Star. — London, England, 1805-04-09 00:00:00

I 1 J Lille and Moe Trotter a fair opportunity of vindicat ing their charaaer before the Commitiioners, if they were conic :on, of innocence ? When Lord Melville was Aflced a pla . n cplealott as to his appropriation hf any part of the public motley. what had he to do ? Why, Sir, he had only to declare en his oath and h.s hoo —alo.—What had Mr. Trotter to do ? He had may to give the litine anfwer of—N o . But -a- do they th'nk fit to proceed ? Inltead of fol. lowina the plain path of integrity and honour, they Fr fdi total ignorance of deficiencies in the public mal•ev to a veil am , unt. The Paymafter is called belo•e tne Comrnitlioner., and he profelfes to know no-ain g :et all of the matter. By and bye, he, how ever, for •s the matter a lit-le ferioufly in his mmd,and '.e does hegira to recollect that he does lknote come t!iing ra the bufieefs He confelfes that he had been atom t7Bb down to the period when he was in he n:tbit of drawing nut the public money, and placing it in the hands of his own banker. The CommifThotere inquire a little further into the mat ter, but he will give them no fatisfaltion. " You have no tight to afk me thefe queftions, that is my private money." Nay, he ev-n arraigns the Coro milfioners, avid in a paper which, from mere indul gence, they allowed him to prelent, he pretty clearly inlinuates that they were a parcel of gentlemen, 'raking thendelves a great deal too free with other people's Item's. Five different times was Mr. Alex. antler 'ranter examined, yet does he refule to give the Conimial , nets the information they require. He talks, indeed, of hems advanced for other depart ments • the Government, and alludes to Mr. Long having repaid to him form of the films fo advanced. I am lorry, Sir,ahat Mr. Long was not examined 'serve She Commiflioners. I think his flatements might have Onto , n a good deal of light on this fob. jeat. Thrmah: however, Mr. Long was not examin ed before the Cornmidioners, the fad of the advance is admitted by Lord Melville in his firfl letter to the Commopmers. Indeed this letter was altogether of an extraordinary complexion. It was, however, of a piece with his Lordihip's evidence, and with his lag , letter, on both of which I lhall, before I fit down, make a few obfervations. His Lordlhip tells the Cornmillioners that he cannot give them the infor trrion they required, becaufe he cannot difclofe confidential communications of Government; but his great argument is, that he is not in pail:non of the papers containing the advances to other depar means, having, for mere amufement no doubt, committed them to the flames. I do main tain, Sir, that this avowal of She Noble Lord is highly culpable. The dettruation of tittle papers was, in a ;mann of his knowledge of bufinefs, a great crime and tnildeme moor He ought to have known that Papers of luch a defeription are the property of no inlividual. They are the property of the nation. I recollc&. Sir, feveral Committees complaining of the dearnaion of Papers, and Stating that, in con fequenee of fuch deltruation, their inquiries were ei ther retarded or altogether dettroyed. To deltroy public Papets, referring to a recent date, does, in my mind, imply Something fufpicious. I cannot ea- 1 !By trace it to any other principle than a with to pre vent criminal proceedings from being unravelled, and accompanied with merited punifhment. But, Sir, it teems that the Noble Lord has not only de aroyed his Papers, but has actually 101 l his recol lcaion of the whole affair, though it had fo recently occurred. This does, I confers, Seem a little Strange, that a perfon of his Lordfhip's great talents Should labour under Such a wonderful decay of memory.