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-., , - ,-riv""""' .• . .1 . , ~... .., ... . .. lc 3 ernlPlSlpetrary ; Ole only tills for private indiajdaals; hot •liis trier.de M. h !, ~,. '. :. i.,-...!lisp hello these things. and Lind. and ethers whom he employed, tin doubt , , . o ,• • against him supperted by compe. edly did. When the Witness was absent, with e . eo r ' prrmissinn , from tee o f f i ces he eenSded the ma.. . WSDX , MAT, APRIL 30. I ;segment of public money to Mr. 'Thomas Wil - - - ?wino reituml.a.ot toe iisnal Poole- son, and as he did not wish t o propose to Visceunt _. • !e, the Manager" informed the Gismo i I Stele:lle in authorise any other person to draw would begin with proof of introdectory from the B ink, be found it rasanecesry, in case of . e --- .f the chatoe, upon which the; examinee illness, or occasional absence, leave in Mr. • . . . so WWI: t, IN , Esq. Ckrk of the Journals Wilson's hands, drafts signet! by himself, with a • ricruee of Commons : W. Mit ford, Esq. blank for the sum. 1 hose drafts were en the Bank 'leek in the Treasury : Fredrriek Boorh, Esq. only, and the power of dotwieg was nnlimited. e' r • -,ter of Mr. Reno: Mr. Bernard Cobb,sa clerk Mr. Wilsen had power also to draw en Coutts, e Auditor's Office: Harty liarsnowl. Esq. velso had unlimited atethoritf to answer leis di efts. ei A ter to Mr. B a rre : Mr. Osbalte Ste inert, on Witness's account. . Mr. Wilma, also, had •' r • . .--t• Clerk to the Comptroller of the Treasurer's Witness verbal instructions Ornst *Red upon o• ' r k cants: ifeelaSek Doreto, Esq. the son anil them) dining his absence, to emeloy the public ecutor of the late Andrew Douglas, and Mrs. money to Witness's advantage, in the same way '' • / Derekis, his widow : Jahn Win •e.., jun. he hi elf employed He it. enede profit of the .eiS 1 Sotornoi Whitbread, Esq:: Mr. limn. Roe public money so employed, nor did he ever mean . frees:HA, Clerk of the Debentures at the Exche- to conceal it. Mr. Jellicoe way one of the persons ow; : and Mr. Thomv kimpens a Clerk, anO. he so employed. Witness also acted as private T.:@ of the Cashiers of the Bank. agent to Viecotint Melville, and always endee . Tile witnewes bevies, withdrawn, after the usual vowed to be of service to his Lordship, in trans. -• • noteelities. their Limb-hips adjourned to the acting.his private business, hut without any tor ' A.:bomber of Parlanteet. real Appointment, nor could he recollect at what o nurespeo. lux I. tines that agency commenced. In the year 'rat Wee beino resumed, and the usual pireolae .178 e. he had the honour to be introduced to his : - silt ilea made, • Lordship; his salary was then not above 1001. Jeqw* Dr""• Eaq. we. e\nrnitWd I Mr. Gee. Me received the celery of Vi-count Melvil:e, as • . • #t,..-c/ an seem:Wm to tne Treasurer Of the Navy, Treasurer of the Navy, by virtue of a general roweled to the manner of traweeting, business in Power of Attorney, but did not -receive his salary tee Navy Office : Mr. drat GAlnin •nron, a clerk as President of the Boar tof Controul, as Keeper se the Bank of England, eking swain ant ex.. • of the Privy Seal of Scotland, nor a's Keeper of C.M.i;:ed, deposed as to the Mode of transacting the S gnat. He did nor regularly receive the in , the Nervy business at the Bank.--Adjnuinesi t ill come of Viscount Melville s private estates in rrlday. Scotland; remittances were made to hint from TRIDAY, MAT Q. I thence, but he could riot tell from what s.lurcei The Houvebeitne reamed, Mr. Thom .a Olive.% they came, neither did he teceive the income of ook of Mr Prinsenood ;Mr fl iaions .W.Go,rgei his Lordship's estates in if i nglonil ; but he re • tot Mt Grow Stet', Clerk to Messrs. Moffat s calved dividends from public stock belonging to e t Mr. Gerry Payne, of the house of Payne and his Lordship. An . account of debtor and ere •- h. were examined as to their honks and ace ditor was ke p t between them. in a small account I, t '• et with Viscount Melville; and Henry Cols book of the Witness'i. No interest was charged i., •: - aid William Head were re-exemined.