House of Lords—March 3
The Earl of CLARENDON wished to ask the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, what compensation would be given to merchants who were injured by the new tariff, established by the United States, several provisions of which constituted an infraction of treaties existing between that country and England. There was great injustice done to British merchants, and by that very country which took every care to insist on the full appropriation to itself of all rights or advantages guaranteed by the very treaties they were constantly violating or evading.
The Earl of ABERDEEN said the subject was one which had engaged the attention of her Majesty’s Government for some time, and considerable correspondence had taken place between the Governments of the two countries. He (Lord Aberdeen) was not certainly in a condition to say, that the presentations of our Minister in America had been received quite in such a way as they might and ought to have been.
Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, Scotland, March 6, 1845