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forming i part of the temeeetalion of M *suttees end tionfisien-
tiA a ena,ga."
From ail the information we have been able to obtain, it
dues not appear that Mr. Trutrei's predecessors did enioy any
such advantage. It is postaisecy stated by Mr. IlarmoA, Pay-
mastr-r toldr. Barre, that he did not; nor did he eon:else the
use or the 'rehire Money to form any part of the emolument or
his office And it is stated b..- Lord Bayniug, th.rt he did net
know, nor did he believe, that Mr. Douglaseohile he acted as
his Paymaster, derived arty profit or advantage Irons the use of
employment el the public money, except the money issued for
tire payment of Exchequer fees.
As a further answer us Erc observation, that the us. of the
public money was considered as a perquisite of the Paymaster,
when the augmentation of salaries ire the Navy Tay Office took
i place in August 178 h, we find that Mr. Trotter, in his exami-
nation on the 24, 9th, and 12th of October or that rear, ht.-
' fore the Commissioners anpointed to enqu.r.r into the fees, g-a-
tonics, psorrisites, and emoluments receive in the seveial
Public Offices, contained iii the Appendix to their Fourth Re.
pat, deposes, a That he bas at present some advantage from
balances remaining its his hands, which were impresterl to the
present Treasurer for the purpose of paying Exchequer fees,
arid some other contingencies; but the amount of such advant-
ages he cannot possibly ascertain. Ile is also allowed Stationary
of all suns for his own use, but does not recollect any fee, gra-
tuity, or other allowance or perquisite whatever, which he en-
joys as Paymaster of the Navy'
If Hr. Trotter was in the practice of deriving advantage from
the use of anoney applicable to navy services at the time of
making tli;* deposition, whir!, was only two months after the
increisz of the salari -* in the Navy Pay Office, the mention of
so considerable a source of emolument could not have been
omitted. The Commissioners, before whom this deposition
was made, cerainly did mist toile& from it, that the use of
money applicable to navy services was a perquis to o! the
Paymaster; for in detailing his income, after mentioning his
salary, and his allowances of coach-hire, coals, candles, and
stationary, they stet:, " he at present derives some advantage
from the balance of morsev remaining in hi. hands for the pur-
pose of owlet Exchequer fees, and sons* other contingencies,
but Ins is. fee, gentility, or other emolument whatever." And
they reemilmeml that his salary should be increase I from five
hundred to sight hundred pounds per annum, to be in lieu of
all contingencies or allowances whatsoever ; and the he should
" not be pernsitteel to derive airy advantage whatever from
medic money remaining in his hand?; but that the money is-
grief to pay Exchequer fees, &c. should be paid into the
Bank, and drawn from thence for the public semi-7e, in like
rosiider as all other money for naval services now is."
The salary, p.oposed be those Commissioner, was of course
themed by them • full equivalent for the labour and response-
b.lity of the situatton.

When shy h:t.mcss of the Nary Pay Office way under th •
conaideration or the Select Committee of th_• Haase of
Coatroom on Finance, in 1797, they requirel an account of
the increase or diminution which had ta:,:en p ace since the
year 1:82, in the amount of salaries and entolummta un tha
Navy Pay ()Mee. Tee ;account iurnished is contained in the
Appendix to their 17th Rep.•rt. The increase of the emolu-
ment of odd pence revived by the Clerks it mentiiined; but
no not is taken the advantage derived uy the Paymaster
from the el:: of the intontv kith d fur vie a rake of the Navy ;
although it must have aristl si.re•• the year 178 V, as the Pay-
:astair at that time did hot dense arty emolument therefrom.
Hence it must ainwar, that the use of the yoe.lic money was
not emuid-red, even In 1797, as an avowed emolument of the
Paymaster.

Mr. Trotter states in his paper, that in drawing money (ions
the Bank in K.no4, and retain lig it in his own hands, or lodging
it with his private hanker, he does not eonsider that he has de-
parted front the lettsr or sp.r:t of the Act for the better rtgula.
lion gi the other of Treasurer of the Navy: He says, it was di-
mete Sby that Act, thy .s ismes to the Treasurer of the Navy
from the Exclieque-, should Displaced to his credit at the Bank
of Eite.iiid, and drawn from thews. be &wits, spec (sing
the i 1,1414 of service for which k is wanted ; and he further
states, that ti.-se directions have accordingly been invariably
foiluwed. We have already shewn in what manor., the dime
tions for the heads of aerate: bong mentinueJ in the drafts
have been evaded ant. .n reciting the Art, he has got noticed
the clause whi,m diiects hat the monies issued to the Rank,
oo accaunt of the Treasurer, shell net be paid out of the Batik,
unless fur navy servi vs. It Purely ra•isiot be ads .11Ce.1* that
the money drawa by the paymaster for pr.v*' use, was paid
out of the Bali,, for navy services.

