Civil Service Precis Containing Full Instructions As To Indexing Precis Writing And Digesting Returns Into Summaries

Author : Robert Johnston
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230225319
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Civil Service Précis, Containing Full Instructions As to Indexing, Précis-Writing, and Digesting Returns Into Summaries written by Robert Johnston and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...1862. From this correspondence it appears that Mr. Finn repeatedly represented both to the Foreign Office and to Her Majesty's Embassy, that, in order to afford to the Abyssinians any efficient protection against their powerful enemies and oppressors, it would be necessary to procure their recognition by the Porte as foreigners, and as under British protection; foretelling, what has since occurred, that, unless this could be done, they would be deprived of their property in Jerusalem in favour of the Copts, with whom the Turkish authorities persisted in treating them as identical, and obstinately denying the right of the English Consul to intervene in their affairs. On the other hand, I find that, in answer to these representations, Mr. Finn is referred by Earl Russell's despatch of the 29th May, 1862, to the original instructions of 1852, authorizing him to use his good offices for the protection of any Abyssinians who may chance to be in Jerusalem, as being members of a Christian Church in spiritual communion with the Established Church of England; and Earl Russell modifies this authority by an injunction to use it with caution and prudence. Her Majesty's Ambassador also, when appealed to by Mr. Finn, in June, 1862, declines to interfere in the matter. As the despatch from the Embassy here referred to may not exist in the Archives of the Foreign Office, I have the honour to inclose a copy. Such appears to have been the position of affairs when Mr. Moore succeeded Mr. Finn. In 1863, when the quarrel between the rival sects concerning the ownership of the Abyssinian convent seems to have reached its culminating point, Mr. Moore attempted to use his good offices in behalf of the Abyssinians, with a view of protecting them from spoliation...