MR. CAVENDISH BENTICK (Whitehaven)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, during the last Administration of the late Sir Robert Peel, and subsequently, the British Government was diplomatically represented at the Papal Court of Rome by a functionary, who, although nominally attached to the British Legation of Tuscany, was, in fact, accredited to the Pope of Rome?
§ * SIR J. FERGUSSONAt the time referred to, and subsequently, an Attaché to the British Mission in Tuscany resided at Rome, and was in confidential communication with the Papal Government. But he was not accredited to the Holy See.