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the
Aecordingly I took upon myself the responsibility of instrusting Captain Superintendent of Police not to exceute the writ; and the "Anadyr"
left the Harbour at the usual hour.
10.
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enclose for your
information copies of the various documents relating to this transaction, and a full report of the apparently able and exhaustive judgment of the Supreme Court.
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11.
Her Majesty's Government
will perhaps
see that I was placed
in a position of
Dome
on the one hand there
little
was d
difficulty:
lawful
-writ issued under the order of the Supreme Court, - and
-
my
hand the positive instructions to predecessor in Lord Kimberley's despatch
Foto Ne179 of 1872 about the case.
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of "the "Ava",
~ and Lord Carnarvon's in No 36 of 1875
/ about the "Anadyr ..
Anadyr. There
was no
time
fey to telegraph to Downing steet, or even
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to
an
even
siummon Excentive Council. But where an international question
concerned, I thought it better to
was
stay
the order of the Court. To have done otherwise would have certainly caused
inconvenience to the French Mail.
Service and possibly raised troublesome discussion: between the two Governments.
12.
eft the same
time
owing
to
the courtesy of Monsieur Flichon the French Consul, I was able to get!
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