§ MR. GRIEVEsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Joint Commission which is to sit at Washington will have under consideration the claims of British subjects who had property destroyed at Richmond in consequence of General Breckenridge, previous to evacuating the town, having fired the warehouses and destroyed large quantities of tobacco and other merchandise?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDreplied, that the Commissioners had been appointed to discuss in a friendly spirit the various points of difference which had arisen between the United States and subjects of this country. They were not empowered to settle the differences themselves, but would say in what way a settlement could be arrived at, either by arbitration or otherwise; and should a mixed Commission be appointed, in all probability the claims of British subjects against the United States would be referred to such Commission.