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Lordship that there were considerable balances lyii - ,g at all times in my hands that were not called for, and in all• probability would not be called for; and I advised his Lordship to give me 'leave to lay , out so much as Would purchase 13,0001. or 14,0001. East India Stock, but which his Lordship refused in the most positive manner, inasmuch that I feared I had incurred his Lordship's dis Pleasure in proposing it.'.' «3t occurred to me, however, that I might borrow the money upon the security of that Stock, and I proposed to his Lordship that. I should endeavour to do so; and that I shoUld lay out that money in the purchase of East India Stock; to which his Lordship readily-assented..l mentioned that I then lived with a relation of my own, who was a man of considera ble importance in the City, and that he would be enabled to raise - this sum of Money for me." This, Mr.TROTTEit said, he found difficult; but being un willing to disappoint his Lordship, he advanced the Money from the public money; but Lord MELvn.LE remained perfealy 'unacquainted with his having made use of the public money in the transaction, and be, the witness, charged interest for the whole from the first day it was 'advanced until the final settle ment of the accounts between them. Upon his cross examination he stared that he hadnot the least reCol le6tion of Lord MaLvir.,LE having applied the 10,0001. to any purposes 'of private benefit ; 'that lie bad represented. to Lord MELVILLE that it would facilitate the Public Service if money were drawn from the . .)3ank of England and placed in COUTTS'S that upon no occasion did Lord MELvzi.LE ever di re& him to lay out the Public Money for his use ; that in the only instance in which such a proposal was made, it was indignantly reje6ted ; that the pro fit made from the use of the Public Money was all his own ; and that the release ai._ :!luse i^ F.- . )/ toe clestruCtion of all paprs and voucilcrs bcc A Feu them was suggested by himself. th.e seventh day Mr. TROTTER was re-examin- , ed as to 1_,;3 fortune when he was -appc.inted Pay master, and as to present amount of it :he stated it to be about 52,0001. Ha stated also, that al- - though - the accounts were always signed, by Lord MELVILLE, when be presented them, yet his Lord ship never examined any of the items, or scarce look ed at them ; if he had, it would have appeared on the face of them, 'that the Loyalty Loan money was ad vanced froth - the chest accoUnt,(i. e. Public Money). But he could never prevail on the Defendant to give any attention to his private account. Ha was, again . examined as to the Clause in the release between himself and Lord MELVILLE, by which all vouchers were .to be destroyed, and he again said that the Clause had been suggested by himself. 'On the Bth day Mr. MARK .SPROT was examined ; he said he had advanced 50,13001. in consequence of stock put into his hands—he paid the money to . Mr. TROTTER, with whom be had had large dealings.- IHe . declared that he never had had any pecuniary dealings with Lord MELVILLE ill his life; that his various money transa&ions with Mr. TROTTER were entirely upon Mr. TROTTER'S own account. On the gth day the Right Hon. GEORGE TIER-. NET was called to state the manner in' which ho had altered the mode of keeping Accdunts during his Treasurership. A Writer to the Signet was called to prove, that the clause for the destruction of voucher s in the re lease was an unusual clause in such instruments in Scotland.. On the loth day (May t 0); the Managers closed their case. . Mr. ROMitLY summed up the evidence on behalf of the Managers. The Court then adjourned to Tuesday the 13th May, when Lord MztvlLLE's Counsel, proceeded upon the Defence. Mr. Pf.ompat's Speech occupied Iwo days. In our Paper of to-day we can only give a very shore sketch - of it. He complained of _the manner in which the Noble Lord had been.prejudged throughout the Country by the circulation of writ. : jogs against him—he complained of that - extra ordinary outrage to all justice and honesty, the circulation of infamous libels through all part; of of the Kingdom with an astonishing degree of in dustry and a&ivity. He then proceeded to draw an outline of the Charges against Lord MEL viLLE.