Record

Document Reference	Bu 42/10
Title	Copy letter from A. Buchanan, Madrid, Spain, to 3rd Earl of Malmesbury [J. Harris], Foreign Office, London; 25 July 1858.
Date	25 July 1858
Extent	2 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Informs him that since Calderon Collantes has departed he thinks that the Spanish government will accept a verbal explanation to Isturiz [of Malmesbury's speech on the slave trade]; gives details of plan proposed to the Cortes by General O'Donnell on public expenditure; expresses approval of General O'Donnell's idea. Postscript informing him that the note drawn up by the Foreign Office was done so before the change of Ministry but not revised by Isturiz; the note was accepted by the new government as a legacy from their predecessors.
Term	slavery, slave trade
	parliamentary business, speeches
	politics, Spanish, domestic
	politics, Spanish, Cortes

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6255	Collantes; Saturnino Calderón- (1799-1864); Señor; Spanish Foreign Minister 1853-63	1799-1864
NA6338	Ist£riz; Francisco J. (1790-1871); Señor; Spanish politician	1790-1871
NA6258	O'Donnell; Leopoldo (1809-1867); Duke of Tetuan; general and politician	1809-1867
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882
NA6098	Harris; James H. (1807-1889); 3rd Earl of Malmesbury	1807-1889