Lords Sitting of 31 January 1806

CONTINENTAL WAR.
Lord Mulgraveobserved, that in reference to what he had stated on a former evening, he should have, by command of his majesty, to lay before the house, on Monday next, some additional papers and documents, relative to the treaties, copies of which he laid on the table last Tuesday. Of these, the prints were ready for delivery. When the additional documents should be before the house, he should have to trouble their lordships with some observations respecting the nature and effect of those treaties, and the reasons for the farther communication of papers to the extent to which they should be laid before the house, and why a farther selection of papers was deemed unnecessary. He hoped what he then said would be sufficient to induce a
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full attendance of their lordships, for the consideration of what he should submit.—After some routine business was transacted, the noble lord again rose, and stated, that on further consideration, he thought it would be proper, in order to insure a full attendance for the discussion of a subject of such public magnitude and importance, to have their lordships summoned; and, as Tuesday next would most probably be the day on which he should have to submit the considerations to which he alluded, he should move, that the lords be summoned for Tuesday next: this, on the question being put, was ordered accordingly.