§ LORD TRUROasked, Whether there had been any Correspondence between Her 463 Majesty's Government and the Government of the Emperor of the French in relation to the annexation of Monaco to France; and, if there had been, whether there would he any objection to lay such Correspondence on the table of the House?
LORD WODEHOUSEsaid, there had been no Correspondence between the two Governments on this subject, but Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris had reported a conversation in which M. Thouvenel had informed him of the arrangements which had been come to between the French Government and the Prince of Monaco. The noble Lord was not quite correct in speaking of the annexation of Monaco, for the arrangement did not include Monaco strictly so called, which would remain as before, under the Government of the Prince of Monaco; but related to the two communes of Mentone and Roquebrune, concerning which there had been a long negotiation, which was now brought to a close by the French Government giving £160,000 in payment for the rights of sovereignty over those places.