HC Deb 13 February 1882 vol 266 cc489-90
MR. ARTHUR ARNOLD

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he will lay upon the Table of the House the draft of a Convention with Persia, approved by Her Majesty's late Government, to which reference is made in the letter from the Government of India, signed by Lord Lytton, and dated 7th January 1880, in the following terms:— Whereby Persia will be provisionally permitted to occupy Herat under sufficient guarantees for her good administration of it, and for her adequate protection of British and Indian interests at that point, and with a special reservation of our right to occupy the place with British forces in certain eventualities?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

It would not be convenient, nor is it usual, to lay on the Table confidential documents such as that referred to in the hon. Member's Question.