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REPORT. VIZ CORIMITTNE 11,10114ITZD TO DRAW DP ARTICLED 01 ARI• PEACUMENT AOMEIST UZIMIT LORD VP.COONT MRLVILLR, H .kvx, PUitillANT 10 TIC ORDER Of TUC 10011, RRRRRRR D L AR I ICLII ACCORDINGLY: W ICM ARTICLR3 AIR As TOLLoW ; vii. FICLES exhibited by the Knights, Citizens, and Burger la, in Parliament affembled, in the Name of themfelycs and of all the Commons of the Unified Kingdom of Great Bri tain and Ireland, arsinft Ha P 4 a r Lord Vircount MiLvt Lac, hi Maintenance of their Impeachment apinit him, for High Crimes and Mildenteanurs. Whereas the office et Treafurer of his Majefty's Navy is an office of high troll and confidence; in the f a ithful and uncorrupt execution whereof, the fob jeds of this kingdom are moll deeply interefted : and whereas the ancient conftitution of the faid office of Treafurer of the Navy, and of other offices concerned in the receipt, dilburfement, and controul of the pub lic money, having been found to be highly inexpe dient in confequence of the increafed expenditure of the country, did become the fubjed of frequenellong, and ferious deliberation in Parliament : and whereas by an At of Parliament made and patted in the zoth year ot the reign of his prefent Majefty, and by feve sal fublequent Ads of Parliament, for appointing and enabling Commiffioners to examine, take, and /lace, the public accounts of this kingdom, and for other purpofes therein mentioned, certain Commit: flows were conflituted and appointed for examining, taking, and Rating the accounts therein particularly mentioned, and alto for examining and Rating in what manner, and at what times, the receipts, Ulises, and expenditures, of the public monies were account ed for ; and for confidering of and reporting by what means and methods the public accounts might in future be patted, and the accomptants compelled to pay the balances or monies due from them in a more expeditious, more effedual, and lets expenfive manner : and whereas the faid Commiffioners did en quire into and report upon the public accounts by the faid Ads referred to their examination, and did difcover and point out various abufes in many of the Public Offices entrufted with the receipt and expen diture of public money, and in particular in the office of the Treafurer of his Majefty's Navy; and did pro pote and recommend fundry good and wholefome provifions and regulations for the reformation of the fame, and particularly for preventing the public money iffued for Navy Services from coming into the poffeffion and cuftody of the Treafurer of his Majefty's Navy, or the officers or perfons employed under him ; for depriving him and them of all op portunity of ufing and mifapplying the public money to private purpofes, and thereby expofing the fame to the rifle of lots: for making the Bank of England the tole place of depofit for the fame; for removing, from thenceforward, all temptations and induce ments to applications for more public money than was needier) , for the public fervice ; for preventing all unneceltary delay in palling the public accounts of the Treafurer of his Majetly's Navy, and in reftoring to the public the balances remaining in his hands : and whereas the Haute of Commons having taken the Reports of the Laid Commitlioners into confedera tion, upon the 19th day of June, :782, did (among other things) refolve, that tome regulations ought to be adopted, for the purpofe of leftening and keeping down the balances which appeared to have ufually been in the hands of the Treafurer of the Navy ; and did further declare their opinion, that from thence forward the Paymailer-General of his Majefty's Land Forces, and the Treafurer of the Navy for the time being, thould not apply any fum or fums of money imprefled to them or either of them, to any purpofe or advantage or intereft to themfelves, either directly or indirelly. And whereas for the more effetually carrying into execution the (aid Refolutions of the Houfe of Com mons, his Maiefty, by warrant under his Royal fign manual, bearing date the azd day of June, 1782, was moll gracioufly pleated to augment the income of the Right Hononourable Ifaac Barre, as Treafu rer of his Majetly's Navy, and to add thereto the turn of 2,1301. that the (aid income might in future amount