HC Deb 23 August 1887 vol 319 c1523
DR. CLARK (Caithness)

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If this country invited the French Government to maintain the Khedive on the Throne; and, if so, in pursuance of what Treaty was this undertaking based, and in what Papers has the undertaking been embodied or recorded?

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)

The hon. Member will find the circumstances set forth in the Papers laid before Parliament in 1882, and particularly in Egypt, No. 10, of that year, in which is given the negotiations between France and England for the support of the Khedive's authority. The Correspondence is given in full in the other Blue Books respecting Egypt of the same year.

DR. CLARK

said, the Question he asked was, by what Treaty the undertaking was made?

SIB JAMES FERGUSSON

In what Treaty?

DR. CLARK

By what Treaty—by what International obligation or authority?

SIR JAMES FERGUSSON

said, if the hon. Member would take the trouble to read the despatch of Earl Granville to which he had referred, he would find a complete answer to the Question, and see the successive steps by which Earl Granville pointed out that France and England had agreed to jointly support the Khedive's authority.