hands of the South African Republic. The South African Government,
trusting in the integrity of the English nation, handed over to His
Majesty's Government all the persons whom they had taken prisoner,
notwithstanding that, in conformity with international law, these
persons had merited death.

I also do not consider it necessary to remind your Excellency that
after an honest judge had condemned the leaders of this expedition
to imprisonment, the most prominent of them were not compelled to
serve the whole of their time, but, previous to its termination,
were liberated for various most insufficient reasons. Neither need
I remind your Excellency that when a Parliamentary Commission was
nominated, to investigate the causes and reasons of the said
expedition, this Commission, instead of investigating the matter,
would not allow the proofs to come to light, and that, when the
Commission, notwithstanding the high influence at work during its
sitting, had found the chief conspirator, Mr. Rhodes, guilty, and
had reported him as such to Parliament, Mr. Chamberlain, who was
one of the members of the Commission, contradicted his own
report[99] by defending Mr. Rhodes.

Your Excellency will have to acknowledge that the South African
Republic as well as the civilized world was perfectly justified in
coming to the conclusion that the Jameson expedition, which we
first believed to have been undertaken by irresponsible persons,
and without the cognizance of His Majesty's Government, was well
known, if not to all, yet still to some members of His Majesty's
Government. I need not remind your Excellency that since that time,
not only has no reasonable indemnity been paid to the South African
Republic, as was at that time promised, but also that the Republic