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Lille and Moe Trotter a fair opportunity of vindicat-
ing their charaaer before the Commitiioners, if they
were conic :on, of innocence ? When Lord Melville
was Aflced a pla.n cplealott as to his appropriation hf
any part of the public motley. what had he to do ?
Why, Sir, he had only to declare en his oath and
h.s hoo —alo.—What had Mr. Trotter to do ?
He had may to give the litine anfwer of—No. But
-a- do they th'nk fit to proceed ? Inltead of fol.
lowina the plain path of integrity and honour, they
Fr fdi total ignorance of deficiencies in the public
mal•ev to a veil am, unt. The Paymafter is called
belo•e tne Comrnitlioner., and he profelfes to know
no-aing :et all of the matter. By and bye, he, how-
ever, for •s the matter a lit-le ferioufly in his mmd,and
'.e does hegira to recollect that he does lknote come-
t!iing ra the bufieefs He confelfes that he had been
atom t7Bb down to the period when he was
in he n:tbit of drawing nut the public money,
and placing it in the hands of his own banker. The
CommifThotere inquire a little further into the mat-
ter, but he will give them no fatisfaltion. " You
have no tight to afk me thefe queftions, that is my
private money." Nay, he ev-n arraigns the Coro-
milfioners, avid in a paper which, from mere indul-
gence, they allowed him to prelent, he pretty clearly
inlinuates that they were a parcel of gentlemen,
'raking thendelves a great deal too free with other
people's Item's. Five different times was Mr. Alex.
antler 'ranter examined, yet does he refule to give
the Conimial ,nets the information they require. He
talks, indeed, of hems advanced for other depart-
ments • the Government, and alludes to Mr. Long
having repaid to him form of the films fo advanced.
I am lorry, Sir,ahat Mr. Long was not examined
'serve She Commiflioners. I think his flatements
might have Onto, n a good deal of light on this fob.
jeat. Thrmah: however, Mr. Long was not examin-
ed before the Cornmidioners, the fad of the advance
is admitted by Lord Melville in his firfl letter to the
Commopmers. Indeed this letter was altogether of
an extraordinary complexion. It was, however, of a
piece with his Lordihip's evidence, and with his lag,
letter, on both of which I lhall, before I fit down,
make a few obfervations. His Lordlhip tells the
Cornmillioners that he cannot give them the infor-
trrion they required, becaufe he cannot difclofe
confidential communications of Government; but
his great argument is, that he is not in pail:non
of the papers containing the advances to other
depar means, having, for mere amufement no
doubt, committed them to the flames. I do main-
tain, Sir, that this avowal of She Noble Lord is
highly culpable. The dettruation of tittle papers
was, in a ;mann of his knowledge of bufinefs, a great
crime and tnildeme moor He ought to have known
that Papers of luch a defeription are the property of
no inlividual. They are the property of the nation.
I recollc&. Sir, feveral Committees complaining of
the dearnaion of Papers, and Stating that, in con-
fequenee of fuch deltruation, their inquiries were ei-
ther retarded or altogether dettroyed. To deltroy
public Papets, referring to a recent date, does, in
my mind, imply Something fufpicious. I cannot ea-1
!By trace it to any other principle than a with to pre-
vent criminal proceedings from being unravelled,
and accompanied with merited punifhment. But,
Sir, it teems that the Noble Lord has not only de-
aroyed his Papers, but has actually 101 l his recol-
lcaion of the whole affair, though it had fo recently
occurred. This does, I confers, Seem a little Strange,
that a perfon of his Lordfhip's great talents Should
labour under Such a wonderful decay of memory.—
Of this, however, I Shall fay Something more before
I hrtifh et). obfervations.
,On the fubjeet of there ad- ,
vances to the other departments, I condemn the
pradice in the ftrongea terms. I mould in no cafe
permit it to but I could never for a moment
fuller it to exia without explanation, and that too of
the moil fatisfa.9to y nature. Here, however, I hear
the liable Lore! allowing that filch advances were
made, but he will give me no fatiJaation as to the
extent of the advances, or the manner in which they
were applied. In folic, however, of the Noble Lord's
filence, we knew that the navy fervice was not in a
fituati'n to allow great advances of money, and what
an aFology would it offer if a demand on the Navy
Board could nut be paid, becaufe, forfooth, Lord
Melville and Alexander Trotter, his paymafter, had
agreed to accommodate the other branches of the
fervice willi loans of the public money ? It may be
Said that the advances were to the Secretary of State
for important prpoles. I Shall not eta), be brought
to fanaion thefe accommodations betwixt different
fetvants of the Crown. But Lord Melville was Mi-
rafter at %War. Prefident of the Board of Controul,
and Treafierer of the Navy, all united in his own
perl'm, and here is a trance:lion, not betwixt two
individuals, but one individual, uniting three different
charafters. It is Mr. Dundas lending Mr. Dundas
with the one hand, and borrowing of Mr. Dundas
with the other. It was a ridiculous, as well as
dangerous, combination. I knew that Come Gen-
tleman on the other fide. will find all this fyftem
of accommodation very excufable. The public
fervice is expedited, and no lofs is fuftained. I
canfels I cannot agent to Such datrines. I know
that they were often urged by the Right Ho-
nourable Gentleman oppofite last war, and I
have not forgotten all the fine things he told the
Houle about the appropriation of paper, and the
manner in which each fum was latisfaftorily account-
ed for to the public. I was never Satisfied with fuch
a look way of dealing with the public money, and I
always thought that the folid reafoning of my Ho-
nourable Friend near me (Mr. Fox) Shewed com-
pletely how hollow and dangerous they were in prac-
tice. But even allowing the Right Honourable
Gentleman's arguments all their weight, they did not
at all go to prove that Such advances were either le-
gal or expedient. Legal no man dares to call them,
and certainly done is a great difference betwixt the
Treasurer of the Navy and the Finance Miniller of
the country. Nly Second charge againa Lord Mel-
vilie is, that he connived at the appropriation of the
public money to private purples. Mr. Trotter does
not deny that he had large Sums in the hands of Mr.
