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@ I --- PARLIAMENTARY PROCREDMGS. HOUSE' OP LORDS, WRDNIADAY, MARCH e. Mr. KNAPP was heard as Counfalln the Appall--Maedowal 9. Bailey; star which the jud g ment of the Court of King's Beach was 'Sailed with 8.1 cofts The sanest Itulemaity Bill W'3 read a (ceded time and ordered to be committed for to-morrow —Adjourued. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. HUTCHINSON prtfertte4 a petition from the City of Cork, praying for leave to ere t a new gaol for the accommodation of that CWT....Referred to a Committee. Mr. FORDYCE prefented the third Report front the Surveyor General of his Maiefty s Land Revenue which was ordered to be printed. Certain accounts were prefented from the Commiffioners of the Thames Navigation ; which were ordered to lie on the table. Lord OSSULSTLIN withdrew his notice for papers refpeding i India. Lord TEMPLE obtained lame to bring in a Bill for continuing, for a time to be limited, the Mt Idpeodiug the Woollen MIMI. WIWI Mt.. Mr. TIERNEY poftponed h 4 motion fetter:llos the Treating Aft till Monday m et. Mr. Secretary FOX requefted of his Honourable Friend (Mr. johnitone) to put off his autumn till Monday next ; with which be complied. Mr. VANSITTART brought in the Bill for continuing for a limited time certain Irith A. relative to the Revenue of that =ea; which was read aMR Moe, and ordered for a fecond 'The litord Marine Repladon Bill was reported. and ordmed for a famed reading. • Lord TIMPLII brae& up the report of the Coln Export Bill, which wee 'retired to be reed • fecund time to morrow. The Feed.' Ilabliers' 111, sad the Greenland Whale Fidtery BAIL west dumb a Cummins, sad were ordered to be reported tareitweew. Tram& went into a Theseektie on the Free Port Aft, and the man woe TeCtivild, sad Musa shoo to brig la • NW to per mit iisiiejiy to hap et sad mime arida smamaidss to and *ma is kartiser al Saul la Oa nod etTomila. Is a Clossuiless Oda dodo Nods. DITAAT re paid weds prelims Ow them ad dash VA kri a E t th T e M iliti a of Oral Ida sad IrdsaiTlaba sepoesal tramway/. ComedadMe Idlk ever Dirmalmek IXL To be reported to morrow. • £DDITIOII,II. road B. iard CASI'LUZAOH thesibt It wends that the Add. dead Pens 111 Night nes be the MINI se Maim sal ast darnhigthet die lints wael4 will to lave every isternadea ea the talesik glee aid* that ea Palby not he would iron for nada papers reladwrte dot hi)* watapte WILLISLIL z k rpas. W. PAUL at nobs OW Mention to move en Turfday ants ter is ftipert of the gauge be moat to berg hanard the Morph witty. - Lead wined to haw V he was to atiderertd that the Ma. Nimes assert en din Ott es Wag forward ha Margie *MI ids !Meld. elh. PAU WM, L mead. then leen oak bur Madan! se ws/ay is MIMS Met to being termed that charge. •an theta lac = y a ow to move as Tdday. ADDINGTON earn& that he and ben =tr a l l ts a tr i bmil dis Hbli Mend tar sl s er: • bethought =Me Forgets ea thee oriole.. He taped the Hon. Red se elOsdies sear se Ante ne.wstairret the lair. seas be =tb br ti's Perak et the imam for wila be ma an gine Mr. PATlLsehrerad.as to the tendition of ems charge soda* die Nebis 7 ... ter bee Ns anent seadad town* a Prince of iiiii telleeesi s if deelt s mpsra wire granted ( to lintor ward , the Nubia Idarqularininfte 11. we a l fin nags that • • lash cos. et X OWOOD. The Illadenabeerehmee, eeetennabl to his Majefty's eon nem& nob inter sertlisreden the et Lord Coating weed's hob I nil, sa the sassir et the Chassan of the la • chatlia. edelved... a. That in the event of Lord Ceillsgerearsbesafe wines, say male Who. Lady CoUlngwoud bibs anied es moulty ot tonal bast the Confutkiated Fund of Great Itlibia.. deft the tags ef Mar saterai life. a. That In the event of Lord Colllngweeffs daseshwithen say male Ms, an annuity of soca alto fall be klieg lele Ids two deed sess to be divided during their jelet lives, and ea be mad. 1 mord to die ferivor. Pleb relentless were agreed to. and the report ordered ty be received pormiervw. Mr. BASTARD, shed be erw Ma w r, ead. seurred Is the whinny of refired that wee paid to Lard la piling ter his widow lane even vials bark es Mow midis hos tine, if any me ga:lllp me ter winery WU. glade lbe Mrs. Da the widow of the die* was hadpallbed in the buck el Trafalgar, and her bikinis et alleanas et fuppoit. Itkh die shimof a large family. CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. Rated that an ap. Agana had been nab fain Mrs. Duff, a. well as from Mrs. Cook, aid others in a ban Starrlayacd that abate application wen now under conhinaden Allay ISTIISATIS. The SECRETARY at WAR profaned to the Hoek, the eiti inatia for the military ferviee et ale anatry es fa Feint CAR. 