THE MARQUESS OF GRANBYsaid, he would beg to ask the noble Lord at the head of the Government a question, of which he had not been able to give him notice. He wished to know if it was true that a secret treaty had been entered into between England, France, and Austria, with respect to the territorial arrangement of Europe?
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONSir, if there were really a secret treaty, the noble Lord would excuse me from giving him the secret. I recollect my late Friend the Member for Montrose (Mr. Hume) making a Motion for a Return of the way in which the secret service money was expended. There had been no concealed treaty, nor any besides the one laid upon the table.