to 4.0001. which his Majefty was then gra clout'', pleated to Frant to the faid Ifaac Barre, clear of all dedußions, in full fatisfadion of all wages and fees and other profits and emoluments theretofore enjoyed by former Treafurers of his Majelhy's Navy ; and whereas by letters patent, bearing date the 19th day of Auguß, 1781, his Ilajelly was graciously pleated to give and grant unto the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, now Lord Vifcount Melville, the Office of Treafurer of his Majefty's Navy, Royal and Ships, and Receiv er -G enera l of all films of money appointed, or from time to time may be appointed, and payable for the fupport, maintenance, and repa ration of his Majefty's Navy Royal and Ships, for emptions and provifions appertaining to and necef fary for the faid navy and (hips, and for wages, fala ries of officers, fervants, and other perfons whatever, belonging to the faid navy or (hips, or any other mat ter or thing whatfoever, in any manner touching or concerning the Navy Royal or Ships ; and for the exercife and occ u p at i on o f t h e f a id o ffi ce , an d f or an d . fatisfadion of all wages and fees of three pence of lawful money fo r every.. pound to be rixeived and paid by the laid Henry Dundas, by virtne of his faid office, his Majefly was further graciously pleated to give and grant unto him, by the laid letters patent, an annuity or yearly payment of 2,0001. And whereas the Lid Henry Lord Vifcount ripe repretented, or canted to be reprefenced, or it was reprelented to his Majefty, that the faid annuity or yearly payment of zoool. after deducing all charges, taxes, and expenses thereon, would not pro duce to him the (aid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville snore than the fum of tBeol. in each year, or there ahouts ; whereupon his Majefty, by warrant under his Royal fign manual. bearing date the z3d day of Qanher, 1 -Bz, was gracioutly pleated to declare that the Inc re of the Treafurer of the Navy fhould be augmented with an additional allowance of 23241. (").. r)d. in order to make, together with the Laid fum of itigol, the laid income to amount in future to the fum of 40001: and his ?staidly did thereby dime, authorize, and empower the laid Henry Lord Vif count Melville to take and apply, out of fuch monies a , were in or (hould come to his hands, or to the hands Of hisc.tfhier, •arifen or to arife by the tale of old naval floret, the faid film of 23241. 6,. 6d. which, together with the before-mentioned tum of 18sol. would make the laid fum of 40001. which his Majefty was grad nay pleated to grant him, clear of all dedudions, in fAtisfaition of all wages and fees, and other pro !, s and claohnneata theretofore enjoyed by former Treafurers of the Navy; the fame to commente and be computed from the day of the date of the faid letters patent, and to tontinne during his continuance in the faid office : and his Malay did further dire a, authorize. and empower the raid Henry Lord Vif count Melville, in cafe the faid additional allowance of 23241. 6s. 6d. together with the faid feveral allow. ances before (fated, Ihould not produce in each year the net fum of 40001. tooltarge the deficiency in the annual amount of monies dilburfed by him for fees of divers natures: and whereas the laid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville held and enjoyed the faid office of Treaftrei of his Majeßy's Navy, under the faid letters patent, from the 19th day of Auguft, 1782, until the loth day of April, 1783 : And whereas by letters patent. bearing date the sth day of January 1784, his Majefty was gracioufly pleated again to give and grant unto the laid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville the faid office of Treafurer of his Majeßy's Navy, in the fame terms as in the faid former letters patent of the 19th day of Auguli 8782 ; and upon a fimilar reprefentation made or caufed to be made by the faid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville or otherwife made to hisMajeftyas that hero. inbefore Rated, his Malay was gracioufly pleafcd, by valtrant under his Royal fign manual, bearing date the 16th day of January, :784, to augmentthe income of the faid office of Treafurer of the Navy with an additional allowance of 2,3241. 