CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4] — Page 12

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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.

overy

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.

7.0

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

74

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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