One Of the reason. g.mit by the Pamesster foe keepir; has
lances is hh own h iad. is, the having of money in readmess ria
advance m the gob at oiturams when tb? gle.nanis upon them
were greater than wr:l finteeim ; and, in ho evidence of the
19th o. U9nber, he lies, that he has made advances to them
in rash and Bank oides ; but this circumstance is cantraditir I
tlic sun ae:ountents ; and it will barfly be contendssl, ili•t
money stmdilie ten the name of the Treasurer at the Lt.nlc s
nut as Leech within his powsr as in the honee of a pr.vati
bankm. In .seder however to judge of the necessity of the
use, we Nought proaer eiomire, whether, as it seas stated to
in be tee Pat mast. r,wthe cas`uers received daily advances of
money equal to one or ten days expenditure' We di wefore
required an account of their balances on the 31st of December
ie each year, and of the days in each succeeding year when
those balani•-a time esihansted. By the following statement,
drawn oat from (1102/I•CVMSOMI, it will appear that, pr-riously
to 1301, them balances were generally equal to between •
week's and a fortuities expenditure.
The Report then goes on to state—" Mr. Trotter, in his
paper, lays much stress triton the smallness of his salary, in
comparimo to the responsitality of his Sir(Miln. The office of
Paymaster is emminey an important one, and considera'ale con-
* lessee must be rem;sed in him ; but If lie regulates his eon
duet strictly by the provisions of the Aet of Parliament, his
actual responsibility is much less than that of the Sub-Account-
ants. Since the time that the Paymaster transferred the cria•ge
of the Exchequer Fee Mosey to the Clerk employed in,,..
licitin; the money at the Exchequer, there has not.been any
necessity for the Pas master's having in his haartt any part of
the public money; whereas, large sums mu,t necessarily be
trusted to the custody of the Sub. Accountants.
se With respect 1., the owervation contained in Mr. Trot
t-r's paper, namely, that the amount of Money issued form the
Exchequer did wit depend upon him nor upon the Treasmer,
it is true, that in id. applications to the Lords of the Treasury
fur money, he was ion ter the direttions of the Public B orris ;
but it is certainly in the per ter of a Paymaster, by delaying his
appli maces% or nnt ushig du* diligence in solicit' g the mousse
from the Exchequer, to create a necessity for the diffymet
&SUM to make earlier applications, and consequently to keep
greeter balances with the 'rreasur r. However this ipay have
been, we know that the disbursements in the Navy Pay afire
might have been earned on with smaller balances ; in proof of
which, we need only not re the wins received fmm Mr. Trot.
ter sod applied by Lord Melv.lle, those in the hands of Mr.
Trotter, and thee: fur many years ennverted lit Mr. Jellicoe to
his private concerns, of which we shall speak hereafter. The
amount of thew sums (and at times they m.. 11 have been very
large) need not haw been taken tronathe Exchequer, fur it is
evident the poyesents tor the navy services were carried on
with mt them."

The Report next proceeds to observe—v." Mr. Trotter, in his
jostificatirio, Lewis, that the public has not .usiained any loss
from his use of the money icued for the service of the Navy.
To this observation we cannot allow Inc weight; he might
have been unsuccessful in his speculations, or the Ki-
ssing with whom the public money was lodged might have
tailed; and in either of these cases, the lose would probably
have fa:len on the mettle; or, in case of Mr. Trotter's sicith, it
might have beconse necessary to unravel his very intricate accounts
la a Court of Law, before the balance in his hands could have
been recovered. At any rate, the public money has been an
necess.inly put us hazard ; and that in defiance of the precau-
tiorss taken against it by the Legislature."
The esil arising from the application of public money br
individuals to private use is strongly exemplified in the cars
of Mr. Adam J.-Ilicoe, formerly Deputy Paymaster of the
Navy, which was brought to our notice fmm the circumstance
of Lord Melville'. hay.ng bee.t acquitted in his accounts of the
suns of twenty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-six
pounds, sin shillings, aid sixpence farthing, as the amount of
Mr. .I..li.coe's dehei•
The Report next enters into a decided account of the de-
Goismcv of Mr. Jel!:coe' and charges the Treasuter with great
freli•Stle,S in el,t .uopentli ig that Gentleman from Wfice, car
procuring Securities upon the Macorery of hi. situ3ttnn.—it
then goes ou,—'s ths reference to the acc-runt of the sums
with which Mr. Jellicoe stood charged on aes.oistit or Vie Trua-
sur•rs tur the time Leine, it will be men that in the yew 1782,
a tine wf War, a. 1 178;3, when the Fleet was paid
the average of Mr. Jabcoe's monthly charge woe only six

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