— Of this, however, I Shall fay Something more before I hrtifh et). obfervations. ,On the fubjeet of there ad- , vances to the other departments, I condemn the pradice in the ftrongea terms. I mould in no cafe permit it to but I could never for a moment fuller it to exia without explanation, and that too of the moil fatisfa.9to y nature. Here, however, I hear the liable Lore! allowing that filch advances were made, but he will give me no fatiJaation as to the extent of the advances, or the manner in which they were applied. In folic, however, of the Noble Lord's filence, we knew that the navy fervice was not in a fituati'n to allow great advances of money, and what an aFology would it offer if a demand on the Navy Board could nut be paid, becaufe, forfooth, Lord Melville and Alexander Trotter, his paymafter, had agreed to accommodate the other branches of the fervice willi loans of the public money ? It may be Said that the advances were to the Secretary of State for important prpoles. I Shall not eta) , be brought to fanaion thefe accommodations betwixt different fetvants of the Crown. But Lord Melville was Mi rafter at %War. Prefident of the Board of Controul, and Treafierer of the Navy, all united in his own perl'm, and here is a trance:lion, not betwixt two individuals, but one individual, uniting three different charafters. It is Mr. Dundas lending Mr. Dundas with the one hand, and borrowing of Mr. Dundas with the other. It was a ridiculous, as well as dangerous, combination. I knew that Come Gen tleman on the other fide . will find all this fyftem of accommodation very excufable. The public fervice is expedited, and no lofs is fuftained. I canfels I cannot agent to Such datrines. I know that they were often urged by the Right Ho nourable Gentleman oppofite last war, and I have not forgotten all the fine things he told the Houle about the appropriation of paper, and the manner in which each fum was latisfaftorily account ed for to the public. I was never Satisfied with fuch a look way of dealing with the public money, and I always thought that the folid reafoning of my Ho nourable Friend near me (Mr. Fox) Shewed com pletely how hollow and dangerous they were in prac tice. But even allowing the Right Honourable Gentleman's arguments all their weight, they did not at all go to prove that Such advances were either le gal or expedient. Legal no man dares to call them, and certainly done is a great difference betwixt the Treasurer of the Navy and the Finance Miniller of the country. Nly Second charge againa Lord Mel vilie is, that he connived at the appropriation of the public money to private purples. Mr. Trotter does not deny that he had large Sums in the hands of Mr. Couch, his privare banker ; and he has the effrontery to tell the Commirlioners, that it is more convenient Gat him to have his cant in the hands of a private banker than in the Bank of England, where an ex was At% of Pathament has declared that it Shall be dated. This wry ingenious Gentleman thinks Toper to add, that be finds hinsfelf more fecure rhea hi. money is in the bands of Mr. Coots, than when it is in the Bank of England. Not only does' he affirm, but he calls his patron. Lord Melville, to confirm his teltimony. Lord Melville, who had promoted the p.ifling of the Aft of 1785, which ex prefsly lays, the money (hall be lodged in the Bank —Lord Melville, who not fatisfied with the At of 1785, gets new regulations, tlill more aria, in 1786. He likewife tells the Commillioners, that Mr. Trot ter's mode is alfo the molt convenient for the pub lic fervice. Sir, I am really uttoniffied to hear of the inconveniencies of having the money in the Bank inttead of a private banker's ! Is not the difcount at the Bank caller than at a private banker's eftablifh ment ? Cannot bank notes be more eefily procured? But if the protein mode, of which Mr. Trotter ap pears fit fond, be In very advantageous, how comes it thpt Lord Melville never came to Parliament to get it formally recognized ? Mr. Trotter indeed, finds a very ingenious reafon for placing his money in the hands of a private banker. He lays that he was fo anxious for the fecurity of the money that he placed it in Mr. Count's as the bell place of leery. If any thing comes of the money I am an undone man, and my mind will never be at cafe till Mr. Coutts has ta ken it into his proteaion. Now it was nor, though very improbable altogether, impoffible