§ Immediately after the Speaker had taken the chair,
The Master of the Rollsrose, and observed, that he regretted much he had not been in the House last night, when, he was given to understand, an hon. member (Mr. Whitbread) had stated that there was a division in the Queen's Council with regard to the state of his Majesty's health; some of the members being of opinion that he was in a state to resume the royal functions, others that he was not. As ho, the Master of the Rolls, had never conceived it possible that such a report could be in circulation, knowing that it had no existence in fact, he could not suppose it likely, that it could find its way into the hon. member's speech, otherwise he should have felt it his duty to be in his place, to give the statement of the hon. member an absolute contradiction. He had only now to declare, that no division in the Queen's Council had ever taken place, either on the supposed question of difference alluded to by the hon. gentleman, or on any other whatever.