§ Mr. Redingtonbrought up the report of the committee on the Sudbury election, as follows:—
That Frederick Villiers and David Octerlony Dyce Sombre, esquires, were not duly elected Burgesses to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of Sudbury:ߞThat the last Election for the Borough of Sudbury was a void Election:And the said Determinations were ordered to be entered in the Journals of this House.House further informed,—That the Committee had agreed to the following Resolutions;Resolved,—That Frederick Villiers and David Octerlony Dyce Sombre, esquires, were, by their agents, guilty of Bribery at the last Election for the Borough of Sudbury;Resolved,—That the Committee are of opinion, from the Evidence given before them, that gross, systematic, and extensive Bribery prevailed at the last Election for the Borough of Sudbury; and they also consider it their duty to express to the House their unanimous opinion that the Borough of Sudbury should be disfranchised, and that a new Writ ought not to be issued for the said Borough.
§ Report to lie on the Table.
§ Mr. Redingtonthen moved, and on his motion it was ordered,
That the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Committee, and of the Evidence taken before the Committee, be laid before this House, and that Mr. Speaker do not issue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a New Writ for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of Sudbury, before Saturday the 7th day of May next.