Record

Document Reference	Bu 46/71
Title	Letter from A. Buchanan, Madrid, Spain, to Lord John Russell [later 1st Earl Russell], Foreign Office, London; 9 Jan 1860.
Date	9 January 1860
Extent	8 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Concerns a discussion with Calderón Collantes; reports the Spanish Government will settle the debt in one instalment if the British Government will agree to deduct the '5 per cent charged by the British Ordnance Office on the cost price of arms'; reveals that the British Government have refused this proposal but will settle the debt for £500,000; explains in detail how the different proposals for payment would affect the total amount due; reports the Spanish Government has agreed to pay £496,385 immediately.
Term	foreign affairs, Great Britain and Spain, debt
	Spanish affairs, government
	trade, arms and armaments

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6255	Collantes; Saturnino Calderón- (1799-1864); Señor; Spanish Foreign Minister 1853-63	1799-1864
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882
NA139	Russell; John (1792-1878); 1st Earl Russell	1792-1878