CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879 — Page 50

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as there was no red Pusijion board the merchant steamer at the time) as a red busique: Janswered that it would & that it did not make the

slightest matter whether it was thee or red.

So much for the flying of the Lusign!

As regards the Sabete it had nothing to say to the flying the the Insign : nor do I pite see What is to be fanied by assuming and asserting as it appears you have done that the Fouise Admicals who choose to salute a British Governon in foreign waters have done wrong.

of the precedents long established