Britain also showed a reluctance to appoint a French person as an advisor for the military system, and students studying abroad such as Kiyonari YOSHIDA, Naonobu SAMEJIMA and Arinori MORI submitted a petition in which they stated that they considered Montblanc dangerous to the domain government office.
英国からもフランス人の軍制顧問任命に難色を示され、薩摩藩留学生の吉田清成・鮫島尚信・森有礼らもモンブランを危険視する建言が藩庁へ提出されていた。