-oAd. on either side. lie had no account which he could t • otiode then produce; the only one in elietence toes that I SATURDAY, MAY 3. in the hands of the Managers. In 1786. the 1 • Throe new witnesses were examined this day. Witness advanced a specific rim to Viscount . ve.e. John floosies. Thomas it*, a Clerk in the Melville, and placed it to the debit of his account. * Isiroo of Payne tied Smith, and Charles Lernage. His Lordship granted the Witness a bond and ireork in the Bank, and nine witnesses were re- security for 4,0001. which he advanced about • evomised, vit. Mowers Etars Henry Co/fear, that time. He was enabled to advance it from • . Gg,rgo Fotos4 Cowie &oilfield, John Gi,sinenons, the fund already explained, having had the eon . Weenies Mow. Graeae French, :Archibald Doyens, troul of the money in his handl, roe paying Ex mid 014erne SAVIZIS fa. Th it evidence, of course, chequer tees, and the money of two treasurer soiecipally related Id matter disclosed on the pre- ships, which would not probably he called for, ceding daysoseAdjouniteel to Mee dep. but remain in the Paymaster's hands, for the MONDAY, may S. trouble of making up the Exoreesureee accounts; •I'he Court met at the usual hoar. Mr. Whit- he knew the money would not be called for till he Ve:d underwent a long examination by Mr. should leave the Offic oor the accounts be au . ruiner. diced. He charged Viscount Melville no interest ,Vewantior ?poker, Esq. was the* sworn and upon this sum; lie did not feel himself entitled, examined. He stated, that he first entered the; from the manner the money was placed in Navy Pay Office in the latter tore of the year his hands. His Lordship never knew whether I/76. aso junior clerk, at 501. per annum, and it bore interest or not. He believed he di I make oothiesest a clerk in that office until 1784. His a purchase of 2,001. India stock, on account of . 'Neel might have boon a:creased, but not mate- Viscount Melville. in 1792. He . drew upon s i e li y. He remained out of the Navy Pay Office Coutts to pay foe that stosk, which be believed a tu a twelvemonth, and was then appointed was bought on account, and foe the benefit of Yolmeecee• ender the Treasurer of the Navy. by Viscount Melville; the dividends of that stock Vit.:meat Melville. He was ate loss to ascertain, were carried to the credit of his Lordship's ae pre Aside s upon whose recommendation he was count current with the Witne,s. There was no isppoleted s. bat h's relation. Mr Coutts, had sp., quantity of Loyalty Loan Stock sunset ibed for by piled to Mr. Pitt. who, he believed, made its; the Witness in 1797, for the benetit , or on account ♦ / t west with Visenutlt Melville to appoint him. of Viscount Melville, but he believed- payments %% hen ',pawed, his salary Was 5001. a-year, were made by Nutt'', House, whisk he after -, mot searesodedeasons of taxes. As Paymaster, weeds re.paid, for Viscount Melville. t; he dividends O the Bank looks were delivered to him, by Vis. en that stock were also carried to his Lorciallip's e seem Melville, and he was told that the public account current. •1' he stock so purchased, he 1 fwlerice was at that time in the Bent. except the understood amounted to 10,0001. for which sum 6 4 ', suns in tho hands of the Sub-accountants, and he debited his Lotdahip'e account current. But ' 1 - a tam which his Lordship mentioned. On a could not state, without documents, from what 4 forever amnion he stated, to the best of his re- sources, distinctly or separately, as they were coil: dion, this sum to be 10,0001., but he was e pee different payments. • A . :mace isolated to belie,- it was i 0,6001. ; 1,6001. . n ie astdon.-I,Vere those payments, in faft. paid a oaleoce due from his first treasurership, and from the public money soi-001. a balance due on the first part of the se- The Counsel for Viscount Melville obf-ded in coact treasurership. He did not examine the oaf,. this question ; the Witness withdrew, and the , • l.c cash at the time he beceree Paymaster, for- managers waved it. f taer than by observing, by the books. that the Mr. Trotter's examination being resumed, he 6 Oa inee was in the Bank. Viscount Melville further deposed, that some of the payments, amid, lie should account for that 10 , 0001 . but did which constituted the 10,0001 . tepid to Messrs. . 