'MAMMA for two months. The andlity foe bringlag inward the . edlimates for fo bort a time.Preelosffl eh leFteff before the Hata the entire plan of military Grolec fur ths year, aro& from tat ap. preaching expiration of the Mutiny Die, which would terabits en the disci of the prefent month; and It was thereforeind.r. ~ to provide 'adult Inch a• contingency , until his M es relent blunter, were prepared to Icy before the Houle their full pion aid atheism far the fervices of the whole year; on the fur therance of which, not a moment had been loft; and the ham voted apes the efkimatei new prefented, would be conGdered as on accoast, and allowed as pan of the general eftimate. With re read to the arrangements intended, he felt It neceffary to fay, that tic. alteration would take place in rcfpcdt of officers, who would be embleed on the fame footing as they flood upon the usth of December laft. The general eftimate be hoped would be ready In the bark of a week, and he Should have the honour to move for the aefent eftimate in the Committee of Supply. on Friday. MILITARY SSSSS GIIIIIMANT. Mr. LONG role and faid, that teeing a Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Windham) now in Ma place, he willed to afk him. at what time he intended to pro. pole to the Hnufe his plan, refpeeting the arrange talents of the Military Eflablifhment ? He did not, he faid, put this queliion with a view to embarrafs the Government, of which the Hon. Gentleman was now a member, hut becaufe he felt it wan of high import ance, di at any alteration intended to be made fhnuld be known as foon as pnflible, (ice the longer fuch infmmation was withheld, the greater embarraffment would mile to the fervice—as thofe exertions which might be made §), Gentlemen at this kaftan, in differ. 1 cut parts of the-kingdom, could not be undertaken with the dclirable effect, if they were to underftand that new and material arrangements were to take P. late He knew this to be particularly the cafe with refpeil to the Militia in Ireland. The Hon. Member was proceeding, when Dr. LAWRENCE rote to order, and obferved, that the Hon. Member, inftead of propounding a !bort queftion irregularly Nerds the Houle, was pro s eding alto to detail and difeullinn which might lead to a diforderly debate, there being no regular quer tion before the Houle. Mr. SPEAKER agreed to the propriety of this oblervati n. Mr. LONG laid, he was only Elating the reafons which urged him to ilk the queftion he bad Elated. Mr. 11, IN DHA Id anfwered, that he did not think the reefon. listed by the Hon. Gentleman for the quelli,at It,. hid atked, quite fatisfallory ; and what. tact plight be the arrangements of the public force, lie was not at that moment prepared fully to explain them, nor dad he feel it bis duty now fo to do. The Hon Gentleman afked him very laconically, what was his plan of new arrangements ? as if affurning, that fdch a elan wa. in being. Why the Hon. Gen tleman fo affumed, he was at a lots to conjature ; for he himfelf knew nothing of any mention having been made by him, or his friends, of any new plan, unlefs indeed the Hon. Member wifhed to gratify a prurient curiolity of his own, or to excite one in the public mind.—[Here Mr. Windham, in his turn, re ceived a check from the Chair, but apologized by faying his error proceeded merely from the aptitude of one irregularity to produce another.] He conti nued by alluring the Honourable Gentleman, that the Military Ellablament of the country, and all its means of defence, had occupied the molt aBive con fideration of his Majefty's prefent Miniflers ever fince the moment of their acceffion to office ; that they felt the fubjet extremely urgent, but at the fame time difficult, delicate, and important; that whatever the plans or arrangement fhould ultimately be, they fhould not propofe them to Parliament without the fulleit and molt mature confultation with thole heft qualified, from their !kill and experience, to give in formation and advice t that not a moment of delay fhould intervene, except what was necefFary to give the lyliem a reafonable degree of maturity, before it fhould be brought forward for the fanaion of the Houfe. Mr. CANNING obferved, that there Rood a no tice upon the votes