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Naval Inquiry, he asses as a reafon for not being ebO- to prothice any vouchers, that he oc. afionally employed his leifioe hours in louning his papers.— Now I conlefeit se. old have been far mote fatisfac tory to me, if, inftead of liying that be had bcen in the habit of burning his papers, he had then explain. ed the exiffence art this releafi, and had Paid that he was forty for tile Ore, but in confequence of Inch a reiraft between him and Mr. Trotter which con- eained a dank, of the import of which lie was not I at the time r f figning it aware, but which he had found hirnfelf called on to r hey, he had burnt the vouchers. This explanation, it is to be regreted, the Noble Lord did not mak:, if he could have made it. It would have done away great part of the fulpicion which at prefent hangs over that intl.-omen:. 800 the topic on which 1 feel the moll lenfiole is that an which the Noble Lord fpoke r.; one, or rather two firms of !camel. of the application of which be frid he would give no account . to this Houk. There is fomethiog fo truly extrarnatioa.y in the declaration, that I ;on alloniffied it thoold too r proceeded from any perfm, nit-re partieniarly from the Noble Lard, a perfon who can be no Granger to the importance of what lie has laid, one who has filled the firft offices in the country, who was iiimfelf a profeflional man, and accußomed to conduit the defence of others, I could almoll fay it is nothing but the infatuation of guilt itfell. If it be admitted as a doCirine to be re.. cognized in this cottony, the": is an end to every thing we have been ACClllinined to regard as valuable; there is an end to the grandeur of our laws, the gran deur of our confiitrition. Of what avail will it be that our Sovereign at his coronation, take an oath to go vern agreeably to law, if this Noble Lord be entitled to come and fay, " Hee is or e fum of tc,cool. and another fum of to,oool. which I have expended, but I will not tell y , ip—the•Parliatnem of the country — in what manner i v We cannot, however, be left In &Rime as Rill tel be able to provide againft loch an attempt. It is in vain to fay that pubiic interelt re quires loch a princ;ple to be laid down—a principle obvioufly in opporoion to the plan Law and contritu• lion of the count y. Such a &aline is n *congenial to the meridian of this country. Even in the days of King Charles 11. it was never thought of. Had that monarch had Inch cadets to make, lie would not have required to have thin up the Exchequer. Ail that, would have been necelfary for him to hale dorm, would have been to bring forward his Minifter to-tell that he had fpent 30 or 40,0001. which he had receiv ed, but that no power fhould induce him to tell in what manner he had laid it out.—Neither is it tree that the recognition of fuch a principle would contri bute any thing to the fafety of the State. The obfer vation made by a good judge of the Britifh Coottitto lion, who had long tludied it, to the monarch already alluded to, is not unworthy of remark. It was to this tired : 6. I have leen fomethine of the Conllitution of this country. If the King with to rule according to law, lie may be; one of the moll powerful monarchs in tire world. But, if he purfues a contrary line of conduit, he is one of the wcakett." This v:as reprefented by Sir William Temple to Charles the Second, and if thet Monarch had ailed nponit, he might have prevented much atifebief in the country. When he confidercd the declaration of the Noble Lord, he could not help thinking it big with danger that was karcely to be imagined. With regard to the main quettion, whether the Noble Lord had been fufficiently puniffied, this brought us to the nature of the crime charged upon the Noble Lord ; and when he confidered its aggravotinz, cir cum fiances, he mull confider it a crime of great magni tude. The Noble l'erfon was one who molt be per- ' fatly acquainted with the laws of hi; country, and did not aft from patron or the emergency of the moment, but perfevered in the fame line for years, VII it became a habit. Its intenfity and continuity, therefore, were arguments for further punifhment. —He thought