In compliance with their request, a reward of three hundred pounds was offered; but the offender remained safe from all detection.
MR.

STEELE EXPELLED THE HOUSE.
The commons having granted the supplies, ordered a bill to be brought in for securing the freedom of parliaments, by limiting the number of officers in the house of commons, and it passed through both houses with little difficulty.

In March, a complaint was made of several scandalous papers, lately published under the name of Richard Steele, esquire, a member of the house.

Sir William Wyndham observed, that some of that author's writings contained insolent injurious reflections on the queen herself, and were dictated by the spirit of rebellion.

Steele was ordered to attend in his place; some paragraphs of his works were read; and he answered them with an affected air of self-confidence and unconcern.