§ Mr. Mackinnonwished to ask the noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether the statements which had appeared in the morning papers were correct, that the Queen of Spain had been forced by a military insurrection in Madrid to swear, or to declare, her allegiance to the Constitution established in 1812, whereby the Chambers of Peers and of Deputies were abolished, and the Cortes were established? He begged leave to ask whether, in case those statements were correct, the noble 1331 Lord had received any other information, which he deemed it consistent with his duty to communicate to the House?
§ Viscount Palmerstonsaid, that he had that morning received a despatch from Mr. Aston, our Chargé d' Affaires at Paris, informing him that a telegraphic message had arrived at Paris from Bayonne, announcing that the Queen-Regent of Spain had accepted the Constitution of 1812. Telegraphic despatches, as the hon. Gentleman well knew, were very concise, and thus he had nothing further to communicate.
§ Subject dropped.