the Noble Lord had endured le vere punilhment ; but all he bad f ,Rained from that Houk was the erafure of his name from Isis Majelly's Councils. The Refoluthrns were no part of the punifhtnint, but a neceffary meafure prior to an Impeachment ; and if the Honourable Gentle man had moved it the fame night, he m;ght have taken the fenfe of the Houk upon the fubjell. His Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Pitt), in withdraw ing the Noble Lord from the Brio). Cotmcil, fliould have given us the choice, and not have P a id,—" Aye, I will - take him away from you, and flop your g .ing any further." The main and clear defence of the former proceedings of the noufe, was, oret they proceeded according to the light they bad on the 111 . jell ;—but did not preclude ti oorelves from receivreg additional inforniatioo, and afling upon it. iVith regard to the rude of pr. erecting, his mind went wilt hi, Rieht Hon. l-tknd (Mr. Bond), but as unanimity was deli , able, lie thought he would do well not to pref his amendment, letin.a they were agreed that force feta of ctiminal proecis woe necefiary ; and if Gentlemen made up their minis in favour of impeachmnt, he could vote for the impeachment. To reply to the atgoments et the Right lion. and Learned Gentleman (the Mailer of the Rolls,) he could not hut thin!: that Lc had ar gued rather with relation to the forms r f law, than the teal ends of justice. he :tight Honnorable and. Learned Gentlemen did not differ piton priociple, but the. degrees or jnliicc ; and he acknowledges, that if the ro,oocl. Lad Scot been reteroed, he fhould have voted for the impeachment. tin Honourable Gentleman bad flid the: the public had not Lift a tingle finning. He would Rate one lots, and that %vas the locol. per antrum, became it was given the Noble Lord exprelsly to prevent an improper r u e of money drawn from the Bank. but the great lots was not to be meaftired by the turn of money, but be cattle it touches thofe tiered principles of the contti tution, and the prevalence of Inch a praflice would tend greatly to alienate the minds of the people from their love to the contlitution, their confidence in their repiefentatives, and the pore adminifiration of pus. lie jultice. He would all: whether it was not natural for Lord Melville to fay to Mr. Trotter, take care how you employ the money, and that you do not fnffer Inch praftices ? Was it not natural for the No ble Lord to have precluded and guatJed him front an improper application of the public money ? On this orcation lie could have no option as to what pro ceeding thould be adopted. With regard particu larly to the to,oool. that VC3S a pout upon v. !rich v. e aright yet have linne proof from Mr. l'icoter. The Cum allowed by Parliament lot Secret Icrvice money SAM 0„val Ale t, emplo. Now tory tt the ha ed the • watfc a lett. coined at the found voodi Noble It woe • which • the tot which firms ► he wo fumed that I any pc a peril , what in the and at • could 4 guilt I cogni2 thing there i deur dr our Sr vern 2 • to con anothe I will in wha &Rim attemi quires obviot lion of to the King monar requir would would that h ed, bt what that tl 1 i bute a vation lion, v allude effeß ; this cc law, I: in the of can reprel Second might When Lord, that v the m been f nature and v fiances tude. fatly : did no :nom: I till it therein —He were r that H • of the an Intl man h • taken tl Right ing the have gi • I will g .ing of the they p on the firm rd upon it his mid Bond), he wcu they 5., , ( wa.: nc minis the imi Right I the Rol gued ra the led] Learnt but ft. that it have v Gentle' fingle %vas On Noble . money not to cattle ii tution, tend gi their r. rein efc lic ju Ili for Loi how y fnffer ble Le • ' an imp this ore • I f (ceding to nzight • Cum ai • is s c,oool. per ann. and the fat A um for foreilln.fe cret fervice motley, and the Treaftirer is gitaired t hr an oath as to the proper application of it ; but ,how vain is it if nut aCted uparo! An Hon. Friend of his I had thought this an imprOper time, when we are threatened with invation, to proceed to jullice ; hut lie thought no time fo proper. He depended for nor deoence of the country upon the military and naval