that a houfe, refpeaable as Mr. Coutts's was, might (xi!, and what then becomes of the careful Mr. Trotter's fecurity Why, Sir, it is completely crufhed and annihilated. —But if he was ft very careful as he pretends to be, why did he not place it in the Bank, where, even if a failure were to take place, Rill Mr. Trotter would be fecure in his obedience to an Aft of Parliament ? I with to alk the Houle for what purpofes thefe per petaal draughts of money, this conduit flitauation of accounts in the name of Mr. Trotter took place ? At the time that Mr. Trotter is fo anxious fir the fe curity of his money, was it lodged at Mr. Coutts's, allowing that to be a place of fafety ? No, Sir, it was employed in difcounting bills, in forming fpecu. latinns, in gambling on the Stock Exchange. I am really almolt appalled, and I think that the Houfe will likewife be appalled, at the reflation of no lefs than thirty-four millions of the public property hay • ing palled through Lord Melville's Paymaßer's hands. Why, Sir, the Report dates explicitly. that upwards of eight millions had been in the hands of the private banker, and nearly (even millions more is alluded re as having palled through the fame channel. But what we have - hitherto had dila)* is, perhaps, nor one fourth of the money tranfaaions of Lord Melville's Paymafter, and much of the money in his hands when he was abfolutely denitute of funds to make good the lots of one thoufandrh part of the public property in his hands. But while all thefe tranfaaions were go ing forward, on what was Lord Melville employed? —Does he know any thing at all of the date of Mr. Trotter's accounts, for every one of whole aaions he alone is refponfible ? Has he carefully examined the ufe which Mr. Trotter has made of the public money, and is he fatisfied with the refult ? The truth is, Sir, if you are to believe Lord Melville liiinfelf, he knows nothing of the matter. What, then, is the Itate of Mr. Trotter's accounts? He himfelf pleads igcorance, and cannot fatisfy the Commiffioners. What was the cattle of all this affeeled ignorance may hereafter ap pear.—One would have thought that a perfon if Mr. Trotter's preplexed turn of mind would have been anxious to do bufinefs in as fimple a manner as pot . - fible, and in order to feparate the public from his own private money, nothing would have been more eafy than the fimple device of having a public and a private account. This, however, did not exaaly tuit Mr. Trotter's purpofe. He preferred having a cheft in which he was to receive money promifcuoufly.— One man comes with five guineas, another with ten guineas, a third with twenty, and In with different fume, and they are all thrown promifcuoufly into the cheft. They return in a (hors time for the money, and Mr. Trotter, very complafantly, Pays, "'Tis true, Gentlemen, I did receive your money, but I threw it promifcuoufly into the chef', and it is altogether impoflible for me to feparate the different fums."— Exaaly fitnilu to this is the conduit of Mr. Trotter conduaing his money concerns. He opens no lefs than five accounts. We have his own account—his feparate account—his account as Paymaller of the Navy—his broker's account—and, Jelicoc's account. He opens all thefe accounts, and when the Commif tioners afk him for what they were intended, he has the affurance to tell them that they had no tight to interfere with his private affairs, and very flatly dif claims their powers.—He draws under thefe heads immenfe films of the public money—as for example a million of money in one day. On all the accounts there might be expeaed to be a number of curious and intereding items. The Commiffioners demand explanation,and again Mr. Alexander Trotter refttfes to anfwer, and tells them to draw their own inference. The Commiffioners. baffled in getting information from Mr. Trotter, take up the bufinets themfelves, and here a curious fcene is difclnfed. Mr. Trotter, it is found, is bufily engaged in buying all forts of flock, and particularly waive in purchafing Navy Bills, when they were at a price which rendered it almoll certain that they might be afterwards difpofed of to advan tage. But, while Mr. Trotter is fo bufy, what has be come of Lord Melville and his refponfihility ? Does he ever interfere to prevent thefe fpeculations ? Does it never occur to him that it is extremely indecent for a Paymader of the Navy thus to be fporting with the public money ? I do think, Sir, that it was the facred duty of Lord M. to have told Mr. 