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CALCUTTA GAZETTE, JULY 19, 1804.

Adyices have been received from his Excellency
the Commander in Chief, dated sth July, 1804, in-
closing intelligence of the complete success of Lieut.
Colonel MAB ris o•LE commanding the troops in
the province of liundlecund, against a party of ban-
ditti under the orders of a Bundela Chief, named
RAJA RAM SING, and of the NA) A HI.

By these advices it appears that on the Ist of
July, 1804, Li nit. Colonel NIARYINDALE, with the
detachment under his command, arrived at Ma-
liohah, and having ascertained the position occu-
pied by RAJAH RAM And the NAJAHS, determined
to attack them. On the morning of the 2d Lieutenant
Colonel M•ILTIHDALI accordingly direded Cap-
tains &Hatt. aa Au and ANL:MASON, with the Bri-
gades of Mimic Cotton ALLY and M•uosixo
Jr N AWN KHAN, to move towards the banditti by
the nearest road, while the detachment under his
immediate command proceeded by a circuitous route
through the hills.
The position occupied by RAJAH RAM and the
NAJAHI was extremely strong, being surrounded by
ranges of high cocks, which were lioed by Match-
lockmen anid Rocket Boys, who kept up a con-
stant fire upob the British troops, as they advanced
against the banditti.
Both attacks succeeded completely, and the ban-
ditti were driven from the strong position which
they occupied, with the loss of nearly the whole of
their baggage, tents, camels, horses, bazar, Bcc. &e.

During the greatest part of Sunday a man rather
shabbily dressed was observed lurking about Wind-
sor Palk, which induced one of the keepers to en-
quire of him, whether he wanted any thing particular?
He answered, he came there by the appointment of
Mr. Pi rr to meet the ICI so, and he expected His
MAJESTY'S carriage to convey him to the Castle.
He having chewed evident symptoms of derange-
ment, the Park-keeper took him into custody, and
delivered him to Downer, the Police officer, who,
we understand, conveyed him to London. He
proves to be a native of Ireland and a Barrister.
A Proclamation has been issued by the Prevost and
Magistrates of Edinburgh, stating, the appearance
of mad dogs in that city, that a child had been
bitten, and also some cows, who had died of canine
madness, and ordering the citizens to confine their
dogs, under a penalty, and that the dogs found at
large in the streets shall be shot.

EXTRACT from the TENTH REPORT
o►
THE COMMISSIONERS OF NAVAL ENQUIRY.

The Act of t/ee 25th of !Us present Majesty, cap. 51, for
better regnlating the office of the Treasurer of His Majesty's
Nary, directed, that the several provisions therein commuted
should tAke place on the Ist of July, 1785, but they were not
carded intn eff.et ti.l the Ist of Jauuarr, 1786; we understand
the delay we, occasio..eJ by the necessity of making souse pre-
vious official arrang.mentr.
Lt that month, Alecuider Trotter, Esq. who had lately been
Clerk in the Navy Pry 011 ice, was appointed Paymaster by
Lord Melville, and h • stater, that he aged as Deputy to the
Treasurer in all the duties attached to the aituatiori, except the
appointment of officers awl clerks.

As the direct' of the ad are positive, that the issurs of
money for navy services shall be made to the flank, and that
the money shall not be drawn from thence hut hir navy wr-
it appeared to us, that if the of the aft had
been observed, the circumstance which we have before noticed,
that the fumy standing iss the name of the Tr: isurer at the
Rank were less than his unappropriated balances, could not
have exited.