1 net tell him in whose !sands it was. the Witness Courts, for tie purchase of the Loyalty Loan, .... i resolved he Exchequer fees ; the distindion were derived from drafts from the Bank, and put kotween Exeheqner fee money, and the public Mtn Coitus's hands, others be drew from his own • . telvn” , deposited in the Bank, was, that the former private account at Coutts's, and paid then[ to 1 .• is impiested into the hands of the Treasurer of v tl t .e ti i r N o te nt y a , m who a e l n lo t w o ; t t h t e t P o aymast t e e r es to at h t a i v e e E tl x ii: ch:euer, manag ement eontinoene l i ) :s y . It is iMprest ed in the hands of the Freasurer in a different , a r e rh c ie o t i s in ,tv t cci).n r n if .cisst; Viscount ai.,te leod Melyi Melville. The private d oour f it frons . wb d ic it h thhe of pub lic gave some of these ttk and t private h anon ey. f 7,0001. in the 'three per Cent. se d o a L ce e d il A n r u nu rtt itie o s, seesaws from other public money ; the Tree- to be purchased on account of Viscount Melville, surer, or rather the Paymaster, having the sole and the dividends were carried to the credit of his ins, *gement of that business, applies to the'Crea- Lordship's account. Upon -all these same so r; - r ter 3.0001, when he finds his funds exhaust- advanced, he never charged interest, nor did he ei to nearly that sum. This application does nut charge himself interest when the h ilAnce was c0,,-.rite with the Tieasueer, but may with the against him. He frequently directed payments Peer:Lister, who pats it in execution, and signs all to be made to private individeAls upon his if Lord :: ii-enments fee the treasurer. He did not revel- ship's account. I k made one of those payments . 1: . erite instance of the Treesurer doing any of to account of SO. William Forbes and Co. Edin . she public chilies of the of f ices nor of his having burgh; he had no doubt of the fad, but did not / drawn drafts while the witness acted as his Pay- recoiled it. •.- rimester. At the time of Witheses appointment. The Counsel for Visconot Melville nOjedeel to reclusive of the Exehegner fee money, a part of this evidence; and the Witness having withdrawn, - oe ore ;Allelic money was in the Hank of England, were heard at sortie length in support of this oh , oust pen in tke Pitoaccountant's hands. Qiestioe. jerftion. The Witness was again called. and a et Did the - money continue in the Bank of letter, in his own 11:ind-writiue, dated July 17, _ _ ~, i ~~ ~, , . - public ..,_ .laielAndi. I mean to put this question of Zech,- 1787, being presented to him, in order to refresh '. . vier tee money. Did all the public money con- his memory, he stated that he did give uiredions finite to the Bank of England all the time you to .make an advance of '2,0001. to that house, . %vete Paymaster, except that in the bands of Sob- which surn was carried to the debit of Viscount occirmtents? 4.i. Of the money I had under my Melville, but to which accoonr, as there were . osattagement there were many exceptions; 1 mean more than one, he could not say. Thee same let ' so coi.sequence of an application I made to Vis- ter specified 3,3741. to have been paid by the town Melville, for liberty to draw a part of those Witness's direction to Mansfield, Ramsay, arid • • 114:acesfrom the Bank, and to place them in the Co. on Viscount Melville ' s account. No seen : hands of a private Banker (Coitus and Co.), for rity, that the IVitness could recoiled, was given • to: convenience of official transadions. To the from Viscount Adelaide to him, for either of those s i bey of my knowledge, all may drafts from the sums; he had no recolludion of the transadion, • Book wire in the (um prescribed by the AR." , nor of any collateral circumstance attending it. Ths Witness then deposed, that he had drawn on These sums were certainly carried to the debit the Bank of England, specifying the Pay Branch, of his Lordship's account. No interest was ~ , aid deposited the money in the house of Omits. charged on these sums ; the balance of the ac .:, II: did the same wi.h the Navy and Vidoolling count was generally in favour of the \Vitness, . hraothes. He bad money so drawn in the hands but he was unable to stale what the average •4 other persons beside Ailerrs.Coutts. Mr.Sprott amount might be. The account cos/rent was .rat one, and Mr. Montague Lind another ; the brought to a settlement on May SI, 1800, when later, as a friend, used to assist him in negoci- his Lordship left the Navy Pay Office, the balance too/ busineu, but he did not recoiled lending was then in favour of the Witness. He did not I.:rn any money. He also had money in a house recoiled another advance in July, 1789, of 1.0001. , 0 0 credit in Edinburgh, in government security, made to Sir William Forbes and Co. nor cools! .soil as Navy Bills, Vidaalling, Transport, and' he, from a memorandum of his own, dated Jan. ' I.wiluer Bilis. He did not tocolied hsving ilf 5, 171.9, put into his hand, recoiled the tad ; ... month after Mr. Tien* was eppointed to the , Treasurership. Ile as afterwards appointed Paymaster to Mr. Calming, and the same pradice that sets ordered by Mr. Bethinst, continue& and I,c left it altogether, in April, 180.5. The Witness did not rerolleFt to have drawn a million of mo ney one day, which did not pass ihrough the hands of Coutts ; but once in his life, he did draw one million, which went into the hands at Coutts.— The draft was given on the B ink, and the Oozes, consisting of a great number of small ones, lodged at Coutts s. He often drew for a smaller sous than 1,0001. on the Bank and Coutts for the pub lic service. The Witness never received any gra tuity whatever, far actin' as Viscount Melville's • agent. The book in which their accounts were kept, has been destroyed, as well as all the oilier hooks and vouchers between him and Viscount Melville. He was robbed of one of these books at one time, which he recovered again ; it con mined the account current, and chest ACCOUIIt. A paper being presented to him, the Witness said, that it purported to be an account current be tween him and Viscount Melville, commencing: in 1732, it WAS balanced and signed by both I. patties. The vouchers then ;Hemmed to hint, he . said, were of subsequent date, and bore no refer ence to that account ; they were vouchers - Mr three paymesits he had made for Viscouet ; Mel ville. The accounts deliveted were lied same as the one before him. His direCtions for the pur chase of 2,0001. India stock, he thought, went through the house of Coutts, as also that for the 7,0314. 3 per Cents. Reduced. He did not recol left giving any directions for the purchase of the 10,0001. Loyalty Loan. Mr. Philip Ant:otos, he believed, then ailed as broker fur that huuse: Cross-examined—Very early after Viscount Mel ville's first appointment as Ireasurer of the Navy, the Vs'itaess presented him with a plan for regu lating the business of the office, which was much approved of ; that was in 1782. He was known to his Lordship from that time, till his appoint ment of Paymaster, but had no particular inter course with him. With respect to his Lordship's acknowledgment of a balance of 10 , 0001 . in h is hands, hetrecolleded his expressing a fear that there might be a loss, but was not able to say that his Lordship actually sited it to be for pub lic purposes. He did not recoiled his Lordship having acknowledged applying it to any private benefit for himself. Dnring the whole period of time he was acquainted with the office, •the exe cution of it, in detail. was always left to the Pay master, as well as the drawing for the public• money. When Viscount Melville gave permission to draw money from the Bank of Englaad,. to Coitus, the only reason represented to hist, was, to facilitate the official convcr.ier.ce. He re-. presented the inconveriencs arising from the distance of the Bent, and the danger of send. ing in drafts to the Bank, every day, dy e mesongers, who were obliged to bring ft.. toe produce in cash, to supply the daily pay -e• menu. The office had not then been remov ed from Broad-street to Somerset Meuse ; no mention was made at the time this permission was so granted by his Lordship, of aay