HC Deb 10 July 1805 vol 5 c823

Sir Sidney Smith rose and expressed his regret that he was not present yesterday, when a right hon. friend of his (Mr. Windham) took occasion, in a manner so highly honourable to his character, to call the attention of the house to the situation of a gallant friend of his, captain Wright, who was now a prisoner in the Temple at Paris. The honourable officer added that if the right hon. gent. he bad alluded to, should not bring forward a motion on the subject, he would to-morrow move, that there should be laid before the house copies of the correspondence which has taken place, through the Spanish government, between our ministers and the government of France, with respect to the arrest and detention of captain Wright.

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