§ Lord Erskinerose to make the motion of which he had given notice, for accurate returns of the number of officers and men belonging to the infantry, the cavalry, and the artillery, who had been embarked at different ports of this country and Ireland, for Spain and Portugal. He also wished to have an account delivered in of the expenditure, under the different heads, of money, arms, clothing, &c. which had been sent at different times to the Spanish patriots. Also an account of the horses, wagon train, &c. He likewise wished to have a return made, of the men, horses, artillery, &c. that had been relanded not in a disabled state, from the different ports of Spain. As the noble lord understood there would be no objection to the returns he called for, he should merely trouble the house with moving for them. The noble lord then proceeded to move, "That an humble address be presented to his majesty, praying that his majesty would be graciously pleased to give directions that these different returns be laid before the house."
The Earl of Liverpoolhad no objection to the motions of the noble lord. He only wished him to bear in mind, that accurate returns, such as the noble lord has called for, could not be immediately forthcoming. It must be some time before the different regimental returns could be regularly made; and he only rose to state, that whatever delay might occur, should not be imputed to any unwillingness fully to meet the object of the noble lord's motion.
§ The question was then put on each of the motions, which were agreed to.