'l'. that he mud either give up there conneaions, or eeafe to be Treafurer of the Navy. If it had happened that in fome of his extenfive fpeculations he had been difap pointed, inevitable ruin mutt have been the conle• quence. Mr. Trotter fell, but it was not to him but to Lord Melville that the public were to look for re drefs. But Lord Melville was involved in the fall of his Paymafter, and all the confulation the public had was, to know that they were again to make good what the fervants of the public had peculated. I can not allow myfelf then to think that the Houfe will be backward in agreeing with me that the negligent cri minality of Lord Melville was deferving of the feve reit reprehenfion. Let me, Sir, recal to your atten tion what was the period when thefe fpeculations were going forward. It was in the very mida of our diftrelles. It was while the people were ftruggling up againft that load of public burdens under which we groaned, that Mr. Trotter, with the affißance of that filent and difcreet flock broker Mark Sprott,were laying their heads together to lay out the public mo• my to the greateft advantage. What was the whole amoutat °IAN (tuns to employed we have not the means of afcertaining. But this ;sof no confeqttenee; for, as I have already obferved, it is not the extent of 1 the firm rnifapplied, but the general principle of mil application at all that I contend. I affert that Mark Sprott ought to have been more fcverely interrogat ed.. There is no doubt that he is the man to give the clue to this nefarious bufinefs. Even his (Hence, how ever, was extremely expreffive. It is not eafy to con ceive anything more firange than the reafons he urged for his filcnce. He tells the Commiflioners openly, " I have had the opinion of Mr. Serjeant Shepherd, and other eminent lamyers, and they advife me to preferve a religious (Bence, Only be filent, fayno thing, and we may be able to do fomething for you, but if yOu give anfwers we much fear it is all over with you. Lord Melville and Mr. Mark Sprott are not quite uniform on this part of the bufinefs. Mr. Mark Sprott lays nothing, but Lord Melville owns he knew of the tranfitaion, but not of the detail. Sir, I fry, if he knew of the tranfaCtions generally, and not of the details, this, In far from rendering him lefs cri• minal, renders him far more guilty. If he was ap prifed that his paymalter was fpeculating in the Funds, and if he derived no part of the profit, he was bound to fee what was the extent of fuch fpe culations. He ought to have felt that his refpon• fibility was in danger, and that it was full time for him to put a flop to fo fcrious an evil.—Af ter illu tracing this idea by reference to Mr. Trot ter's Wary AS inadequate to any extenfive fpecula lions, he proceeded to animadvert nn the origin of Mi. Trotter's connexion with Lord Melville. Lord Melville hid found Mr. Trotter Clerk of the Navy Office. He made him his Paymaller, and in a fhort time Lord Melville contrives to make him his Agent. In this tituation of an Agent Lord Melville has pecu niary concerns with Trotter to a vaft amount, and when his Lordfhip is enamined he is unable to inform the Commillioners whether the advances made by Mr. Trotter were from his own or from the public money. The Hon. Member animadverted flrongly on this declaration, which was, on the part of Lord Melville, extremely furpicious. How was it poflible that Lord Melville could for a moment flippefe Mr. Trotter to be making advances out of his owa for tune? The fad was, that Mr. Trotter 1,4 d originally no fortune. He was a man of a good family in the part of the country to which he belonged ; but Lord