LORD BROUGHAMMy Lords, I am sorry to have to address your Lordships on such a subject, but I have give notice to the party on whose conduct I am now about to make some comments, and he refuses to comply with the orders of the House. I believe that it is well known to your Lordships that no one has any right in the gallery of the Peeresses, save Peeresses, and unmarried daughters of Peers, and that any nobleman or gentleman being there infringes on the rules of the House. There is one gentleman (the Chevalier Bunsen) there now, and he has no right to be there. If he does not come down, I must move that he is infringing the rules of your Lordships' House. [After a pause, his Lordship continued] Besides, that gentleman has a place assigned to him in the House itself, and by his presence in the gallery he is excluding two Peeresses. I now move that the Standing Orders he enforced by your Lordships' officers Let it not be supposed that I am doing this discourteously. I have given that gentleman ample notice that if 1293 he did not come out, I would address the House upon the subject.
[The Report of the Select Committee relative to the appropriation of the galleries on either side of the House to Peeresses, and the unmarried daughters of Peers, and foreign ladies of distinction, having been read, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod was ordered to carry the same into effect.]