6s. 6d. in order to make the annual income of the laid office amount to the laid turn of four thoufand pounds, and which faid income his Malay was thereby gracioufly pleat ed to grant to the raid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville clear of all dednftions, in full fatisfatlion of all wa ges and fees, and other profits and emolumentsthere tofore enjoyed by former Treafurers of the Navy, and to fecure and provide for the due payment thereof in like manner as in the raid former warrant of the z3d day of Otßober 1782, is provided : And whereas the faid Henry Lord Vifcount Mel ville, under and by virtue of the faid fall mentioned letters patent, held and enyed the faid o ffi ce of Treafurer of his Majefty ' s Navy, from the faid sth day of January 1784, until the 3 tll day of May riloo: And whereas on the 17th day of February 1785, the Honfe of Commons ordered that leave fhould be given to bring in a Bill for better regulating the office of the Treafurer of his Majay's Navy, and that (together with other Members of the faid Houfe of Commons,) Mr. Henry Dundas, now Lord Vif count Melville,fhould prepare and bring in the fame, and, in purfuance of the faid order, the (aid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville, on the soth day of April, 1785, did prefent to the Houfe of Commons a Bill for bitter regulating the office of the Treafurer of his Majeßy's Navy ; and faid Bill having pared the Houfe of Commons, was, in purfuance of an order of that Houle, carried by the faid Henry Lord VW count Melville to the Houk of Lords ; to which Bill he (in the name of the Route of Commons) de fired the concurrence of their Lordlhips : And whereas the laid Bill, in the asth year of his Majay's reign, paid into a law, intituled 44 An AIR for better regulating the office of the Treafurer of his Majeßy's Navy ; the 01, 3d, 4th, and sth fations whereof are as follow : ;ft Section—. Whenee it appears by the Reports made by the Commidonera appointed to examine, take, and Bate the Public Accotnts of the Kingdom, that regulations are necegary for bet ter concluding the bonnet's in the department of the Treafarer of his Majefty's Navy; be it therefore minted by the King's Mon Excellent Majefty, by and with the advice and cook= of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this pro:fent Parliament 'gambled, and by the authority of the fame, That from and after the zit day of July, 1785, the Treafarer of his Majeny's Navy for the time being, in all memorials to be by him prefented to the Treafary for money for Navy Services, mall pray that fuch turn as be requires may be inked to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England cm his account, and than tranf mit with each memorial a copy of a letter or letters from the Conantiffiemers of the Navy, Vidualling, and Sick and Hart Boards, direding him to apply for Poch fum or fume ; in which letter or letters the Paid Coromigioners than, and they are hereby required and drafted to fpecify for what particular fenice or fees vices the Paid amesey is wanted, and lb all alto (tate the balances then in the hands of the Treafurer of the Navy under each head of fervice refpcdtively; and the Coaimillionen of his Majefty's Treafury for the time being, by their letter front time to time, Mall dna the Auditor of the Exchequer to Igoe to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, cm account of the Tree- Curer of his Majefty's Navy, naming [soh Traducer for the time being, the fun; fur which Nth letter than be drawn upon the uu fatisfied order at the Exchequer, In favour of the laid Treafuret, for which the receipt of the Calid‘r or Cinders of the (aid Go vetoer and than be a Whim Company ; and an turns for which letters of the Conuoillissen of Ms y's Treafury man be drawn, than be Mal is the Governor and Company of the Bank of England in like meow an they have bees heretofore hued to the Treaftwer of his Mikity'. Navy; and all loch mo nies to be inked to the Govenow sad Company of the Bank of England tall be placed oo an MOM or mount" to be raged in the books of the Governor and Oemposey of the Add Bank of Eng land, and to be minded. " The Ames= of the Treafurer of his Majefty's Navy," infesting the awns elf nada Trainer the the time being, for the Pay Busch, Cahn Basch, sod the Vic tualling Branch; and on receipt of all Iladi =ides at the Exche quer, the Tritium of the Navy than lams tardy certify to the Conunideners oldie Navy, an account of the whole receipt under the refpodive heads of kniee, aid than alt. eerdfy to the Coen. :Winona" of the Villimarag and Sidt and Hart Boards, the par. titular Isms received and agglladis to thole fervicarefpedively." 