§ MR. T. DUNCOMBEsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he has inquired into the truth of the allegations contained in the Petition of Giovanni Porpa, a naturalized British subject, presented on the 26th clay of January last, complaining of wrongs inflicted upon him by the Neapolitan Government; and, if proved to be true, whether he has taken any steps to obtain the Petitioner redress?
§ LORD JOHN RUSSELLsaid, he had been informed by Lord Malmesbury that the Petitioner, though naturalized in England, was a born subject of the King of Naples; in accordance, therefore, with the usual custom in such cases, the answer to the Petition was, that nothing could be done to take the case out of the jurisdiction of the Neapolitan tribunals. He had not made any further inquiries into the allegations of the Petition.