We therefore deemed it our duty to enquire minutely into
the came of such deficiencies, and with this view, we first ex-
amined Mr. Trotter, and afterwards Lord Melee:,
Mr. Trotter, when first called upon to we! for thus !de- I
ficienries, said he could not precisely explain the cause of
them ; hut afterwards acknowledged, that lie had been ie the
practice ofdravri g money from the Bank in large sums, and
lodging it in the bends of private bankers, perviously I. its be- '
ing venee to the suletecountante for the public 6tri ire.
This practice, he 'tette, was introduced about the year 17116,
with the knowledge and approbation of the Treasurer. Lord
leteville admits that he did permit Mr. Trotter te lodge. the I
public 'stoney in his private banker s hands, but not, as it would I
mere, to the extent tinderstmel Iry Mr. Trotter.
Mr. Triter, on being gut-steered whether he had derived I
any profit or advantage from the money withdrawn by him
from the Bank, refused to answer under the provisions of the
fifth clause of Ow Al by which we are constituted; and be
availed himself of this clause in every question which bore any
relation to the rise or etnploymtut of the public money, either
by himself or Lord Melville; urging in the letter case, that as
he had drawn a'l the money from the Bank in the first instauce,
he conceived Ittivic•lf implicated in its subsequent appropriation.
Mr. Trotter gave us to understand, that money applicable to
navy services, which had been advanced by him to Geld Mel-
ville, was employed by his Lordship in the public service of the
state ; and that he was led to this conclusion in consequence of
a considerable sum so advanced, having been returned to him
by Mr. Long, one of the Secretaries to the Treasury.
Upon this statement we issued our precept to Laird Melville,
fur an account of monies received by him, er any person on hie
account, or by his order, from the Paymaster cot the Navy,
between the Ist of July, 178.,, and the 316 t of December, 1800,
Wilier when such monies were received; and also the times
when, and the persons by whom the same were returned to the
Bank or the Paymaster.
In answer to.that precept, we received from his Lordship the
following letter :
" Gentlemen, " Wimbledon, 30th of June, 1804.
" I have received your requisition, of date the 26th instant
Ir is impossible fur eve to furnish you with the account you ask.
It is more than four years since I left the office of Treasurer of
the Navy, and at that period of doing so, having accounted
for every sum impressed into my hands, I transferred the whole
existing balance to the account of roy successor. From that
time, I never considered any one paper or voucher that remained
in my hands as of the smallest use to myself rot any ether per-
son, and consequently, being often in the practice, since I
retired to Scotland, of employing occasionally come time in
asp-nettle my paeeoe ant deetroying those that were useless, 1
ant satisfied there dries not exist any one material by which 1
rued make up such an Account as you specify. But, inde-
peridfvy of that circumstance, 1 think It riglit to remind you,
that, daring a great part of the time I was Tessurer of the
Neve, I held other very confidmittal eituations in Government,
and was intimately connected with others. So situated, I did not
decline giving occasional accommodation from the funds in the
Treesurees hands to other service", not connected with my
efficial situation as Treasurer of the Navy. It 1 had materials
to make up such an account as you require, I could not do it
without relselerring delicate and confidential mesa/mons of
Governineut, which my duty to the public must have restrained
me from revealing. (Shred) " MELVILLE."
Desit sus of being furnished with art account of thus sums
'ogled to the Bank for the service of the navy, which had been
drawn front thence, and appropriated to any other public ser-
vice, and judging that some note or record of such transactions
ought to have been preserved in the Navy Pay Office, we issued
our precept to the present Treasurer, ler an account of the
sums of money which had been advanced or lent by the Tree-
livers of the Navy, nr by their directions, to any public the
tenement or applied by them to 'services net connected with
their official situation as Treasurers of the Navy, between the
Ist of January, 1786, and the den of Decemte r, Mee In
answer to which, he informed us, that there were no docu-
ments in the Office, which enauled him to return any such
account. We did not apply to the Navy Board fur information
respecting the sums which had been so appropriated, as those
tninsacdons are stated to base taken place without the know-
ledge of that Board.
Lord Melville, in his examinatien, obiected to answering
any question on this subject, relying on the fifth clause of the
Act, by which we are constituted, and also upon the circum-
stances alluded to in his letter before recited.
He also declined, and upon the same grounds, to inform us
whether he had derived any profit or advantage from the use or
employment of money sewed for curving on Inc current ser-
vice of the navy, between the Ist of .lianuaree 1786, and the
list of May, 1800; that is, from the time of the mieretioe of
the Act for lodging the money in the Bank, to the time of his
quitting office.
However the apprehension of disclosing delirate and conft-
-111041 transactions of Government might operate with Lord
Melville, in withholding information respecting advance' to
other departments, we do not perceive how that apprelsensinn
can at all account fur his refusing to state, whether he derived
nay pnaAt or advantage from the use or employment of money
issued for the services rat the navy if his Lordship had re-
°loved into his hands such monies only as were advanced by
hen to other departinente, arid had replaced them as mon as
they were repaid, he could not have derived any profit or ad_
vantage fromsuch transactions, however repugnant they might
be to the provisions of the legislature foe the safe castetly of
the public money.
Aithough we were not able to ascertain what monies were
stolid over or advanced to L'rrd Melville, vet, independent of
such advances, Mr. Trotter almits, in the fatter part of his ex-
amination, that in following his Lnrdshipes instructiorie, or in
acting in heartens, as his private agent. he had occesenelly
lard out for his use or benefit horn ten to twenty thoterid
p de, without considering whether he wit previously in ad-
since to his Lordship, or whether such advances were made •
from his public or private balances.
Mr. Trotter not only drew !noney from the Bank in large
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sums, which lie deposited with his private beakers, Mes r,.
Thomas Couto' ant Co. hut heals., presaoed with the 111'l
eountants to demon the greater part of their balances with t'i it
house. One of them indeed, the Cashier of the Victual: ou,
acquiesced with reluctance, haring als,vs before that time.
kept his balance at the Bank, and wishing still to keep it there ;
he stated to us, that it was be dreetion of Mr. Trotter that he
opened an account with Messrs. Thomas Caucused Co. where
he took credit for the {Mali advanced to him by Mr. Trotter's
draft, on that house; but that he drew out thieve sum, as the
public service required, and kept the greater part of his balance
at the Bank, where he deposited such sums as were advanced
to him by drafts ou the Bank,
Mr. Trotter states, that between the years 1791 and 1799,
the greatest pan of the meters drawn by him front the Bank
passed through the hands of Messrs. Thorns, Coons and Co.;
that the monies so drawn were sometimes placed to his credit
in his accounts with them, and at others were carried immedi-
ately to the credit of the respective suteacomoteets ; and that
the consent of the Treasurer to this measure was signified to
him in a conversation, in which be repreented the facility that
would be afforded to the public business, And the addito,:al
security to the 'manner, by the drafts being left with the
bankers, instead of their being sent to the Bank, and the
money brought from thence, at has risk, by the inreserigers of
the Ace.
Lord M•lvilte 'Cites, that he certaioly did permit Mr. Trotter
to lodge any money drawn from the Bank for public purposa-
in hie private Banker's hands, during the period that it was