3d liedise And be it der waded, That front and after the to day of july, As, as aesey for the kryke of the Navy, mall be Weed from his P6f 44 4ely'S Exchequer to the Treafurer of the Navy, or Omit be or abetted to he placed, in his bands rpeMl. en; but the lholl he lend and drafted to be paid to the Governor sad Onsigany Odic Bank of England. and to be cvto the masts absweinaitiosed, according to the krvices slikb it is craved NA MeV 4th Paßion—" And be k enadted, That the Treafurer of his Ma jefty's Navy for the time being, by blade'. or the pedant or per lens in his edam duly notherifed by the Paid Treafurcr ' from and after the te day at July , 1713, Sall draw upag the Go vernor and Company of the Beak of llnoail for all Navy - Services whatever, and bap (reify in each and every draft the head of fervice for which the fame ball be drawn t and no draft of the laid Treafu rer, or the perfon or pertains authorited as aforefaid. Diap be deem ed a Beam voucher to the hid Governor end Company of the Bank of England, melds the fame ll:taffies the bead of fervice far which it is drawn, and has been adtaaly by the laid Gover ner and Compaq of the Bank of sth Provided always, That the monies to be Med unto the Governor and Company of Bank of England, at se count of the Treafirer of ha Majelty's Navy, than sot be paid out of the Bank =leis for Navy Services. and in porfuance of drafts to be drawn on the Governor and Company of the Bank of Eng land, and fired by the Tot:starer of his MajeGy's Navy for the time being, or the pafon or pedals autherifed as aforefaid s in which drafts Ball be (pedaled the heads of fa vice to which the ftwas therein inendoned are te be applied; and which drafts fo drawn Emil be talkie= authority to the Bank to pay filch mean to the rakes mentioned in fuels drafts or to the bearer of them." And whereas the provifions contained in the raid left mentioned Ad of Parliament, west thereby di retied to take place on the ill day of July, 1783 ; but the execution of the raid Aa, with refped to the (aid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville, opening an ac count or accounts with the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, as thereby directed, was poftponed by him until the 13th day of January, ;786, when the (aid Hairy Load Viccount Melville' opened an xecount *ids the Cooernoe and Compagy . of the sank of England, entitled, " Right Honour.- able Henry Dundas, Aa of Parliament New Ac count i n and which (aid account was continued by him until he quitted the raid office on the 3 19 of May, iBOO, and was the only account kept by the Paid Henry Lord Vilcount Melville, as Ttealbrer of his Majelly's Navy, with the G o v ernor an d Compa ny of the Bank of England, under and in purfuance of the Paid Aft of Parliament for regulating the (aid office. And whereas on the roth day of January, 1786, while the Paid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville held and enjoyed the laid office of Treafurer of his Ma jefty's Navy, he did conftitute and appoint Alexander Trotter his Paymafter ; and the Paid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville did, on the Paid loth day of Janu ary, 1786, duly autlerife_and empower the raid Alex ander Trotter to draw on the Governor and Compa ny of the Bank of England, for and upon the ac- 1 count of him the Paid Henry Lord Vifcount Mel ville as Treafurer of his Majefty's Navy, all and every Turn and funs of money that then were or mould thereafter be wanted for the public fervices, under the care and payment of the laid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville, the laid Alexander Trotter being particularly careful to fpecify in each and every draft the fervice fur which the money fhould be drawn. And whereas it was the duty of the Paid Henry Lord Vircour-t Melville, during all the time he held and enjoyed the Paid office of Treafurer of his Ma jelly's Navy, to abftain