| Content Description | Reports that although the Spanish Government cannot find documentary evidence to show that 'arms and stores to the value of £472,290' were actually received, they have raised no questions regarding the cost; comments that this 'may perhaps be a reason for Her Majesty's Government giving a more favourable consideration to their proposed reductions'; explains the expenses incurred at ports from where the arms were dispatched were paid for by Agents of the Spanish Government and that the charge of 5 per cent demanded by Great Britain does not therefore seem justified; discusses the inferior quality of the last batch of arms to be supplied and reveals the British Government were aware of the situation at the time they were sent. |