CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7] — Page 247

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then reprisesting.

Yasin form me that there aux points Letter to which his by cellen af

drected " to make no specific

you

allusion" as the "tratural frinciple

of which is cheacty under reference to the Supreme Governments of our respective Contrès-

I had no disposition to renew

Correspondence tepon that impleasant

subject and his balliney will do

justier

me the

to remember that

it was no act of Mine that caused its rencial, When acts that my Geronwent gives me to understand are acts of aggression,

are committic

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lepon mmf Countrymen, I owe them Give My Cametry a duty from __ which I cannot escape, howsoever unpleasant the subject may be :

under

And here I beg permission to sugget, that as the "Matural Principle is tudu reference to the Sameene Governments

of an aspective Counties and yet

Undecided, we might be permitted to cam exemption for the time, if not

a matter of

of right at least

a matter of comtesy, from the Extreme of what we are

as

bought to book apon as acts of aggression.

I have

is

no disposition to continue

the correspondence upon this laster

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