HL Deb 08 May 1805 vol 4 c634

The committee of privileges appointed to search for precedents relative to the message from the house of commons respecting lord Melville, sat from two o'clock till five, during which time no strangers were admitted.—Prayers were then read, after which the lord chancellor presented a petition frond the university of Oxford, praying that the restrictions on the Catholics might not be repealed, which was ordered to lie on the table.—The lord chancellor notified his intention of coming forward on an early day next week, with a motion for having some record or entry made on the journals, of the principle upon which the proceedings that hitherto obtained in the case of Mr. Justice Fox proceeded; or, at least, as far as such principles were understood by some of their lordships. He was apparently about to move for a summons in reference to his contingent intention for Monday, but was informed, that a summons already stood for that day.