MR. J. PEASEI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether steps will be taken to procure the freedom of all slaves admitted to be illegally held in bondage in the Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, and other British Protectorates on the East Coast of Africa?
§ SIR E. GREYIf a slave is proved to be illegally held in bondage, it would be the duty of the British officials to take steps to protect him against such injustice.