§ SIR CHARLES NAPIER, on behalf of Sir Joseph Paxton, asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether there is any objection to the production of the letter addressed by the hon. Member for Tynemouth to Lord Hardwicke, stating his reasons for declining to sign the Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the best mode of Manning the Navy?
§ MR. WALPOLEsaid, he had no objection to the publication of the letter referred to as soon as he had it before him. The facts of the case were these:—The Report was presented to him on Saturday last, and with the leave of Her Majesty, he had laid it before the House. The Appendix contained a letter of the hon. Member for Tynemouth (Mr. W. S. Lindsay) to Lord Hardwicke, and was not yet in his hands. The moment he received it he would lay it upon the table. He regretted that the Appendix and the Report were net published together. His reason for laying the Report before the House without the Appendix was because he thought it was the wish of the House to have that Report in their hands before the Naval Estimates came under their consideration.