HC Deb 24 July 1850 vol 113 c185
COLONEL SALWEY

said, it was not without great reluctance that he rose to postpone the Motion for a Select Committee to inquire into the case and claims of the Military Knights of Windsor till the next Session of Parliament. He had waited long and anxiously, week after week, and night after night, in the earnest hope and expectation that he should have an opportunity of introducing this subject to the House; but his intentions had been frustrated by those events and adverse circuit) stances over which an independent Member of that House had no control. It must be obvious to every hon. Member, that were he to move for a Select Committee at this late period of the Session, the Committee would no sooner be nominated than Parliament would be prorogued. Under these circumstances ho thought that he should best consult the interests of the Military Knights by postponing the notice till the next Session. The question was one deeply affecting the interests of every man, of every rank, and every grade in the; British Army—deeply affecting the interests of the taxpayers of this country, and of vital importance to those meritorious, gallant, and aged soldiers, who had spent their youth, wasted their health, and shed their best blood in the service of their country. He pledged himself to bring forward the whole of this case at the earliest possible period of the next Session, and could only reiterate his regret that the adverse circumstances to which he had before referred, should have precluded him from carrying his intentions into effect.