of the Houfe, given on the fiat day of the Seffion by the Right Hon. Gentleman, whom he did not now fee in his place ( Mr. Sheridan) for a motion to repeal the Bill called *, the Addi tional Defence AB." He wifhed to know from the friends of that Hon. Gentleman, in his abfence, whe ther the repeal of that Bill formed a part of the plan of military arrangement ? becaufe, if it evert, it would be important the Houfe &mild have a complete return of the number of men raifed by its operation, in order to judge fairly of its effe(3st and, if not, that the ex ertions of Gentlemen throughout the country, for carrying that Bill into full effea, might not be damped by the apprehenlion of its intended repeal. Mr. WINDHAM raid, he had already declared his objet to the Houfe, Co far as he was yet prepared to explain himfelf on the fubjea of military arrange ments. He had, however no oblation to anfwer the queftion of the Hon. Gentleman in fubftance, that ' in the Plan of Defence now in contemplation, that , Bill certainly would not have any place. CANADA WOOL IMPORTATION. Lord TEMPLE prefented the Bill for permitting the importation of wool from his Majefty's colonies in America, which was read the firft time. Mr. HARRISON rofe, and fignified his total dif approbation of the principle of permitting the impor tation of foreign wool into this country, to the injury and difcouragement of the Britifh wool growers, who were already feverely difcouraged by the importation of wool from other nations, to fupply the home con. fumption, while they were reftrided by law from ex porting their raw material to any other market, and obliged either to lock up their commodity to future years, or to fell at any price the manufadurers chofe to offer under the competition with foreign wools, which he well knew thofe manufacturers were earneftly difpofed to encourage, under a pretended deficiency of the home produce to fupply their confurription ; but really with no other purpofe than to lower the prices, and place the Utah wool grower at their mercy ; that he hoped the wifdom of the eritifh Le- i giflattire would not Puffer it to abandon the Britifh 1 wool grower to the defigus of Inch men, or the inte-i tells of foreigners, while they were obliged to bear fo heavy a part in the public taxes, and were fo hea vily burthened with poors rates, and other grievous' impofis. He trolled, at lean, that the Bill would have a fhort duration, as a mere experiment, and he doubted not but it would fpeedily (peak for Welk and prove its own injurious tendency. 1 Lord TEMPLE could allure the Hon. Member, that the Bill was of a nature totally different in its object from what he apprehended ; for, inftead of any injurious alteration of the laws, it was merely intended to extend to his Majefty colonies in America a privi lege which the United States of America already enjoyed. To prevent any miftakes or mifapprehen lions going forth to the country. he would move to have the Bill printed; and he had tin objection to limit its duration, if the Hon. Gentleman Co wifhed. The Bill was read a firft time, and ordered for the fecond reading to-morrow. MANAGERS OF IMPEACHMENT. 0 Mr. WHITBREAD brought up a fpecial Report from the Committee for concluding the Impeach ment again( Lord Melville. The Report hated, o That Abe faid Committee found it neceffary to ac quaint the Houfe, that having occafion to examine as a witnefs for the faid Impeachment, a perfon named Alexander Trotter, who was employed officially as Clerk under the laid Lord Melville, when Treafurer of the Navy, tczching cer tain matters which had oc curred under his official cognizance in that depart ment : the (aid Alexander Trotter had refufed to an fwer their fever'l interrogatories." The Report being read, Mr. Whitbread moved, that it be entered upon the joutnals.