—With respea to the 10,0001. the irre gular anplication of which was charged against the Noble Lord; it would be sufficient for him to say, that it arose at a period when there was no written law against it. He would not rest there. So far from its being a crime for tr Public Accountant to make even the greatest temporary use of the Public Money for his advantage, he would spew their Lord ships that there was no law, no condition, no, not even any express or implied obligation against it ; yet it had been alledged by the HOn. Member who _ned the proceedings that such application was al- Nvays a crime by law, which law was sanctioned and declared by the 1 - Ip..;_ , e of Commons. He denied, however, the existence of such a law ; he affirmed that no Resolution of either Ho= could have the eit -- ea Elit he Wii3 prepared to s - ew that it was nbt , :11-)1A1- on 0: yi. Public Maney was a high crime and ruisde6eartour.—H , dwelt, particularly on the case of- Lord HOLLAND. He then adverted to and commented at consider , .. able length upbn the connexion between Lord iticL VILLE and'Mr. TROTTER. Mr. TROTTER had beet" brought forward to convia , Lord MELVILLE with the boon of indemnity held out to hirri. Every motion of interest operated therefore to incline the weight of his evidence against Lord MELVILLE rather than in his favour. He had his . 9‘va indemnity to establish, 'which was not to be granted unleSs he gave a full, -I fair, and satisfactory evidence; and every one knew how these words would be interpreted by the Prose cutors. He. had on the other side nothing to expect by favouring the Noble- Defendant, humbled and reduced as he now was, and he could earn his in demnity only by a full disclosure of all he knew re= spelling the_ points laid to his charge. What was the effect of Mr. TaorrEtt's evidence amidst these circumstances? it were.not only to exonerate Lord MELVILLE, but to take .the whole,triminality upon himself. What a deep accumulation of crimes. did he here take upon his' own head ; and could he have' given such an evidence under such circumstances, in duced by such interests, and compelled by such ter rors, unless the obligation of truth, the first obliga tion of the law and the safestdefence of the witness, had rendered it indispensible. Mr. TROTTER dis tinctly avowed that the whole system and property Were his own. He next spoke to the profits which could by any possibility have been made by the 'use of the Public Money in 14 years: They amounted to' 22,0001. ; yet it had been proved that his Lord ship had in the I , l.ices- he had filled voluntarily relin quished 34,11.1061. which he might have received, as :: - .A;aries attached to those places. Adverting to . - the. purchase of the East -India Stock, the Learned Manager who summed up had said, that the ac- count given of it was a perfe& farce; for that no man but au ideal would have lent money upon. Stock so circumstanced—yet that ideot was found, and who was he ?—Why it Was that fool MARK SPROTT.— After pressing these points at. considerable length— arguing that - the . Papers destroyed did not ap pear to _be public 'ones—shewing that Lord MELVILLE had been in the habit of destroying his private Pallets, had - dwelling, ttpon public services rendered by Lord MELVILLE, he trusted that on the whole of the case, their Lordships wouldsee no proof of criminal or corrupt intention in the Noble Lord. Evidence was then called on the. part of Lord MELVILLE, particularly to shew that his Lordship: had declined receiving a very large sum to whicii he was entitled as salary.. ' Mr. ADAM having summed up the Evidence for the Defence, Mr. WHITBREAD made a _ge neral reply. THE Proceedings in the Trial of his Lordihip were this day resumed. Their Lordships went in the usual procession to Westminster-Hall, and delivered, in dividually, their Judgments upon the several Articles : On the first Charge the numbers were, guilty 15, not gUilty 120. Second Charge, guilty 57, not guilty 79. , On the third there was a majority of 41 for the acquittal, and on the fourth he was una nimously acquitted. On the sth Charge the numbers were -•—• Guilty 5 ; Not Guilty . 131. On the 6th his Lordship was acquitted by a ma jority of 3g, and on the 7th by a majority of 31. On the Bth Charge the majority for an. Acquittal was 70—On the gth 103. On the loth and last Charge the majority was 111. PLYMOUTH, JUNE i I.—This morning seven Sail of homeward-bound East India Ships, and two Sout h - Sea Whalers, passed by to the Eastward, last from St. Relena ; the Pursers of some of the Ships landed and sat off with their Dispatches in the course of the night. The rolontaire Frigate, lately captured at the Cape of Good aope, is said to have passed by with them tbr Port F mouth. Sailed the Ikarrior and Centaur, of 74 gnns each, to join the Channel• Fleet. PORTSMOUTIi, JUNE 1 .