Melville knew when he tirft began to patronize him that he had no property but ,chat he derived from his Glary as Paymalter of the Navy. It was abfo lute equivocation then to pretend that Lord Melville could be ignorant of Mr. Trotter making ufe of the public money to a stall amount. He condemned, as extremely fufpicions, Mr. Trotter's adling as Lord Melville's agent. When Mr. Trotter the paymaller and agent of Lord Melville was known to have ex tenfive dealings with Mark Sprott, a Rock broker, was not the inference the molt natural that their deal• ings were mutual ? Would not people have a right to preftime that Lord Melville (hared in the profits of thole fpeculations, to which there feemed every Tea fon to think that he was accelfary.—But, indeed, it was not ealy to fee how this concha - ton could be eva ded. Was Lord Melville ready on oath to difclaim fuch a connexion, or that he had ever derived the flighted advantage from any fpectilation in which Mr. Trotter was engaged ? What was the language of all the predeceffors and facceffors of Lord Mel ville ? When the Paymafter of Mr. Barre was anted, whether he had ever received any emolument from the application of the public money ? he readi ly anfwers—No. Had Loi d Bayning received any advantage ? No. Had Lord Harrowby ?—No.— lad Mr. Bragge ? Had Mr. Tierney ? No. Lord Melville is compelled to give evative anfwers. lie filchers himftlf behind the confidential commuaica lions of Government. He can afford no informa tion, for his papers were deffroyed. Ile has no re. colleetinn of what took place only a few years ago.— The Noble Lord was remarkable for his retentive me mory. He could reckon up, with accuracy unextm pled, all our idles or our viCtorics during the late con teft. The Right Hon. Gentleman oppolire had not un frequently derived the benefit of the Noble Lord's me mory, when recolleCtion was not of the molt trifling moment. Yet here the Noble Lo: ecolle,9 ion to tally forfook him, and certainly fuck an initance of weak recolleetion was not a little remarkable. Sorely it was no great effort of memory to recolleCt whe ther profit had ever been received fr• , in the life of the public money, and a timple monofyllable was fufficient to (late that recolleCtion. Ui.for tunately this monofyllable was abfent, at a moment when it was molt wanted. Mr. Trotter's anfwers, refpaling Lord Melville, were of the moll damning clefeription. Did you receive any emolument from the tile of the public money ? I won't tell you.— Did you know the amount of the fums advanced for the confidential fervice of Government ? I won't tell you. Did Lord Melville authorife you to life the public money for private emolument ?—I won't tell you. Did Lord Melville (hare with you in any profit ailing from fuch a ufe of the public money ?—I won't tell you.—ln the whole of this part of the fpeech, in which the Honourable Gentleman read and commented on Lord Melville's evidence, We have been compelled to confine ourfelves to the heads only of what he (tared. He adverted to the cafe of Jelicoe, who had been fuffered to remain a public , debtor for a whole year, atter he was known to be in arrears upwards of twenty•four thoufand pounds.— During the next year eleven thoufand more arrears had accrued. He had a flrong fufpicion that Jelicoe was in the fame partnerfhip with Mark Sprott, Mr. Alexander Trotter, and his Lordfhip. It would not have been fair to have turned too than on an old companion. It would have perhaps too been dan gerous, fince unpleafant dilcoveries might have met the pnblic eye. It looked very much as if mutually confcious of criminality, they had agreed to be fluent and keep their own ferrets. Mr. Whitbread com mented with great ability on the haft letter of Lord Melville, which rather aggravated than palliated his guilt. His Lordfhip even admitted the violation of the AEI of Parliament. He allowed that Mr. Trotter employed the public money for private emolument, but he denied generally his participating in the pro - fits of fuch application. This denial was nothing. It was not that fair