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Not Forest ques
on to say that
Hot Denny, the American Consul, had informed him that Mt. John Pitman
who accompanied you to Japan and who has been some weeks in the north, had
brought
a letter from you to the Grand
· decritary, who had received it but had declined to see Mr Pitman.
He, Mr Pitman, called upon me
at Scking
two or three times when he was at
and discovered much anxiety to
convince me, that, in the discussion
engaging
were perfectly
regarding
Lew-chew now attention, the Japanese
in the right; and to this end he
handed me various printed papers
with which I understood him to say, he
had been charged or authorized by come department of the Japanese Covernment: The natural course as I'observed to him, for the Government to pursue, if it was as much interested in my opinion
he represented it, would be for it to instruct it's Minister here recident to
communicate with r orally or otherwise with me. Dewever Me Fitman artainly
I in
as
meant so offence,
hot was
ať
in any
any-
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ways offended.
ہو گے۔
Ive said nothing about any
letter from you to the Grand Sccretary Li and it is quite possible that the
report which reached the Amerivan
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