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Topic Started: Mar 6 2010, 03:13 PM (351 Views)
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A new ambassador will be appointed to the United States of America in 1841, with authority to ask for further direct discussions in the manner of the Anglo-American Conference of 1836.
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A high level delegation will sail to the United States of America in the new year for a scheduled conference to discuss matters of mutual interest and border questions.
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A delegation of ministers and officials will travel to France later in the year to discuss trading questions of mutual interest and importance.
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Her Majesty's Government is increasingly alarmed at reports emanating from the Americas regarding conflict between the Republic of Texas and Mexico and expresses our ongoing desire for the maintenance of peace and good relations. To that end, a number of previously considered steps are once more being discussed.
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Her Majesty's Government is fully prepared to arrange mediation between the Republic of Texas and Mexico in order to avoid the repeated horrors of war. We invite both parties to dispatch appropriate emissaries to Jamaica, where we shall endeavour to assist in the peaceful resolution of the ongoing dispute.
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Foreign Office officials have indicated that a potential agreement regarding the Oregon Territory may be announced in the near future.

Representatives of the Kingdom of Hawaii are being received in London.
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New ambassadors are to be assigned to key foreign states over the course of the next year.
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Under the principles of the Aberdeen Act and after the direct refusal of the Brazilian government to enforce agreements made in 1831 and bilateral treaties signed in 1826 to cooperate in the complete abolition of the African slave trade, Royal Naval vessels shall be enforcing a blockade on Brazilian trade and shipping and stop and search all vessels under suspicision of carrying slaves.

Under the treaty of 1826, 'it was agreed and concluded by and between the High Contracting Parties, that at the Expiration of Three Years, to be reckoned from the Exchange of the Ratifications of the said Convention, it should not be lawful for the Subjects of the Emperor of Brazil to be concerned in the carrying on of the African Slave Trade under any Pretext or in any Manner whatever, and that the carrying on such Trade after that Period by any Person, Subject of His Imperial Majesty, should be deemed and treated as Piracy.' As such, any Brazilian subjects found to be engaged in the slave trade will be treated as pirates.

Her Majesty's Government will regard any interference with such activities as an unfriendly and hostile act but once again states that it has no interest in interfering in the internal affairs of other nations, such as deciding on the localized status of the institution of slavery. Rather, Britain is focused on ending the slave trade across the Atlantic from Africa, and will take all necessary steps to do so.
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The following ultimatum has been issued:

Should the Empire of Brazil fail to retract its inflammatory statements and threats against the freedom of the seas, then a state of war shall exist between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Empire of Brazil.
Edited by Great Britain, Jul 7 2010, 04:25 PM.
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