§ MR. SEELYsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, with reference to the extracts which he read on; the 2nd and 13th instant, If he will lay 1714 upon the Table of the House Copies in full of the Reports and Letters of Captain Macdonald, Captain Vansittart, Admiral Ryder, and one of the Officers of the Ocean, Captain Chamberlain, of Admiral Warden, Admiral Yelverton, Captain Foley, Captain Hood, Captain King Hall, and Captain Willes, relating to Turret and Broadside-ships, with the Letters (if any) proceeding from any officer in the Admiralty to which any of these Reports and Letters were replies?
LORD HENRY LENNOXsaid, in reply, that he had received a letter from the right hon. Gentleman the First Lord of the Admiralty to the effect that there would be no objection on his part to lay upon the table of the House the documents to which the hon. Member referred. Some of those documents were written under the supposition that they would not be published, and contained matters of a personal nature; but the hon. Member might feel assured that nothing material to the subject would be omitted.