§ Sir J. NALLasked the First Lord of the Admiralty why no payment has been made in respect of the sum of £2,840 16s. 4d. stated in the Schedule to the Report in 1839 of the commissioners for investigating the claims of the sufferers by seizure of ships and goods by the Danes in 1807 as the amount of the loss sustained by Alexander Downie, owner of the ship "Cecilia Downie" and to whom application should now be made?
Mr. SAMUELI have been asked to reply. I have ascertained that successive British Governments throughout the nineteenth century declined to ask Parliament to provide any compensation in respect of ships and their cargoes seized by the Danish Government in 1807. In these circumstances I am unable to entertain any application in the case mentioned.