§ LORD ROBERT MONTAGUasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether, in treating with the United States Government respecting the claims arising out of the captures made by the "Alabama," it was intended to recognise claims of British subjects which may have been or may be presented for illegal captures of merchant vessels by the cruisers of the United States during the war, or of British property seized or destroyed by orders of the United States authorities?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDSir, the only definite reply I can give to my noble Friend is, that the Government heard to-day by telegraph that a Treaty has been signed at Washington; but at the present moment Her Majesty's Government are not in a position to publish its contents.