§ Dr. Phillimoretook the opportunity to express a hope that the papers respecting the state of the negotiations on the subject of Greece, which were shortly to be laid on the Table of the House, would contain a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the Blockade of Prevesa, and those other events which were now so much a matter of conjecture. The imputation that Great Britain had been guilty of a violation of that law acknowledged throughout Europe, and which she had expended so much blood and treasure to uphold, ought to be removed.
Mr. Secretary Peelsaid, that the papers would contain a full statement of the progress of the negotiations, but it should be understood there were circumstances such as the existence of an armistice between the parties, which would take the case alluded to by the learned Gentleman somewhat out of the ordinary law of nations.