MR. J. COWENasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If there is any objection to publishing the Statement supplied to the English Consul at Andrianople concerning the treatment endured by Dr. Armand Leslie and Dr. Neville of the National Aid Society, of Dr. Kirkpatrick, of the Red Crescent Society, and of Mr. Bell, the Correspondent of the "Illustrated London 1293 News," who fell into the hands of the Russians on January 1st, and were kept prisoners by them for five weeks; and also of the affidavit made by Dr. Leslie before the English Consul General at Constantinople, respecting the mutilation and ill-treatment of the Turkish prisoners, wounded, and refugees by the Russians?
§ MR. BOURKESir, with regard to the first Question of the hon. Member for Newcastle, there will be no objection to lay the Statement on the Table, with other documents relating to that Statement; but as to the second Question, touching the affidavit of Dr. Leslie, as it relates to Turkish subjects and not to British subjects, it is not usual to lay such a document before Parliament.