HC Deb 15 June 1863 vol 171 c899
MR. SEYMOUR FITZGERALD

gave notice, that the noble Lord at the head of the Government having, in reply to questions asked by his (Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald's) noble Friend the Member for North Leicestershire (Lord John Manners), stated that Turkey had had nothing to do with the placing of the Ionian Islands under the protection of the British Government, and therefore certainly would have nothing to do with their cession, he should, on Friday next, ask the noble Lord whether his attention had been called to the fact that the Porte was formally asked to accede, and did formally accede, to the Treaty of Vienna, and that a copy of the document containing that accession was to be found in De Hauterive's Treaties, vol. v., page 10; and whether that fact would cause him to change the opinion which he had expressed upon this subject.

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