§ SIR DE L. EVANSsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary of State for War from what fund the German Legion at the Cape of Good Hope have been paid during the last year the Field Allowances and Full Pay which the Governor of that Colony is stated to have issued to them. He would also beg to ask by what authority the Governor has placed those Troops on Field Allowance at a time when there was no war.
GENERLAL PEELsaid, that he was instructed to say that the Field Pay and Allowances were paid out of the Commissariat Chest, by order of the Governor. But when this order came home his predecessor, Lord Panmure, gave directions that no more Allowances to this force should be paid out of the Imperial Fund; that if they were to be paid it must be out of the Colonial Chest. In that direction he entirely agreed, and the House would observe that there was no sum charged in the Estimates this year for the Cape Corps.