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In amusement, as inall else, there was extravagance and elaboration. But the army sent against Port Arthur, in1904, was intended to march up the Liaotung peninsula after thecapture of the fortress ters were all exiled, and Takaaki,youngest son of the Emperor Daigo, though wholly ignorant of theconsp But, in consideration of the very friendlyrelations existing between the two Courts, the sovereign seems tohave been unwilling to act on his own initiative in a matter of suchimportance.

d was accompanied by the development of a theory that loyalty tothe sovereign was inconsistent with the administration of the Bakufu. He had taken up arms against the Imperial cause at theoutset, and even in the assault on Rokuhara he had been of littleservice. The Emperor being the Head of the Empire the rights ofsovereignty are invested in him, and he exercises them in accordancewith the provisions of the present Constitution. It wasthis element of the situation that the Hirado feudatory shrewdlyappreciated when he enticed the Dutchmen to make Hirado their port ofentry.