from applying himfelf, and Ito prevent all perfons acting under him from apply ing any part of the mosey Wired from his Majefty's Exchequer for Navy Services, to any purpofes of ad vantage or intereft to himfelf nr themfelves, either directly or indirealy, or to any other purpofes than for Navy Services, and from deriving any profit or emolument therefrom : And from and after the pal ling of the Paid Aft of Parliament of the 25th year of his Majefty's reign, for better regulating the Of fice of the Treafurer of his Majefty's Navy, it was the duty of the Paid Lord Vifcount Melville to ob terve and purfue the provifions and directions of the Paid At of Parliament ; yet the Paid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville, not fatisfied with the ampla reve nue fo provided for him as aforefaid, nor regirding the duty of his high and important office, or the ex peels provifions of the laid Aft of Parliament, did, whilft he held and enjoyed the Paid Office, aft and condo& himfelf fraudulently, corruptly, and illegally, in the feveral inftances herein let forth. FIRST ARTICLE. That the fald Henry Lord iffeountiiclville,whllft be held and enjoyed the Paid °Ake of Treafurer of his Majefty's Navy, and previous to the Paid rah day of January, r;B6, did take and re ceive, from and out of the money imperiled to him as Treafurcr of his Majefty's Navy, from his Majeity's Exchequer. the fum of ro,cooL or fome other large funs or funs of money, and did fraudu lently and illegally convert and apply the fame to his own ufe, or to Come other corrupt and illegal perpoks, an/ to other purpofes than thole of the Public Navy Services of the kingdom, to which alone the fame was lawfully applicable; and did continue fuch fraudu lent and illegal converfton and Application of the raid fum or ferns of money, after the patting of the Paid As of Parliament for the better regulating the Office of the Treafurer of his Majefty's Navy. And the raid Henry Lord Vifetount Melville has declar4 that be never would reveal the application of the laid fum of topeol. and, in particular, he did make Inch declaration in the Houfe of Com mons on the nth day of J one, silos ; and then and there added, that he fdt hbufelf bond, by motives of public fluty, as well as private booms', and perfonal convenience, to aimed the fame s all which coodudt of the Paid Henry Lord VU'count Melville was contrary to the duty of his laid Oilice.a breach of the high trial re pofe4 in him, and a violation of the laws and llama of this realm. SECOND ARTICLE. That the (aid Henry Lord Vikount Melville, difregarding the duties able Paid once, and in breach and violation of the fad Att of Parliament for better regulating the fame, did, after the palling of the fame AR, and whllft the laid Henry Lord Vitconnt Mel ville continued to bold and enjoy the laid office connive at and permit and fuller the Paid Alexander Trotter, under and by virtue of the Laid authority to given to him by the Paid Henry Lord Vif count Melville u aterefaid, illegally to draw, tredve, and take from the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for other purpofes than for immediate application for navy [wrier*, large fumy of money from and out of the monies before then iffued unto the Paid Governor and Company of the flank of England, on account of the kid Henry Lord Vifeuunt Melville, as Treaforcr of his Majelty's Navy : And the fail Henry Iced Vifcount Mel vifte did connive at and permit and fatter the Paid Alexander Trot ter to place the (aid left mentioned turns of money, or a great part thereof, fo illegally drawn , received, and taken by him from the Governor and Company of the Bank of England as aforefaid, in the bands of Meffrs. Thomas Courts and Company, the private bookers of the laid Alexander Trotter,in his own name, an d, fob- Jed to We foie controul and difpofition : All which coodu.t of the faid Henry Lord Vircount Melville was contrary to the duty of his raid ollice,a breach of the high truft repaid in him, and a vio lation of the laws and flannel of the realm. THIRD ARTICLE. That after the pairing of the laid Ad of Parliament for better I reguhtlog the Office of the *freafura of his Majdty's Navy, and after the raid loth day of Jaunty x 786, and wbllft the kid Henry Lord Vikount Melville held