MR. JACOB BRIGHT AND THE CONGO DEBATE. [To THE EDITOR
OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article of Saturday last on "The Sovereignty of the Congo," criticising my speech, you say, "Mr. Jacob. Bright, certainly no Chauvinist, denounces Portugal with in- judicious violence as that rotten Power.' " May I state that
I should certainly not have ventured to employ such words on my own authority. I quoted them from Monteiro, a well-- known and trustworthy Portuguese author, who used the ex-
pression in characterising Portuguese government in Africa. I subjoin the passage which I read to the House :—" Were the-
natives otherwise than inoffensive and incapable of enmity, they would long ago have swept away the rotten power of the- Portuguese in that large extent of territory."—" Angola and the Congo," Vol. II., p. 42.—I am, Sir, &c., Alderley Edge, Cheshire, April 9th. JACOB BRIGHT.
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