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London, England, 1840-03-28 00:00:00

COUNTY COURTS BILL.

Lord INGE sTRIE wished to ask if it were the inten-
tion of any Member of her Majesty's Government to bring
forward the County Courts Bill.

Lord J. RUSSELL said it would be necnsary to
wait until the Rcport of the Select Committee on the ido-
jett had been received.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.

Lord J. RUSSELL said on Monday he should move a
day after Custer for going on with tho Colonial Passen-
gers' Bill ; and, in answer to a question, he said the busi-
rieEs for Monday would be the Queen's Message in regard
to Lord Seaton.

PRIVILEGES OF FREEIIEN.
Mr. H. lIINDE rose to move for a Committee to in-
vestig,te how far the rights and property of freemen had
been affected by the Corporation Bill, and whether a re-
medy could not be appiied without interfering with the
general efficiency of the Bill. His object was to remedy
some of the great grievances under the Municipal Bill,
\especially those by which the privileges awl private pro-
perty of freemen of cities and boroughs was interfered
with. In various Corporations, freemen holding small
properties were Injured by the provisions of tits Bill, in-
asmuch ps it enabled the Corporations to oppress them.
He was most anxious to make his motion in the most con-
ciliatory way, and, in his opinion, the Corporations them-
selves would he tho great bonefiters by that inquiry, as
it would greatly prevent litigation and expense, and in the
Committee, if it were granted him, he would be enabled to
prove all the statements he had made. He was most
anxious to state the names, and trusted that he would be
met on the opposite side in the same spirit. He would
alter the terms of his motion In any manner that was
ing to them.
Mr. HO WA RD seconded the motion.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL did not intend to offer any
opposition to the inquiry sought for by the Hon. Gentle-
man opposite. It would pledge the House to no opinion
that the inquiry would be beneficial. He. would suggest
to the Hon. Member the omislion of the word " inju-
rioas," and also the whole of the latter part cf the motion,
and so leave it general.
Mr. H. HINDI had net the slightest he3itatiDn in ac-
ceding t' the motion as altered by the Noble 1,,,rd.
Mr. HUME wished to know how far tin inquiry was
to go ? he had heard of •
were they to ' ' •no complaints upon this subject.
Nol,nnT.l,.i,r,)e into their pr.litical privli•ges
.?
.(Cries ot"
"Then the words pecuniary privi-
leges should be inserted, or it would be found that the in-
quiry would bo a very
Sir C. GREY wid"nu.
the Committee would have
whether it was be
wished distinctly to understand whether
power to inquire into the ope-
ration,new Corporations upon trust property; or otherwise, ,of the
w for instance. the
Corporation of the town of 'N
and in the .castle were Conservators
capacity of the River Tyne,
Irt.hi voesr,;du es.
large revenue, under the name
that
important unsideration, bothct
to the inhabitants along that rivoc they received a
It was an
eeto know voliethcr the
Conservators and
new Council, in their operations o,
bad acted beneficially or otherwise. r that trust property
Mr. INGHAM said that the matters alludedrov to by the
p
Hon., Baronet were not at all within the .
the
Committee to be appointed. He was yery anxiousince of
f"
Committee of Inquiry, bec,inse na:zny of the Lets stated' ay
he Hon. Mover were not founded ou truth. He sincerely

believed that the new Corporations had acted not only
fairly, hot most beneficially for the interests of their con-
stitivncy.

After a few words from Mr. H. HINDE, the motion
as amended by Lord J. Russell was agreed to.
ANNUITY TO THE KING OF HANOVER.

