HL Deb 10 June 1805 vol 5 c239

A message was received from the commons, importing that the house had granted permission to sir John and to sir James Stewart, baronets, to attend their lordships' committee, if the said members thought fit.—A second message was received from the commons, presented by sir John Stewart, including an exposition of the grounds on which the committee of that house (to whom the consideration of the affair of sir Popham was referred) required the attendance of the earl of St. Vincent to be examined before them.—Lord Sidmouth shortly addressed their lordships, relative to the last message from the commons, to the purport, as we could collect, that he was authorised by his noble friend, the earl of St. Vincent, to declare that he was ready and willing to attend the committee of the commons, should their lordships please to permit him.—Lord Walsingham acquainted the house, that a noble marquis (of Abercorn), then absent, intended to submit a motion to their lordships to-morrow, respecting the sitting of the committee of the whole house on the case of Mr. justice Fox.—The bills upon the table were forwarded in their several stages.