-Arrived La Volontaire Frigate, lately captured at tire Cape of Good Hope, from thence with a Fleet of South-sea Whalers and Transports, viz. Sally, Kingston, Alexander, Dulex, ..4/rook Trason, and one other, Whalers ; Indefati gable, Wilding, Sarah, Elizabeth, Juno, AlbiOn, Messenger, Harlequin, Golden Grove, Agnes, Tra an4 -Fame, Transports, with the Union and Thames American detained Ships, some of which are paSsed by for the Downs. Arrived also the Boadicea Frigate, Capt.. MAIT LAND, from the Coast of Ireland. Sailed the London, of 98 guns, Polyphemus and 4frica, of 64 guns each, for the Channel Fleet ; and L'Espiegle Sloop of War on a crnize. Also the Mississippi detained Ship, SxmAz9RE, for her original port of delivery (Nantz). _ _ - HALE PAST SEVEN o'Ci,ocx.—The Purser of the Devaynes East lndia Ship, homeward-bound, is, just arrived here, and brings the intelligence that he left the following Ships off Portland, proceeding up Channel : Barring, Airlq Castle, Castle .Eden,Car nzarthen, General Stewart, Devaynes,•and Travers, from the East Indies. They left Si; Helena 13th April, at which time there,were eight Whalers there: they, came from St. Helena without Convoy. 711 E Ii'AYIBEJP9I.t VIENNA, MAY ',.>4...According letterB tom St. k . ersbtirgh,.,.the official orders - the evactza. Lion of Cataro were dispatched ont the 25 di- et April. A Military Detachment has be.cn appoinfeci. by his Majesty to proceed to the Frtidirs,:and receive the 10,0 W) head, of cattle-, arid the I[o,ooo mea sures of grain, which the Emperor ALe4.4:24J.EIt had 6tfered for the use of the -Austrian PfoVilit't!s that ha've suffered Most 'oy the War, and very consiL dertiole presents are prepared for the Russiun Com missaries upon , this occasion. • The Chamber of Finance has appropriated a con siderable siun for calling in the Government Paper, which has already commenced-; th& Court have also bought up a number of. foreign Bills of .Ex change for. the purpose of facilitating thdt cir culation. there : . The Prince of Schwartzenberg, the Counts Gut- LAI and VINCENT, and several other Officers who. distin.guishea themselves in the late War, have been invested with the Order of St. Maria Theresa. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 25 Beys in. Egypt have at length made themselves masters ofeairo, in the Citadel of which they shut up MEHENtrm Sup ALt-, , the. former Chief of the Arnauts, and who' had made' himself, Governor of Egypt. The Beys, how ever, have dismissed. him from that poSt by Procla mation, and dispatched a Courier hither, to com municate this , event to the Grand Signior--at the same time justitywg their condua, and adding a Declaration, that if the Porte would eoh firth the ancient privileges of the Beys, they ;were perfedly disposed to admit hig Sovereignty, and. to pay the ancient tributes. They also proposed that the Porte should appoint a new Governor'Of Egypt, in the persou of FlovacuEn PActA, or FIRMED PA CHA, both of Whom had already filled that office ; they, the Beys, being all willing, under these limi tations, to resign the Goverhment of Cairo to such Governor. APaIL 28---The English Consul having obtained leave of his Court to accept the insignia of the Turkish Orders, they were granted to him in. Ja, nuary, under the •idea that this indulgence would soften the Porte's refusal to enter into a Treaty of Alliance with Great Britain. Mr. ARBUTHNOT, .in a late conference with the Reis Effendi, assured' him, that if the Porte persisted in its refusal to re new the . Treaties with England,, his Government would find itself under the disagreeable necessity of blockading the Turkish Ports in the_ ici;diterranean, together with the Dardanelles. A,clvices from Rothelia mention, that as the Grand Vizier had.advanced against the Servian Insurgents,, a decisive battle was daily, expe6ted. Mr: BARKER has published a reply to' the charges of the French respeeting the murder of the Agent RomiE . u.—The' presents sent to Paris by 'll , ltarza EFFENDI . are worth 100,000 piastres. WETZLAR, MAY 28.—Nassail is to be indem nified ,tk)r its cession of territory to the Duke JOACHIN.----The Principality of Isenburgh is also to enjoy all its privileges. The Landgrave of Hes4e-Darmstadt, as one of the Confederate Princes, is to furnish France with a Corps of 3000,Infantry and 500 Cavalry, in con . aideration of a subsidy. MUNICH, MAY 25.