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V.—CLAIMS MADE BY HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT AS TO SCOPE OF THE PARAMOUNTCY.

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Author. Reference. Mr. Chamberlain ... C.-7933, pp. 51, 89. ) Great Britain will maintain her position C.-8063, p. 16. ■ as paramount Power in South Africa. By C.-8721, p. 21. ) provision of Article II., London Convention, Her Majesty's Government intend to maintain suzerainty. Under these Conventions, therefore, Her Majesty holds towards the South African Eepublic the position of a suzerain, who has accorded to the people of that Eepublic self-government upon certain conditions. C.-2308, &c. "The power and authority of England have long been paramount, and neither by the Sand Eiver Convention of 1862, or at any other time, did Her Majesty's Government surrender the right and duty of requiring that the Transvaal should be governed with a view to the common safety of the various European communities." C.-3947. Contemporary despatches, passim. Contemporary despatches, passim. Sir M. Hicks-Beach Lord Derby Lord Carnarvon ... Sir George Grey ... The preamble to the Convention of 1881, which is the basis, too, of the Convention of 1884. Also Articles III., IV., and XIV. Lord Kimberley ..... C.-2586, p. 12, to Sir Bartle Frere : " The sovereignty of the Queen over the Transvaal could not be relinquished."