§ MR. URQUHART, in the absence of the noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs, would put to the noble Lord at the head of the Government the question of which he had given notice. It would be in the recollection of the House, that some time ago, on a question being put to the Government on the subject of the dispute between Denmark and Holstein, the reply was that, in the then state of circum- 836 stances, Her Majesty's Ministers did not consider that the guarantee of the Treaty of 1720 could apply. He now wished to know whether, as the English Government had recognised the right of Denmark to blockade the ports of those enemies or pirates who had invaded her territories, the noble Lord and his Colleagues still considered that the stipulation or guarantee of the Treaty of 1720 did not apply?
§ LORD J. RUSSELL said, it was the opinion of Her Majesty's Government that the guarantee of the Treaty of 1720 did not apply to the present state of circumstances between Prussia and Denmark.