IPSWICH ELECTION. (Hansard, 25 April 1842)

§ Mr. Pakington

reported to the House from the Ipswich Election Committee, that the committee had determined, That Rigby Wason, Esq., and George Rennie, Esq., were not duly elected Burgesses to represent the Borough of Ipswich in the present Parliament: That the last Election for the Borough of Ipswich was a void Election. And the said Determinations were ordered to be entered in the Journals of this House. House also informed, that the Committee had unanimously come to the following Resolutions: That Rigby Wason, Esq., and George Rennie, Esq., were, by their agents, guilty of bribery at the last Election for the Borough of Ipswich: That this Committee are of opinion, from the evidence given before them, that extensive bribery prevailed at the last Election for the Borough of Ipswich, and that the issuing of a new Writ for the said Borough ought to be suspended until the said evidence shall have been taken into consideration by the House: That the Chairman be requested to move, That this Report, together with the Evidence taken before this Committee, be printed, and that the Speaker do not issue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ for the electing of two Burgesses to serve in the present Parliament for the said Borough of Ipswich, until the said Evidence shall have been printed and submitted to the House.