HC Deb 01 December 1882 vol 275 c479
MR. ANDERSON

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether British claims against Brazil are yet settled, or how long the Brazilian Government is to be allowed to evade these?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

My hon. Friend must not forget that there are counter-claims. We are trying to come to an adjustment of the British claims, which are, at the present moment, undergoing careful scrutiny for that purpose.

MR. ANDERSON

asked whether it was not the fact that those counterclaims arose in connection with the liberation of slaves and the seizure of slave ships, and were such as the Government were not entitled to sanction?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

I cannot answer that Question without Notice.