§ The VICE-CHAMBERLAIN OF THE HOUSEHOLD reported Her Majesty's Answer to the Address, as follows:
§ I have received your humble Address praying that I will refer to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, for hearing and consideration, the question of law, whether the House of Commons would be acting contrary to the Parliamentary Privilege Act, 1770, if it treated the issue of a Writ against a Member of Parliament in respect of a Speech or Proceeding by him in Parliament, as a breach of its privileges, in order that the said Judicial Committee may, after hearing argument on both sides (if necessary), advise me thereon: and further praying that I will, upon receiving the advice of the said Judicial Committee, be pleased to communicate such advice to the House of Commons, in order that the House may take such action as seems to it proper in the circumstances.
§ I shall give directions accordingly.