§ THE EARL OF CLANWILLIAMsaid, he also wished to ask the noble Earl the First Lord of the Admiralty a Question, of which he had given him private Notice. It was, Whether he has received despatches with reference to the bombardment of Alexandria from Sir Beauchamp Seymour; and, whether his attention has been called to a paragraph in the "Standard" newspaper, which states that the noble Earl has expressed his sense of the services rendered by the "Condor," under Lord Charles Beresford, and that he will receive some special mark of recognition for those services? I wish to ask if the noble Lord can give us any information on the subject?
§ THE EARL OF NORTHBROOKMy Lords, the Admiralty have received from Sir Beauchamp Seymour to-day a despatch giving a preliminary report of the proceedings of Her Majesty's Fleet at 1053 Alexandria on the 11th. That despatch will be published in The Gazette in the customary manner. It does not enter into the services rendered by the Condor, and only mentions by name one officer, Captain Hunt-Grubbe, who was the senior officer in command of the ships engaged with the Northern forts. There is not the slightest foundation for the paragraph which my noble and gallant Friend has read from The Standard newspaper of this morning as to the recognition of the services of the gunboat Condor, under the command of Lord Charles Beresford, for this simple reason, that no despatches have yet been received from Sir Beauchamp Seymour as to the particular services of Commander Lord Charles Beresford, or of the other officers who, equally with him, were engaged in the attack on the forts at Alexandria.