flrenath which it poffeffed ; but above all, he de ! ' , ended upon the affeCtions of the people to a beloved Monarch, to their veneration for the laws, wiling frotn a fenfe of their impartial adminilltation, in not fcreening the greateft and moll powerful criminal (rem the hands of joilice. Lord CroSTLEREAGH faid he felt himfelf pe t culiatly called upon to date to the Houle the gr'nunds of his opinion and vote. In the condi of the difctif lion, he had been anxious to hear the opinion of the perfons in high legal nations, fnr he had bee's per.' loaded that the Houle was advifed to a courfe con fiery to the principles of juflice as praelifed in this country. He had heard his Learned Friend (the' Mailer of the Rolls) with great pleafure. Still he felt himfelf called upon to acquit his own confcience, of any fhare of meafures that he could not confider as continent with the happy-frame of fair jorifpru dence. He liad offered himfelf to the al - era:ohm of the Houle laft night ; but now he found himfelf even mote imperioutly called upon after having heard the fpetch of his Friend who had jufl fat down.— He was furpri:id to hear his Ron. Fr tend argue the whole cafe as if it vete now fur the fivil time before the Honfe, and every part of the proceedings were hill to be &pored of. This he confidered as the main end of the reafoning of that Hon. Member. He con fidered the Houfe as no longer at liberty to keep up any proceedings, as if none had been already adopt ed. He had been at a Ids to comprehend the Hon. Mover of the queflion yefterday, as to this point, whether he propofed his motion of impeachment aeainft Lord Melville as a fupplementary proceeding or in fublliturion of the civil Nit. At lengths on his Right. Hon. Friend behind him (Mr. N. Bond) mov ing his amendment, he underftood the Hon. Mover's defign to be to propofe the furpenlion of the civil fuit. Bo: he would tell the Hon. Gentleman, that be mutt not merely fulpend, he mutt abandon 'the civil lut e unlefs the Houfe is willing to in4itute a , third procefs from the evidence gained by the crimi nal proceeding. His lion. Friend (Mr. Wilberforce) had Bated, that he had ailed upon a new cafe in con fentiog to the impeachment. He would not fay that nn cafe could *rife, in which it might become the Houle •o proceed to a criminal profecution after the proceedings already adopted. But he contended that nn fuch novelty was made out in this cafe. rind he Witted that the Gentlemen oppolite had confidered the petfonal proeeedings againft Lori Melville as completely ended. A Right rlon. Gentleman (Mr. Windham) had deflated that he tilt that to be the cafe. But he would not Rand upon; individual au thority. He appealed to the Houle, if they had confidered the proceedings againfl Lord gelville as being natut ally parts of a criminal and fubfequent pro fecutioa. They were felt as puniffiment in 'hemline; thonali not meant to be expreffed as Inch—and the civil tit was adopted on the principle that all idea of a ctiatinal prifecurion was at an end. The con d..° of the Han. Mover (hewed, that criminal pro. ceedings were ablent from his mind—for if their ex pediency had been forefeen, how could the civil Nit have been ordered ? He %edited the Houk to attend ! to this, as it proved that all idea of a criminal prole. cution had been abandoned. It would be necelfary, therefore, for the Hon. Mover to make out a new cafe. He had before thought the Houle afled with precipitancy, arid almoll without evidence. They may now aft with afire' icy—but that afperity will work its own remedy. But be would call on them to confider what they ate doing. He would ;A, what matter is now before them that was not known before? It was known bs the Tenth Report, that money Hilted for naval pm-poles had been otherwife ~ p propriated. Nay, mOre was fulpefled than the fart bore out. The lion of 60,c001. appeared te be without explanation. Afterwards 40,0001. is accounted for. But a crimi nal profecution is rejefted thew, and called for now. The Houle is poffeffettof nothing new in aggravation but femething in extenuation, at the very time ref calling for impeachment. His Right Hon. Friend ( Mr. N. Bond) had declared himfelf a