§ LORD JOHN RUSSELLI wish, Sir, to ask a question respecting a matter of 1801 very considerable importance which has appeared several times on the Notice Paper. I mean the Motion with reference to the Cagliari, and the conduct of this country towards Sardinia. As the question is one which affects the honour and character of this country, I think the discussion upon it should not be long postponed. At the same time I feel that it would be unreasonable to ask the Government to give up at present any of the days which are devoted to Government orders. But it appears to me that on Tuesday next no notices are given of very urgent business; and, therefore, seeing that my hon. Friend the Member for Middlesex (Mr. Byng) has the first notice on that day, I venture to request him to postpone that notice, should the House agree then to consider the Motion of the hon. Member for Bridgewater (Mr. Kinglake) respecting the Cagliari.
§ MR. BYNGsaid, he would beg to state in reply to the suggestion of the noble Lord, that he should have much pleasure in postponing the Motion which stood upon the paper in his name for Tuesday next, in order that the important subject to which the noble Lord had referred might be brought under the notice of the House, he must, however, remind the noble Lord that he should feel it to be his duty to take that course only in case the hon. Member for Cork and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the University of Oxford, in whose name notices for the day in question stood upon the paper, should also consent to give way upon that occasion.