and enjoyed the raid office, large Buns of money were from time to time iffued and paid to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and placed on an account railed in the books of the Paid Governor and Company with the Paid Hairy Lord Vikount Melville, entituled, Right' Hon. Henry Duodu, Ad of Parliament New Account :" And the faid Alexander Trotter, under and by virtue of the Paid au thority from the raid Henry Lord Vikoent Melville, did from 1 1 the fold Nth day of January 1726, during all the time the Paid Henry Lord Vikount Melville afterwards continued to bold and enjoy the Paid Office of Treaftwer of his Majcfty's Navy, draw upon the Paid Governor and Company of the Bank of England, fee and ea account of the monies fo 'Sued and paid to them, and placed to the laid account fo rafted in their books, with the Paid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville ' as fuck Treafurer as aforcfaid and the laid Alexander Trotter did receive and take large buns of money fo drawn by him from the (aid Governor and Company of the Bank of England as aforcfaid : Tbat the Paid Henry Lord Vikount Melville did, after the raid tech day of January 1786, fraudulently and illegally permit and furter the laid Alexander Trotter to place many of the (aid fume of money fo drawn, received, and taken ty him from the Governor and Company of the Bank of Englartd as aforefaid,in the bands of Merits. Thomas (Cutts and Co. the phase blathers of the raid Alexander Trotter, in his own name, and at his own (bipedal : And the Paid Alexander Trotter did thereupon,. with the privity, by the connivance, and with the permiffion of the raid Henry Lord Vikottot Melville. apply and de the Paid lift mentioned fume of money, or great part thereof, for purpofes of private advantage or intereft, profit and emolument ; and did place the raid fume of money, or a great part thfreof, 1:5 the hands of the raid Marrs. COlitti and Co. mixed with and undißinguleted front the proper monies of the laid Alexander Trotter, whereby the laft mentioned fonts of money were not only applied to and ufed for purpofes of private advantage or interrit, profit and emolument, and for pur port:a other than Navy fiervices,hut were silo tapered to great !Ilk of MG, aad was withdrawn from the controul and difpolition of the Treafurer of his Majetty's Navy : And the (aid Henry Lord Vikount Melville, oy Co conniving at and permitting and fuffaing the public motley to he withdrawn from the Bank of England, and tired and applied in manner aforefald. ailed in breach of the great troll and confidence repofed in him, in violation of the raid Act of Parliament made for regulating his hid Office, contrary to bra duty, and againft the laws of this realm, and to the evil example of all perfons entrufted in the great departments of the Public Service, with any controul over be application and expend:Luc of the Public Money. FOURTH ARTICLE. That after the laid sot/ of January, z yll6, and wbWt the fad Henry Lord Vlfotiont Melville held and enjoyed the Laid Otice of Traducer °fhb Majefty's Navy, be the Laid Henry LetdVffeosett Melville, did fraudulently and Illegafty, for the polio& of aAvva; Cage or karma to hinifelt. or for acquiring or obtaining re,* of entalument therefrom, or for Lase other corrupt .31 1 iN•c.! ' pores, and for purpofes other than Navy Services, take and receive from the public money placed ill hi. name et the Limb of Eng land, as Treafurer of his Altjelt3'. Navy, t'e loin of tc• o I. or Come other large rum or fonts of money, and did fraudulently and illegally con►ert and apply the fame to hi. own ufe, or to form other corrupt and illegal purpoks —Thar during the time the Paid Alexander Trotter held and enjoyed the fail thfic: of P.vmat!