Star.
London, England, 1807-02-12 00:00:00

NORFOLK ELECIION COMMIi7EE.

r‘w the tin fall days the Comtnittee have Been
employed in hearing evidence on the charge of Treat
ing alledged againft Mr. Coke and Mr. Windham.
There were, it appea-ed, thirty-fix public !mules in
the town of Norwich opened in the interelt of thefe
two Candidates. In each of there, for the whole
eight days of the contell, the Eleaors for ,the fuc-
cefsful Candidates were entertained, or, as one of the
witnelles, who was a Check, appointed by Mcffrc.
Coke and Windham exprefred it. enjoyed themfelves,
ty partoling of every thing good in this life. There. fe-
males belonging to, or ;ntroduced by the Free-
holders, were alto occaftonally regaled, and partici
pattd in the enjoyments to fuch an extent as ren-
dered it nece(fary for this Cheek to fet bounds to
their demands, tell they ()mold be overcome by the
goodnefs of their cheer, which he confelled was the
cafe with more than one of them ; nay, as ho hu-
mortufly exprelred it, ,4 his head did not contain an
almanack capable of craft!), fpecifying the number
who aftually were in this fituation."

After the Mailers and the Checks, placed by
Meffis Windham and Coke in two or three of the
houfes alluded to, had been examined,
Mr. Serjeant LENS, Counfel for the Sitting Mem
hers, fuggelled to the Counfel for the Petitioners the
propriety of cutting (hurt the proof on this head, as
it mull neceftarily be the fame in every one inllance,
a fall which he was perfeCtly ready to admit.
Mr. PLUMFR, for the Petitioner, could by no
mein. content to this. He felt every due regard
for the time of the Cou mittee, for the expence it
mull- he to his Client, and he felt no lefs for his own
reputation, which taught him not to protraft the
cafe unneceffarily. When he refl :Clad, however, on
the magnitude of the caufe which his Client had at
!lake; that an admiffion had by no means fo great
an
.effect as a fucceeding train of corroborative
proof ; and, moreover, that the witneffes whom
he had to examine, were every thing but willing
witneffes, petfons from whom he could expeCt to get
the truth only on their oaths ; of which he had had
a fufficient example in the facetious Gentleman lately
before the Committee, from whom he had collecleu
a great deal more than he had been led to expeEt—
he muff be allowed to judge for himfelf, and to de-
cline fhortening the proof farther than the intereil of
his client, joined to that refpeet which he mutt be
fuppofed to entertain for the Committee, might feem
to demand. The proof was accordingly proceeded in.

The following is a lift of the Members of the Com-
mittee to ENamir.e and Controul the feveral Branches
of the Public Expenditure .

Lord H. Petty

Mr. Brogden Mr. W. Herhert

Sir H. Mildmay Mr. Fayilea Mr. Biddulph
Mr. Homer Mr. N. Calvert Mr. Giles

Mr. Sharp Lord Martham Mr. W. Cavendith
Mr Lamb Mr. Banks Mr. T. !az*. g
Mr. H. Thornton Mr. S. Bourne Mr. Watern

Lord A. Hamilton Mr. Whitbread Mr. Ald. Combe

Lord Mahon

The following is a copy of the order under which
they aft:
Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to ex-
amine and confider what Regulations and Checks
have been eflablifted in order to contronl the feveral
branches of the Public Expenditure in Great Britain
and Ireland, arid how far the fame have been effec-
tual, and what further meafures can be adopted for
reducing any parts of the laid Expenditure, or di-
minithing the amount of Salaries and Emoluments
without detriment to the Public Service.
They are anthorized to fend for Perfons, Papers
and Records—to report Obfervations and Opinions.
Five are to be a prum ; and they are to tit not-
withflanding an adjournment.

A French Journal, printed at Rouen, in Norman
dy, la(1 month, and which one of our correfpondents
has feen, contains the following fingular paragraph :
" Le fucci'. de la Revolution Francaife a tue l'Orateur Burke;
la hattaille d'Aufterlitz a donne le cnupe•dc•grace a Pitt; et Fox
eft mort de joie de fe voir en place."—.-The Need; of the French
Revolution killed Burke, the orator; the battle of Auflerlitz
honed Pitt; and Fox died tbreme is, on feeing himfclf in place.
Two Stewarts fought at Halidon (in 1333) under
the banners of their Chief ; the one Allan of Dreg-
hor n, the paternal anceflor of Charles I. and the other
James of Roaryth, the maternal anceitor of Oliver
Cromwell.

In 1249, Hugh de Chatillon Count of St. Paul,
had a lArge fhip of war built at Invernefs.
In Scotland 1314, five fhillings was fuppofed to be
the value of a cow, and fix fhillings and eight.pence
the value of an ox.

POLITENESS OF THE WELSH COURTS Eits.—The
Welfh made a law that none of the Courtiers Amid
give the (teen a blow, or !notch any thing violently
cut cf her bands, on pain of fo:feiting her Majefly's
rroreflion.

In the parifh rf Newmarket lives a poor widow ;
the houfe in which the reticles conlifts of two tene-
ments ; the perfon who occupies the other part has
a vine, one branch of which fpreads to the tene-
ment of the widow, and fhe enjoys the frv't of that
branch for keeping it in proper pruning, &c. &c.—
It fo happened one day, that her neighbour di-
rated a gardener to prune his branch, and the
widow obferving that, requelted the gardener to
prune het's alfo. At the end of a few months,
this poor widow was furnifhed with a furcharge
fur employing a gardner. When the day of appeal
arrived, fhe had to travel nine miles at confider.
able trouble and expence. On her arrival, af.
ter informing the Commiffioners of the fad, the
withdrew with the gracinus confent of thole Conn-
miffioners to difmifs the furcharge ; the tax for keep.
ing a gardener was however confirmed.

Monday fe'nnight, Mr. EYTOW, of the Wire mills,
near Wrexham, undertook,for a wager of 4o guinea!,
to walk ten miles upon the Liverpool road, in two
hours, which he performed with great cafe in one
hour and three quarters, although it fnowed fo fe-
vete!), as to render the road uncommonly flippery
for the &ft two miles.

EIGHTH DAY OF DRAWING.—Nn. 8,'16} a Prize
of Fittellhoufand Pounds, in One Half, One Quar-
ter, One Eighth. and Twn Sixteenths—Nn. 44.
5001. in Sixteen Sixteenths—Nn. 1350, 5001. in Two
Quarters, One Eighth, an Six Sixteenths were
fluted by posmsar and Cn. 26, Cnrnhill, 52, Char-
ing Crofs, and St. Margaret's Hill, Borough.