HC Deb 07 July 1859 vol 154 cc794-5
MR. KINGLAKE

said, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether regard for the public service makes it expedient to withhold the answers of Sir J. Crampton to the despatches, dated respectively the 25th and the 29th of April past, in which Lord Malmesbury directed inquiries to be made concerning the alleged engagements between Russia and France?

LOUD JOHN RUSSELL

The only despatch which I have found in the Foreign Office is one of the 8th of May from Sir J. Crampton, which consists of a telegram that has already been made public by the late Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs as soon as it was received. There will be no objection to produce it if it is required, but it contains nothing more than what I have mentioned.