—Ordered. He alio moved, that the prec:dent, which occur red in 1742, be read from the Journals, in order to (hew, that the Houle, in fi:nilar cafes, had commit ted the party Co refufing to anfwer, either to New sate, to the Gatelioufe, or to the cuftody of the Ser. leant at Arms. lie then moved, that the Paid Alex ander Trotter he committed to the ctigody of the Serjeant at Arms attending this Houle for his Paid offence. The SPEAKER pot the queftion, but committed in advertently a (mall mitlake. The Right Hon. Gen tleman Rated it thus : The queftion is, that Alex. ander Davidfen, Efq. for his faid offence be com mitted—" This gui.pro quo, for putting in durance the Treafurer of the Ordnance in place of the Ei- Paymafter of the Navy, convulfed the Houle with laughter. Had not the SPEAKER luckily perceived his millake, the motion, from every appearance, would have been unarnimoufty carried. When the laughing fubfided, the queitton, as moved by Mr. WHITBREAD, was regularly put by the Steatite. Sir W. ELFORD rare to exprels his hope; that the Honourable Member would not now perlilt in a meafure of (o 'much feverity towards Mr. Trotter, who, he hid authority to fsy, felt the profoundell refped for that Houle and its privileges, and for RPM authority by them delegated to their Commit ' • . ' tee. That it was not from any feeling derogatory to that refpea, that he declined aufwering any clod. tines put to him by the Committee, but from a full perfoafion that his anfwers to filch queftions would tend molt materially to his own private in jury. That before he had himftlf prefumed to form any determination on the fubjeft, he had fubmitted his cafe to Gentlemen of the firft legal talents and au thority, whom lie confulted touching fuch quellions, and by them he was counfelled, that to anfwer fuch queftions would be extremely injurious to himfelf, and therefore, according to the Conflitutional fpirit o f o ur lawn, he was not legally compellable to an. Omer them. Indeed, it was generally undertiood, and was the avowed opinion of fome high law au thorities recently expretfed in another Houfe of Par liament, that as the law now (lands. Mr. Trotter was not compellable to anfwer thofe queftions ; that, at bell, the matter was in confiderable doubt ; and, as he undetttood, it was intended (portly to introduce a declaratory Bill on this fubjea, what he fbould hope at leak was, that the Honourable Member would not prefs a proceeding of fuch leverity againft Mr. Trotter. until that law fhould be enaaed. He then read the opinion given by Mr. Shepherd and Mr. Alexander, in fupport of Mr. Trotter's retufal.— He therefore repeated his bops, that the Managers would defer further proceedings againtt Mr. 'hot ter, until the law fhould be definitively declared.-- Indeed, the Bill recently brought into Parliament by the Honourable Gentleman lumfelf, had ellablithed the neceffity of clearing up doubts upon the fubjea. Mr. Secretary FOX obferved. that if there bad been no Bill brought forward at all. the Houfe el Commons would have felt itfelf bound to fupport the plenitude of the power delegated to its Committee in this cafe ; and the precedents jolt read, bad proved that the .Houfe of Commons, on former occafions and cafes of a fimilar nature, had not confidered if valid furl pretenfions as thofe of Mr. Trotter, for verging to anfwer the interrogatories put to him— but what was the cafe now! Why, to remove all difficulties, a Bill is brought in, to obviate doubt, as to the fafcty of Mr. Trotter and others anfwer ing filch queftions, by indemnifying them from any injurious confequences in a legal view. `The Bill penis this Houfe, and is fent up to the Lords—and there, doubts arife amongft high law authorities, whe ther fuch a Bill be at all necefary for fuch a par pole ; or whether the law did not already provide for fuch cafes 1 The Judges of the Land are con flated, and after mature deliberation. a very great majority of them decide againft the meaty of fuch a Bill, and declare the law to be already clear and decilive on the fubjea. But even if the opinion of the majority of thofe Judges bad been the other way, he thought it would be impollible for the Houle of Commons, on the prdent occafion, to take from the Managers that degree of confidence which they had never refufed to the Managers of any for mer Impeachment, -and thereby place themfelves in a molt fingular predicament. by defeating the very purpofe which, upon the WWI deliberation, they had ordered to be carried into effect. Mr. WHITBREAD had bat very few words to offer on the fubjea. The Houfe had delegated to its Committee powers to protean@ the enquiry com mitted to their charge for the belt ends of public jut- I i tice—and if the Houle could not confide to them the proper mode of proceeding in the cafe of Mr. Trot ter, it were better to withdraw its confidence alto gather. After the fate of the Bill brought into that Houle to relieve all Mr. Trotter's fcroplas ; after the pains taken by the Managers to facilitate to that Gentleman the communicatine of hie teftimony, without any poffibility of legal injury to hinzfelt after