§ Sir C. Lemonreported from the Cambridge election committee,
That the Hon. J. E. T. Manners Sutton is not duly elected a burgess to serve in the present Parliament for the borough of Cambridge; that the last election of a burgess to serve in Parliament for the said borough is a void election; that the petition of Ebenezer Foster and others did not appear to this committee to be frivolous or vexatious; that the opposition to the said petition did not appear to the committee to be frivolous or vexatious.The hon. Member said he was further instructed to report that the committee had also agreed to the following resolutions:—That the Hon. J. E. T. Manners Sutton was, by his agents, guilty of bribery and treating at the last election for the borough of Cambridge; that it appears from the evidence taken before the committee that an extensive and corrupt system of treating prevailed on the part of many influential members of the constituency at the last election for the borough of Cambridge.
§ Report to be entered on the journals, and the evidence to be printed.