§ COLONEL FORESTERappeared at the Bar, and read the following Reply to the Address moved for [28th June] praying an inquiry into that establishment:—
"I have received your Address, praying that a Royal Commission may be appointed to inquire into the system upon which the Books and Stock have been respectively kept at Weedon, as well as the general mode in which the business of the Establishment at Weedon has been conducted, the result of such mode of conducting the business, and the state of the Books and Stock of Stores.
"And having taken your Address into consideration, I have directed that a Commission shall issue for the purposes which you have requested."