the opinion declared by eight out of the Si judges, that was law which only four Judges de clared not to be law, was it to be pi-domed that the.. Managers would have prefect any quettion upon Mr. `1 ratter which was unfair or illegal, or which they conceived had a tendency really injurious to him ? The Committee, on the contrary, upon the hilleft deliberation, were unanirnoufly of opinion, that the queftions they put to Mr. Trotter were not of a tendency in any degree injurious to himfelf— neither did they alt precipitately in urging forward this fpecial report. They put their que (lions repeat• edly to Mr. Trotter—they gave him opportunities to deliberate. time after time—they attended to his de murrers—they warned him of the confequence of his pertinacity in his refufals, and yet (till be perfift ed in refufing to anfwer. This was the cafe of Mr. Trotter, and if the Houk lhould be pleated to (enc.. tion his condo& by refuting the prefent motion, it were better to withdraw itsconfidence altogether from the Managers, and put an end to their proceedings. Sir WM. ELFORD explained by laying, he had not the molt d iftant intention to impeach the reaitude of the Manners. The motion was then put and carried. Mr.WHITBRE4I3 declined to go to the extent of the precedents which the Houfe bad heard read, and which ehmmitted the refraaory witnefes to Newgate. etc. He only moved, that the Serjeant at Arms do attend with the laid Alexander Trotter at the Com mittee whenever they !hall fo order.—Agreed to. Adjourned. REPORT mow THI COICISITI 4 III •PPOINTSD TO DII! UP •LTICLII Of IseraAcKNINT AGAINST LOAD ViSCOUNT MILVILLIL. The Committee appointed to draw up Articles of Impeachment againit Henry*Lord Vifcount Melville, and who were empowered to report fuch further matters as than have come to their knowledge in the courfe of the examinations taken before them, with refpeA to the conduit of the faid Lord Vifcount Melville, during the time that he held the office of Treafurer of his MAjefly's Navy, have agreed to the following Report : Your Committee have already reported to the Houle leveret Articles of Impeachment spina Henry Lord Vifcount Melville, which they confider ed it their duty to prepare, without delay, upon the circumaances and tranfaftions difclofed in the Re. ports referred to them. • They haSe once applied thernfelves to the fur • inveßigati6n of the matters contained in thofe ports, and having obtained much new and material information, winch, in the judgment of your Com mittee, will 'make it neceffary to prefer an additional article or additional articles of Impeachment apitili Lord Melville, they think it their duty ptcvioully to fubmit tke fa me to the confideration of the Houle. The attention of font Committee has bee* parr cularly direfted to a fum of to,oool. in which Lot J Melville Rated himfelf to be indebted to the Navy Pay Office, when Mr. Trotter was firs appointed Paymetler, in January, :786. How, when, and for what purpofes this fum of so,oool. originally came into the poffeffion of Lord Melville, is left by the Re ports referred to your Committee wholly uncertain. It was snanifeß that it mutt have been received by Lord Melville prior to the appointment of Mr. Trot ter ; and as the former Paymatter (the late Mr. An. drew Doueias) executed that office during the whole of Lord Melmlle'a firs Treafurerfhip, and fo much of the fecond as preceded Me. Trotter's appoint ment, your Committee thought it expedient to call for and infpea all fuch books , papers, and accounts, of the late Mr. Douglas, relating to the Navy Pay Office as could be produced to them. Many of theft were found in the peffeffion of his widow, and the examination of them has, in the eftimation of your Committee, brought to light very important matter. the truth of which is confirmed by informatioa de rived from other fources. It is already known to the Houle that Lord Mel- Title was firlt appointed Treafurer of the Navy on the teth of Anvil. 