§ MR. DARBY GRIFFITHsaid, he would also beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether, by his acceptance of the proposed Conference upon the question of the Annexation of Savoy, in his Despatch of the 25th day of June, it is distinctly understood by the French Government, that the question of an efficient substitute for the neutralization of Savoy, by the cession of such "a military frontier to Switzerland as should comprise the southern shores of the Lake of Geneva and the Alpine passes of the Valais," as stated to be, in his opinion, necessary in his Despatch of the 15th day of May to Lord Cowley, is to be fully and freely submitted to the consideration of the proposed 1667 Conference, and is not to be presumed to be precluded by any declarations that may hitherto have been mode by the French Government in any quarter on that subject?
§ LORD JOHN RUSSELLSir, the subject for the Conference would be to put the 92nd Article of the Treaty of Vienna in accord with the 2nd Article of the Treaty of Turin. It would be competent for Her Majesty's Government, or any other Power represented at the Conference, to state in what manner they thought that object ought to be effected. Of course, it would also be competent for the French Government to make any objection it deemed fit to any such proposal.