§ MR. M'COANasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Government had received any information from Her Majesty's Embassy at Constantinople, in reference to the conditions under which Midhat Pasha had either voluntarily surrendered himself or had been given up by the French Consul to the Turkish authorities?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKESir, we have not very definite information upon this point, and I would ask the hon. Member to accept my reply subject to possible correction. We have heard that Midhat Pasha, after having sought refuge at the French Consulate, himself left that Consulate and surrendered him- 825 self to the Turkish authorities. He probably had reason to believe that he would have been surrendered to the Turkish authorities in any case, because there can be no doubt that, looking to the circumstances, it would not have been legal for the French Consul to have given him his protection. We have reason to hope that Midhat Pasha will receive a public trial by the ordinary Courts.