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This meant that the expedition would be dealt with as a filibustering one." In Judy, September 21, 1887, appears: "We all recollect the treatment received by Brigadier-General MacI. in the action he took with respect to the annexation of New Guinea. The General, who is a sort of Pizarro, with a dash of D'Artagnan, was treated in a most scurvy manner by Lord Derby.
"Car. O, comes it in there. "Fast. Ride after him, and, lighting at the court gate both together, embraced, and marched hand in hand up into the presence. Was not this business well carried? "Maci. Well! yes; and by this we can guess what apparel the gentleman wore. "Punt. "Ay, ay," said the monk, muttering as he went up the winding stair, "carry him his trumpery with all despatch.
Copy of statement made by J. Rintoul Mitchell, June 2, 1887: "About the latter end of the year 1883, when I was editor-in-chief of the Englishman in Calcutta, I was told by Captain de Deaux, assistant secretary in the Foreign Office of the Indian Government, that he had received a telegram from Lord Derby to the effect that if General MacIver ventured to land upon the coast of New Guinea it would become the duty of Lord Ripon, Viceroy, to use the naval forces at his command for the purpose of deporting General MacI. Sir Aucland Calvin can certify to this, as it was discussed in the Viceregal Council."
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