§ MR. URQUHARTinquired when the papers relative to the presence of Admiral Parker in the Bay of Naples would be ready?
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONsaid, he had been asked on a previous occasion whether he had any objection to produce the correspondence which led to the appearance of Admiral Parker's fleet in the Bay of Naples last July? He should like to know with what view the hon. Member asked 169 the question. Would he state if there was any fair point he wanted to establish? If he merely wanted to establish the fact, ay or no, of the arrival of Admiral Parker's fleet in the bay, he (Viscount Palmerston) would have no objection to give short extracts of a despatch from Admiral Parker, showing that fact; but if he wished for the whole of the correspondence between Lord Napier and Admiral Parker in detail, it was, he feared, so much mixed up with the general correspondence on Sicilian affairs, that he must ask the House to allow the papers to be printed and presented all together; and no great time could elapse before he would present them.
§ MR. URQUHARTexplained that the object he had in view was to get at the real facts of the case, not only with respect to the mode of communication between Admiral Parker and the Neapolitan Government, but as to the cause of the presence of the British fleet in the Bay of Naples in last July.
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONreplied, that he would lay on the table of the House extracts such as he had stated, showing the grounds on which Admiral Parker arrived in the Bay of Naples; and he thought that probably he should be able to produce an extract of another despatch, in which Admiral Parker stated that the negotiations had been satisfactorily concluded. [Mr. URQUHART: How soon?] In a very few days.
§ Subject at an end.