§ Mr. T. Duncombewished to ask a question of the noble Lord, the Secretary for the Home Department, understanding that her Majesty's Ministers had taken strong measures to defeat the resolution which that House had come to the other evening, respecting the theatres in Westminster. He begged to ask whether the noble Lord would have any objection to lay upon the Table of the House the whole of the correspondence which had passed between the Lord Chamberlain and the lessee of Drury lane theatre.
§ Lord John Russellwould, in the first 1319 place, deny that her Majesty's Ministers had taken any strong measures to defeat the resolution of that House—and, with regard to the question of the hon. Member, he had no objection to lay before the House the correspondence which had taken place between the Lord Chamberlain and the lessee of Drury lane theatre.
§ Mr. T. Duncombe. The noble Lord had denied, that any measures had been resorted to by her Majesty's Government to defeat the resolution of that House, but he would prove, that very unprecedented measures had been taken by them for that purpose. He hoped there would be no delay in giving that correspondence, because he believed the honour, and character, and independence, of that house were involved in the course which her Majesty's Ministers had presumed to take. The hon. Member then moved for a copy of any correspondence between Monday last and the present time.
§ Ordered.