Sir GILBERT PARKERasked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether the representations made from time to time by His Majesty's Government to the Government of Portugal in connection with the conditions of labour existing in Angola and upon the islands of San Thomé and Principé have been wholly based upon the provisions of the Brussels Act; and whether it is on the Brussels 1295W Act alone that His Majesty's Government rely to justify present or future inquiries into, and representations concerning, the state of affairs prevailing in the dependency of a foreign Power?
§ Sir EDWARD GREYAny representations which have been made have been of an entirely friendly character, and have been received in that spirit; it has not been necessary to base them upon any treaty provisions hitherto, nor will it, I trust, be necessary to do so in the future.