§ MR. E. STANHOPESir, it will be in the recollection of the House that a good many Questions have been addressed to the Government since the opening of the Session with reference to certain executions at Cabul, and that the Government promised to give the House, at the earliest possible moment, any information which they might receive on the subject. On the 5th of December last, shortly after the reports appeared in the newspapers, I addressed a letter to General Sir Frederick Roberts, and I inclosed in that letter a copy of an article, which many hon. Members will have seen, and which appeared in the December number ofThe Fortnightly Review.In answer to that communication I have to-day received a letter from General Roberts; and although it is rather long, I hope that I shall have the permission of the House to read it now to them. It is dated Cabul, January 10, 1880.—[See Lords' Report, page 579.]
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEI wish to ask the hon. Gentleman, Whether the letter from Sir Frederick Roberts is the detailed statement to which he alluded on Friday as being on its way home; and, if so, whether it is accompanied by any list of the 100 persons who were stated to have been executed at Cabul, with the charges against them and the findings of the Court?
§ MR. E. STANHOPEAs I said, the letter I have read is an answer to one I addressed to Sir Frederick Roberts. A detailed statement is, undoubtedly, on its way home.