§ MR. STUART WORTLEY,seeing the noble Lord at the head of the Foreign Department in his place, was anxious to inquire whether there would be any objection on the part of the Government, in consideration of detriment to the public service, to lay upon the Table of the House any document or documents which might tend to elucidate the fact, mentioned in the course of debate some nights since by the noble Lord at the head of the Ministry—namely, that the words in the Convention of 1831, relating to the Treaty of Vienna, had been introduced at the instance of the Ministers of Russia?
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONreplied, that since the hon. and learned Gentleman had given notice of his question, he had instituted inquiries in the Record Office, and he would be prepared in the course of the evening to lay upon the Table certain me- 1023 moranda presented by the two Russian Plenipotentiaries in 1831, which formed the groundwork on which the convention in question was based, and which would be found to bear upon the question. He would also be prepared to lay on the Table an extract from a despatch of the late Lord Londonderry, which would likewise be found to relate in a very important manner to the question.