• r to the Paid Henry LordVircount Melville as aforefald, and whit% the raid Henry Lard Val - count Melville hehl and enjoyed the laid Office of Treafurer of his Majefty's Navy as aforefaid, he the laid Alexander Trotter kept, with the Paid Henry Lord Vircount ' Melville, an account current, entered in certain books of ac ' count, containing entries of all the flints paid and received by the i raid Alexander Trotter, on the account of the Lid Henry Lord Vtfcount Mclvillc ; and by agreement between the fay Henry Lord Vlreount Melville and the fail Alexander Trotter, bearing date the the 28th and 23d clays of February, a n , it is Rated, that they bad either mutually delivered up t.) each other, or re folved and agreed mutually to cancel or deftroy all the vaulters or other memorandums and writings that at any time therctoforemight have exifted, paffed, or !seen interchanged between them relative to the Paid accounts, and the different items and article, of whkb. the (aid accounts were compoLd or confined : And the laid books of account containing the laid account current, together with all vouchers or other memorandums and writings ht the pofreffion of the Paid Alexander Trotter, and alto of the raid Henry Lord Vircount Melville relative thereto, were burnt and deftroyell by the (aid Henry Lord Vilcount Melville and Alexander Trotter.: And the Paid ilipnlation contained in the Paid agreement for tbs. kid Henry Lord Vifeonot Melville and Alexander Trotter mu tually delivering up to each other, or for mutually cancelling and deftroying all the Lid vouchers or other memorandums or writ ings relative to the Lid ilecciuut was fo entered into; and the Paid books of accounu, +cockers, mattorandums, and writings, were fo burnt and deftroyed, with a view to conceal and prevent the dif covery of the feveral advances of money made by the (aid Alezan. dcr Trotter to the Paid ljcory Lord Vdcount Melville, and of the feveral accounts or conedetations for or upon w;tich the fame were (a advanced: Mi which conduCt of the hid Henry Lord Vircourat Melville was, contrary to the duty of his Gild office, a breach of the high truft repofed in him, and a violation of the laws and Its totes of this realm, and to the like evil example as aforefral FIFTH AR fiCLE. That after the Paid loth day of January, 1786, and whilft the Paid Alexander Trotter Cu continued the Paymatter of the Paid Henry Lord Vikouns Melville as aforefaid, and with fuck privity. connivance, and permiffion as aforefaid, fo applied and ufed tke 1 1 laid turns of money, or great part thereof, for purpofes of private advantage, profit, and emolument, as aforefaid, the laid Henry Lord Wcount Melville fraudulently concealing the illegal ufe and application of the fame, did procure, obtain, and receive front the Paid Alexander Trotter, advances of Several large rums of money. which were made to him the laid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville by the raid Akunder Trotter, In part from money Was aforcfaid illegally drawn by him the Laid Alexander Trotter, from the Go. venter and Company of the Bank of England, and in part hoop Suns of money fo placed by the Paid Alexander Trotter, in the hands of the Paid Meffrs. Courts and Co. as aforefaid, when mixed with and undiftingulfbed from the proper monies of the Paid Alex ander Trona And for the porpofe of more effettnally conceal ing the Laid advances of money, the fad books of account, vouchers. memorandums, and writings, were Co as aforefaid burnt and de ftroyed. SIXTH ARTICLE. That amongft other advances of money fo as aforefaid obtained and received by the laid Henry Lord Vifeount Melville from the Paid Alexander Trotter, the raid Henry Lord Vikeunt McMlle did procure, obtain, and receive from the Paid Alexander Trotter, a rum of ax,oooi. or fame other large rum or fume of money, ad vanced by the laid Alexander Trotter to the Paid Henry Lord Vii count Melville, without inter& ; part whereof was fo advanced exclufively front Public Money, fo as aforefaid illegally drawn from the Governor and Company of the Bank of England by the Paid Alexander Trotter and other pan whereof was advanced from the Paid mixed fend, con:poled as well of Public Money fo as aforefaid illegally drawn by the raid Alexander Trotter Irons the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and placed by him in the hands of the Paid Melfts. Cavite and Company as afore. laid, as the proper modes of the laid Alexander Trotter in the hands of the raid Meats. Coutte and Co. whisk had been mixed therewith, and remained undifUngulftsed therefrom : Mad for the purpofe of more efftdtually concealing the raid advances of mo ney, the laid books of account, vouchers, memorandums, and. writings were fo as aforcfaid burnt and deltroyed. BEVEN7K ARTICLL That amongft other advances of money fo as afottfald obtained