Lord Broughamasked if there were any objection to produce copies of correspondence respecting the emigration of labourers from Ireland to the West Indies, and elsewhere? He had been informed, by persons of respectability, lately returned from the West Indies, that considerable abuse prevailed as to the carriage of free labourers from the coast of Africa to the West Indies, as well as other abuses respecting the emigration from Ireland to the same part of the world. How the fact might be, he did not pretend to state, but the correspondence, if produced, would show it. Of one thing he was quite sure—that the House ought to keep a jealous watch over this species of emigration, because it was so liable to abuse.
The Marquess of Normanbywished the noble and learned Lord to give notice of his motion, and in the mean time inquiries should be made.
§ Notice accordingly.