DR. CAMERONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether his attention has been called to a statement in The Times of the 12th instant, that the French Government has decreed that all natives under French protection in Morocco, or in any way employed under the flag of France, shall liberate all their slaves; whether it is true, as also stated in the same Paper, that Sir John Drummond Hay is prepared to recommend that protection be withdrawn from all Moors in British employ, unless they liberate their slaves and refrain from trafficking in slaves; and, whether it is the intention of the Government to co-operate with the French Government in thus discouraging slavery in Morocco?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEYes, Sir; the statement in the first paragraph relating to the action of the French Government is correct, and it is also true that Sir John Drummond Hay has been directed to give notice to the same effect. Her Majesty's Government is ready to join with the French Government, or any other Foreign Government, in discouraging slavery in Morocco and elsewhere.