friend to a criminal prof cntion of fume fort, becaufe he was convinced that a participation of Lord Melville with Mr. Trotter was .. proved ; but he declared, that no appearance of futn participation had been made. out to his fistisfaftion. The Noble Lord had been im. rodeo( and unfortunate in the management of his office. But he defied any man .to produce a proof of participation ; or any thing that might not be con fiftent with innocence, however ill judged. Lord Melt ilk had flared that he employed to,oool. in con fidential public fervices, and, as he underftood his Lordflap, ao,cool. was fo employed. It had been laid, that Lord Melville was not of his Majefly's Pri vy Council when be to appropriated the firlt But he would remind the Houfe, that his Lorelthip was then confis/entially engaged in the management r.f the internal affairs of Scotland. It could not he doubted that oteations of public fervice might arile, wh!ch would jollity' a loyal arid courageous fervent of his Majefly in the application of money, of which co account could he eiven to that Houfe. Any mo ney be could lay his (rands on, in fuch cireumftances, it was his duty to appropriate in fuch manner. .And where was the iticonventence of this? What extent of conaitutional danger was in it ? He mull repay the looney to I me perfon competent to receive it, for the Htaile would not entertain much jeatettfy that private fortunes would be fpent in the fecret fervice of the country. V'Th refpeft to his Lot dfhip's hold ing this to,cosl. as a balance in his own hands, he could not fee how an indiflment could be found that could declare it to be illegal. No provilions of any A& 1-Omitted the Treafurer of the Navy from keep ing the peniic money where he pleafed. Thete was no legal offence in keeping it any where. And what appearance was there that any fraud was ever defigned as to this 10,0031. ? Lord M. paid his balances to Mr. Trotter, declaring the deficiency of the 10,0001. and generally flitting the caufe. But of all modes of fraud, that of anticipation was the mina flupid, to foppofe Lord Melville would haiatd the fhipwreck of his fortuoes I:laced on the eminence he had attain ed, for to 03ct. Would he not have kept all the balances in his own hands, infleact of a feeding, and a fccding to mifcrable lions itt.Tiottet ? Hit 'toteifirip porfeed this argument, relative-to OA a lances of'Lo.d Melville, at great length, to fhew that in t' :i.e itetate thev.evere innocent, or criminal ( oily as a mere lo eaeh of Abeeletter of the law. He ellen adeeeted trs the mired fund, "Weft, he con tended, mutt be put out of the quellion, till it fhould be proved to he the public money, and that could be done only by the civil fuit. He infitied that the conclufion of his reafoning plainly was, that the affair was left no wink than by the Tenth Report.— From the evidence of Mr. Trotter, .he raid, it ap peared to him, that the moll important miflaket were made refpening the whole feature and charaner of Lord Itlelvil'e's balances. It did not appear that his Lordfhip, as the conclufinn is made, had for ma ny years horn to to 20,c001. in his hands, but that the( were the whole ales, and that they could not have been averaged at 3e.001. But if he had held the whole fum as it eted, what would the intereft have amounted to ? *lite tomenle fum of 7501 per annum. ilc did not know how to treat fuch an ebfor day with any common degree of ferionfnefs. For loch A mar. as "Lord Melville, with fueh talent, fortune and rank, to hazard all for filch participation, he thought mull be deemed impetfible by every man who has ho nourable feelings„and a love for char aner Mr. Raikes' evidence would he the fubjen of confider ation on another day. But hre would fay a word of 1 1 it, as it bore on this point at prefent. Mr. Raikes derived his information refpeting the public money i being kept at the Houle of Coutts, from Mr. New , land ; and Mr. Newland derived his knowledge from the Clerks at the Bank; and they from all the per fens who had drafts paid on Naval Accounts. If Lord Melville had any illicit motive for permitting any money to be draWn from the Bank, would he have expofed the tranfeCtion to inquiry in