MR. SEYMOUR FITZGERALDsaid, he would beg to ask the noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether the document which has appeared in the public journals, purporting to be a copy of a despatch addressed by the noble Lord to the Court of Berlin, is authentic? A similar question had been put in another place when it was stated that some errors had been committed in the translation and retranslation of the despatch, and he wished to know whether the noble Lord will lay an authentic copy of the document upon the table?
§ LORD JOHN RUSSELLreplied, that with the exception of some errors made in the translation, the document as it had appeared in the public prints was correct, but if the hon. Gentleman would move an Address to the Crown he would have no objection to produce the despatch in an authentic form.
MR. SEYMOUR FITZGERALDhad understood the noble Lord to say on a former occasion, that he had received a reply to the despatch from the Government of Prussia, and he wished to know whether he would object to lay a copy of that document upon the table along with his own Despatch?
§ LORD JOHN RUSSELLsaid, if the hon. Gentleman would allow him to take a day or two for consideration, he would state whether the Government were prepared to lay upon the table the further correspondence on the subject.