§ Sir C. Napierwished to ask the hon. Gentleman the Secretary of the Treasury whether two letters, which had appeared in one of the public papers, in reference to Maynooth, were genuine or not? If the House would permit him, he would read them. They ran as follows:—
§ (No. 1.)
§ "MR. YOUNG, M.P., TO CAPTAIN MEYNELL, M.P.
§ "Dear Meynell — Pray come up. Peel wants every Tory vote. If we havn't a majority of our own on the second reading, it will be as much as my place is worth. D—n Lisburne. Fitzroy votes; Pringle cuts; and old Forbes Mackenzie, who has been vapouring at the Carlton that he should vote—perhaps against, certainly not for us—has just been with me to say that he had been thinking 1243 a great deal on the subject, and should vote with us. He pretended he didn't know that Pringle had resigned. Oh yes! Kelly is going to rat too. I hope he won't be sold. For God's sake come up and vote.
§ "Yours ever,
§ "Treasury, Wednesday.
§ "J. YOUNG."
§ (No. 2.)
§ "CAPTAIN MEYNELL, M.P., TO MR. YOUNG, M.P.
§ "Dear Young—Peel and all of you may be d—d before I come up to vote for Maynooth. Because Fitzroy, and Mackenzie, and Kelly are rogues, that is no reason why I should be.
§ "Yours ever,
§ "Windsor, Thursday.
§ H. MEYNELL."
§ He would like to know whether these letters were genuine?
§ [No answer, but much laughter, was vouchsafed to this question. The letters, it was understood, were fabrications.]