§ CAPTAIN ARCHDALL,who had previously presented a petition from Captain Wood, late paymaster of the depot battalion at Winchester, complaining that he had been called upon, with the assistance of only one clerk, to discharge duties, in the performance of which two paymasters and seven clerks had afterwards been engaged, and had thus been compelled to resign, thereby losing his chance of an additional pension of 2s. a day said, he would now beg to move for the production of copies of the correspondence which had taken place between Captain Wood and the War Department from the date of his appointment to the present time.
Motion made, and Question proposed—
That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, That She will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this House, Copies of all Correspondence which has taken place between Captain Wood, late Paymaster of the Depot Battalion at Winchester, and the War Department, from the date of his appointment to that situation to the present time.''
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONsaid, that the Order if made would, owing to the dissolution of Parliament, be of no value.
§ Motion, by leave, withdrawn.