HC Deb 05 April 1888 vol 324 c458
MR. A. M'ARTHUR (Leicester)

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Her Majesty's Government have considered the expediency of offering their mediation in the dispute between the American Representative at Tangier and the Sultan of Morocco?

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

Her Majesty's Government have not offered their mediation in the differences which have arisen between the United States Consul at Tangier and the Moorish Government. Her Majesty's Minister in Morocco has done what he could with propriety to bring about an accommodation, but without success at present; and the case in question is understood to have been referred by the Consul to the Government of the United States.