Lords Sitting of 9 May 1806

MINUTES
On the return of their lordships from the High Court of Parliament, an order was made that they should proceed again on the trial of lord Melville to-morrow.—Lord Walsingham made a report from the Committee of Privileges, on the Roos Peerage. The report stated, that the Duke of Rutland had no title to the barony claimed by the co-heirs of Robert de Roos; and that the said barony was in abeyance, between the earl of Essex, the lady of lord Henry Fitzgerald, and sir H. Hunloke, bart—The house resolved itself into a committee on the Slave Trade bill; and the same was reported, and ordered to be read a third time on Tuesday.