(Télégraphique.)

Inclosure 2 in No. 2.

Nubar Pasha to Tigrane Pasha.

Caire, le 29 Juin, 1884. NOUS avons cherché la contradiction que signale votre télégramme; nous ne l'avons pas trouvée. Comme je vous l'ai télégraphié d'Alexandrie, la loi donne dans tous les cas à tout individu le droit de porter plainte directement au Tribunal contre tout fonctionnaire, et une justice qui ne contiendrait pas ce droit ne serait pas une justice. En outre, j'ai voulu que toute plainte présentée contre un fonctionnaire public à un agent quelconque de l'autorité fût l'objet d'une information obligatoire faite par un délégué de l'ordre judiciaire désigné par le Président du Tribunal. C'est dans ce but que le Décret du 10 Mars, 1884, a été rendu sur ma proposition.

(Telegraphic.)

(Translation.)

Cairo, June 29, 1884.

WE have tried to find the contradiction mentioned in your telegram; we have not found it. As I telegraphed to you from Alexandria, the law gives in all cases to every individual the right to bring a charge before the Tribunal against any functionary, and a system of justice which did not contain this right would not be justice. Moreover, I desired that every charge made against a public official to any agent in authority should form the subject of an inquiry held, without option, by a legal delegate designated by the President of the Tribunal. To this end the Decree of the 10th March, 1884, was issued at my instance.

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Correspondence respecting Mr. Wilfrid Blunt,

My Lord,

No. 1.

Sir E. Baring to Earl Granville.-(Received October 18.)

Cairo, October 1, 1883.

I HAVE the honour to inclose a copy of a correspondence I have had with Mr. Wilfrid Blunt. Mr. Blunt is about to visit Colombo, and it would not have been desirable that an opportunity should have been afforded him of being the medium of communication between the exiles in Ceylon and any prisoners confined for political offences in Egypt.

Under these circumstances, I trust your Lordship will approve of the reply I made to Mr. Blunt's request.

I have, &c.

(Signed)

Inclosure 1 in No. 1.

E. BARING.

Mr. W. S. Blunt to Sir E. Baring.

My dear Sir Evelyn, Hótel du Nil, October 1, 1883. I HAVE just received a letter from Abdul Rajah Bey, F.R.G.S., ex-Director of the Naval College, who, with some four others, has been imprisoned here for the last three months on a charge originally of connection with a political plot. He was, however, ordered to be dismissed by the Commission appointed to inquire into the matter, but was, nevertheless, retained by Osman Pasha Ghaleb "through superior orders" on suspicion, and is still in the Zaptich prison. He now asks me to come and see him, and as I am leaving Cairo to-morrow, I shall be much obliged if you can kindly obtain for me an order to enter the prison to-day.

Since seeing you on Wednesday, I have had opportunities of ascertaining the feelings of the people here, and I am convinced that unless something is speedily done to relieve their sufferings you will have trouble.

I

am, &c.

(Signed)

W. S. BLUNT.

Inclosure 2 in No. 1.

Sir E. Baring to Mr. W. S. Blunt.

Dear Mr. Blunt, Cairo, October 1, 1883. I REGRET that I am unable to accede to the request contained in your letter. The decision as to permission being given to prisoners to receive visits lies entirely within the competence of the Egyptian Government. I must decline to interfere in the manner in which they exercise their discretion in dealing with the subject. E. BARING.

(Signed)