HL Deb 14 July 1851 vol 118 c628
The EARL of ELLENBOROUGH

rose to put a question to the noble Lord the President of the Board of Control respect-in the booty taken in the Punjab, amounting, he believed, to 131,000l. He wished to know what had been done with it? Had the Directors of the East India Company memoraliscd the Crown for the distribution of it among the army?

LORD BROUGHTON

was understood to reply that that was the course which had been pursued by the East India Company, except that the Directors had sent their memorial, in the first instance, to the Lords of the Treasury.