§ MR. LOUIS SINCLAIRI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can afford the House any information respecting the circumstances under which a vessel, formerly known as the "Ban Righ," and now on the seas under the name of the "Libertador," and which was detained by the British Government, was allowed to depart; and whether he has any official information showing that this vessel has been declared a pirate by the Venezuelan Government.
§ LORD CRANBORNEWith regard to the first part of the Question, I may refer him to the answer given to the hon. Member for East Northamptonshire on the 20th of January.† As to the second part, His Majesty's Minister at Caracas has sent home a copy of a decree issued by the Venezuelan Government on the 30th of December last, declaring the "Ban Righ" or "Libertador" to be a pirate.