—The Emperor NA' POLEON his offered our Sovereign,4o,ooo measures of grain from Mentz, Strasburgh, &C. to be distributed amongst those inhabitants of Bavaria who have sub; red Most by the quartering of troops. The biscuit at Bran nan, is also to be appropriated , to a s milar use, from whence it is inferred the French will soon evacuate that place. The King of Bavaria has offered Marshal . BER THIER the use of one of his summer palace - sin case he should reside much longer in this quarter. Since the affair of Cataro has been adjusted the conferences at Vienna are iupp6sed to relate to the acknoWledgment of the new King of Naples and Sicily. Gen. ANDREOSSI, it is said, i3' eneeled to bring the decision of the Austrian Cabinet with him upon this subjett. Gen. LEOPOLD BERTHIER still remains with his brother. SWEDLSH - POMERANIA, :‘.+IAY 3 1 .—An Embargo is laid upon the Dutch - Ships at Stralsund. A party of the. Cavalry from Sxeden arrived here yes terday. .0 HOLLAND, MAY 3 1 .—The following are the prin cipal points of our new Constitution The Throne is hereditary in the male line ; the female is. for ever e,:cluded. The' Queen Dowager is Governess of the King manor. Failing an heir in the male succession, the French Empeior appointsa King from the House of NA POLEON, or a native Citizen.. Estates are annexed to the Crown, of which the yearly revenue is to amount to a million and a half; besides this, a mil lioo and a half is to be annually devoted to the Civil Est. • • Hague is the royal residence; Busch and Foeystadt are to be the'summer palaces. With exception- of the Court establishment, which is to consist partly of fokigners, natives alone are to fill the public of fices, and the language,' religion, and laws of the country, are . to remain as they are. . The King is to have the same power with the'Grand Pen sionary, including the appointment to public offices. The Legislitiie BOdy is to consist of 38 Members, of which the Department of Holland is to send 17 ; and a President is to be appointed for. life, Their present High Mightinesses are to remain; those that are wanting to completb the: number are to be appointed by the King from -a list to be com posed ,by the Legis/ativc Body, and Governments of the Departments. The Council of State is to consist of eight Members and the Ministers: 'The National Debt is acknoWledged ) and the payment guaranteed. A Commercial Treaty is to be con cluded between France and Holland. BERLIN, JANE 3.—lt is now almost certain that there will be no war between this country and Swe den. Count KELLER IS mot yet appointed Cabinet Mi nister. STOCKHOLM, MAY 27.-A speedy reconciliation is expc6ted between our Giurt and Prussia. RoME, MAY 3.—The Princeuf fizssE continually receives, by an English Frigate which sails between. Sicily and Gaeta, supplies of prOvi,lOns and 'atilt:nut:lV tion, and he daily destroys the w„)rks of the enemy. 4 ' From' the FR E CII a t;rl. . . . PARIS, I:ll6nday 111. fzcellcn, •y, Prince 1%-lAssEitiro, Anth:issrior fretTl tLc.1%;111; 4 Spain, presqnted t:, !•!3 . -„Majci;, - , , ty dll4 . _ King •11 lettei• Cathole log the death of isicy Prince -s of AF:TuRI,S., - 11•1 s6(ronce of this.. oof:ticationthe c(y.irt go ;nto tuournian• for nine days, to comnieoce froil) Wcd, • nes,lily next. His Eminence Cardinal FE.icn, Archlslsl:Fip of Lyons, arrived in that city on Ilia 29:11 trom Rome he' was recciyed with all the honours due to his rank. Letters from Leghorn mention, that the English Frigate whi;:h Ni as cruizing before that port has ckisappearecli: the boat _and its crew are' detaineLi An English Squadron of two Sail of the Line, and some other Vessels, .have bee,i seen towards Porto Ferrajo : the onesof them. • BREST, MAY 30.—0 n the . night a the 27th a detachment of sixty English, under Cover of a fog, came close t() the 13atterit of Point D's Pz)is, near Camara. The centinei heard a noise, and after challenging twice, tired Lis piece, bat," before he re-load, he received a 'shot in the head. It appeared more adviseable to him to retreat towald the guard-house, which was at a considerable tance limn the battery, where he found the rest of his party,. consisting of eight men standing to their arms. Being too few in number, their first inten= tion was .to keep themselves entrenched. in the guard. , house, from whence they made vigoroo.s opposi-' tion to the enemy, hut the English fired througlithe door and windows. The cor,:r.:ll gunner. were killed, two of i. th inent were wounded, and the same fate ay..cd