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not demanded for the pn,o4e. for 7hich it Sra.s drawn ; but it
ie to be inferred from his evidence, that he intended Mr. Trot-
ter to draw upon the liank ther amount r.r ly of the alert-
menu marl, on him . by the different boards .art account of
which is furnished to Finn daily), and that the bahtnee of suck
sum, till demanded, should 41..0ie be lodged by M, Trotter in
the lianas of his private Saake.ra. The reason given b. h •
L irdshin fo, this Dermi.,si,n is, t•ie opinion, rho it would add
more facility In the conduct of the business of the office in the
multitude of smal p.lnients to be made, than if the money
were to be deposited, according to no. constitut,nii of the of:
Fee, in an iron cheat; and that the rarioes parties nec icing
smell payments would be less iiable to be int irosd upon than if
they were each to receive drafts for such amall arum upon the
Bank, at such, a distance form the race after its temoval to
Somerset Place.

A'thriugh the larger dein:mile upon the Treasurer are paid
by rhafts, a nerresity for inakiny the am& pevments in rummy
has :essays reign*, and the money mercenary for this purpose is
of course drawn from the Rank. The sums so drawn, if eon-
veniency only half been studied, should itiee been phase lu
the charge of the dilferent soli-aceournatirs, he whom such de.
nand, are paid, arid riot kept in the hands of the Paymaster,
who is not a disburser of public money, ease-pt that issued for
the paynieut of Exchequer fees.
With resp-rft to the rig:: of bringing the money front the
Bank, and of the loss or embezzlement of the drafts by the rues.-
singers of the Pay (Mier, we do not find that the apprehen.
airing entertained on this auhi-," arose bona the experience of
former loss w ; for none are known to hare happened.
The minion which we had formed of the insufficiency of the
motives assigned for the departwe from the Afi of Parliament,
is confirmed be the enquiries iii.titutel, and the measures taken
in consequence thereof be the sue.e.ding trersumr:
Lord Harrow:iv, the immediate saccesor of Lord Melville,
diesipphaved of the prettier:, as being ineonsiatent with the
spirit of the AN ; and, as he ILA just quitted the office of Pay-
master 01 the Arinv, where similar regolatons had b-en mar
ant carried into effect without any eomplaiat of Maw
venience, he was desirous of putting the office or Treasurer
the Navy upon the same footing ; but, prevrowsly to his dim&
ing an alteration, he deemed it necessary to 'amuse mini,
into the validity of the reasons urgwl agaion the cha.i4e
Lordship had nearly cumpletA the necessary enqurries, to
ea-
tidy his mini that the difficulties and inconven'a
might arise in toe detail of the busilen Co n Chia change, were
not sufficient to alter the opinion he hid forum .d, when h was
preterite-I by a severe dines from attending further to the hu-
since of the office.
The Right Hors. Charlet Bithunt, whey succeeded Lord Hat-
rowbv, put a final stop to the pm lice of drawing the money
out of the Bank, and lodgiug it in the hand. of a p irate
banker, in die swum: rot' 1302, from a convietion that such
praNice was iiironcster.t with the spirit of the Aft fan the re-
; enlation or the office rf the .fr•rmurer of the Navy, and that
the emir/en:mines which were suggested to taswit from it, in fa-
cilitating the transattion of batmen, were not of weight suf-
ficient to jrat.fy the continuants: of such irregu'arity Thee
Sub-Accountants wens iltewiee directed to lodge their balances
in the Bank.

Mr. Bathurst states, that no r. presentations were made to
him of in..onveriiences re:tilting from :Isis champ of system ;
arid Mr. Trotter himself allow., that no :nsterial inennrenieri-
