Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; you had discovered that the Foreign Office, by inadvertently failing to place before you a full report, had allowed to be bought in a public despatch, an unfounded insinuation against the care and accuracy of our Ambassador at Rome in his official statements concerning how the Attachés to our mission in Italy could best become Italian; had rejected the opinion and recommendations of that Ambassador and of the Staff of the Embassy; had ignored the Civil Service Commission in England, and their constituted Board of Examiners; and had released the decision of the accuracy of the Ambassador's assertions, founded on the authority of learned Italian scholars, and a Missionary of discredited German ex- antecedents and character, and Ansare who had exposed himself to the just and severe criticism of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who was, moreover, wholly ignorant of the Italian language (properly so called).