§ MR. THOMAS BAYLEY (Derbyshire, Chesterfield)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has observed the statement given in a letter from J. A. S. Grant (Bey), dated 19th March, 1893, to C. H. Allen, Esq., Secretary of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, that a handsome, intelligent, well-featured black race, called Augoni, under the direct protection of Great Britain, to the West and North-West of the Shire River, are kept in slavery; and that when one attempts to escape he is speared to death, and, if he escapes, all the relatives, friends, and companions have to submit 508 to the poison ordeal; and will the Government give Her Majesty's Commissioner instructions and power to stamp out or control this evil?
§ SIR E. GREYI had not seen the letter in question till my attention was called to it by the hon. Member. Mr. Johnston is making every effort for the suppression of evils connected with the Slave Trade in the Protectorate; and we have lately heard of at least one instance in which his exertions have been attended by marked success.