HC Deb 10 February 1806 vol 6 c158
Sir Jacob Astley

presented a petition from the debtors in the county jail of Norfolk, praying for relief. Ordered to lie on the table.—Mr. Corry brought up the report of the committee appointed to try the merits of the petition relative to the Middlesex election. The report was, that the committee had decided that 'Sir Francis Burdett was not duly elected, and that George Boulton Mainwaring was duly elected. He therefore moved, that the return should be amended, by erasing the name of sir Francis Burdett, and inserting that of G. Boulton Mainwaring. Ordered.—A new writ was directed to be issued for the election of a burgess to serve in parliament for the borough of Newark upon Trent, in the room of sir Charles Maurice Pole, who had accepted the place of one of the commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral.—On the motion of Mr. Creevey, a new writ was directed to be issued for the election of a knight of, the shire for the county of Surrey, in the room of lord William Russell, who had accepted the place of one of the commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral.—A new writ was ordered to be issued for the election of a member for Tavistock, in the room of lord Robert Spencer, who had accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.— A new writ was ordered to be issued for the election of a member to serve for Ryegate in the room of the hon. John Somers Cocks, now lord Somers, called to the house of peers.—A person from the Bank presented an account of the unclaimed dividends due on the 10th of Oct. 1802, and unpaid on the 23d March, 1805.—Mr. Vansittart moved, "That there be laid before this house, an account of the net produce of all the permanent taxes and of the war taxes in Great Britain for the years ending the 5th of Jan. 1805, and the 5th of Jan. 1806, respectively, distinguishing each quarter.