private entolument to be derived to any body trona it, that never was in his Lordship's contemplation ; net did the Witness remember that it ik,as in,bss own at the time. These was not then, or at any subeepent time, permission given to draw money horn the Bank, but for the porposes . ,o! . olfiziel convenience. ‘Vhen he attended Visceent Mel •illte on the suhjed of private, or any other busie mos, he was Veil , much concerned Lea: he nevi r could draw his Lordship's attention patocuieriy to the sivij..a a his private accounts. tie al ways debited the accounts to his Lordship, fur his examination ; he might have looked at re.eiu, but the Witness was conscious he never ettenoed to them particularly. On the other baud, his Lordship never interrupted him in any represents-• Eton relating to the public accounts; on these occa sions he was stile to have his attention, but never could get him, in the same manner, to the subjed of his private accounts. He did not recotoCt ever giving his Lordship any receipt fur money in his lire; he never failed to present the documents and vouchers to his Lordship; but did not re coiled •any instance in which lie required them. Under the specific name of public money, or any money bearing that description, his Lordship, upon no .occasion whatever, ever direded him to lay out ally part of it, for his use or benefit.— Whatever Viscount Melville's conceptions might have been, he never expressed himself to the contrary, of Isis tinders:anteing ; that in every in stance when stock was purchased, it was out of his own funds, or from private funds. To the hest of the Witness's recolicOion, prior to the purchase of any stock, it never was oteutioned to Viscount Melville that it was intended to be pur chased out of the puielic money, except in the in stance of the East India Stock, and then it was indignantly rejected. It never was coromuni . stated to Viscount Melville out of whet funds the advances were made for the payments of that stock; they were made in consequence of de mands made upon his Lordship; and satisfied by the Witness, without any inatrudions from bins. .These securities, whorls, wen slosinentrie, disposed of, covered an ample fund for the re-; payment of all the advances made. The pur chase of 70e01. '3 per cents, WAS made without any diredions from his Lordship. The East In dia Stock, alter purchase, was nut transferred as a security for the looney advanced to per_liese it, but was, in fad, invested in• the name of . Mr. Lind, for the Witness's account. It never stood ill the name of Viscount Melviiie. He had not the least reason to believe, that Viscount Mei • Tulle ever knew, or supposed any past of that advance to be public money ; and had no doubt but that the two thousoad pounds; and 11,3001. advanced to Sir William Forbes and Co. and to M.snsiield and Co. were tepaid out of the private funds of Viscount Melville. The circumstance of drawing the million of money out of the Bank, was not communicated to Vis count Melville; he might have learned it from other quarters, the Witness never made any secret or it. The drawing of money to so l arge an amount was to pay off several months' navy bills, for which three millions wete issued on one particular day ; one million he drew from the Bank, and pieced at Counts, to accommodate hill-holders at the west end oT the town. The Witness certainly. mule use of that part of. the public money, which he found net likely to Le cleirre', for his own prefit; it was genera l y made use of be lending a : at interest, 1s investing • • 'through his:hands. he could not speak to i furthlr •sem of 3.0001.0 v anced todslans fel .1, Ram say and Co. TheWitnessthen stated,that lie also kept arm ither account with Vieenunt Melville, iu the sidle book, entitled " Chest Account." Th e 10,6001. 1 which Viscount Melville said he would account I for, when the Witeess,first became his PAyreaster. I was carried to this account, as well as other sums advanced on account of his Lordship. 