ces did aroe. Mr. Trotter, a few days before h. rwtrd rf-
fice, proposed to the Right Hon. Gernert Tierneo, the then
Treasurer, that, inveal of dafta being givm) t.. the Sub As-
countairts on the Bank pay.ible to th-na or bearer. the Pay-
master shou:d,f rom ti.ne dinvt mach sums sn inielit
he neeeseary to be, transferred from the ri.:4serev'trerei-urt It
the Bank to the accounts of the Si.b,keems.r.,,,t,, 1
posal, which, if adhered to, would be all effactmil bar , .
successors receiving money inro th,ir own liands by their
on the Balk, was adopt,' by Mr. 'riernee ; and we Mara tr
Mr. Latham, who a,ted as his pe7m.a.v.r, thie no in,,01 • •
nienee was experienced from this mode of trtn‘fer, nor wa •
aware of any facility or advantage from the interver.tion of a
private banker.

As it is the strongest refutation of the wasoning urged for
a departur; from the regulations eetablish.d by the Al of Par-
liament, that these regulatens have been earriel into ex.
'elitism without inconvenience, we 'hal not dwell longer en
thi. subjeet ; but we (eel it incumbent on to or declare our
opinion, that the circumi.;ance which actually led to th-, with-
drawing of the money in large suns forma the BanY,pregiously
to ne being issued to the Sub A-Leasuintesesd"rhe Ser.
vice, was the opportunity thereby affirolerl to the ipplleatiote
of it to purposes of private use and advantaee.
As an additional security ageing the pobre mem,' Ming
drawn from the Bank for any but public purroc-s, it is d'retted
by the Act of Parliament, that in eac't dtaft sitall specified
the head of service for which it is drawn, and that withoat this
gpecifleation the draft shall not be ii-nned a von ...her to the
Bank for the payment; and it ha. been dated to us, that this
form has been strictly adhered to, and that no has been
drawn from th..! Bank wititaut specifying a particu.ar :wad of
service.
Such drafts might be in all raya sufficient au'itr'ry to the
Bank; hut, when Lied hy the Paymaster to sl-aw money into
his own possession, and for other purposes than the s.isiees
specified, it has bred a palpahle tearl,,ll of the Act.
As we could nut obtaiis ititormition front Mr Trotter as to
the manner tit which the nubile money had been disposed of,
between the time of its being dawn from the blob, and the
time of its being applied to the public service, we called uport
Mr. Thomas Wilson, the Chief Clerk in the Bill and Remit.
tancedepartmesst of the Navy Pay Office, a branch lately ie.
tablished, but who has been generally e.ouloye..l us au assist.
ant to the Paymaster, and by whom nee of the accounts ren-
dered ro us of tire d situation of the Treasurer's balances was
signed.
The evidence given by Mr. Wilson is of an extranoi.iiary
nature; he avowed having derived an advantaee from the se
or empMernent of money issued for the psy meat of Euchre:o.er
fees, the charge of which was nansferred to him by Mr. Try!.
ter in the year 1100 ; but he ohjected to answering every
questinut put to him, as to the divosi 'boa of the pubic ba'ances,
or the advantage derived by the Paymaster therefrom, or eves
to giving any explanation of the official account of the Trey
surar's balance., although signed by himself ; and pleaded his
being protected by the 3tll Clause of the Act by which this
cemrnission is constituted, although hr dechsed that he hail
nut derived arty profit, advantage, or benefit whatever, ir,in or
in consequence of the public looney having been a.;:i ,tal to
private use by soy person or 1. C,11011..
Such conduct in a person in office appestril to w '-r pro
means creliosb'e ; and, if it were eerier/illy ails/stet', it ,11.4 t
bs the means of rendering in. tactual all rUCII C011111114islo;li of
enquiry as that under which we act.

