Lords Sitting of 6 May 1805

MINUTES.
—The bishop of Oxford presented a petition from the freeholders of Oxfordshire, praying that the restraints upon the catholics might not be repealed, which was ordered to lie on the table.—Lord Mulgrave reminded their lordships that they stood summoned for to-morrow upon a notice which he gave before the recess, relative to one of their standing orders, that which enabled any peer to move the house into a committee whenever he desired it. The more he had considered that order, the more he was convinced it ought not to remain upon the books of the house; and he should therefore, to-morrow, move to expunge it.—Lord Mulgrave said that a noble friend of his, who had undertaken to bring forward a clause to be added to the University Advowson bill, had not yet been able to complete it; and he, therefore, wished that the further consideration of the bill might be postponed till Wednesday. After a short conversation between the bishop of Oxford, the bishop of St. Asaph, the lord chancellor, and lord Mulgrave, the order for the Committee sitting this day was discharged, and fixed for Wednesday.—Adjourned.