§ MR. HENRY SEYMOURsaid, he would also beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If his attention has been called to the position of the English Vice Consul at Khanea in Crete, who has been thirty years in the service, receives no salary from Government, and has now very arduous duties to perform?
§ MR. BAILLIE COCHRANEsaid, before the noble Lord answered the Question, he wished to ask, Whether he is aware that this gentleman, Mr. George Moon, is a person of very great merit, who 1223 has been frequently appointed to assist the Consul during this period of thirty years, receiving nothing except an occasional £100 a year, paid him by his superior?
LORD STANLEYSir, I know nothing personally with regard to the merits of Mr. Moon. But I am informed that he has been employed by successive Consuls at Crete, and, I believe he has done very good service in that capacity. In 1861 the then Consul called attention to his services, and suggested that he should have the rank of Vice Consul; but that was simply an honorary appointment, for he continued to receive his pay as consular clerk. In March of last year Mr. Dickson, the present Consul, reported that Mr. Moon's actual remuneration was insufficient, and that the amount which he himself received from the Foreign Office was not sufficient to allow him to increase the pay of Mr. Moon. Taking these considerations into account £20 a year has been added to the income of Mr. Dickson to allow him to remunerate the services of Mr. Moon.