HL Deb 04 April 1805 vol 4 cc190-1

Counsel were farther heard relative to the Scots Appeal, Cathcart, bart v. the earl of Cassilis, viz. Mr. Adam, in continuation, as leading counsel for the respondent. On the motion of the earl of Suffolk, lord viscount Melville's letter to the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry was ordered to be laid before the house.— The bills upon the table were forwarded in their respective stages.— On the second reading of Bowyer's Lottery bill, Lord Ellenborough made a few observations though he was by no means favourable to the general principle of lotteries; yet, under the circumstances of the case, the present bill was one which might, without much risk of injurious consequences, be assented to by their lordships.— After some remarks from lord Walsingham, of a tendency favourable to the measure, the bill was read a second time, and ordered to be referred to the consideration of a committee.—Lord Grenville moved that their lordships be summoned for the 10th of May, on which day, he said, it was his intention to offer a motion relative to the Roman Catholics of Ireland. Lord Auckland expressed his opinion, that on a topic of such peculiar importance, as that adverted to by the noble barou, some idea should be given as to the nature of the intended motion. Lord Grenville, in reply, observed he had no objection unreservedly to state, that at present, his intention was to move on that day for a committee to take the petition into consideration.— Lord Auckland announced his intention to bring forward some farther propositions, in reference to the pending case of Mr. Justice Fox, and moved, that their lordships be summoned on the occasion, but on what day we were unable to collect. The order for the exclusion of strangers was then enforced, and the door closed for about twenty minutes. In the interval, as we could collect, their lordships were engaged in their judicial capacity, in investigating the circumstances of a case of a personal, and very particular nature, viz. some very gross and flagrant misconduct of the coachman of a noble peer on Monday night last, to one or two of the officers and inferior servants of the house; two of the marshalmen, and some of the persons alluded to were shortly interrogated upon the subject, and the result was, that proper persons were dispatched to take the delinquent into custody for the purpose of his being brought to the bar of the house.