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Authorities round this Harbor and at

time I

the same time I

gave

some

further

peseplanations of what I believed to be

the tendency of the operations then

Commenced.

2.

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those details by

enabled to Supplement

an extract from

a

despatch of Sir Rutherford Aloook to

konsul Robertson which the latter Officer

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bolonial Secretory

2320 July 1868

transmitted for my information and Consul to consider it fortunate that he has done so, because Your Grace is therely placed fully in popepion of the reasons which Her Majestijo Minister justifies

•his approval of the Palicy funned by

the Chinese. those reasons

mo

risk

therefore

by

of being weakened by any

misinterpretation or omission of mine

3.

The

impression

which

them produced

a perusal of that Sir

ow me was

commenced

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Rutherford had not comprehended the full scope of the operations by the Chinese Authorities. If the Proclamation of the Nice Ray be placed beside fir Rutherford's despatch it will be at

apparent that the Regulations

orvee

enforced by the former, and to which I have taken

exception

as" "ultra Vires", and

contrary to existing sheaty provisions

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direct

way supported by any

by Sir Rutherford.

used

argument

4.

On the

contrary the

are

argument of the latter is almost entirely confined to

an apertion of the abstract right of the