§ MR. E. P. BOUVERIEsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for War, Whether the Additional Memorandum presented to Parliament on the 1st of July last, respecting the Mhow Court Martial, is the only further Memorandum which has been sent to the Commander in Chief in India on the subject; whether that Memorandum was signed by the Adjutant General; and, if not, whether a further Memorandum, duly signed by that public Officer, has not also been sent to the Commander in Chief in India, which can be laid upon the table of the House?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON, in reply, said, that after making every inquiry in his power, he had only to repeat the statement he had already made—that no memorandum whatever could be found that at all answered to the description given by the right hon. Gentleman. A great deal of correspondence, some of which was private, had taken place between the Commander in Chief and the military authorities in India, and the right hon. Gentleman would seem, from his repeated questions, to be aware of the existence of some memorandum or letter of the kind. If the right hon. Gentleman would state the date of the letter, and describe more fully its subject, the correspondence could again be examined; and if any such letter should be found, the War Department would then be able to say whether they could lay a copy of it on the table.