§ MR. SYNANasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If his attention has been called to the publication in the newspapers of a complaint made to Mr. Jervoise by certain British subjects in Rome (including a D.D. and Vice-regal Chaplain in Ireland, and a M.A. of Oxford), that they were subjected to "inconvenience, insult, and danger" in the church of the "Gesù" on the 10th March, and of the conduct of the Royal Commissary and some Italian soldiers on that occasion; whether that complaint is well founded; and, whether any communication has been received from Mr. Jervoise on the subject; and, if so, whether any and what steps have been taken in reference thereto?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELD, in reply, said, a statement in writing of the circumstances which occurred on the 10th of March at the church of the Gesù, at Rome, was made to Mr. Jervoise by the English gentlemen who were present, and a despatch calling Lord Granville's attention to this statement has been received from Mr. Jervoise. He further states that several arrests have been 172 made, and that he will report the result of any proceedings that may be taken. The English visitors, on appealing to the Delegate of the Questura for protection, were escorted by him and a file of soldiers as far as the Via Cesareni, when he saluted and left them. The attack does not seem to have been directed especially against British subjects, but they appear to have been in a crowded church, and suffered only in common with other persons in the crowd during these disturbances.