HC Deb 05 May 1873 vol 215 cc1489-90
MR. MATTHEWS

asked the Ender Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Italian Government has instituted any inquiry into the unprovoked attack made in the streets of Rome, on the 30th March last, on Mr. Vansittart, a British subject, or commenced any proceedings against the aggressors; and, whether he has any objection to lay upon the Table the Correspondence between Mr. Vansittart and other English residents in Rome and Sir Augustus Paget, and the Despatches sent by Sir A. Paget to Her Majesty's Government, on this subject?

VISCOUNT ENFIELD,

in reply, said, Sir Augustus Paget had reported from Rome that an inquiry had been instituted into the circumstances of the late attack upon Mr. Vansittart, a British subject, in the streets of Rome, and that the matter, according to Signor Visconti Venosta, was now under the cognizance of the judicial authorities. If the hon. and learned Member wished to move for the Papers in connection with this affair, there would be no objection to produce them.