open denial which was the only I tell of innocence. _ ..... The Hon. Gentleman then concluded by apologii ing for having exhaulled the patience of the Houle in going through the ilatement which he had dented it neceffary to lubmit, to make the fubjeCt fo intelli giblc as he could with. If ia the courfe of his invetti- !. lieg a t'; , o , n d l r i e r p a a t r ! l e l queflienably been his objet to prcterve, era-ern:el) , forty. He was happy, :iliac) ) fi t ; urelerfant as his talk had heen, tom ..e have a tMijoeity of the Member. ot that 1 helie r e fupport him in the Refolutions which hr h : the : night to propole. A wound had been inili.cted o o t h e very exillence of the country, which it was the dirt of every Member of the : Houle to lee checked aie.! punilhed. When he turned his eyes to the Country Gentlemen, thole guardians of the public mole, he could not doubt of receiving their eairdal fupport, in oppofition to a principle of peculaticn which had been fuccefsfully prattiftd on the public Great Btitaist for many years, and that too by petf entrufled with the official conduit of its retburces. If he I-icked to the officers of the army or navy, who crimp - tied part of the Houle, he knew that there Was no'. on e o f them who would vote in fupport of a re item of cor ruption, fuch as had been praaifed hy the petfons againa whom his inquiry was direel. He war. convinced that their mieds were not tainted with !itch fordid ar.d corrupt notions as te, induce them to fupport public peculators. It lie wined to the commercial men, he was fati,fied that they were not filled with horror and difettill alone, but even with trembling, at the conduit of which he had now en. deavoured to point out, by which it was poffible that ruin might have been hurled on them. Even as it was, had not the Ipeculations of Mr. Trotter injured many of them ? And might they nct have injured not only the mercantile interells of the country, hut i alfo have been produetive of great 101 l to the public in general ? Would it have been a vindication of Af let, fuppoling that his fpeculations had been more.for tunate than they had ultimately turned out, to have come forwent and laid, " There is Your money hack again—you arc nut ;:jtired —you heave no right to complain—l only took an accommodathai from you, by which you have kit mehing, and you have no right to pals any pimilinent on rre ti r lo trivial and innocent an offence " Such, finely would, to Gen tlemen ecquainted with !mercantile affair,, he an ex. cafe provoking only indignati••n and rcltnianent. Or would it he elleoned a better argrammt to alledge that the books and other documents, It cm which it might hevc been poilibie to have call form liyht on the accounte, had been burn: or intentionally delft ey. ed ? An allegation of this kind mull with them meet with equal roped and attention. Everyday of their lives they were called on to prof - cone for offences of lele, magnitude. Would the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman, who prefided in a Court of Equity— would another Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman, whofe duty it more particularly was to profecute for delinquencies, and t, ho did think it fa incumbent on him to check even the appearance of corruption, as to profecute a perfon in an inferior rank in lite for an attempt to bribe a Right Hon. Gentleman, then at the head of Adrniniaration (now Lord Sidmouth) ; would they attempt to palliate a bulinefs of this kind, or would they not rather feel it their duty to join with him, and affilt in bringing delinquents of a higher order alto to plaice? He begged Gentlemen to keep in view the diareffed (late of the counti y in general. The opulent were obliged to part with their fuperflui ties ; and from the I\lhnieman to the Peal - ant, every one was obliged to make correfpondirg facrifices.— We were told, indeed, that Inch were neceffaty for oar falvatirn ; but, in a cafe like the prefent, it was the duty of this ufe and of the public to be fatis fied that our refonrces, lo painfully raifed, were not thrown away by improper rt•anageimmt. The Ho- nourable Member then tee ved, r. That it ..ppez.rs to :Li t!