§ MR. WYLDsaid, he wished to ask the 1251 Secretary to the Admiralty, Whether any inquiries were made regarding the reported wreck of Her Majesty's Ship Camilla (Commander Colville) in the Japanese waters in September, 1860, and the result of the inquiries?
§ LORD CLARENCE PAGETsaid, the Admiralty had received three reports from Admiral Hope, which left no sort of doubt as to the fate of that unfortunate vessel, All the information they had received upon the subject had been sent to the public journals, in order that every person who was interested in the fate of the ship might be supplied with the earliest possible intelligence upon the subject. That which placed the loss of the Camilla beyond all doubt was the fact that a few days after she had sailed for Yeddo an Indian Government steamer was sent in search of her; the whole of the coast was narrowly examined; the Native princes were requested to state whether they could afford any information with respect to her; and yet all these measures he regretted to say were attended with no success. The first report of Admiral Hope placed the matter, in the opinion of the Admiralty, beyond all doubt. There was a subsequent report that the topmast of a vessel had been seen in that sea, and the Admiralty were disposed to think that it must have been a remnant of the Camilla. Another circumstance which tended to confirm the belief of the loss of that vessel was the fact that a Foreign man of war bad been lost near the same place during the dreadful typhoon which raged along the coast.