!laving no other tnell44 of obtaining information as to the
manner in which the public money had been *Killed to pri-
vate me, and the extent to which it had bean gamed, hut by
resoftmg to Messrs. Thomas Omits and Co. we examined FA-
muod Antrnbus, Fail tile yrincipal acting pannier in that Annie.
From ham we ;earned that Mr. Iruttet, &nom the time he
was Paymaster, accounts wnh th-s hm..e, of the 101.
hermit dracopooEe, viz

An accout, in his name. as Piymaster, which commenced
the 10th of January, 1786, and wee dosed on the 4,1 a
of March, IPOI This accoeot was prit.eyally confined
to the money received from rho Exclieqn, or tic pay-
ment of Exchequer fees, and sane ether contingencier..
An account, in Meilen name, which commen ed the lc! of
April, 1786, and is .ww opegs,--Ta this account the
realer part of the motile, drawn from the Hank
rte.% and blended with his notate monism.

A seprrate accoun:, which comrn,rtcerl the sth of April,
17811, and was closed the ?J of September, 1 91 —4a
this account the money drawn from the Lott has els i Deem
lilei:Jed with his private ruftney.
A private aci.munt, which ciii:,regred the 9th of Oclob-r,
1769, and was closed the flth of Febri .r., 1793.—Thre
arc.iti»t was bra deac,ibed by Mr A i iliwts .1% M contain-
ing public MOW,' ; hut, lel,oti a further investigation, be
desired to alter that stater tent.
An account, in trait, fur the estate of Adam Jellicne, F./.
deceased, which commenced Svc 19th of lieptem !ter ,
17i9, and was closed the 17th of Ma+, Ibil(l..._Th this
ii:eount was carried the more', recovered from the estate
of Mr. Adam Jellicoe, late Deputy Paymaster of the
Navy, which will be hereafter ..xi,a,eeil.
Sp the evidence oi Mr. Aitth,b.ris it appears, that polgh
money received be Mears. Thos. Coatis and Cu. frtim the a. ilk,
f, on Mr. Trotter% ts . had been int .irted in Exchequer and
Navv dills, lent the security of stock, *Pit entutned bp
Mr. Trotter en d wanting private bills; t..ii that owisiderablet
purchases .it Bail 4114 East India Stock were made by Maim
Thome. Courts Ltd Co on account of Mr Trotter.
The money received by Neon. Thomas Coutat Mad Co..
Al