•.a*: or the tEzh of June, 1782, the Fir-:!c of Cort.n.ups of the what.: Matte came, amongtt ()then:, to the fu:h.-rh.g ions t• Tha• it is the ep , tO• ^ ut teas (:,:rrnittce. that lathe reehla ti,.ns ought to be ad ptcd tar the reep..L of and !seeping Clown the r ot , ey soh.icts sr to I.ave au ally hern in the hmids or' of the N.,cy : and it would I. heneticht: to do. pubhe if the deft end other Ch r;: , ha the ditt:rect. bl:111C11(3 belontiog to the :ohi Oflice were paid lay liscd aid per ohineht .o taco Oi rah...ties, at..l ether peryuilita whatfurver." i.l That it i 3 tho f.rhion of this Committee. titnt f •in henecfor • yard the l'ayin,:lt.r tier:en - A ,•f I.k Nlajttly's hore,s, and th:'l'rcafurer Ctae Navy, :V7 the tint.: being, 111:•il not apply a,.y font or [urns of nunicy in:pr. lied to them, eitlP rof them, t••.) any porpofe of arty:image or inter& to thaufavcs, citli:r direelly or imil:edly." That it :.Kicars to this ennitnittce, that the ConitniMonet: 7 r. poirtrti to t xarnine, take PAN: the pti! , lic acco , mt, of the ft ve, fo fat a. aiipc.tr, from the r porti which they ilithertO ma de, difch: , rB.d the dot./ t.ntritaid to them with vest accuracy y ; acid fill tarry into ext.cution thof,p!atis of rdo:.in ;:thi reguLtioli , hit.h r e hirgi by the matter ctirtti.lacd Lc the Rt.port, of the Laid eutmiliPiuneri. it cannot but be attended %vith the molt la.nt leial con:, quiticri to the future welfare and i i .ruliirity of this kingdom. 2. That in furtherance of the intention of the Hottfe of Com mons expreffrd iu foch refolutims, his Nlajefty by his warta.,t dated June 26th, t732,direded that the filar of the I . ..eafurer if: the N.vy fliould be increaled to the fu:n of 42,x1. p,:r annum, is full fatislaCtion of all vsges and fees, and nth:: profits and eno..- lument:i theretofore enjoyed by former Trcaturcrs. 3. That it appears to this Committee, tint timing the Trev• furetihip of the leiOet Hon. Ifaac ifarre, thee. Anions; f the afos; Laid warrAtt were ftrictly complied that the whole c: mon y from the Excilequer to Mr. Barre for naval frri'e-s was lod:tsit in the 13aok: that it was never drawn from thence previnufly to its bcitig atlvrinctd to the Sub-Areountantt, ro het applied to the public ferviee : that dtring th; as - Ire:darer and Ex Trcaruzeu, he had ia ; cuftody any 0r the puLlie tromy, and that 't.: n ,fic mailer of the Navy did dative fitiy profit or aclltitag,.... Irc..ft tits or employment t lu reed . . el. That the Bight Honourable Henry Hondas, row 'Lord Va . . count Alelville, foeyeeded to the office ..f 1 r. 111: , .:7 Of the Nw on the ipth of Atv,7ult, 17Rr.., when a further 1113 t!: to the falary of the fail office. it; or.' rh, Frodue-.; a net arint..l i. , • come of 4,cc01. after the paymi It ,u ail t3l(t , I,!` 7' • fame ;and that tide fa.ary the ,•;•; _ _ Lord Vi:countll, a, gra;,:esi to t .1 s profits and other eint , lun,ent, tnjoy, d'oy r 1 S. That the f:tid Lord Vtfc-unt lt. - Ir:r. office till the tcth of April r 7 1 1 - , ; that h rived any advantage Iron: rlt I:I.! of tht. iun , i. I : • I • . a. y • period, he i•• his ertirin.ti,.n h, tot, r! 4 . Inquiry, declined anfwAring avy qu ur! .. • - he has in :t le•ter (iince written •,) the ru., i„ .:1 the 28th of Mordt latt, deri?t,.,l t!:at rrtvt not derive ?!.•. :1.1v...1nt..ge flee% :!.c Lt.• uey ifruct:: tnr itT, on ft.: of ft Douglas, who c•-;c l'ay•mtncr, !let.1:; ing refuted to ante..l- evidcrce 11.6 bc-n ,i, c ie a for the ftrvi erf N.vy,, , r the mode .!:t; the Batik trin!, 6. I hat the , 1 .•le C. Townlhend. held the Other of rer cf the :".dvy ti tot t,•. t t.l! 7/S3, to tlt' nth of .. 1,1 pa: y !!A Y of his I..c.z..!ihip it lipcd:: duritg Li . Tit.' r :1114 the niciiity ifiti , (I for the let rice of :he • private tat: or advantage, apt! tL t Lc t' • ,ot !!,at T. noughts, whu Jdt, mitt hint a., r . •:. o• 1. , advantage front !ha ufr or flan! nt, n: ! ' !,•• n.,!, y, Lit We tuuncy iCucl to :Lc pA;T:::;t:: of 1. ; 1) 101