Viscount Strangfordgave notice, that on Friday he would move a Resolution relating to the extraordinary anomaly of our commercial relations with Portugal. He should have been glad to have deferred it to a more distant day, and wait for some information to be afforded by Government; but circumstances which occurred in another place had rendered it urgent and important that the information for which he sought should not be delayed. He would only observe now, that the Resolution which he should move would have no reference to politics, or to the vexata questio of the Regency, or right to the throne of Portugal. It would refer solely to our commercial relations with that country.
Viscount Strangfordsaid, he should move for a paper, the production of which would set at rest for ever the question of our commercial relations with Portugal. His object would be to shew, whether our commercial relations with that country, arising out of treaties, were considered to be still in existence, or suspended; and, if suspended, whether that suspension was according to any articles in any of those treaties.