Lords Sitting of 14 March 1804

Preamble
Counsel were heard in continuation relative to the Scotch appeal, the Duke of Queensberry. v. M'Murdo, namely, Mr. Attorney General, as leading counsel for the respondent, at considerable length, after which their lordships adjourned the farther hearing of the case till this day se'nnight.—The bills before the House were forwarded in their several stages.—Mr. Alcock, from the treasury, presented an account of the monies issued by the treasury, for the service of the year 1803, with a statement of the disposition thereof.—When the accounts were laid on the table, the Earl of Suffolk observed, that he should have to call their lordships' attention to certain parts of them; perhaps to some parts connected with the military branch; but certainly to the expenditure of the barrack department, which he conceived to be enormous. There were already, he believed, expended on these buildings more than two millions of money, and before the erections, now carrying on, were compleated, an additional million must be expended. He should think it his duty to call the attention of the House to this part of the accounts before them, and in order to enable him to do that the more effectually, he moved that the accounts in question be printed. No objection being made to this proposal, it was ordered accordingly.—Adjourned.