Mr. Broughamsaid, he had been informed, that in the discussion which had taken place last night respecting the Cape of Good Hope, a question had arisen as to the course which he intended to pursue with regard to a petition which he had formerly presented, complaining of the misconduct of the governor of that colony. That petition he had presented two sessions ago, on behalf of Mr. Bishop Burnett; and he understood it was now said, that the report of the commissioners had dealt with the subject matter of that petition, and completely exhausted it. He had not read that report with any great attention; 321 but in the cursory perusal he had given it, he did not find that it referred at all to those parts of the petition to which his notice had been more particularly called. In presenting that petition, he had said, that there were some matters stated in it of so extraordinary a nature, that he could not believe them to be facts; but that if they were facts, it was impossible for the House not to take the earliest opportunity of investigating them most rigorously. The matters to which he referred did not form what was more particularly called the case of Mr. Bishop Burnett. That individual had brought forward, in his petition, collateral charges against lord Charles Somerset, of far greater importance than those which formed the substance of his own case, and to those charges his own attention had been forcibly attracted. The report of the commissioners might have thrown light on those accusations; but if it had not, there was a strong necessity that an ample investigation of them should be instituted. He had understood that lord Charles was coming home, and indeed had arrived, to meet the charges preferred against him. He was glad to hear that fact, because the case of Bishop Burnett was much subordinate to the charges which his petition opened against the noble lord. He would take the earliest opportunity of examining the report more accurately than his avocations had hitherto enabled him to do. The charges to which he alluded, might not be noticed in the first report of the commissioners, which was already on the table of the House; and yet might be made subject of inquiry in their second report, which would be forthcoming immediately. If they were not noticed in either one or the other—if they did not meet with a satisfactory refutation from the noble lord whose conduct was so strongly implicated by them—he should think it still necessary for the House to institute a rigorous inquiry into their truth or falsehood.