§ Lord Eliotwished to ask the noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether a document which had lately been published in the newspapers relative to the suppression of the convent of Argan, in Switzerland, was an authentic document.
§ Lord Palmerstoncould not answer for the authenticity of documents which might appear in the newspapers, or which one foreign government might make to another. Undoubtedly the Austrian Government had informed the Government of her Majesty that they had made certain communications to Switzerland on the subject alluded to by the noble Lord; but as regarded the document in question, he could not say whether it was authentic or not.