and whether, about the same time, a Royal decree appointing General Garibaldi Inspector-in-Chief of the National Guard of the Kingdom had been determined upon, and was on the point of being signed by the King; and, further, whether, under these circumstances, Sir James Hudson, Her Majesty's Ambassador at Turin, under instructions from the Government at home, and in conjunction with the French Ambassador, or otherwise, on the 2nd day of January, or on any other occasion, protested to the King against such measures, which His Majesty was supposed, of his own free will, to be about to adopt, stating, in the name of Her Majesty's Government, that the good offices of Great Britain, in the present Crisis of Italian Affairs, would be withdrawn if such proposed measures were persisted in?

But I entirely concur with the noble Marquess in the feeling that, whatever differences of opinion there may be among your Lordships—whatever differences of opinion there may be either in or out of this House—as to the policy he pursued, there can be but one opinion that at the present moment, and at the present Crisis of Italian Affairs, his death must be regarded as a great calamity.