§ MR. CLAUDE HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to the case of a Frenchman, who at the Old Bailey, on the 10th February, 1903, was sentenced to seven years penal servitude for robbery with violence, and who was shown to have been banished from France for ten years after being convicted eight times in that country, and to have been living on the immoral earnings of women in London; and whether representations will be made to the French Government with the object of stopping the deportation to this country of French persons who have been banished from France on account of their criminality.
*THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Lord CHANBORNE, Rochester)My attention has been drawn to the case of the Frenchman referred to. My hon. friend appears to have been misinformed. No sentence of banishment was passed, but the person referred to when convicted in France in December, 1893, and was sentenced to five years imprisonment with ten years 1102 interdiction de séjour. This is equivalent to police supervision with a prohibition against residence in a specified area.