this man ner ? Every man who palled alon the Strand knew that navy money was at the Hou le of Coutts 1 Keep. ing money there, if guilty in loch a manner, was-a folly not to be credited of Lord Melville. But this is not all ; there is ftill a greater folly behind. The 4tll device of this fcene n t infanity is, to execute a releafe between the accomplices after the return of the precept, obliging each caktoto burn all inuch• ers, papers, and account bon!:s; and this fecret is intrufted to a man of bufinefs in the firft inflance, and fecondly to a public regifiry. After the moft anxious attention paid to every circumllance, he' could find no ground to accufe the Noble Lord ; • althonfh he world agree that he was unfortunate in falling it to loch a courfe with Trotter, and in falling 'inner fuch heavy public difgrace. He would put it to the fioufe, if they had not been imprudent in pre cipitanimeafures ; and if it did not now the more fielreve them to be cautions. The terms of the cm palled on his Lordfhip were not warranted by evidence ; and if they %vele a monument of Lord Melville's imprudence, they wete alto of the precipi tancy of the I Joule. li it was not the defign to flit ter away the queltion into as many deb ties ; as many parliamentary field days as could be, the courfe the Houle ought now to purfue was moft evident. The Honourable Gentleman ( Mr. Whitbread) was not tit to guide the Houle. He had involved them in a fi• motion of peculiar embarrafTmcnt. He would now perfuade them to aggravate the whole of their error by impeachment, which, tinder fuch circumflances, wasno other thin a fyliem of torture. If Lord M. could go to the Houle of Lords to trial, and his ac quittal would be a difcharge of hi i s tio cihoatradneaelry. Butandho nour,lie would will Lim to go without fuch was his fituation, god loch by the p'oceedings of the Houle, that A verdin would be either a mark of guilt, or an ineffeetial acquittal. He would recqm mend to the Houle to return to the civil (ult. In that, Lord Melville's evidence may be taken ; the jullice of the cafe, and Lord Melville's honour, better vindi cated. Many in the Houle, and many in the coun try, wiflt tofu his Lordfhip's talents and energies em ployed again in the public fervice, in this time of ex treme peril. For an orTence that can he' called fo only in a legal fink, he has fuffered the.beaviert nifhment a man of tremor, a gentleman, can feel,— Example enough has seer. made to deter c eery man' in public Rations from any neglen of law. When he lamented that a facrifice Humid be unneceffarily made, he lamented alio, it thould be of a man who had vigoroufly ferved the cruntry, manfully fought for her conititution, againfl its wcrll foes ; and who had condoned our wall Empire in India, on princi ples of honour and an enlightened policy. His Lord flip concluded with declaring his intention to oppofe both the motion and :he amendment. Mr. GREY felt it impoffible to (offer the Houk to come to a deciflon on the motion before it, with out riling to make tome ohfervations upon the fpeech of the Noble Lord who had jolt fat down ; which fpeech, however, was fn much a detail of the fame arguments which the Bottle had heard in the courfe of lath night's debate, th it he thould not feel it ne celTary very minutely to follow the Noble Lerd.— The Noble Lord fumed to have divided the fubje& under two heads : the firft, a defence of Lord Mel ville ; the fecond, an attack upon his Memorable Friend (Mr. Whitbread). Indeed, he thought it was taro an attack upon the H-efe itfllf, for the mode of proceeding it had thought proper to adept with regard to Lord Melville. In defending the Ne- ble.Vircount, the Noble Lord had followed the gene ral detail of arguments already urged 011 the tante l fide, horn which he deduced. that the Noble Lord had already futlained pu .0. Mein more than ade quate to the charees.agaitot Mar, and that to put fuc him to an impeachment, with a view to farthtr pu nithment, would be ablolute perfecution. The No ble Lord, however, has :admitted, th it if any new evidence had come out of any new criminal fen be fore the Seled Committee, it would have been jolt grounds for farther proceeding ; but