§ THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURYsaid, 1794 that seeing the noble Lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in his place, tie wished to ask him, Whether Her Majesty's Government had received information as to certain Poles having been seized in Prussia and handed over by the Prussian Government to the Russian authorities. He had himself heard that a report to that effect was quite true; and he had also heard, in another instance, that some Poles, arrested in the Prussian territory, had been handed over to the Russian police, and subsequently shot. He wished to know whether Her Majesty's Government had received any information upon the subject?
§ EARL RUSSELLreplied, that the only information received by him was a despatch from Sir Andrew Buchanan, to the effect that two Polish students had been arrested in Prussia, and that a demand had been made by the Russian authorities that they should be handed over to them. The French Ambassador, however, had claimed those two young men on the ground that they were naturalized subjects of France, and Sir Andrew Buchanan expressed a hope that they would not be given up to the Russians. That was the only account he had received with reference to the arrest of Poles in Prussia.
§ THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURYThen the noble Earl has not heard of any case in which Poles arrested in Prussia and handed over to Russian authorities, have been shot?
§ EARL RUSSELLI have received no account to that effect.