the dralk of Mr..Trettev on the Bank, appeals to have been
money tsstied fur Navy seivieecbecause Mr. Trotter had no
pirigraa • account three, anal drew upon the Rank solely as the
egmt tir attorney of the Treasurer of the Navy.
If of!icial convenience only had been'the objeO in opening
aceitunts with MCISIII. Thomas Coons and Co. it might have
been expetted that the public money placed there would have
bee.. separated (runt all private concerns, and kept under clear
and distinct heads. Instead of th's obvious caution, we do not
find that seen any open deelarati-in was made to the house of
the nature of the worsen, 'intuited to them ' • and the whole
of the public money received on account of Mr. Trotter b. his
drafts on the Bank, was placed to his private accounts, aid an
mixed with other monies, that the one could not be d;rln-
guished from the other ; nor Coll d it be discovered, upon the
face of the accounts, (mm whom several of the SUillil were re.
coved„ or to whom paid; and Mr. Trotter himself could not
assertain whether cattalo advance. of money made by him to
Lord Melville, were from his public or private balances. The
manner of keeping Mr Trotter's accounts is also smigned by
Lord Melville as a reason for his not being able to answer some
questions which were put to hint, relative to the employment
of the pulsar money.
it was not in our power, without the assistance of Mr. Trot-
ter, to distinguish whether many of the items in the account,
related to public or private money ; and Mr. Trotter, when
called upon refused to give us that assistance. We have there-
fore einem; in the Appendix copies of the accounts. in-
spection of these accounts will afford much fuller information
of the manner in which the public money has been applied
than any description which it is in net power to give.
We have distinguished in the accounts the sums that were
received by Messrs. Thomas Courts and Co. by Mr. Trotter's
drafts oaths Bank.

The part of the account rendered to us, entitled Mr. Trot-
ter's separate account, contains only a few entries of money
received by his drafts an the Bitik ; but the money so received
caeca* distinst'y on the face of the account to have been ap-
pltd to private purpo..s.
. .

Although etc.-Indy direct roof which we have been tibl to
obtain of public money harinl been carried to the credit dd
Mr Trotter's accetints with Mums Thomas Coutts and Co. is,
by their having received oline, u,ion his drafts on the Rank ;
yet, nn an inspection of the accounts, it will be seen, that sums
of such rnarpturlar, not received by Mr. Trott. is drafts on the
Bank, have been timeglit to his credit, as to afford strong pea-
gumption, that they were part of the public money. I.h.rpo its
of money, not received by drafts on the bank, teethe amount
of one hundred thousand pound.: and upwards on the same day,
and iii the course of a low dayv, will be met with frequently.
In one instance, namely, on the II th of April, 1791, the
sum of one million, not received by draft on the Hank, is
plated to his credit.
. .

Ay a further proof of other public money' besides that re-
vived directly from the 13.nk, being included in the account,
called his own account, we subjoin a comparative state:mut of
the sums received drrectli from the flank, and the •I 1 s plot
from that account to the differutt sub.accountain, the Navi
P.iv 06ce, and for services which we conclude to be of a puuiic
/Attire.

Amount. of sums receiyed by M revs. Thereat Corms and
Co by the drafts of Mr. Totter, 0.1 the Bank, and carried
to the trodit of his own account 8,295,4201
Amount of sums paid horn the &exeunt of Mr. Trotter with
Messrs. Thomas Coon. and C-.. entrtled,. Ins ow ft account,
to the dfforent sub accountants of the 1. s d.
Navy Pay thrice
Aeorsat of the sums paid from the same
amount, for sweices suppeard to be of
a puhlic ttawrq viz. .• To Art of p ir.
lianient Amount" (by which is nvoint
the Low part of 1,r41 Melvide's S-cond
rmasurer.hip), 'l4 "Tn Are of Par.
Lemma 111.1 r Ace...int," being the
&wood ;mart of that Treasurership

/...1b,078,737 15 4
We °include that thithlerenee,sia miC,ons Rearm hundred
and righty-thret th.nsiand three hundred and sevenrren
round,. two shillings and eleven pence, wa. money issued for
nave s,rwiee., drown from the flank by Mr Tientr, and e-oo-
”toti with !1/41s-5,.,.. Ti. eau Clovis and C. after has .n,7, pas.4.l
tnranijh his own hands, or the Ilan& of agent e.up'oyed
by hi... to receive a by hn draft.; on the Bank.