't he 10,00iel. Loyalty Loan. sees transferred to this account. The Witness considered Viscount Mel ville to be indebted to Government for the sums he advAnced upon th is account, hut he never h ad 1 any specific conyersatioa with his Lordship, to en ahie him to say positively that his Lordship knew that he so ceissidered it, lint the accounts wet e signed. and duplicates delivered to his Lordship. His reason for transferring the Loyalty Loan mo ney from the account current to the chest account was from an attention to his own interest.. Vis count Melville was indelned to hum as a private lindivi.iuAl only, upen the account current,and considered him, .s he said before, indebted to Government for tile belance upon the chest Ac count. Those aecnente bore upon the face of them, this transfer, and were, along wish the do plicate', signed by his Lordship, the same as the other accounts. Hit Lordship ruerAlly stool I debtor ispott the chest account. When these ac-, I counts were presented to his Lordship, the Wit neat had no couversetioe.with him 'upon them, he therefory'vras• wholly 'unable es say, whether. his Lordship knew, at the lime, that he was indebted 10,000 i: to the public. His Lordship, he believ ed, koesison which account he stood i n d e bted iai j mediately to Government. The chest accouet terminated when his Lordship left the office ; he WAS presented with :a general statement of both I account:, which he signed and ackeowledged, and very 1s in istrerwair,is di•charged. The Witness void not recnllea what they amounted to, hut hen thieved 50,0001. He did not recollea laying before his Lor !ship, at that time, I the differences between the office:cash and cash at the sank, but told him of the necessity of provid ing a sum of money upon bit quitting the navy; and, having applied for a general settlement, his Lordship pnintedseut assetts sufficient to discharge both ; the Witness incorporated the two accounts together, and his Lordship paid the bAlance,which ultimately went to make up the deficiencies at the Bank. The Witness considered that his own ba lance to the public was increased by as much as Viscount Melville was his debtor upon the account current. If Viscount Melville bad not paid him the sem due on the private account, to enable. !tiro to pay that sum into the Bank, lie must have been under she necessity of procidiug that sum else where. In 1789, the Witness give direelions for the purchase of another sum of E ist India Stock, for the (week of Viscount Melville. This trans- Aaiun was newly, as he recolleeted, as follows: In a con tion with his Lordship.who express ed his opinion of the probable rise ofeealue which would take place its Last India Stock, he observed, that, if his Lordship was impressed with so good an opinion of ir, he thought, for his own interest, he ought to invest a suns of money in it, when his Lordship replied, he had nodnoney toikvest.. The Witness then told him, that there were con siderable balances lying. at all times in his hands, that were not called for, and probably would nut be called iOl, from ciicureanances he need not relate. H- advised his Lordship to allow him to lay out so much of that mom". as would purcii•se 13 or 14,0001. Moat Lucite Sweet but his Lordship refused in SO decided and pi - Omega. manner, the Witness feared lest he bad incurred his displea sure. But it occurred to ,him, that it might be possible to borrow a sum tat money upon the se curity of that stock, and he proposed to endea your to do so, and ley oat the money in East India Mock, to which' his Lordship readily as seated. Ihe W arms then mentioned a relation of considerable importances in the city, with whom he then lived, that weiuld enable him to raise the money, and he made it an easy matter to his Lordship; but when he applied to Mr. Lind, who was the person alluded to, he found he was deceived ; and unwilline to disappoint his Lordship, in what he so sanguinely told him he .could cleft, lie never acquainted his Lordship with the difference, but assisted Mr. Li;.d in ad• vancing the i.snncy from the pulalic money, of whits!' be had the management. H 4 never had occasion to mention the circumstance tia.V iscnune Melville, until last April ; and he was perfesely unAcquAlitted with his having made use of the public money in that