House of Commons
Thursday, May 10 1804
Minutes
The Prize Agency bill was brought in and read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.—An Account was laid on the table of the state of the different prisons in Ireland.—Sir W. W. Wynne adverted to a summons which he had received from Sir C. Morgan, requiring his attendance at a Court Martial at Chelsea Hospital on Monday next, in order to obey which, he requested he might be dispensed from attending the Middlesex Election Committee on Monday and Tuesday next.—The summons to attend having been read, and the hon. member having sworn to the truth of the said grounds of his motion, leave of absence was accordingly granted; but, upon the motion of Lord Marsham, it was resolved that the Middlesex Election Committee should, on its rising, on Saturday, adjourn till Wednesday.—Mr. Sec. Yorke brought up the following message from his Majesty, viz.: "G. R. His Majesty having taken into his royal consideration, the circumstances attending the death of that excellent and upright magistrate, Arthur Lord Kilwarden, late Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench, in Ireland, recommends to his faithful Commons to grant an annuity of 1200l. per ann. to the Viscountess Kilwarden; as also to take such measures as may be the most effectual for continuing the same in a manner the most advantageous to the family of the said Arthur Lord Viscount Kilwarden."—On the motion of Mr. Sec. Yorke, his Majesty's most gracious message was ordered to be taken into farther consideration on Monday next.—Mr. Long moved, that a new writ be issued for the election of a member to serve in parliament for the University of Cambridge, in the room of the Right Hon. William Pitt, who since his election has accepted the offices of First Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, and Chancellor of his Majesty's Exchequer.
Ilchester Election Committee
, pursuant to his notice of yesterday moved, That the minutes of the evidence given before the Ilchester Election Committee, should be laid upon the table, for the purpose of considering whether there were such circumstances as would require the house to order a prosecution.
, who was chairman of that committee, considered the present motion as a reflection on the committee, whose duty it would have been to have moved such a prosecution, if, in their judgment, the circumstances of the case required it.
said, that his motion was in consequence of its having been yesterday asserted, by an hon. gent., that the Ilchester case presented more flagrant instances of bribery and corruption than that of Aylesbury.
insisted that the cases were not similar, as there were no instance sat Ilchester, of money having been given before the election, in the way which had been done at Aylesbury.
opposed the motion, as conveying an improper imputation on the conduct of the committee.—The question being then put on Mr. Rose's motion, it was negatived without a division.