that no Inch evidence having come out, the Houle is recluded from any further proceeding in a criminal way, hay ing already punifhed the Noble Lord for the charges of which he was found guilty. But did the Noble Lord mean to fay, that the proofs of participation in the delinquency of Mr. Trotter, which came out beforethe Selca Committee, was nn new or criminal fan ? Would he pretend to argue that the to,oool. acknowledged by Lerd Melville hitufelf tohave been by him appropriated to purpores he refilled to ex plain, no new criminal fa& ? In ids mind they were fans, both new and criminal, and in thctnrelves throng grounds of impeachment. The Noble Lord argued, that much proceeding had been already had in this bufinefs ; that Lerd Melville had been feffi• ciently punithed A and that his Honourable Ftiend, utofe abilities the Fdlole Lord had In re:.ity p r s' d, and well he might sal this occafiun, fr i irillae4r4 and milled that H , tie to decide againi if., iwn ~;:!-: 'of urtice. How long his Honourable Fi iu,d , N. . fefl'ed this ;*'tense urger the Houfe. he knew n ..,, but on this oecation it teemed to him a novelty, li, nourable to the Houle itf.:ll, becaule founded on e.. juilice of the ineafore, and highly to the ' , rail .; his Hon mrable Friend, what:: public fpirit and ind t . fatigable induflry had inllituted and . pin eued t hi s enquiry, which lid to the d.r.c.ai in of deleiquerci , e fo flagrant. not the only refrilutions in whi c h li t 1-I , emiurable Fri.otd had fucceeded agaiiilt the Nu. ble Lord were thole upon the fir II night of ili, s of centtire. His Honourable Friend indeed frft propufed the Refolutions for a .; le.et Committee f ; further enquiry, to which the Hou'e agreed ; 0:1 he afterwards gave notice of his intention to no , . fur unlimited lath tie - Innis for that Committee, I i r Ys motion was rej..,9cd, Ana limited itntrastion. p, - poled by the Right Honourable Gentlem in ; '- t they were found to much limited as ti , be wlu,;:v , . eflettual, and were afterwards enlarged ; the ro - i,;• of which was, the dilcovery of thole new i n it, inc „ of criminality, which framed the ground of his H, nourable Fr it iiiPs motion. But the nicrinn for p.. seeding by civil fait was meted by an flonour. i i I st Member, a former friend of Lord Melville. ,It . is true, that in confequence of the reftiltitioilsorigi. ly pr:poled by his Honourable Friend, founded : a he Tenth Report of the Commiffioners, Lmd Nle:v ;1$ resigned his fituation at the Admiralty, and seas !truck from the lilt of . his Majcity's Lott..cil, h, , the advice of the Right Honourable the .Chancellur of the Exchequer, who part:cipated in the cenfure of the Noble Lord this night, for tinArrantahle teve rill,. But.thofe circumtlances he could only view as.the neceftary conferpences of a resolution of the Houk, voting a man unfit to hold any place of pub lic true, as having v:ulated the confidence of hit Sovereign and the duties t.t hisuffice, and not as mi. nithments of retributive juftice inti.ficti by order of the Houle. There were marl precedents to Ulm that parliamentary ufage warranted a variety of pen. ceedings in cafes of impeachment ; fornetimes they commenced with I efulations as firming the ground of impeachment ; fornetimes the impeachment was proceeded on without loch previous refolutions ; but in no cafe were the refolutions, as to the guilt of any public delingnert, or his corifequent dilmiffal front employment, considered in the light of punifh ment. Nor could he admit the exitience of any fuck difliculty, as that flatel by the Noble Lord, which could preclude the Houfe from rrlcinding a pre. vi , n:s refolinion 1 r civil presets, and adopting a new one fur criminal proceeding, %%hen new cii cuinftances of ctimio.ality cinre ~ 11( in evidence.