§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies on what grounds has Lord Elgin declined to make representations to the Cape Government similar to the representations made by the right hon. Member for West Birmingham, when Colonial Secretary, to the Government of the South African Republic, after the Jameson Raid of 1895, urging that clemency should be extended to Ferriera, after participating in the raid on the Cape Colony of which he was a leader; and why has Lord Elgin refused to instruct Lord Selborne, having regard to the fact that Lord Selborne was Undersecretary for the Colonies at the time of the Jameson Raid and is well acquainted with the precedent thereby set, to use his best offices with Dr. Jameson, C. B., the Prime Minister of Cape Colony, to secure an amnesty to these offenders.
§ MR. CHURCHILLI can think of no Answer to the hon. Gentleman's Question except that circumstances alter cases.
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLWe may assume then that the Colonial Office were not in this raid.