Mr. HLTME had expected, after the motion he had sub-
mitted to the House ha May, 1838, that he would not again
have had to trouble the House with the question. He
did not know why this country should continue to pay the
King of Hanover an annuity of 21.000/. When he for-
merly brought forward his motion, he thought that suffi-
cient time had been given for the consideration of the sub-
ject. He fully expected that the Government would have
been prepared with a measure suspending the payment of
that money. That motion was rejected by a majority of
35, which was not a very large one. considering the sub-
ject. Since then his Majesty of Hanover had had plenty
of time to consider and reflect : he could not be ignorant
that this country was placed in great financial difficulties,
and he had hoped that the bright example of the King of
Belgium would have been followed by the King of Hano-
ver. The King of Belgium, ever since the day he as-
cended that throne, bad not received one single shilling of
the money of this country.—(Chee! s.) Upon that occa-
sion trustees were appointed for the purpose of paying
some annuities to the servants of the late Princess Charlotte,
and for doing some repairs at Claremont, and after those trusts
had been performed, the residue of the money was repaid
into the Exchequer of this country._( Cheers.) The
sums so paid last year amounted to 36,000/. ; now he hoped
that the King of Hanover would follow so liberal an ex-
ample.—( Cheers.) He thought that the Government
were paying this money very improperly, and that
they ought to have introduced the subject themselves,
because in a late debate allusions had been made to an
opinion given by the Hon and Learned Member for Ri-
pon, whom he regretted not now see:ng in his place, who
had, he understood, given it as his opinion that an Act of
Parliament, granting an annuity to any individual might
be repealed. if the object for which such annuity had been
granted had ceased to exist. Now, the Act of Parliament
under which the first portion of the annuityhad been granted
—he meant the 18th of Geo. 111.—stated that the money
was granted to.the King, for the purpose of making a pro-
vision for the six younger Princes, of whom Ernest was one,
they having no other income. He would ask if it could
have been foreseen at that time that the Duke of Cumber-
land would eventually succeed to the kingdom of Hanover
and derive an income of perhaps two or terse hundred thou-
sand a year from that source, would they have voted this an-
nuity for life ? He therefore called upon the Government to
suspend this Act. He thought it possible that the King
of Hanover might be obliged to return to this country, and
cease to derive any benefit from Hanover, and in that
event he would not wish to deprive him of his income; but
he contended that his succession to the kingdom of Hano-
ver did away with the Act of 18 George 111., and that it
ought to be repealed and the public be permitted to derive
the benefit of this money. He called for the repeal upon
the interpretation which had been given to similar Acts by
the Honourable Member for Ripon, and there-
fore he called upon the House to support his
motion. On a former occasion the Hon. Member for
Cambridge had stated that his Royal Highness was as
much entitled to this annuity as the creditor of the State
was to his dividen* This he (Mr. Hume) would deny—
the one was a voluntary gift and the other was the result
of a bargain, for which the person receiving the dividend
had paid money, and, therefore, there was no analogy be-
tween the two cases. He had on all occasions advocated
the necessity of preserving the public faith, and it was on
this ground that he wished, in an economical point of view,
to carry this motion. 20,000/. a-year would pay the ex-
penses of the loan to which, perhaps, the Chance'lor of the
Exchequer might be obliged to have recourse. The
country now paid 720,000/. a-year for the support of the
Royal Family, and he thought that this 20,000/. a-year to the
King of Hanover was not necessary for the public service.
—( Cheers.) Ho saw from returns he held in his hand
that there were certain apartments, a house, and grounds,
held by the King of Hanover in this country, and he
thought that when the mother of the Queen was obliged to
reside in a private building, because there was no accom-
modation for her in any of the Palaces, the Government
ought to interfere—when they found the square of St.
Jsmes's Palace locked up, and the key kept by the King
of Hanover or his agents: for it was not possible those
apartments could be of any use to the King of Hanover.
He also found that he had 100 acres in the old Park at
Kew, and 100 acres in the meadows at Kew—but notice
had been given by the Commissioners of the Land Reve-
nue of their intention to resume possession of those lands at
Lady-day. Now, if they had a right to resume possession
of those lands, ought they not also to resume the pension ?
He wished to argue this question, on the principle of
the proper administration of the public funds. He stated
this because, as he differed from the King of Hanover on
political grounds, it might be supposed he was actuated by
political motives, which was not at all the case, as he
wished to exclude polities from the consideration of this
question.—(Cheers.) Suppose Hanover should declare
war against England, would the Noble Lord sanction the
payment of 21,000/. a year to carry on a war against this
country ? In that case the payment would cease. Sup-
pose he should succeed to the throne of England, would
they not take ea ay the annuity in that case, because he
would have other means of support ? thesefore he thought
that, according to the honest interpretation of the Act,
the annuity ought to cease, and he trusted the House
would support his Bill.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Member
then moved for leave to bring in a Bill to suspend the pay-
ment et 21,0001. per annum to the Duke of Cumberland,
nowonKtihneg
question ei,onn being
over
put,
Lord J. RUSSELL said it was proposed to take away
an annuity which had been granted to the Duke of Cum-
berland for life. The annuity having been granted to him
for life, he imagined that it thereby became the property
of the Dulie of Cumberland, and might be charged with
debts, or disposed of in any other manner, as annuities for
I life frequently were. With regard to the ()the- question,
chether the King of Hanover ought to surrender this an-
nuit; or not, of course that was a question on which every
one *n,p: to form their own opinions; but that was not
og
the question before the House, and therefore he was not
called upon to express any opinion on it. He should not
go further on this eue=tion, and would only allude to what
had been stated reepectin,g the Royal apartments at St.
James's Palace. Tee Hon Gentleman thought those
apartments were not properly occupied or taken care of.
No doubt they were properly taken care of, because the
Officer of Works took care that none of the Royal Palaces
were left in a state of neglect. With regard to the .4ther
question, whether her Majesty ought to resume the occupa-
tion of those apartments. he considered that was a question
entirely for her Majesty's consideration, and if her Majesty
chose to provide a private house for the Duchess of Kent, 1
the expense of it must br paid out of her privy purse. I
With regard to the disposal of her Majesty's privy purse, !
no person, he believed, would be disposed to find fault with i
it, or to examine lir° the expenditure, as beside; various 1
payments, such as subscriptions to charities and other ex- 1
pcnses, her Majesty had from that source paid many debts I
contracted by his late Royal Highness tire Duke of Kent,
and other expenses for which she was nct legally liable_ 1
—and besides that, her Mejssty had paid for a home for i
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. He considered j
it would he hard ,and ungeneroas to take those apartments i
which hod formerly been freely granted to the Duke of !
Cumberland. He would make no observation respecting
the conduct of other parties.

