The bills to authorize the issue of 10½ and 1½ million of exchequer bills, were read a 3d time and passed.—The order for the committal of the bank charter bill was discharged on the motion of Mr. Vansittart, who stated that before the house 532 went into the committee, he wished to have laid on the table an account of the circumstances connected with the loan of 3 millions due by government to the bank, and lent under the act of the 39th and 40th of his majesty, together with the interest accruing on the said loan. This paper was ordered and produced accordingly. Mr. Vansittart presented, pursuant to order, a return of the amount of the funded and unfunded debt; of the permanent revenue; and of the interest due on exchequer bills to be paid off.—The house in a committee went through the customs expiring laws bill. A new writ was ordered for the borough of Rye, in the room of Thomas Davis Lamb, esq. who has accepted the office of steward of the Chiltern hundreds.—The Secretary at War presented a return of the casualties, &c. in the army since the year 1801. The total number of men raised Great Britain and Ireland, for unlimited service since the 1st of Jan. 1801 to the 28th Feb. 1806; and also, return of the casualties in the British army since the year 1801, inclusive, distinguishing each year, and the casualties in the army at home from those in the army abroad, to the latest periods in the year 1805, for which returns have been received from the several stations abroad. —Mr. Whitbread reported that he had presented in the house of lords the replication of the commons to the answer delivered in by lord Melville to the last article of Impeachment.—Ordered on the motion of Mr. Whitbread, that an address should be presented to his majesty, praying for a copy of the second report of the commissioners for revising the civil affairs of the navy.—A message from the lords stated, that their lordships had appointed Tuesday, the 29th of April, for the trial of lord viscount Melville, at the bar of their own house, and that arrangements would be made at the said bar for the convenience of the managers of the impeachment, &c.—On the motion of Mr. Whitbread, it was ordered, that managers should be appointed; and that those managers should consist of the committee appointed to prepare the articles of impeachment. Also that Joseph Kaye and John Winter, esqrs. should be appointed solicitors for the conduct of the said impeachment.—Mr. Whitbread postponed till tomorrow his notice of a motion for the attendance of a committee of the whole house, upon the trial of lord Melville, in order to convenience an hon. gent. (Mr. Saunders Dundas) who was particularly interested 533 in this question, and who could not attend on this day.