§ LOUD WILLIAM GRAHAMsaid, he begged to ask the hon. Under-Secretary for War whether the officers animadverted on in the Crimean Report had sent in any further explanations on the subject to the Government, or the authorities at the Horse Guards; and if not, whether the Government intended to call for any?
§ MR. FREDERICK PEELsaid, he thought he might call on the noble Lord to state who were the officers he considered animadverted upon in the Report. Some of the officers who might be considered to have been animadverted upon were in the Crimea, and had had no opportunity of seeing the Report, still less of volunteering any statement in their own vindication, if they desired to do so. Others had been relieved from the offices they held at the time, and were no longer in the employment of the Government. He presumed that the Quartermaster-General at the Horse Guards was the principal person alluded to. It was not necessary to call for any explanation of the conduct of that officer, because, feeling that the Report reflected upon his administration under Lord Raglan, he had announced his intention to make a statement in vindication of his conduct. He was also informed that Lord Lucan had made a statement remonstrating against the manner in which he had been alluded to in the Report.