The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-04-04 00:00:00

Mr. Trotter revel* ear participation of savant:gate.*
from the &sm.dv of tite public looney, or whether I at any tints
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•nyself from r- • advancie
itation

knowiligly.deri;ol any ;drainages to _. any sera..._
of public money, 1 should have nobesit.. _in declaring, list
uow declare, that there ne.er was any such understanding, u.ir
any thing like It, betwee.i Mr. Trotter and my...e:l; that
never knowingly derived any riot adimitaies ; and that what-
ever emolument accrued to Mr. Trotter -oi the cooniud of the
pecuniary concerns of the office was, so far as I am informed,
exclusively hos own.

" With respect to any advance: which Mr. Trotter might
make on my private account. I considered myself as debilor to
hini alone, and as standing with regard to him in no other pre
dicament than I should have dime with ally other man ef
business, who might be in occasional advance to me in the
general lean/gement of my concerns entrusted to him. It is
impossible for meta ascertiiii, from any documents or vouchers
In me bands, now existing, what the extent of those advances
might have been at any i articular period. The accounts which
you have iii.erted in your Report, I never me till 1 saw them
in the Report itself They air 3no accounts of mine, nor am I
party to them. They conmio a variety of sums issued nomi-
nally to one, whleh never came into mu hands, and they give
ne credit for various sums received by Mr. Touter on my pri•
rate account from my salary at Treasurer of the Navy, and
ether sources of income, of which he was in the receipt, nor do
they take any notice ef the security of winch he was in poises-
sion, for the repayment of any balance at any time due to him
from private funds.
" Witly rasped to the sums of naval money advanced to me,
and applied to other services, I do not feel it necessary to snake
any additional observations, except to declare, that all those
sums were rsturned to the funds from which they were taker.,
having in no instance been withdrawn from it for any purtn,se
of private eiriolument or advantage. Before I conclude, I wish
to correll an inaccuracy which I observe in one part ut the
evidence in Appendix No 7, page 192. The question is put to
me, "bid you derive ally profit or advantage from the me
or emplovii.ent of money imued for carrying on the current
service of the Nary, between the 19th of August, ISO?.
and 30th et April, 1903; or between the Ist of February,
1794, and Slst of December, 178 b, during which periods you
held the office of Treasurer or. the Navy !" Which quotation I
there answer by a reference to the answer given to a SiMilaf
question put to me before. This answer is inace.irate,
far as it contains a reference to Mr Troupes !none of Spending
his funds in hi. private account with SIMS,. Co:itts. Mr
Touter was II • t Paymaster till the year 1786. The circom
stones, therefore, relative to Mr. Trotter's account, 'which
precluded my returning an answer to your former tplevion.,
do not apply M the periods specified in that mentioned, and
ftall, therefore, have no difficulty in declaring, that during
those periods I did not derive ally advantage from th • ine or
employment of public money issued for carrying on the service
of the Navy. Having stated these fais, it is almost unneces-
sary to add, that I am at any time ready to verify them upon
my oath. " I have the boomer to be,

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