transaStion. He charged his Lordship regular intersect for the whole, hum the time of advancing it, to the final settlement. He did not recollect, that his Lordship ever in. quired the name of the lender, but he mentioned the net= of Mr. Laud at the time. The divi dends were carried to the credit of his Lordship's account. Irises sum exeraded in the purchase of this stock was about 23.0001. This debt was di minished by payments made by his Lordship to j the Witneri e to '2,‘J,0001. upon which his Lord ship continued to pay interest. .Ihe 3,CG01. so paid, was carried to the credit of the debt en that stock, and eves 'paid to :wimess as he ad vanced the money. When his Lordship quitted the Office, its Mey I eOO, lie was possessed of • this stock. It was held in mist at Coitus's, under the Witness's controul. lie never was restricted by ViscuuneMelvillie as to the quantity of money lie was to keep out of the Batik, at Genus's. His Lordship left the management of the balances in the Bask, entirely to lune He enjoyed his Lord ship's confidence to the fullest extent, and he never interfered. The East India stuck of May 1300, was deposited to make up the &fiefs tricks at the Bank ; the stock rose after the purchase, and when sold, or pledged, 211,0001. went to pay off the debt upon that stock. and 13 : 000I. in part liquidation of the debt due to witness on the account curient. His Lord ship had the benefit of the rise, and loss of the fale., upon that stock. The accounts delivered from time to time, by the witness, included all receipts and payments on account of. Viscount Melville. Ihe balances outstanding from feel to I 710, comprehended those so due tromViscuuut 'Due Witness continued in (Ace two years After Viscount Melville. Ili. Lordship isAs succeeded by Inrdllertowby, Mr. Bathurst nest, and then Mr. Tierney. Mr. Bathurst ordered the practice of taking money from the Bank, and placing it at Coutts's or any other to be dues away. and it was accomplished in the course of a month. The Witness continued in the sin' stun of Rip:sesta. after the money was stlti ) 3 4vif ss ti emit j, , )rd et th gov'ernment ieemities. Tit whole prat and em. ) . lument was entirely his own, nor was any intim.. tines made to Viscount Melville, of the public mo ney having been M used. He did not know any instance wherein the public sufferai-antlosa. StruLtion, Or delay in thelitiblieriiYrtitgitts;frons t h e use that had been made of public money, or o f the manner in which be kept his balances else. where than in the Bank. The public tWnney he believed to have been at all times safe, and pro. per securities taken for it. During Viscount Melville's rteasttrership; sums to the amount of HO millions passed through kis Lnrdship's hands, or through his °face, in all which time, no hiss was . s u s tained. by the Public, or aoy impedi ment suffered by them of ohe single farthing, to the best of Wittiess's recollection. 11 no permission had been given for drawing front the Bank to Coutts,. the same use might be made of the public money by drafts, in the same way, on the Bank, and the publiz money might be laid out for private' benefit, without its reach . n;, in its intermediate transit, any private Bank; bit had the Witness done so, he would have thought it a gre.n dtrelidion of duty. Small payme its Could only be made by cash in the bands of the Sub-accountants, and the number of small dui. ly payments • made, were such as cried not, with any poss aßical • conveistem.e, be made by drafts on the Bank. l'hese sums run ning so low as from 101. to two sh illings, the average for several years was found to be about 143,0001. The Witless, after some eetpliiiirozy evidence reseeding- tne iatie and payrient of Nasi vi Bills, then proceeded to swam, that-the re. lease already alluded to, was executed b r 1). it hi 'London, when Viscount Melville was in-Seutlan4, No diredions were given by his Lordship, as to the form of that release, or any particular claw which it should contain.