HC Deb 31 August 1880 vol 256 cc823-4
SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL

I desire to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a Question of which I have not hitherto given public Notice, but of which I have given private Notice— namely, Whether his attention has been drawn to a letter of Musurus Bey, in the morning papers, asserting that the statement that the Ottoman Porte was endeavouring to incite the religious feel- ing of the Mussulman population in India against the British Power is totally devoid of foundation?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

My attention has been called to the letter in question, and I have little doubt that that letter was written by Musurus Bey, the Turkish Charge d'Affaires, under orders from Constantinople, without immediate reference to, and probably without knowledge of, the statements which have been made in this House. I can only say I have nothing to add to what I have previously stated.