'THE Czan's AWARD.
We (Japan Gazette) translate from L'Echo clu Japan the award of arbitration, as yet unpublished, given by H. M. the Czar of Russia, in the cast of the Maria Luz:—
We, Alexander the Second, by the grace of God, Emperor of all the Russias, Acceding to the request made to Us by the Governments of Javan and Peru, and embodied in a protocol drawn up by mutual consent at Tokio by the Plenipotentiaries of the two Govermments between 13th and 25th June, 1873, corresponding to the 25th day of the 6th month of the year of Meiji, We have consented to investigate the question in dispute between the two Governments, arising out of the stay of the vessel Maria Luz in the of Kanagawa, and more especially the claim of the Peravian Government, responsible for all the consequences of the action of the Japanese Authorities in regard of the Marin Lac, her crew and passengers, during the stay of that vessel at Kanagawa; and we have taken upon Us the task of delivering on the subject of this difference an Arbitrator's award, ial and obligatory for both parties, so that for to it any objection, interpretation, or delay whatever consequence, deliberately weigh-mary remarks, and the conclasions of the jurisconsults and of the competent persons who were entrusted with consideration of the matter, from the documents and allegations which lave been sent to us, in accordance with the above-mentioned protocol, We have arrived at the conviction that, in acting as it did, in the matter of the Maria Laz, her captain, crew, and passengers, the Japanese Government feted. bona de, la virtue of its own laws and usages, without any infraction of the general prescriptions of special treaties.
That, consequently, it is impossible to charge it with a deliberate want of consideration, or avy malevolent intention whatever towards the Peruvian Government and its nationals.
'That the divergency of valuation induced affair should inspire those Governments not special treaties with Japan, with the wish to arrange on a better basis' their reciprocal international relations, in order to avail in future all like misunderstanding but cannot be held, in the absence of definite jpulations, to throw the Japanese Government the responsibility of actions which it did not knowingly provoke, and of measures conformable to its system of legislation.
Consequently, We have not found sufficient grounds to pronounce the action of the Japanese Government in the case of the Maria Liz irregular, and we attribute the loss sustained by the Peruvian citizens to a concourse of unlucky circumstances, We pronounce the following award of arbitration The Government of Japan is not responsible for the consequences brought about by the stay of the Peravian vessel Maria Luz in the port of Kanagawa, Tu evidence of which, We have si award, and Exeouted at Ems the 17th (24th)
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