Lord Ellenboroughsaid, that from what had been reported as occurring in another place, he found that it was the intention of Government to furnish certain papers connected with events that had recently taken place in India, at no distant period. Now it was not his wish, either at this or at any other time, to embarrass the Government by calling for the production of any papers, but there were some in particular which he thought might be produced without any detriment. He wished, however, to know whether any treaty had been made with the Ameers of Sinde, for the purpose of facilitating the march of our army through their territories; and whether the information which he desired to have produced was such as would show the course pursued by the British Government with respect to the expedition of Schah Soojah to Candahar in 1834. The only ground remaining now for the military movements takingplace beyond the Indus being the supposed hostility of Dost Mahomed to our Government, it was of importance to ascertain whether that hostility had not been provoked and justified by our acquiescence in the expedition of Schah Soojah to Candahar in 1834. Schah Soojah was then our prisoner, residing within our territory, to which he returned after his defeat, and the de facto rulers of Cabal and Candahar were on terms of friendship with our Government.
§ Viscount Melbournebelieved there was no such treaty in existence as that to which the noble Lord had referred. With respect to the other points referred to by the noble Lord, it would, of course, be desirable that the Government should lay before Parliament the fullest information on all these subjects, with a view to inquiring fully into them; and he thought it would be found, that there was no paper which would bear out the noble Lord's apprehension, that the honour and character of the British Government had been at all compromised in the way suspected by the noble Lord. It was, however, the intention of her Majesty's Government to lay the fullest information on the subject 964 of the affairs, not only of India, but of our relations in Asia generally, before both Houses of Parliament, and if the noble Lord wished for any particular papers he should be glad to consult his wishes as far as possible.