§ MR. RICHARDasked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether Her Majesty's Government will at once communicate to the House any information relative to the complaints, of whatever kind, made by the Government of India against the King of Burmah, together with a Copy of the instructions given to Sir Douglas Forsyth, Her Majesty's special Envoy to the Burmese Court?
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTONSir, there will be no objection to lay upon the Table of the House the Correspondence relating to the differences which have from time to time arisen between the King of Burmah and the Indian Government. Sir Douglas Forsyth has been sent upon a special mission to Mandalay to facilitate an amicable settlement of their differences. No course, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, would be more likely to frustrate that object than to make public the special instructions upon which Sir Douglas Forsyth has orders to act, and therefore, I am afraid I must decline to furnish the hon. Gentleman with them.