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Rnr t. this subjea, and, on the eiiinination sift
'is t a ulee, it appeared from the testimony of his son,
that in the father's accounts be could find no trace
pf any intercourse whatever between him and me.
What now, Sir, chiefly remains for me to observe
upon, is the application of tieo sums of money
phial I objefied•to account for. Upon this stihjal
I must remark, that In the whole course of the love
dtdsteinistration in which I bortea Part. I was the confi-
dential adviser of His Majesty's government i t every
measure which-had any relation to Scotland. 1 was so
officially, from the first, with a very short interval ;
Sat in general Was in the same ',Twiner consulted to
the last. Ia all the transeaions which occurred in so
eget a length of time, gentlemen will see that
stony things must hove unavoidably occurred for
tiquiring the application of public money in a pri•
sate and confidential Manner, to the amount of
about 60,0001. which I now declare that I never
will. and never can, disclose, withont a breach both
pf public ditty. and of private honour. With respect
in the application of 40,0061. for a time from the
Naval money for the accommodation of the rea-
tory under very delieste circumstances. I refilled to
eve any explanation to the Naval Com.ats-
boners. I thought it my duty to have dune so
at the these, ;ad i am sure that there were
Cries when thn.e who afforded explazatioft
of it small have us:tally thought ! it their
duty to have &dined so doing. Mr. Trotter
timid never hare meant t' sty, that he ever ad-
vanced for me such a sum as 2:40001. on the same
day ; and I am termite flea if ho was asked the
soration nose he sums]," sa teat I never had the
sightest knowledge, of its 11:svicg, come our of the
public Money. He tunas hive intended to gate. that
this sum arose (hiring the *bole course of his agency,
for which I think 1 ;mid einem 1,0001. interest. He
stated that the, e was an account current between
it:, and this inelefiled the sum of 20.0001. upon the
whole, I very well recoiled subscribing 10,0001.
to the Loyalty Loan, and I did so from a know-
ledge that it was expeaed that all the chief
.ser-
vants of Government should be sebscribers to a con-
sidemble amount. Two instalments of it were
paid, as I well recollea, out of my remittances from
Scotland. and so far was I from thineiug that share
in the Loyalty Loan any part of my property, that
1 immediately executed a power to get rid of my
:Pock in it as soon as an opportunity should offer.
When it is considered that in his eonneaions with me
ror forty years, upwards of 70.0001. of mine pissed
through his bends from receiviag the salaries of my
different offices, here, and my remittances from
Scotland, it will not seem wonderful that the aceu-
tuulateZ balance. taking the different periods at
which the meney was advanced, should be even
'OOOl. against me; but I never had any oc-
casion to require any thing like 20,0001. at
one time, and it frequently happened that Mr.
Trotter was in arrears with me, as was the
case at the time of our final settlement. In regard
to the 40,0001. advanced to the treasury, as already
alluded to. I am ready •to admit, that I gave my
colcurreece to it in common with the other su-
perior servants of Goveramest. and am willing
to take my share of the responsibility. Upon
the subjea of the conversation between Mr. Itaikes
and Mr. Pitt, of a suspicion that more money was
drawn for naval purposes. from the Bank, than
was deemed necessery for the public service, I hare
only to declare, that it did not occur to my memo-
ry, at the time of my examination ; and that the
recolleaion of Mr. Pitt's having mentioned it to me
afterwards. is rather excited or revived from recent
circumstances, than from any distina impression
which I retained of it. I now remember that I
then treated it as an idle rumour. such u I had
reason to believe it; and my tamer to Mr.
Pitt • must have then been the same, which
I have now to submit to the consideration of the
Hoa.e. The next topic that suggests itself, Sir. is
the loss snsta'ned by the public by the balances
which remained in the bands'of Mr. Jellicoe ; and,
I must say. that circumstance has given me lass
orseesiams than any of the othees conneated with
this lubjel. That debt, such as it nas, bad
been incurred Were Clef I became Treasurer
of the Navy. I used my best eleitions in entice-
enuring to recover it, and the failure of luting
done se cannot be' attributed to any fault of mine.
There is another inkjet.' Sir, to which I beg to call
the attention of the House, because a great many
y severe comments have been passed on it; and
the matter has been so grossly misrepresented in
every way that it was possible to conceive, and so
Inclusniously citculetesl through every corner of the
country, I mean, Sir, the release that was given
between Mr. Trotter and myself, that it was impos-
sible fur me to pass it by without particular obser-
vation. In whatever way we proceed to consider
that trensaaion, I think the nature of it is such,
that it is scarcely possible for the mind of any man
to be so perverse or so malignant, as to attribute it
to any unfair or foul proceesfngs, or to any wish
or desire to conceal from the woild any kind of
transa.lion, which either or both of us were unwill-
ing should come to light. As to the thing itself, I
assure the House that I knew nothing of it till I re-
ceived it at the distance of 400 miles from the me.
tropolis, and of so little consequence did I regard it,
and so very trifling was the impression it made on my
mind, in point of weight or importance, that I
really do not know hoar, or in what Manner it
came to my hands. whiF: came to me in a
cover. or whether it sea • rwured through the
medium of any man of bustnese. I am inclined to
Mink, however, this last was not the way, or I should
have been apt to recollea it more particularly. All
I remember is, that I was at my son's house in the
country, and it is most likely to have been delivered
to me by on t.f my two servante, and 1 signed it as
a matter, they was in a manner necessary between
two persons, bete (et: sdiont there had passed ac-
counts of so extousi..-.2 arid complicated a nature.
Mr. Trotter had been asked the question by the
Committee, %belie' ail particular conversation had
taken place on it ? and he had answered, Nu. He
was also asked, whether there was any tither person
that could give any further account of it? To this
he had also answered, No. Mr. Spottiswoole, who
drew it up, had been dead these six months, and of
course they were deprived of his evidence ; but they
have that of his inn, and his partner ; and if there
had been any thing remaining ac to this deed, they
must have known of it. Tiwy neither of them did;
and this I think is the strongest negative evidence
Was cal be gives in such a matter of business. It