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vestigation is conduCted, I feel myself bound, in
cunsidel aion of my own personal safety, to make no
admission whatever upon the subjed.
After this general explanation, I beg leave to
bring the whole whaled into a short and conneded
statement, and to illustrate it with the figures which
relate to the transthions of my Paymastership.
I affirm, I st. I hat I have never had it in my
power, from the nature of my appointment, to aug-
ment the balances of the Treasurer of the Navy, or
to create unnecessary balances in his hands.
id. That no payments, in redudion of his ba-
lances, can be made by the Treasurer of the Navy,
but under dirtdion of the Boards.
3d. That every payment, which the Boards have
direded the Treasurer tco make, during the period
of my being in office, has afitialbi been made by him
without the smallest interruption, hesitation, or de-
lay, and that the balance remaining in my hands,
was left with the Treasurer at the time I left the
Office.

4th. That there had been imprested into the
band of the Treasurer of the Navy, and into the
Bank, upon his account, between the 31st of De-
cember. I7SS, and the 31st of July, 1803, the
.um of . . L.134,169,t33 14 II)
That accounts have been
delivered into the several
Boards, :hewing disburse.
ments for the same period,
amounting to . 133,606,984 12 10)

Balance . L. 562,249 2 1
.sth. That nn loss has accrued upon the numer-
ous payments attending such disbursements, except-
ing in the SUM of 4621. 15s. 6d. being the amount of
sums due to seamen, whose wages had been fraudu-
lently obtained by others personating them, and
trifling sums ari.ing from errors in the calculation of
seamen's wages.
6th. That, as I have already stated, I left the
aforesaid balance, 562,2491. 2s. Id. of the current
account of the Treasurer of the Navy, when I re-
tired from office upon the said 31st day of July,
lbo3, invested in the following manner : viz.
In the Bank, on account of the Right L. s. cl.
Hon. George Tierney . • . 11 h
In the hands of Itit-Lashier in the Navy
Department
In the hands of his Cashier in the Vic-
tualling Department • .
In this hands of his Deputy Paymaster .
In the hands of his Cashier, for paying
allotments
In the hands of his Cathie", for paying
wages at Pmtsmouth • 79,093 2 01
In the hands of hi. Cathie', for paying
wages at Plymouth . . • 73,842 391
In the hands of h.s Cashier for paying
wages at Sheernew and Chatham 90,161 16 01
In the hand• of his Cashier, for payii-g
Exchequer Vets own current aconiont 13,316 7 7
And in Payments to personated Seamen,
not yet Allowed

1 ';,6G2 1 ti

11,941 1 n•
6,217 16 li

Oil 15 6

Making the full Balance, as &Sent stated 1. 56:,:49 2 1
The whole of the :brier statements can be check-
ed and verified by a reference to the public accounts
of the office, which, possessing internal evidence
of the falls, I el:d not think it would have been
necessary for Gentlemen *fling tinder the present
Commission to have looked for ulterior evidence of
the management of rrif,ney which has not even
been alleged to be deficient, at the painful ex-
pence of an exposure of my private concerns ob-
tained through the means of my most confidential
friends; and, I trust, that no hesitation which I
may have shewn upon the former part of my evi-
dence, may be considered as an admission of having
aged improperly, but entirely as proceeding from
the caution that every man ought to observe under
circumstances which might eventually expose him
to pains and penalties not apprehended in the
course of business ; but a consequence certainly nes
ceuary to be guarded against at this time, from my
ignorance of the motive which has led to an investi•
gation of my public condua, so stria and unexpea-
ed, extending even to evidence drawn from my
Banker of my private transalions, which I do not
consider to be authorised by your Alt of Parliament,
43 Geo. 111. cap. Pi. And I take this opportunity
of protesting against any information, thus obtained
upon transaCtions not connected with any of the pub-
lic departments specified in the above AR, and more
especially from persons imperfeftly informed, who
can only speak on belief or conjeaure as to their
nature.
23th July 1104. A I.FX. TROTTER.