§ The Solicitor General obtained leave 10 bring in a bill to explain and amend an act passed in the 14th of his present Majesty, the object of which was to explain and amend an act pasted in the 10th of Anne, for regulating the mode of selling interest on direct or collateral securities.—Mr. D Parker Coke presented a petition from the insolvent debtors of Nottingham, praying relief. It was ordered to lie on the table.—Mr. T. Grenville reported from the Committee appointed to try the merits of the petition against the return for Midhurst, that the committee found E. Turner, Esq. the sitting member to be duly elected, and the petition against his return frivolous and vexatious.—The Attorney General introduced a bill for indemnifying all such persons as have been concerned in carrying into effect an order of council, allowing the exportation of a certain quantity of seed corn to Portugal. The bill was read a first time, and ordered for a second reading tomorrow.—Mr. Corry moved for a variety of accounts relative to the finances, the manufactures and the commerce of Ireland. Among the most important were, accounts of the ordinary and extraordinary sources of Irish revenue; the arrears and balances in the hands of the commissioners of the treasury; the value of the imports and exports, distinguishing articles of Irish produce; the number of vessels which have cleared out of the ports of Ireland, with the amount of their tonnage, and the number of seamen and boys, by whom they were navigated; an 420 account of the Irish public funded and unfunded debt; an account of the money voted for the service of last year which remains unexpended; an account of the application of 650,000l. voted for the extraordinary services of the army; an account of the application of 650,000l. voted for secret purposes. All the accounts to be made up from the 5th of January 1803, to the same period in 1804. These, with a number of other accounts of inferior importance, were ordered.