[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I be permitted
to make a suggestion, founded upon the last paragraph of your able article last week on the Delagoa Bay difficulty ? It appears to me that the present moment might be opportune to open negotiations with Portugal for an interchange of territory with Great Britain,— Portugal to cede Goa and all her possessions in Hindostan, Delagoa Bay and all her East African possessions, including the territories watered by the Zambesi and affluents ; and to- receive in exchange an equivalent in territory on the West Coast of Africa, and an indemnity against any future claim for the real or supposed debt of 23,000,000 to Great Britain.. If this arrangement could be carried out, Thigland's hands would be for ever free in South Africa ; and to Portugal would revert some of her ancient possessions, such asElmina, and she would probably be able to develop those countries in a manner impossible to him of Anglo-Saxon blood.—I am, Sir, &c.,
D. V.
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