As the name 41U Mark Sprot appeared frequently in the
amnions, as paying into the chits of Messrs. Thomas Coot..
and Co. on tee eodst M Mr. Trottto, and retiring from trienee
very largest:lns% we deemed K Difee+lllif to eWmir hill) All to
the 1:0111.1110 h 4 traittedttorie with the Payment., of Um Nave ;
but a('er deosighte that, ts the beet of his 1%-es:teen-in, he red
not rose we: an. money from th^ B t y Mr. Trottera drafts,
he refused to answer every other qrsestioo rut to him, atom-
ing that he had taken the advice ot ermod, Wm were of ops
anon that he was not bound to answer such ououions
Upon the whale, it appears to us to be • elealy.establohed
fact, that. doting this Trmsuirenhip, the money i.sssed tor
ivy temsees was used In a greet autouitt fe the pinisoues of
private ersr•lement seed this circumstance leads to tnnosuove,
teat if a Treasurer of the Navy, alter an increase of hi- si,arr
*pan the term- contained in the warrant under Ho Ma:e.ti'.
Lin Maunal, thence pe4t from che use money sa•urd for
navy services, he becomes, upon principles of equiti a debtor
to the public, and Is accountable (or all such profit.
Our duty requires us en add, that the vrithdreemg M. the
public money from the Bank of England in the marsir.o and
for the purposes before related, was, its our Judgment, a di..
obetendsto the law as established by the 25th of the piesesit
reign, cap. 31.
We cannot dismiss the consideration of this Treasurership
without adverting tea paper delivered to us by Mr. Trotter,
drown up ars justification of his condites, and purporting to be
a statement of the transactions of his parmastership.
Actuated by a desire that all persons who might conceive
their character called in question by our proceedinp, might
have an opportunity of ji.stifying themselves, and explaining
their conduct, we have never refused to admit any details riven
with that slew by the perenns whom we have examined, lint.
w t'sstandiog such &tads may have been irrelevant to the
qpiestions proposed by us.
Upon this principle we received from Mr. Trotter the piper
in question, which is attached to his evidence of the 25th of
July, 1804 ; bust it is fit that we should offer time com-
ments up ru it, as well as upon the evidence contained in the
Appondix. And this a more especially called for in the cave
of an examinant, who, to avoid thereafter of crisninating
self, refuses 'alienations requin-d of him, and afterwards offers
ajnstitic.ition on his own terms.
In this paper Mr. Trotter does not deny his having made u• e
erif the public money 'withdrawn by him horn the Bank ; sod, in
his subsequent reanimation, he intimates, that in .o doing he
had acted under permission, elthoisgh, he sa a, he is nut at
liberty to state that he has ever boo explicitly authorised to
do co.

Lord Melville, upon being risked whether he gave permission
N the Paymaster to withdraw the money from the fLnk and
lodge it ia the hand. of a prrsate banker, with a view to his rbs-
riving any advantage or emnlument tberefom, an-were, If
it le meant toast me whether I ever gave any direct authority
to the Paymaster go me the money in the manner above men-
tioned, I should certainly answer No; but I have on he.ita•
lion u. saying, that 1 belivred aid anderstood he did, and
never yrnitibitud him from doing so; and I believe it was so
understood by others at different times, when the edablisla-
meat of the Navy Pay fJttice was under eontrderation, when
certainly no competent provision was made for the p,rson ex-
oreisitag that cruet of great client and responsibility."
Whether the salary of the Paymaster was not increased when
the general augmentation of tbsendaries of the cashiers took
place in 17116, bes.ause he was not in the direct charge or use
ef the putiloc money other than the money for Exchequer fees,
or became he was not, lake the (ashlers, in the receipt of fees
or gratuities of which they were then deprived, is what we can
not pretend to affirm; but we cannot ...impose that the use of
the pu'rlic money was then conardered as a perqui ite of the
Paymaster, which would imply, that the recommendations of
the Ceenmiesionery of SC.IIIIIII, the resolution of the House of
Commons, and, finally, the Act of Parliament, were totally dis-
regarded, and that an emolument so fraught with evil to the
public, wbichharl hero lately comonind with the treasurer fur
an additional salary of more than two thousand pounds a rear,
was, by those entstkd to consider of the establishment of the
Navy Pay Office, thought proper to devolve on his deputy, the
Paymaster.

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though ha cannot prove it, thaciptvantayes weraitailipail by
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