... ......_ _ .
Colonel PERCIVAL fully agreed in an the eulogiums
that had been passed en the exemplary conduct of her
Majesty, but would take that opportunity of giving an ex-
; planation of a statement which had appeared in the Pa-
r pers, supposed to be under the influence of Hon.
Gentlemen opposite.—( Hear, hear.) Those Papers
l ' had stated that an application had been made by the autho.
• rity of her Majesty for the apartments in St. James's
Palace, which had been refused. He was authorised to
state that this was not true in any particular; on the con-
trary, her Royal Highness the Duchesa of Kent had ob-
jected to the apartments as inconvenient for her Royal
Highness to occupy, and he thought that what he stated
he stated was not unknown to her Majesty's Goverment.
The King of Hanover did net derive any profit from the
lands at Kew, as all the profits were to his knowledge
pail to the office of Woods and Forests, and such
was the case, even at the time his Royal Highness
was in this ccuntry. With regard to the 21,0001.
a-year, he could say that not one farthing of
it went out of this country, but was appropriated to the
payment of just debts, both principal and interest, and to
the support of his old servants, whom he had not dismissed
on his succeeding to the throne of Hanover. There was
part of the conduct of his Rot al Highness on which he was
not prepared to offer satisfactory explanation ; but he
thought he had already said sufficient to induce the House
to negative the motion of the Hon. Member for Kilkenny.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that the Hon. and Gallant
Gentleman's statement with regard to what was supposed
to have been said by the Duchess of Kent. as to the
apartments in St. James's Palace was, he would not say
incorrect, but it was perfectly new to him.—( Cheers, and
laughter.)
Colonel PERCIVAL would read a letter, which
stated that the Duchess of Kent was of opinion that the
apartments were inconvenient, and was by no means
pleased with the use which had been made of her name on
that occasion.—(Cries of " Name, name.") The letter
was from Sir FrAerick Watson, who managed the affairs
of the Duke of Cumberland in this country.
Mr: WARBURTON said, that so long as the Acts
were in force giving the Duke of Cumberland the annuity,
his Royal Highness had a just right to it. But his Hon.
Friend went the right way to work, and proposed to re-
peal those Acts.—( Hear, hear.) The pension was not
given to a forei n
hPetentate, but to a Prince of the Blood
Royal.—
and duty (Hearg _ ear.) A sense of propriety
.would in-
duce the Kin '
Marquis
of gat Hanover to give up the annuity, as the
Camden had been led by a high sense of pro-
prietywhich a portion oigied
Ex-
chequer. Heynctio, give up his income as Teller of the Ex-
Leopold was appropriated
in g thattehd.,t.o
the on
payment the s a me
of principleobligations
the 50,000/. a-year granted to Prince
a deduction
might
is country on the faith which he contraete
from the 21,0001. granted etomade,
grant, of the
upon similar grounds,
he Duke of Cumberland.
He was sure that no one would
Noy" more ready than his
and ,' from Mr. Ilume.)
Hon. Friend to admit that.—('.l His opinion was, that the annuity
I held under ihe Crown of this countty,th:hhoouullebscarn,dsila%n,dd4
Iby the King a( Hanover.
the
aa
Mr. i'i GLIONBY said that it w
h that it was
not annuity
asclear,
from
preamble of the Act of George the Fourth,
not the intention of the Legislature that t
should be continued after the circumstances of the
Duke underwent so great an alteration. He felt
1 in equity and reason to support the motion.—(Hear.)
Lord WORSLEI was sure that there was a very
general wish throughout this country that the King of
Hanover should relinquish the annuity. But he did not
think that the preamble referred to by his Hon. Friend
(Mr. Aglionby) bore out his construction. He himself
i had always opposed the revision of the Pension List, and '
on the same principle he was bound in honesty to oppose
this motion. At the same time he must say he very
much wished that the King of Hanover would see the pro-
'lpriety of relinquishing the annuity.—( Cheers. )
Mr. HANDLEY would vote for the 13111, because he
I thought that the altered state of things since the annuity was

