§ LORD CHARLES BERESFORD (Marylebone, E.)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether, considering the valuable evidence which Captain Hall, the Director of Naval Intelligence, could give concerning the present organization for war, he will insure that Captain Hall can be called before the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Administration of the Navy, whether he is in command of a ship or not?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON) (Middlesex, Ealing)The Royal Commission must necessarily be the only judges of the evidence they require to fulfil the duties imposed on them; and the Admiralty will be glad to assist them in any way they can by obtaining for them such information. 1791 Whether they call before them the Head of the Naval Intelligence Department is a matter which must entirely be loft to their discretion.