HC Deb 11 August 1881 vol 264 c1524
MR. ANDERSON

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If Her Majesty's Government has sent a Despatch to the Government of Portugal, demanding an arbitration of the "City of Mecca" case, on the ground that the Portuguese Courts had decided the case in contravention of the International Code of Sailing Rules, to the serious prejudice of British subjects; and, if he will lay upon the Table a Copy of the Despatch?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

The Correspondence on the subject, which will shortly be laid on the Table, will show the steps which have been taken by Her Majesty's Government with regard to this case.