the rest of -the detachment. Thcy then deterpt;ne,l to make a sortie, precipitated themselves ()- net upon the enemy, and routed elm, killed and wounded a numbcr enemy carried off or dragged away in their treat. A musket, cartoUch-boic, and an le,7t!lish hat, remained upon the field of battle. The tirns lasted for half an hour. All the neighbrmring pi(..kets, the Custom-house officers, and Nationil Citurds, rushed to the spot, and five minutes sooner would have placed all the English in our pnwer. All the Mischief they did was to cut the signal-lines. Tarea soldiers of the names of - Butz.;AnD, Goutcls, an t McvEL, perfOrmed prodigies of valour in this affair, in which the contest was so unequal. AUGSBURGH, MAY 26.- 7 -The• intelligence broil ;ht by the Courier who was'expeaed yesterd4y at Mu r , has not yet transpired; We can only form • conjeOures as to the further destination of the Frenc!t Tr \ Oops. All that iwe. know is, that a Courier has passed through this City to-day, who is proceeding . t o Paris with all possible dispatch. Marshal DAvousT's division of the Army, in con sequence of being straitened for provisions, ap-• proaches closer. to the Neckar, as that of Marshal. NEY does the Upper Danube and the Black Forcrt. FRANKFORT, MAY 27.—A general proliiiiition of English mar.uf.zaures in the Bavarian States, and probably in all the South of Germany, is spoken of; it has already taken place in Switzerland. Letters frpm Erfurt mention, th.tt the Russian Counsellor of State CEVAKOFF, passed through that city on .the lOth, on his way to Part-. • GENOA, MAY 24.—The three. English Ships of War which were before on.: ifarbour on Wednesday . ancleThursday nave disaplieared, and sailed to the Southward. Yesterday 236 Galley Slaves arrived. here from ou their *way to Corsica, where they are to be employed on the public works. VIENNA, MAY 24.—The ports of Trieste anfid Fitrme have b,lin; shut against,the Euglish and Rui sians.—(lifoniteur) The Ambassador of his Russian Imperial Majesty, Count rt%sumowsxy, has received from his Court, by a Courier Extraordinary, intelligence that' the ,Emperor ALEXANDER, in compliance whh the re peated solicitations of the Cabinet of Vienna, had given orders to the Troops who occupied Cataro, to evacuate that poSt, and to deliver it up, as well as the others which they held, to the Austrians, from whom the French were to receive it. A Russian Messenger has, insonsequenee, been dispatched to the Com- Mander in Chief at Cataro. It is to be hoped, that he will reach hiS destination in fifteen days. , 'The French Ambassador has given him a passport by ttte way of Zara and Croatia. The trial of the Marquis of GllrsTrt LIEN con tinues ; the progress of it'is by no means favourab:e to him. General BRADY has not been arrested, but a complaint his been preferred against him before the Council of 'War., AUGSBilliGli, MAY 23.,--The following is the statement of the French Troops at this :moment in Suabia, Franconia, and Bavaria • Ist, Marshal BERNADOTTE'S Corps ; stationed in Anspach, the Principality of Bamberg, and territory of Nuremberg, is composed of the division of RI .VALID, of three regiments of Infantry of the line ; the division of DROUET, of twa regiments of Infantry.' of the line and one regiment of Light Infintry ; the division of Cavalry of General TILLY, composed of one regiment of Chasseurs and three 'regiments ,of Hussars. ". 2d, Marshal DAvousf sCorps cantoned in LoWer Suabia, on the left Bank of the Danube, and towards the Banks of the Neckar, consists of the division of General CAFFARELLI, of fotir regiments of Infantry of the line and one regiment of Light Infantry ; the division of FRIANT, four regiments of. Infantry ofthe line and one regiment, of Light Infantry ; the divi sion of GUDIN, four regiments of Light Infantry ; and the division of Light Cavalry of Gen. VI ALA NNES, consisting of one regiment of Hussars and three re giments of Chasseurs. 3d, Marshal SouLT's corps cantoned in Lower Bavaria ; upon both Banks of the Danube, cdnsist ing of the division of General ST. HILAIRE, of four regiments of the line and one of light infantry ; the division of VANDAMME, four regiments of the line and one of light infantry ; the dividon of Genecal LEGRAND, one regiment of light,, and three regi ments of infantry of the line ; the corps of Corsi can and the Po sharpshooters under the orders of General MAZIGAZON, consiiting of One: regiment of hussars and two regiments o: cliasseurs ; and anothr corps of cavair;;T, of two %t