§ Mr. Calcraftpresented, "an Account of the sums which remained in the Exchequer on the 1st Jan. 1805, being part of the grants of parliament for the service of the Ordnance for the year 1804, specifying the proportion remaining of each grant; and also an Account of the unappropriated balance in the hands of the Treasurer of the Ordnance, being part of the said grants, on the 1st of Jan. aforesaid."—A new writ was directed to be issued for the election of a member for Helston, in the room of Davies Giddy, esq. who has accepted the Stewardship of the Chiltern,Hundreds.—Mr. Jervis, in pursuance of a former notice, moved for leave to bring in a bill for altering and expediting the trial of offences committed in 723 distant parts on the high seas. The grounds on which he submitted his motion to the house were as follows: by the act of Henry VIII. the jurisdiction of the admiralty had been extended to all offences committed on the high seas; but the exercise of this jurisdiction had been often attended with great delay and inconvenience, inasmuch as it became necessary that the offender and the witnesses should be brought to this country, and that the trial should take place here. To remedy this inconvenience, the admiralty, by an act of William, were empowered to appoint a special commission, for Conducting the trial of offences in distant parts. But the authority of such commissions was confined to the colonies; and besides, they acted upon the principles of the civil law, which were very different from those of the common law of this country. The design of this bill, therefore, was to prevent the necessity for bringing home the offenders, and also that they might enjoy the benefit of the trial by jury, and not be tried according to the forms of the civil law. Leave granted.—Mr. Paull thought that an hon. director (Mr. Huddlestone), would have moved for the paper about which he had given notice, before he (Mr. P.) brought forward his charges against Marquis Wellesley, but now, however, he understood that he had abandoned it. He would, therefore, move on Friday for certain papers, to lay the grounds of his charge against marquis Wellesley; also for papers for an additional charge respecting Furruckabad; and, that it might not be said that he came by a side wind on the house, he would also move for a paper which would lay the grounds for a charge of direct disobedience against the noble marquis.—General Gascoigne moved an address to his majesty for Copies of the Capitulation of the Colonies of Demerary, Essequibo, Berbice, and Surinam, to his majesty's arms.—In a committee of Supply the Army Estimates were voted, upon, as the secretary at war stated, the same scale for the same services as that of last year. The Report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow.—On the motion of Mr. Jeffery, it was ordered, that an Account be produced of the number of Line-of-battle Ships and Frigates in ordinary on the 1st of Oct. 1801, shewing the Repairs necessary to put them into condition for permanent service, &c.—On the motion of Mr. James Fitzgerald, the 2d reading of the Irish Population bill was put off till the 1st of Aug.—Mr. Vansittart 724 said, that owing to a mistake, upon opening the Budget, the East-India Sugar was not included in the proposed tax upon Sugar. To rectify that mistake, therefore, he gave notice, that he should, on Wednesday, in a Committee of Ways and Means, submit a particular motion.—The 2d reading of the Iron Duty bill was postponed till this day se'nnight, in order, as Mr. Vansittart stated, that all parties interested should have a further opportunity of considering the measure.