§ Mr. Thomas Duncombewished to be informed whether the mission of Lord Eliot to Spain was at all connected with any intention to support the pretensions of Don Carlos to the Spanish Crown.
§ Lord Mahonsaid it was true that Lord Eliot had been sent out to Spain and it was for objects he would with great satisfaction explain. This Government had witnessed with deep concern the nature of the civil war now raging in Spain, and thought fit to send out Lord Eliot, charged particularly to attempt by all means to put an end to the carnage attendant on this war, by means of the massacre of prisoners, the execution of suspected persons, the burning of villages, and other frightful violences committed in the course of theconflict—The mission had nothing to do with placing Don Carlos on the Spanish throne, for Lord Eliot had not been sent out there but with the full approbation of the Ministers of Spain and the King of the French.
§ The House resolved itself into a Committee.