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one

Offices in China and Japan, and I

may

remind Your Grace that I then stated I saw only

difficulty in canying out the Suggestions of those Officers, namely, that it placed under control of this Givernment, for certain purposes, Consular Officers, who are

jimmediately connected with a different Department.

2. I may add that I

ifully

om

dwelt

more

this difficulty in my private Communications with Mothea but I

was at the timme led to believe that

care would be taken by the proper Departments of Her Majestijs Government to make such anangemento Subject as would prevent any disagreeable.

that

conflict of authority, which, indeed, could

only, as I thought, be apprehended in the

event

of

Some

very unpardonable

mismanagement.

3. In the 35+ Taragraph of the

33

Report of Mr. Rea and M. Mitchell it

was

of the

therefore requested that

mew

errangements

a due nolice

should be made

by the starcign Office to the bonsular

Authorities, I

may

add also that 16?

Rea, when at Peking, conferred with Sir

Rutherford Alcock

the details of which

on the whole scheme,

were

Subsequently

very fully explained to him by both MTMia and M2 Mitchell when they met sir Rutherford at Shanghui.

4. On the 22nd February last I received.

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