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It is unnecessary, therefore, to dwell on the means taken by Her Majesty's government to remove all reasonable grounds of objection to the exercise of the right of search, and on the care with which the instructions recently delivered to the officers employed in this service have been prepared.
Your Excellency may assure M. Guizot that her Majesty's government attach no special value to the right of search, except in so far as it affords an effectual means of suppressing the slave trade.
A copy of this despatch is enclosed for your Excellency's information. M. Guizot correctly states that when, at the close of the year 1843, the count of Sainte-Aulaire announced to me the intention of the French government to propose certain measures which they felt satisfied would be found preferable to the exercice of the right of search, and better calculated to attain the objects in view.
The French ambassador has delivered to me a despatch from his government, in which M. Guizot describes in strong terms the feeling which has prevailed for some time past in the French Chambers and generally in France, relative to the right of search.
After detailing at length the reasons which have induced him to arrive at such a conclusion, he suggests to Her Majesty's government the expediency of appointing a joint commission for the purpose of inquiring whether means may not be discovered for the suppression of the slave trade, as effectual or even more effectual than those afforded by the treaties which confer the mutual right search.
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