and received by the Paid Henry Lord Vilcount Melville from the Paid Alexander Trotter, the Paid Henry Lord Vircount McMlk did obtain and receive a (um of ns,OOOL or Come other large funs or Aims al money advanced to him by the Paid Alexmder Trot ter; and for which lt has been aUedged by the laid Henry Lord Ifikount Melville, that be was to pay Interelt: and for the pur -1 pore of more effeEtually aracealing the kid !aft-mentioned ad. mace% of money, the bid books of SCCOIIOtII, vouchers, memo randums, and writings were fo as aforefald burnt and ddtroyed. EIGHTH ARTICLE. That during an, or great part of the time, the Paid Alexander Trotter held and enjoyed the laid office of Paymafter to the Paid Henry Lord Vltcount Melville, as aforefaid, and the laid Henry Lord Vilcount Melville held and enjoyed the fad °nice of Trai• hirer of his Majefty's Navy, as aforefald, he, the Paid Alexander Trotter did gratuitoully, and without (Mary or other pecuniary eompentation, ad in and trailed the private bufinefs of _the faid Henry Lord Vitcount Melville, as his agent, and was, from time to time, in advance for the Paid Hairy Lord Vitconut Melville, in that relpett,to the amount of from ten thoufand to 20.0004 or to tome other peat amount : and which advances were taken from the Paid toms of money fo placed by the Paid Alexander Trotter io the bands of the laid Mars. Courts and Co. confining in part, of public money drawn by him from the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, as aforefaid, and in part of his own private monies mixed therewith, and undiltinguithed therefrom as afore. Paid : By means whereof the fall Henry Lord Vitcount Melville did derive benefit and advantage from the aforefaid illegal ads of the Paid Alexander Trotter._ - _ _ . - And the laid Alexander Trotter did fo gratuitoully, and with out filmy, art In and truth& the private buGnefs of the laid Henry Lord Vikount Melville, and make him loch advances of money as aforefald, in confideration of the raid Henry Lord Vif. count Melville conniving at and pprmittlig and (offering the laid Alexander Trotter fo as aforefaid to apply and make ufe of the laid rums of public money fo drawn by hint from the Bank of England, and applied and appropriated for perpoks of private ad vantage, er intereft, profit, and emolument, as afurefaid : and the Paid Alexander Trott! would not have been, and was well known to the faid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville not to have been able to make Inch advances of money to the faid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville as aforefald, othet wife tban from and by means of the faid fume of public money fo drawn by the faid Alexander TrAter from the Bank of England, with the privity, connivance, and per. million of the kid Henry Lord Vifeount Melville as aforefaid, and applied by tbefald Alexander Trotter for purpofes of private advantage, intereit, profit, and emolument : all which proceedings and cuodudt of the faid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville were con trary to the duty of his faid Alice, in breach of the great truft re poled in him, and in grofs violation of the laws and flatutes of this realm: and by all and every one of the aforefaid adts done and committed by him the (aid Henry Lord Vifcount Melville, he was and Is guilty of high crimes and tnifdemeanon. THE Missinuat Tuatrautt.,who has juft publithed an interefling account of his late voyage round the World, lived fit months on the ifland of Otaheite, and vifited all the principal iflands of the Pacific in the years 1803 and 1804, and has given the lateft and moll cot re& accounts of the Rate of the millions to the various iflands that has yet appeared. On Tuefday fe'nnight two French officers, prifoners of war, upon their parole at Litchfield, fought a duel with phials, near that city. One of the combatants fell, having received a dangerous wound in his hip, from whence the ball penetrated to his back; the other, with the feconds, made off from the field of battle, and have not bten difcovered. The wounded Gentleman is in a fair way of recovery, but refufes to divulge the names of the parties, or the caufe of quarrel. So determined were they on deftration that, it is &id, they fired at the fisort diftance of three paces 1