HL Deb 12 May 1870 vol 201 c572
THE MARQUESS OF CLANRICARDE

, with a view to obtaining complete information on the matter which he brought before the House on Monday, moved that there be laid before the House— Return of unsettled demands on the funds provided by the Government of France for liquidating the claims of British subjects, and of the balance which remains unappropriated to the liquidation of such claims, including interest thereon; together with copies of Treasury Minutes relating to the surplus fund arising out of the Treaties and Conventions of 1814, 1815,and 1818, between his late Britannic Majesty and the King of France.—(The Lord Somerhill.)

THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE

stated that there was an objection to the Motion in point of form, but not to the production of the Report, and he would lay it on the Table.