HC Deb 12 June 1846 vol 87 c376
MR. F. MAULE

referred to what he had said on Wednesday last, and to the mistake that had been committed in some quarters, by supposing that he had placed his noble Friend the Duke of Richmond in the category of those who had refused sites to the Free Church of Scotland. He found that what he really said had been correctly reported in these words: "He next came to the case of the Duke of Richmond; and he would not have referred to the case of his noble Friend, if it had not been for the assertion which had fallen from him in another place, that the Free Church of Scotland had shown a disposition to cavil at the offers made to them of sites; and the noble Duke instanced a case which he (Mr. Maule) believed to be his own." Immediately afterwards he had gone on to state, that, so far from not granting sites, the Duke of Richmond had granted or offered not less than twelve, eleven of which had been accepted, on terms on which he thought parties would hardly like to invest their property; he had added the reason why the twelfth site had been refused. Thus he was far from connecting his noble Friend the Duke of Richmond with those who had refused sites; and he (Mr. F. Maule) should be extremely sorry if, after the noble Duke's conduct to the Free Church, an erroneous impression were to get abroad as to the course he had pursued.