§ MR. T. CHAMBERSasked the First Lord of the Treasury what communications had passed between the Foreign Office and the Portuguese Government on the subject of the claims of Yuille, Shortridge, and Company, upon that country, for breach of treaty, since a Select Committee of this House reported on those claims; and whether he had any objection to lay the correspondence on the table?
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONsaid, that his noble Friend at the head of the Foreign Office had instructed Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Lisbon to make demands in conformity with the recommendation of the Committee to which the hon. and learned Member referred, and a note had been in consequence addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs at Lisbon in the month of June last. No answer having been returned to that note, another note had been forwarded to the same quarter in the month of January, but he was sorry to say, that hitherto the application had not been attended with the desired result. He could have no objection to produce either the instructions of Lord Clarendon upon the subject, or the notes addressed to the Portuguese Government, if the hon. and learned Gentleman should think proper to move for them.