§ MR. DARBY GRIFFITHsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he has any objection to lay upon the table of the House the Papers and Correspondence relating to the attack, by which his life was endangered, made on Mr. Fonblanque, the then Consul General at Belgrade, by a soldier of the Turkish garrison, in or about the year 1856?
§ MR. LAYARD, in reply, said, he did not think it would be any advantage to lay on the table those papers. Seven years ago an attack had been made on the late Mr. Fonblanque, then Her Majesty's Consul General at Belgrade, by a half-mad soldier; the Turkish Government expressed their great regret, and made the fullest reparation. Punishment was also inflicted on the soldier and his accomplices. The mutter was so long past that no good would arise from the production of the papers.