— Such circumflatice:: had come out on the evidence of Mr. Trotter, and Lord Melville hinifelf had - 'PP- no and m if i. admitted flirt, arid not quite denied a participa tion in other: , which ni ide no part whatever of the ground of the original refolutions. The Noble Lord recurred to the trodden ground of the AEI of Parlianienr, and lie attempted to thew, that tatting money rut of the Bank was not contrarT to the letter, al.hotig!) lie admitted it might be to the fpirit of the law. If the calk fo extrafted had t t e h r i i s a l were e for re the p o. been applies to tl.e Idler payments of of fi ce ex cclialirigveelarg' a it in w ll ° l i l i i t e :' Noble fi .."I li t c i d l poled to the letter of the liatut,7,•-r... 1 necefftry for the acennmodation of the claimants, the . fit way Would have been to have introduced a Bill Into lel Houle to remedy this deal in the ilaterte. If dug be not the charge, what is it ? It is dittinCtly this.: that under pretence of the exigencies of the naval fervice, immenfe firms were drawn out of the Bank for the purpnfes of'pe irate emolument. The mi-^:iitila. of this mlfapplication of the public money was Mr. Trotter, and the principal quettion was, if the tram& affirms of a private nature, condufted by the elfin ante of this . money, were or went not within the knowledge of Lora '<lel% hte. On the fad of this knowledge there was a peat deal of prefumptive proof, and whet VAS before uncertain, was, in a great degree, rendered corchsfive by the unfuccefs ful defence in v.lich the Nr,ble Lord had been en gaged. If he be inked if he knew of the affair, he Grid, Nn; but if the interrogatory were propofed to him in a more qtrai,iied way, and it be enquired if he nnicrito 'd and believed fir, he replied in the affir;• mative, and he affigned the realm for it, viz. to ill , create the sal try if Mr. Trotter. The Order of Council, roujiing this fut,i,--a, was in 1780: the re gulations made by l'arli,antent were in correquence. of what had 'teen recommended by the Naval Commir (loners. Whit did they fecummend ? That no cificer fhouid have the ufe here given of the floating capital. How then could L-rd Melville be ignorant that this diverfion cf,the effecls of the State sea, not irregular and illegal ? Then, as to the matters of account, of which •the Noble Lord who fpute halt had com mented at fo much length, the ftstute tinder confederation was paired in the month of J•tly. 17 85, but its. Operafion Was furpernted by the foie authority ti Pied Melville, twill the lit ,I jarra- . ary, t:96, .2.0 by. Gis espciiient a balance . rt no Ws than toa,ccol. silts retained in his hands to, lit months. Ile thr:riht there wa, adi eft proof of the pat tic;pati..n r f L r-d Melville in the emohiments. Items to the event of S,CCUL Appeared on ;he face of the accounts, to have berm psi .1 to the Noble Lord wi!hout any explanation whatever as to the motive of this appropriation. User-,re talk accounts were 'hewn, where artful concealment was practifed, it was imparble not to entertain the Itrorgelt firfpicion of guilt. It was perfeCtly clear that Lord Isltivi:;e had made unfounded pretences in the facilities of e.- flee, and the means of promoting thrift winch IV:Te 'wholly abandoned by his fucceffors. An at ratycn:;e: utterly different had been adopted, wh;ch anfweted all the purperfe , of public and private inconvenience. Then Mr. Raikes informed Mr. Piit,• the regular in teicourfe was not maintained between the Lank and the Naval Department. A communication enfued between the Tteaforer of the Navy and the Chancel lor of the Ezchequs r—and the latter was told that no money was drawn from the Bank but what Mr. Dundas believed to he neceftary hothe Naval fervice. It was abfalutoly impotrible that in the year 1797, when this paired, the Noble Lard &told not have known C:at large fours were ei.,...., by Mr. Ti otter from the Batik for his own purports. It was per tettly clear that Lord Melville Itimfelf received large amounts, for which he paid HO interea, and it was obvious lac was Ai:vaulted with the fota:cx from AL M& there we to accon by Mr. led the limits of informe , one of tl irregula cept of of Mr. 1 cealmen but tie vett tot The eh( terior tt, But the regittra attempts to be di Record, for cent , man be knew an there w. which r Palling 1 *aeration was COr Inittee. before. nercting Lord, ; eerning If the Cr fuch a c 77. WI priation the cific Curer of bold avt this, why Mot cve would b the •ant c.. with wh end and objeas offender offence. Was not thelitua dition o the degt laid had heel poling tion frog honours quence,