Star.
London, England, 1803-03-29 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. KIVA /TOW POwILL reported front the Coftimittee ap-
pointed, by ballot, to try the merits of the coutelted Eleatic°
for Chippenbiun, that Charles Br.gik, Efq. wa. not duly elected ;
and that John Maitland, Efq ought to have been returned. -
The Bill for eftabllOslng a Theatre In the City of Glafgow
was read a Brit time, and ordered to be read a fecond time.

The further confideration of the report relative to the Wool-
len Manufadturers was poftponed to Friday.
The Greenland Flfhery Bill was read a third time and paired.
Tbe Roman Catholic Oath Bill was read a fecund time, and
ordered to be committed to-morrow.
TO Loan Marna of London poflponed, until after the
reeefs, his intended motion relative to Supping and tonnage.
The CRAPICELLOR of the Exciegyaa faid, he rote purfuant
to a notice he had given, to move that a Cadmium be appoint-
ed to enquire Into the expenditure of the United Kingdom, and
the amount of the lams contributed by Great Britain and Ire.
land refpefftively, from January ant to January 803.--The
motion was agreed to.
The SECRETARY at WAR obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
increafe the rates of fubfiftanee to Innlikpers, ate. for foldiers
quartered upon them.
The Report of the kith Militia Bill was put off to this day
fortnight.
A pence from the Inds Treafury Office prefented an account
of the ordinary revenues and extraordinary Tektite= of Ireland
for the kit year.
Mr p prefented Accounts of the Balance and Ar-
ran in the bands of the Commithoners of Cufloms of England
for the fame period, as far as they can be made up in their dif-
ferent component pans.
The refoludon of the Committee voting an annuity to Sir Jr.
Saumarep, and the refolution of the Committee of Ways and
Means, voting four millions of Exchequer Bills, were repotted,
agreed to, and Bills ordered.
The oniPanee amenmodadon Bill was rupee*, sad order-
ed to be read g third time to-morrow,
The Report on the Woolwich Truftee BM was brought pp,
and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-murrovr.

NOTTINGH•III ILICTIOV.
Stephen Brookes was ordered to be brought to
the Bar, to be reprimanded, and difcharged.
The SPIAKER addreWed him to the fallowing
purport Seleit Committee of the Houfe of
Commons, appointed to try the merits of the Not-
tingham Elation, have found and reprefented you
as guilty of wilful prevarication. This is a tribu-
nal appointed to try the merits of Eleeions, and to
do ample juice between all the parties concerned.
It is of the higheft importance to the deareß rights
of individuals, and to the invaluable privileges of
the Houfe of Commons ; but this Tribunal can.
not be of any avail, if offences like yours are rd.
fired to go unpuniffied. Within two days of your
having committed it, the Committee had reported
that another perfon had been guilty of a funilar
delinquency ; and finding a repetition of the crime
occur fo foon, they determined to increafe your
punifhment, by fending you from the cullody of
their own Officer to a common gaol. Your con-
trition fine you have been there has induced the
Committee to move, that you be brought to the
Bar, and be difcharged. Your punifhment, how-
ever, will not end here for you have proved to
the world, that your reputation and charater are
RIO longer deferring that troll and confidence which
may heretofore have been placed in them—..they
are gone for ever. You can never appear here-
after in a Court of Jultice with that fair fame, In
neceffary to give credibility to every man's teßi.
mony, but will be received with all that caution
and diftruft which the wilful prevarication you
have been guilty of cannot fail to draw after it.
—The Houfe, however, in its lenity, taking into
confideration your contrition, and the punifh-
ment you have already Coffered, have ordered you
to be difcharged, and you are difcharged accord.
ingly, on payment of your fees.