HC Deb 21 July 1876 vol 230 cc1697-8
MR. BAXTER

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If the Secretary to the British Embassy at Constantinople has been sent to Bulgaria, and what is the object of his mission?

MR. BOURKE

, in reply, said, that on the 17th of the month Sir Henry Elliot was directed to send a member of his Embassy to assist Vice Consul Dupuis in inquiring into the alleged atrocities in Bulgaria, and Her Majesty's Government had heard that Mr. Baring, one of the Secretaries, had been sent upon the mission.