§ MR. M'LAGAN (Linlithgow)asked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether Sir Horace Rumbold, British Minister at the Hague, has obtained from the Nizam's Government the promise of a sum of money, stated to be three lakhs of rupees, which is said to be in full settlement of a claim for a sum of 700 10 or 11 lakhs, founded on his relationship with the late Sir William Rumbold, a partner in the firm of William Palmer and Company, bankers, in Hyderabad, in the early part of this century; and, whether Sir William Rumbold ceased to be a partner in the firm of William Palmer and Company, and had his interest in the firm paid out in full six months before the firm became bankrupt in 1824, thus precluding all claim by Sir William Rumbold or his successors on the Nizam's Government on the ground of his connection with the firm?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY or STATE (Sir JOHN GORST) (Chatham)The Secretary of State has no official information on the subject. Application has more than once been made for the support of the British Government in pressing these claims. The answer has invariably been that "the matter is one for the independent consideration of the Government of the Nizam." The Secretary of State absolutely declined to write to the Viceroy on the subject. The information in the India Office does not support the statement implied in the second paragraph in the Question.