1782, and that by a warrant, dated the 23d of 011ober, 178 e, his fairy was increased to the net Cam of 40001. in full of all wages anti fees and other profits and emolument : theretof ore enjoyed by other Treafurers of the Navy." It now appears that Lord Melville, on the soda of Austin, 5782, (the day after he fit ' s entered up= his o ffi ce,) cot aimed Mr. Andrew Douglas his Pap wafter, and that on the fame day Mr. lee paid to the account of Lord Melville, it his Meffrs. Drummonds, the fum of one thonfanti pounds. But as this advance hems to have bees made to Lord Melville from the private fendsof Mr. Douglas, it is here noticed by your Committee only to explain in part the fobrequent tranfaaions. Your Committee find, that until the 6th of No vember, 5782. all the money Hilted from the Exche quer to the Treaforer of the Navy for naval Cervices was regularly paid upon his account as Treaforer of the Navy to the Bank of England, whofe Clerks ap pear to have attended at the Exchequer to receive at. On the 6th of November, 178 a, this courfe of pro ceeding feems to have been, for the firs time, de parted from, there having been on that day as,oool. ;Rind from the Exchequer to the Treafurer of the Navy for naval Cervices, of which foal only 40,0001. was paid to his account at the Bank, the remaining Scoot. being, by the Treafurer's order, depofited by the Paymafter in an iron chef!, then kept is the office cam-room, and called by him the Treafurer's. iron theft. On the std of the fame month the fum of so,ocol. was iirued from the Exchequer to the 'Freeforrer of the Navy, of which only 47,05p01. was paid to his accrinne at the Bank, the remaining 30001. being placed, as before. in the iron theft. On the roth of December, 1782, ;further iffue of 93,83431. 6s. tod. was made from the Exchequer to the Treafurer of the Navy, of which only 3.0.830 1 - 61. led. was paid to his account at the Book, the re maining 3,0001. being in like manner takes to the iron dna. On the 2d of January, 1783, there was deposited in the iron cheß the fang fum of sOOOL which vow that day received from the then Mr. Welber, Ellh's extreafureelbip, in repayment of an advance to thee amount which had been made to that Et-trealltree• (hip from Lord Melville's account at the Beak, if compliance 'with a minute of the Navy Bawd ci dos 3oth of Nov. 1782. The payments made into this boa cheft on or be fore the 2d of January, 1783, Rand therefore as fol lows, viz. zi/th Nov. 6. Pre the Illtebollbo Csooo as, Prom ditto 3c9° 9. Pros &two 3 00 , 1783, jam t s, heel Mr. 15.. Trodlwerldp pow Mak* to the whole L :Coda How this fum of 16,0001. fo iffued to the Tres liner of the Navy for naval Cervices, and by his or der placed in his iron Mutt hatred of being lodged in the Bank, was, in the fi rtt inftance , difpofed of, is fully explaine d the account: and papers of Mr. Douglas. By theft it will appear, that on the Ilth of No vember. 1782, five days after the firtt depofit in the iron theft. Mr. Douglas, the Paymafter, delivered to Lord Melville, upon his receipt, soot and on the following day spool. more. On the sad of the fame month t 0001. more was in like manner delivered by him to Lord Melville, end on the 25th the further funs of 30001. On the 19th of December following, the additional funs of scoot. and of scoot. were alfo delivered by the Paymafter to or for the tile of Lord Melville, upon his receipt ; making. with the former fums, to,sool. refpeaing the particulars of which, Mr. Douglas appears to have at this time made a Rate. ment to, and come to a liniment upon, with Lord Melville. On the 4th of January 1783 there remained in the iron chef ssooL from which the rum of 30001. was on that day taken and paid to Mr. Jellicoe (then De puty Paymader) towards his office payments; leaving in the chef a refidue of only asool. the whole pf which refidue was on the sth of April, 1783, de- Leered by Mr. Douglas to Lord Melville, upon his receipt. ' Of the 16,0001. that was fo depofited in the iron chef, 4 appears therefore that only 30001. was after. wards paid out for naval fervices to fub-accountant:, the remaining is,ooo having been paid to Loid • Melville, upon his receipt as under; viz. syBs. Nov. rt , Prom the clieft to Lord hdelvide Si, Do. ' as, Do. Do. Dee. 19, Do. Do. 783. Apell 1, Do. 5 00 a poo s poo 34 00 x poo 30: 0 sjoo I t 1 Making In the whole C13,0c0 In which fiam of 13.0001. Lord Melville thus Rood indebted to the public on the sth of April 1783. On the zoth of that month Lord Melville refigned his fituation of Treafurer of the Navy, without hay iog difcharged any part of that debt, and leaving the balance of his Treafurer's account at the Bank defi cient to the amount of the aforefaid fum of t 3,0001. Or. the lath of April 1783, four days after his re. (ignition, •hit defiiiency W4S further increafed by a Draft drawn on that day by Mr. Douglas upon the then Ez-tteafurevibip Account at the Bank, for 11 , r, • I/ ■ J- . )' t , 4 • -r• • • 1