§ MR. T. BRUCEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether British subjects will be entitled to apply to the French Government should they be dissatisfied with the action of the French Consul in his capacity of Minister of the Bey of Tunis?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEBritish subjects would not, under any circumstances, apply to the French Government. If they have occasion to complain they would address themselves to Her Majesty's Agent and Consul General, who, if he considered that the circumstances required it, would report the case to Her Majesty's Government. If it should prove that the Treaty rights which the French Government have undertaken to respect had been disregarded, Her Majesty's Government would then make such representations as they might consider necessary through Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris; but much would depend on the actual circumstances of the particular case, and Her Majesty's Government cannot undertake to pledge themselves beforehand as to the course they would pursue.
§ LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILLasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If he will lay upon the Table of the House the Correspondence which passed between the English and Turkish Governments in 1870 and 1871, with respect to the Firman issued in 1871 by the Porte to the Bey of Tunis?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEYes, Sir; there will be no objection to that course.