§ LORD EMLYasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether there was any truth in the intelligence contained in a telegram which had been published in some of the newspapers, and which stated that the President of the United States had despatched a Secret Mission from America to this country, with instructions to draw up a Report on the condition of Ireland?
§ EARL GRANVILLEMy Lords, Her Majesty's Government have received no official information of the alleged event to which the telegram refers. The Mission which it speaks of is described as secret, and therefore the Government would not be bound to know of it. I have, however, a very good reason for saying that there is no foundation for the rumour to which the telegram gives publicity.