granted, did not warrant its continuance. Hon. G ents.oppo-
site laugned when it was siuggested that Hanover might be
at wit with this country, but was it not the filet, that he
was at war, or was going to war, with the commerce of
this country, under circumstances more galling than could
be supposed. With respect to the lands at Kew she fact
was, that the Royal Duke did not spontaneously g ve up
the profits, but on the contrary, although he was allowed
to occupy the land without any view to his pecuniary profit,
he let the meadows to the dairymen, and put the money
in bis pockot_ wail the Commissioners of Woods and Fo-
rests required the system to be altered.—(Laughter.)
Colonel SIBTHORP was in favour of economy on
every principle of justice, sound sense, and reason. He
thought the King of Hanover had a perfect right to keep
the money, and he would do the same thing himself if he
was in the same situation.—( Great laughter.)
Sir R. PRICE wondered how the King of Hanover
could keep the money; but although he thought it discre-
ditable to him to do so, yet he would net compromise the
honour of the country by taking back by force what had
been freely given.
After a few words from Mr. GO ULBURN,
The House divided, when the numbers were.—
For the motion 63
Against it

Ma rarity
TURKEY AND EGYPT.

Mr. HUME then rose to move an Address to her Ma-
jesty,
that she will be graciously pleased to lay before this i
House such parts of the Correspondence between Lord
Ponsonby, the British Minister at Constantinople, and
Lord Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's Sec. etary for
Foreign Affairs, as relate to the negociations in the years
1839 and 1840, between the Sultan of the Sublime Porte
and Mehemet Ali for the hereditary possession of Egypt
and other prcvinces claimed by Mehemet Ali, and for the
settlement of peace between him and the Sultan ;'and for the
delivery by Mehemet Ali of the Turkish fleet to the Sultan.
The Hon. Member said he thought there was some expla-
nation required of the transactions which had occurred be-
tween Egypt and Turkey, and he bad called before for pa-
pers on the subject, and the Noble Lord the Secretary for
Foreign Affairs had produced some papers, but there were
still many deficiencies, which he (Mr. Hume) desired to
see supplied. He thought that the Noble Lord's policy had
interfered between the Sultan and Mehemet Ali in a man-
ner neither useful to the parties nor creditable to this coun-
try. The Noble Lott' had indeed taken credit to himself
for having, by his policy, promoted the independence of the
Ottoman empire. But on the contrary, he (Mr. Hume)
thought the result of that policy had been rather to pro-
mote discord and contest. At all events, he was entitled to
ask from the Government an explanation of the causes by
which they justified an expendieire of half a million annu.
ally additional for an arinnment in the East, with the pro-
fs ssed object of preserving peace. He believed the N,,ble
Lord was ignorant of these affairs. When he ( Mr. Hume)
was in the East, he could not go to visit the Pyramids
without a military escort. The Noble Lord's interference,
with the view, as he thought, of preserving peace, had
in his (Mr. Hume's) opinion, served the ends of Russia
snore than could even a Russian Minister, had he been in
the English Cabinet, for it had tended to weaken the
Ottoman empire. The British Ambassador at Constan-
tinople had taken a part in the matter, of which be ( Mr.
Hume) hoped that the Noble Lord would be able to give
a good explanation. The Ambassador had male himself
a party to arrangements, by which Egypt, Syria, Aleppo,
Damascus, Jerusalem, and other places, woul- be ceded to
Mehemet Ali. (The Hon. Member went at some length
into details on this subject, quoting extracts from the cor-
respondence before'the House.) He would ask any Hon.
Gentleman what kind of a protection Russia would give
to Turkey? It was stated that the Noble Lord, and he
trusted that he would give him an explanation
upon this point, had agreed that Russia should
