§ MR. MARUMasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether, when Colonel de Coetlogon was appointed on the staff of Hicks Pasha it was stipulated that he should receive six months pay as a gratuity; whether he was placed in command of Khartoum by Hicks Pasha, and whether he did defend and take charge of that town till the arrival of General Gordon; whether General Gordon by the power vested in him raised Colonel de Coetlogon to the rank of Pasha, and ordered him to be paid £100 monthly; whether General Gordon requested the Egyptian 127 authorities to confirm the rank of Pasha, and to further reward Colonel de Coetlogon by giving him employment and certain decorations; whether it is true that the Egyptian Government have declined to confirm the rank of Pasha, or to bestow upon Colonel de Coetlogon any decorations, or to give him the six months gratuity promised; and, whether they have offered him employment inferior to that which he had when he first left for the Soudan?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEHer Majesty's Agent and Consul General at Cairo has been requested to report upon this case, to which the attention of Her Majesty's Government has been called by Colonel de Coetlogon. The reply has not yet been received.