§ MR. BRIGHTI wish, Sir, to ask the noble Lord at the head of the Government whether he is prepared to lay on the table of the House papers that will give full information as to the transactions that have taken place at Vienna, in order that at some early period the whole of this question and the condition of the country with regard to the war may be taken into consideration by the House? I observe that 1791 the Foreign Minister, in giving some information upon the subject in another place, has promised that all the papers connected with it shall be laid upon the table, and I trust that the same course will be followed in this House.
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONThere is nothing, Sir, more reasonable or more common than that when a correspondence is communicated to one House of Parliament, it is communicated to the other House also; so that when the papers to which my hon. Friend has referred are laid on the table of the House of Lords, they will be laid on the table of the House of Commons likewise. I do not undertake to fix any particular day when the papers will be produced. My noble Friend (Lord J. Russell) has not yet returned home, and, though we have had telegraphic messages up to a particular date, I am not in a position to name the day on which the papers will be laid on the table. I can only say that no unnecessary delay will occur in giving to the House the fullest information.
§ MR. BRIGHTSir, I shall be prepared, if any undue delay takes place, to make a specific Motion on the subject.
§ MR. OTWAYsaid, he would take that opportunity of asking the noble Lord at the head of the Government, whether the French Ambassador, M. Drouyn de Lhuys, left Vienna at the same time as the noble Lord the Member for the City of London, or if he had left Vienna at all?
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONI cannot say whether or not M. Drouyn de Lhuys left Vienna at the same time as my noble Friend, but I imagine that he has left by this time.