The Marquess of Londonderryseeing the noble Viscount in his place, begged leave to call his attention to the subject with respect to which he had yesterday asked a question. He alluded to the Decree of Don Carlos, the authenticity of which the noble Viscount had questioned: he had been favoured by a correspondent with a communication on the subject, so that he did not of himself, or of his own knowledge, aver the authenticity of the document. His correspondent wrote thus:—"My Lords,—In order that your Lordship may be enabled to set the Minister right, I inform your Lordship that I have seen myself the original Decree of Don Carlos; and I herewith send you a certified copy, and a translation of it." Here, then, was the original decree in Spanish. Now, he thought he might appeal to the noble Viscount to institute an inquiry on this subject; he thought that he might, as a British, soldier, urge him in the strongest manner to take effectual means to ascertain what the real construction of the convention negotiated by Lord Eliot was? In his opinion a military Commission ought to be sent forthwith to Don Carlos, in order to let the country know what was really the fact. Troops, it appeared, were being embodied in this country, whose destination was Spain; and knowing that the Spanish peasants were of a revengeful 224 nature, he felt that, before those individuals went abroad, the point ought to be decided, whether the convention to which he had alluded, and which was so admirably planned, would be carried into full effect with reference to that force. He, therefore, called on the noble Viscount to ascertain without delay the true meaning and construction of the convention.
No answer was returned to the noble Marquess, and the Subject was dropped.