§ Sir Charles Napiertook that opportunity of inquiring whether it were intended to give compensation to the peaceable inhabitants o Syria, whose houses were destroyed, their trees cut down, and their plantations ruined by the necessary operations of the British troops in the recent war? and also, whether it was intended to give compensation to the inhabitants of St. Jean d'Acre for their losses under similar circumstances?
§ Viscount Palmerstonwas much gratified to be able to state to his hon. and gallant Friend, whose interest in these matters he was aware must be very great, on account of the eminentand distinguished public services which he had performed in the quarter to which he had alluded, that he had on that morning received a despatch from Lord Ponsonby, enclosing a copy of a renewed order, the execution of the original having been delayed, which had been sent to the Governor of Acre by the Sultan, directing full reparation to be made in both cases which had been alluded to.