local Courts, and mathing the executive to act with confidence wither limits easily defined.
at some
As to the ulterior danger suggested by the Governor, of the Lamma Island bung future period made over to some other Foreign Power to our prejudice
· I am convinced nothing which could be attempted at present by
negotiation
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negetation would avail. On the
my
contrary, for reasons stuted in letter to the Governor, I am satisped any effort in this direction would be fraught with mischief and tend to provoke the very
danger Sir Richard Mac Donnell
seek's to avert, I am sure as
a rule that it is better to avoid all discussions turning upon
technical points of International
Law with which the Chinese Govern= -ment has no -acquaintance. They neither understand the arguments
nor admit the obligations
among
which
European nations attaches
only by general consent to its
Canons
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