land thirty or forty thousand men in Asia Minor,
in order to meet Ibrahim Pacba and destroy his force. if
such were the case, lie thought that the Noble Lord was
highly to blame, and indeed he considered that her Ma-
jesty's Government were most culpable in keeping up the
present state of things. The truth was, that Russia ;vas
now only waiting to seize the remaining part of Turkey,
and the course which the British Government was adopt-
ing, aided and abetted her in doing so. He thought it
would be prudent on the part of this country, to conciliate
Mehemet Ali. The acquisitions that Russia had made by
her rapacity on her neighbours, exceeded any part of the
world, with the exception, perhaps, of the East India
Company ; and this ought to teach the Noble Lord and
every other man in the country, that they were only wait-
ing to add to their possessions. In her Majesty's speech
at the commencement of the Session, it was stated that
the greatestconcotd existed between this country and Russia.
Now he (Mr Hume) wished to know where that concord
was. He believed that the safety of the Turkish fleet in
the recent engagements that had taken place was to be at-
tributed
to ,he policy of France in opposition to that of the
Noble Lord. His principal complaint against the policy
of the Noble Lord was this—that after the Divan area the
Sultan had almost come to terms with Mehemet Ali, the
Five Powers called u. on them not to make peace, and
from that time to the present nothing had been dose, and
both parties were kept in a state of uncertainty up to the
present moment. It appeared to him to be a question of
great importance to consider whether the policy now car-
ried on by the British Government was the correct one, or
whether it should not be put an end to For his own
part, he considered that the Government was
acting most injudiciously in attempting to force Mehe-
met Ali. He might be told that there was
no dependence to be placed on Mehemet Ali. . 11, thought
the contrary was the fact. and of this he was certain, that
he had shown every disposition to cultivate British alli-
ance. AU that Mehemet All wanted was that repose
which would be beneficial to this country, to England, and
to himself. Was not, he would ask, the course that was

now adopted calculated to drive Egypt into the arms of
France? We might be told that Mehemet Ali had acted
a treacherous part in keeping the Turkish fleet. Now
his (Mr. Hume's) belief was, that M.Aerttet Ali knew no
more about that than any Hon. Member in that H ouse,
for what was the fact? The fl-et lay in the s(a.of Mar-
mora when the Sultan's death took place, the officers on
board the vessels declared that they could not go bdck to
C nstantinople, as they ware afraid of treachery there. The
officers of the fleet held a council, and they came to the
determination that the only way to save the fleet for the
future protection of Turkey would be to take it to Mehe-
met Ali, whom they looked upon as the only person to
assist the Sultan. Mehemet Ali had offered to give up
the fleet, and to attend himself and do homage to the Sul-
tan, provided the Government would allow peace to take
place, guaranteed by the Powers of Britain and France.
He had now adverted to all the topics to which, he be-
lieved, it was necessary to allude. His object was to have
the documents he had moved for before the House, in
order to show whether the statements he had made were
correct or not. IL seemed to him thht it would be absurd,
after the spoliation of Turkey by Russia, to which he had
alluded, to say that she was the protector of Tu key. In
conclusion, he felt bound to deprecate the pu.icy of the
Noble Lord, feeling convinced that the best interests of the
country would be consulted by upholding peace between
the Sultan and Mehemet Ali, and thereby securing to this
country that which was so esseivial to her conimer,.e. and
overland communication to India. The Hon. Member
concluded by moving for the production of the documents
of which he had given notice.

