§ MR. J. COLLETT,seeing an hon. Gentleman (Mr. G. Berkeley) present who had given him notice by letter that it was 566 his intention on a future day to call the attention of the House to the evidence which had been taken respecting the Game Laws and to the Report, and that he meant to make allusion to him (Mr. J. Collett) when he brought forward the subject, begged to say, that the Report on the Game Laws which he had received was a thick blue book—the Report of the Committee of 1845; he had not received the Report of the Committee of 1846, and no report had yet been made, nor had his conduct anything to do with the evidence on the game laws, or with the report. He was never before the Committee to give evidence. He wished, therefore, to ask the hon. Gentleman whether he intended to bring forward the subject; and, if so, whether he intended to allude to him (Mr. J. Collett), and at what hour; so that he might be present to answer the hon. Gentleman? Or, perhaps, the hon. Gentleman would bring forward the subject at once?
§ MR. G. BERKELEY,in answer to what had fallen from the hon. Gentleman the Member for Athlone, begged to say that if he only told him what allusion he had made, he should be very thankful. He was not aware that he had made an allusion at all, except calling his attention to the fact that in alluding to the game law evidence he might by chance allude to him—that was all he had said.
§ MR. COLLETTbegged, with the permission of the House, to read the letter he had received. [The hon. Gentleman read the letter.] He now begged to know if the hon. Gentleman wished to make any allusion to him.
§ MR. G. BERKELEYhad no hesitation in answering the hon. Gentleman, and in saying that he did most decidedly intend to call the attention of the House to the game laws. He also intended to allude to all such persons as had in his opinion brought those laws into contempt; and as he thought the hon. Member to have been peculiarly guilty on that head, he certainly did intend to allude to him.