| Content Description | Has received the duke's commands; reports that the ratification has arrived in Dover, and they expect the messenger to bring it in a few hours; writes that Mr Hammond has promised to send what is necessary for the proclamation notifying the end of the hostilities; does not think it will be possible for the Council to convene at Windsor before Monday as they do not know when ratifications are to be exchanged.
Mentions that Lord Alvanley has arranged the hearing of the Campbell v. Beckford case to be held next Friday [see Pl C 57/4-5]; Alvanley feels that the parties should be told that if the case is not heard on that day, then he cannot hear it on any other day, nor is it a case that Lord Rosslyn or the Master of the Rolls [Sir William Grant] can hear; mentions the involvement of the Speaker and thinks the case will last two days; writes that if the duke is unable to come, he will ask a third Lord to attend. |