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approval of this arrangement, and-

promised to submit the matter to

the French Commissionen/or Inway)

in Forguns.

The Eierny also stated that her

complained to the French Consul,

of the action of France in the matter

and that the reply made was

that persons from Tonguies had-

invaded the Cambodian territory,

and Frana, as

Cambodia, was

the ally of

forced to interviewer,

The brierry said that reither by

Isternationch Law, non by the Sacred

principles

principles of Government of the

belestial Empire, had one nation a

right to deprive another nation of

its rative Princes, and that the

principle which guided China

in the treatment of its tributary

coun

tries was to allow then the

governed in their own manus by

their rative Princes, and that only

in the rectieme case of a

Prince

incoming

the odius of his subject,

could be be revived, and woun

then

he ought to be replaced by a rative

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