§ MR. ADDERLEYwished to ask the hon. Under Secretary for the Colonies if he had any objections to lay upon the table certain communications, alluded to by Earl Grey in another place, as having been lately received from the Governor of the Capo of Good Hope, intimating that the announcement of the intention of the Colonial Office to send convicts to that settlement had excited very general dissatisfaction amongst the colonists? Also, to what part of the settlement convicts were to be sent, and whether there was to be any further restraint than is supposed to exist in a ticket of leave?
§ MR. HAWESsaid, that no despatches had been received from the Governor at the Cape in answer to the instructions regard- 636 ing the convicts; but he understood that the object of this Motion had already been embraced by a previous Motion of the noble Viscount the Member for Hertford.
§ MR. ADDERLEYsaid, that Earl Grey had stated most distinctly, in another place, the other day, that the Governor of the Cape had intimated to him that very general dissatisfaction had been expressed in that settlement with reference to the intention of sending convicts out there.
§ MR. HAWESrepeated that he was not aware to what the hon. Member alluded, unless it was to something that had appeared in the newspapers. But the Government had received nothing officially in answer to the noble Lord's (Earl Grey's) despatch, and he (Mr. Hawes) therefore had nothing to lay before the House. When any answer was received, it should, however, be laid before Parliament.