A representative of this. journal. called on the.compradore of the American Trading Company, a man with authority to speak on the trouble, and he professed to attach little or no importance to the conference. Though inclined to be reticent he spoke with the air of a man with a griovance, He was anything but mollified by the statements of the French that no harm was intended. A gross and serious affront had been offered to his class—an' affront not. easily..vindicated. Whilst he would express.no opinion as to ultimate measures, the French, in interfering with what they considered was theirs asa right, and sacred right at that, had-outraged the tenderest sympathies of his fellow-ment A spark had been unhappily kindled, bu. he hoped for everybody's sake it would not be fanned into a dangerous flame. Have the natives any animosity against Eng Jish and other foreigners here?" we asked, "No," he replied, When the English take land they always pay compensation.
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