§ LORD JOHN RUSSELL,in bringing up, by command of Her Majesty, certain communications in reference to the war, said, he would take that opportunity of giving an answer to the question asked by the noble Lord (Lord C. Hamilton), who, he believed, was not then in the House, with respect to the effects of Sir Hamilton Seymour. He would state all he knew on that subject. He believed Sir Hamilton Seymour received some notification from his own agent that his effects, which had been left at St. Petersburg, could not be embarked on board the ship which the agent had chosen, the same ship he (Lord J. Russell) believed that had been mentioned in the course of this night's discussion. No further communication was received for some time; and he (Lord J. Russell) understood the effects had been placed in the hands of a well-known firm of merchants at St. Petersburg, and were now in their possession. There was no question whatever of the seizure or confiscation of the property of Sir Hamilton Seymour. There was an objection—he did not know the reason of it—to the embarkation of those effects in the particular ship which the agent had chosen. With reference to what had fallen from the hon. Member who had just addressed the House (Mr. D. Seymour), as to the relation in which Circassia stood to Russia, he thought, the hon. Member had misunderstood what his (Lord J. Russell's) right hon. Friend 1034 (Sir J. Graham) had said on that point. By the treaty of Adrianople certain posts, which were named, on the coasts of Circassia were surrendered to Russia. He (Lord J. Russell) believed, before that time, those posts had been occupied by Turkey. At those posts there were Russian troops stationed, and it was with regard to them that his right hon. Friend (Sir J. Graham) spoke when he said those troops had been removed from one Russian station to another.
§ The House adjourned at half after Eight o'clock till Monday next.