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ance with instructions received from His Britannic Kajes-

ty's Government, that the Hexican Government should appoint

u representative to discuss with a representative of the

Company the amount of compensation which should justly be

paid to the Company, and expressing the hope that, by this

moans ↓ an amicable settlement might be arrived at.

After much delay, que, I believe,

to the temporary

loss of some of the documents dealing with the case, xr

Lascurain finally replied to this communication in a Note |

(No 1965) dated September 26th last.

His Excellency did

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not, however, at least in my opinion, show a correct apprai

ciation of the qquity of the Company's claims, and proba-

bly, on that account, he did not show a diaposition to

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treat the matter in the conciliatory spirit which charse-

terizes the relations between Mexico and Gre t Britain.

I, at once, transmitted a translation of Mr Las-

curain's letter to my Covernment, and I subsequently recal-

ved instructions to propose to the Vexican Government that

the matter should be submitted to arbitration. I accord...

ingly addressed a further Note to Mr Garcia, then acting

Kinister for Foreign Affairs, on the 9th of January last,

containing this proposal, and, in due course, I received

an