Mr. Barhamreported from the committee appointed to determine the merits of the Plymouth Election Petition, that sir C. M. Pole and Thomas Tyrwhit, esq. had been duly elected; and 694 that the petitions against their return were not frivolous nor vexations.—Mr. Vernon appeared in his place, pursuant to order of the house, and stated in excuse of his absence from the Saltash Election committee on Friday, "that when the house, on Thursday last, had given power to the said committee to adjourn till this day, on account of the necessary absence of one of their members, he had by mistake conceived that the committee had actually been adjourned till this day; but being informed of his mistake, he had attended the said committee on Saturday and this day; and that he was extremely sorry the committee had been put to any inconvenience on his account." The substance of what Mr. Vernon offered to the house, was taken down in writing; and the same being verified by him, upon oath, at the table, it was ordered, That the said Mr. Vernon be excused for his non-attendance on Friday last.—The Solicitor General brought up the bill for making the Freehold Estates of persons, dying in debt, assets for the payment of their simple contract debts, which was read a first time.—Petitions were presented from the Tanners of Cumberland, Oxford, and several other places in England, against the Oak Bark bill, which were referred to the committee on the former Petitions.—Lord Temple moved that the order of the day for the second reading of the Oak Bark bill should be discharged, on the ground that the committee on the various petitions against the measure had not yet reported. The order was then discharged, and fixed for this day fortnight.—Mr. Fremantle presented, an Account of the net produce of all the Permanent and War Taxes in the years and quarters ending 5th of Jan. 1806, and 5th Jan. 1807.—Sir J. Newport presented the usual annual petitions from the several charitable Institutions in Ireland, which were ordered to lie on the table. The hon. bart. in presenting the petition from the Trustees of the Roman Catholic Seminary at Maynooth, near Dublin, stated, that it was proposed to make a considerable augmentation to the grant to this establishment, in order to provide more adequate accommodation for the education of the students in that seminary, and that this augmentation was recommended to the house on the part of his majesty. The hon. bart. also stated, that it was proposed to make an additional grant to the Dublin 695 Society of 10,000l. which was not to be incorporated into the funds usually granted to that institution, but to be left at the disposal of that society, to enable them to afford encouragement and support to similar institutions in the interior of the country, and particularly a society that had been established at Cork for the same objects. It was then ordered that Estimates of the Expences of the several Charitable Institutions in Ireland, should be laid before the house, after which the hon. baronet presented the several Estimates, which were ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed.—Ordered, on the motion of Mr. Johnstone, that there, be laid before the house an account of the Income and Charges of the Consolidated Fund for the years ending the 5th of Jan. 1806, and 5th Jan. 1807, distinguishing each quarter.