Lord PALMERSTON said that he should obst rve, in
1 the first place, that he was persuaded his Han. Friend
the Member for Kilkenny could not suppose it would be
possible tor him to agree to the production of the pipe's
in question. If there was one point more settled than
any other in that House, it was that papers should not be
produced whilst negotiations were pending to which they
referred. For that reason, he presumed, that it would not
be expected that he should follow his Hen. Friend in the
long discussion into which he had entered w•th regard to
the Eastern question. He had no doubt but his Hon. Friend
honestly and sincerely entertained the opinions he had ex-
pressed, and he felt assured that his Hon. Friend felt con-
vinced that those opinions pointed out the safest policy
which could be pursued by this country. He would be the
last man t,, deny that tact, but he was persuaded that his
Hon. Friend was entirely mistaken in his views, that he had
been misled by the information
.he had received, and that
in many respects his notions on the subject were erroneous ;
and he was convinced that if his Hon. Friend could see
the question its all its bearings, he would not have expressed
the opinions they had just heard —( Hear, hear.) With
regard to the paragraph in the Queen's Speech he could
only say that he still adhered to the opinions which it had
expressed. That paragraph merely stated that concord
existed between the Five Powers with regard to the ques-
tion of the East, and that it was the hope of her Majesty's
Governm..nt that that conc ,ra would soon bring the question
to a satisfactory issue. These were his views of the ques-
tion even now. It had been said that the British
Government and Lord Ponsonhy had stimulated the Suit ut
to renew hostilities against Mehemet Ali. He should say,
, however, that in his opinion the PacLa., and not the Sultan,
was the o elision of the renewal of hostilities, inasmuch as
it was he who wished to throw off the allegiance which he
owed the other„and it was he who first commenced the in-
vasion of Syria. The battle of Nezib had been fought
beyond the limits of that province, and the General of the
Sultan had shown merely a wish to act upon the defensive.
His Right Hon. Friend had said that he (Lord Palmer-
ston) was unconsciously the instrument of Russia on that
question, and that he was :n effect labouring to destroy the
Turkish empire, while his Hon. Friend was himself the
real supporter of the interests of Turkey. Now he (Lord
Palmerston) was bound to say in justice and in candour
that it teas impossible for any Covet tutwot. to have acted
with more honour and good faith in any matter than
Russia had shown in these eegoehations, which were eoing
on on the Eastern question.—(liear. ) He was bound
to say that, and he said it with a tell knowledge
of the mos. Judging of the intentions of ftussiz,..,lie was
speaking of the present time—from her conduct, it was
not fair to impute to her any i4kefttiOns inimical to the in-
terests of the Turkish empire. but if Russia were really
desirous of destroying the integrity of Lida:. empire, his
Hon. Friend would, in his (Lord Palmerston's) ()pin*
thperores:
be the readiest tool she cottlri have found for the purpose;
because his policy would lead t
the immediate dismem.
fTeeutrkoefyg,
uasrsidia.wouHldis nlcicoenesa.
FririlyenlAayw;:,.ll7
a course of policy which would tes,,l. ,
the object he had in view The
the anion between this country and
Ike the Lord Lieute-
nant Leland could not certai,ly be to no,
crnecivienr':e o t
untry and of Scottind in
Irelandmiiinktianign
oaf that
:ilia
co ,
ebt.oelracte,twoir‘f:;; t
of oth countries,
fitrfe
istiaiyeeLl;;l: that would be.the
abdesdti timo
en
a;ti
snor f couldadvin
cainnyo
cisely similar, on ,the subject of
With
„
Tut key and Mehemet Ali,,—! Hear, hear, hear.)
that in
And yet his Hon. Friend was recomtmheenddirisigpizitee:brseemp;:
re(sard to tho situation of Egypt.
,t,,
former times the Hon. Member might have beep exposed
diced hm no doubt
to perils in travelling in that country. It was perictsi-li
true, however, that in Egypt and Syria at present, and
indeed ienn ly changedevgerreyatpartoftl. Turkish empire, matters had
since
' la those countries without beingby onexpobem4 fight
t 4 ht l
J; ow ::,, slightest
danges, .
At the same time he did not consider that owsi
improvemeet is; the internal condition of those countries
could in any wayr travel
~
e
deeisla :he question as to whether it was
the interest of this country '(...) sts...l,:etair. the integrity of
the Turkish empire. His Hon. Friend Lai 404 that