—Nis books of accounts were destroyed, by any diredion or • previous communication of it to Viscount Melville ; U l t did the Witness know, that his Lordship was ever acquainted with that circumstance, till after the publication of the Tenth Report. The de. strudion of the books was done Goa in- the lean for the purpose of concealment or benefit us Vie. count Melville; the Witness bad not hi* Lord. ship's interest in contemplation when he destroyed than. The mode in which he kept his accrued at Coutts's, and the mixture of private and public money,Was entirely the ‘Vitness's own all; who..y unknown to Viscount Melville. • He had eonsi able money transadions with Mt. Sprott s and t believed, Viscount Melville sever bad the unalle knowledge of them, nor did he derivaaey advan. tage from them.. The Witness used A considerable quantity of the public money for his wan mole. menu; the whole was exclusively his own, excels t the sums advanced by Viscount blelvide, upon which he did not know that any profit Was &nada except as far as he explained. No part ri those sums were ever wanted far the public service a those periods. Some delay took' plate in cones quence of a necessary eo-operation`beesieen th Clerks of the Nave and the Pay 01%cebt but to at all proceeding from the Treasurer or the Pa. master. The returns were made every for.' to the different Bobrds, in ',Aids tit T balance was regularly stated. Here .the close-examination doted & a Court adjobrned to the thinti*Atitittillai. rUTISDAIr i i May The House being' reenneeds and 0100%141 elaSnations made, • Mr. Ateseoder Treater wee *gain celled and re-easun: ed by Mr. Whitbread. He state. mat. in the .i:iu rl exeention'ot business, Viscous Melv.lie seldom or ever interfered ; but he psi, Atte 'tints, at all times, to the reptesentations o slitfi u.t cnses, And pranosals made for improvini the business of the office. Messrs. William and Roo,rt Trotter, and twi Bankers, from Edinburgh, were also ciamined.- Aujourned to Thursday: THURSDAY, MAY S. Mr. Roh,rt Trotter' was called and examine.; also Mr. Eilaaril An:reins, as to the accown! kept at Mains. Coutis's. Mr. William Cho r mie a clerk in the same house, as to the balances a thoie accounts. Mr. William Charlton, to to same died. Mr. Coati: Trotter was also examined, respehill a loan of 15,0001. advanced by that House. to Viscount Melville in 1300, and a conversant!' with his Lordship as to the security. Mr. John Taylor. Mr. Beery WM:ing, and )fr .los6n liadfield,'Clerks in the Bank et England identified certain bank nowt, paid for privet purposes. Mr. rhea,' Aniro3iii, a stock-brokei, spoke ti the purchase of 10,8181. India Stock, for Mr Alexander Trotter ; and Mr. John Hatfield KM nedy proved a transfer of part to Montague Lind Mr. FianCis Liget spoke to the same Oita, bp could net say to whom the stock belonged. J oel h Kaye, Eeq. Solicitor for this Manager produced a calculation of the probable profit arisin g 1:-om these transadians, amounting V 2'2,0621. 15, 01. Mr. Mark Sprat underwent a long esaminatiee with resped to the various money wansadien between him and Alexander Trade: ; bat den'el any intercon7te or personal interference of court Melville, to Ins knowledge. raireav, way 7. Mr. Join /;;bane and Mr. John Maras, iver first exorsined ; next, the Right Hon. C 4" Bran( n. them: ; and the Right lion. Fifty, re,pea;aq., the manner of managing the of Treasurer s uf tic Navy. • _ _ ic vf pt! Mr. et,iestor Xrdson, .of the Navy Pay OiE:d deposed to a personal Applicai: , m by Viscount .fit , vide to him, in 1796, desiring to know wits public money caeld be spared, and ordering ti;r to draw 4-0,0001. from t::e public Account, tar hi Lordship's use. Mr. IVstlrrm Ar3kv LatLvs. Paymaver to Mr Tierney, spike to some regulations of that °St and Mr. Grow Stujirld and• Mr Mark Spr tl were again severany examined ; and . Mr. C ;4 . Brag;:e I; ah. 1.91, at his own request, esplainc , a part of his former deposi ions. SATUNDA r, MAY 10. Every thing haying been arranged in the urea form, The Lo so CHANCELLOR told the Solicited IGeneral,. (Sir Samuel Romilly) that now he mA proceed (Is sum up. aissmat. R 011111.11.7 then lddressed tOr ..ourt, and, after speaking with great modesty 4 ihis •*n power s a nd c a p a city to represent, CO s irsportnnt an occasion, the body of al