§ MR. MURROUGHsaid, he begged to ask whether any, and what, measures were being taken for the disbandment and return to their own country of the German mercenary legion embodied for the purposes of the late war?
§ MR. FREDERICK PEELreplied, that the German Legion was only one of several corps embodied during the late war which would have to be disbanded now that the war was over. More than one-half the German Legion was in the East, and of course the regiments there would have to wait their turn, in common with the other portions of the British army, before they could be brought home. The troops composing those Foreign Legions were entitled to be sent to their homes on the Continent, or to the Colonies, according as they might elect, and orders had been sent that the men should state where they wished to go.
§ MR. MURROUGHAm I to understand that the men belonging to these legions are entitled to be sent to our Colonies?
§ MR. FREDERICK PEELYes; not as soldiers, but as emigrants.