Couch, his privare banker ; and he has the effrontery
to tell the Commirlioners, that it is more convenient
Gat him to have his cant in the hands of a private
banker than in the Bank of England, where an ex-
was At% of Pathament has declared that it Shall be
dated. This wry ingenious Gentleman thinks
Toper to add, that be finds hinsfelf more fecure
rhea hi. money is in the bands of Mr. Coots, than

when it is in the Bank of England. Not only does'
he affirm, but he calls his patron. Lord Melville, to
confirm his teltimony. Lord Melville, who had
promoted the p.ifling of the Aft of 1785, which ex-
prefsly lays, the money (hall be lodged in the Bank
—Lord Melville, who not fatisfied with the At of
1785, gets new regulations, tlill more aria, in 1786.
He likewife tells the Commillioners, that Mr. Trot-
ter's mode is alfo the molt convenient for the pub-
lic fervice. Sir, I am really uttoniffied to hear of
the inconveniencies of having the money in the Bank
inttead of a private banker's ! Is not the difcount
at the Bank caller than at a private banker's eftablifh-
ment ? Cannot bank notes be more eefily procured?
But if the protein mode, of which Mr. Trotter ap-
pears fit fond, be In very advantageous, how comes it
thpt Lord Melville never came to Parliament to get it
formally recognized ? Mr. Trotter indeed, finds a
very ingenious reafon for placing his money in the
hands of a private banker. He lays that he was fo
anxious for the fecurity of the money that he placed
it in Mr. Count's as the bell place of leery. If any
thing comes of the money I am an undone man, and
my mind will never be at cafe till Mr. Coutts has ta-
ken it into his proteaion. Now it was nor, though
very improbable altogether, impoffible that a houfe,
refpeaable as Mr. Coutts's was, might (xi!, and what
then becomes of the careful Mr. Trotter's fecurity
Why, Sir, it is completely crufhed and annihilated.
—But if he was ft very careful as he pretends to be,
why did he not place it in the Bank, where, even if
a failure were to take place, Rill Mr. Trotter would
be fecure in his obedience to an Aft of Parliament ?
I with to alk the Houle for what purpofes thefe per-
petaal draughts of money, this conduit flitauation
of accounts in the name of Mr. Trotter took place ?
At the time that Mr. Trotter is fo anxious fir the fe-
curity of his money, was it lodged at Mr. Coutts's,
allowing that to be a place of fafety ? No, Sir, it
was employed in difcounting bills, in forming fpecu.
latinns, in gambling on the Stock Exchange. I am
really almolt appalled, and I think that the Houfe
will likewife be appalled, at the reflation of no lefs
than thirty-four millions of the public property hay •
ing palled through Lord Melville's Paymaßer's hands.
Why, Sir, the Report dates explicitly. that upwards
of eight millions had been in the hands of the private
banker, and nearly (even millions more is alluded re
as having palled through the fame channel. But what
we have -hitherto had dila)* is, perhaps, nor one-
fourth of the money tranfaaions of Lord Melville's
Paymafter, and much of the money in his hands when
he was abfolutely denitute of funds to make good the
lots of one thoufandrh part of the public property in
his hands. But while all thefe tranfaaions were go-
ing forward, on what was Lord Melville employed?
—Does he know any thing at all of the date of Mr.
Trotter's accounts, for every one of whole aaions he
alone is refponfible ? Has he carefully examined the
ufe which Mr. Trotter has made of the public money,
and is he fatisfied with the refult ? The truth is, Sir,
if you are to believe Lord Melville liiinfelf, he knows
nothing of the matter. What, then, is the Itate of
Mr. Trotter's accounts? He himfelf pleads igcorance,
and cannot fatisfy the Commiffioners. What was the
cattle of all this affeeled ignorance may hereafter ap-
pear.—One would have thought that a perfon if Mr.
Trotter's preplexed turn of mind would have been
anxious to do bufinefs in as fimple a manner as pot.-
fible, and in order to feparate the public from his
own private money, nothing would have been more
eafy than the fimple device of having a public and a
private account. This, however, did not exaaly tuit
Mr. Trotter's purpofe. He preferred having a cheft
in which he was to receive money promifcuoufly.—
One man comes with five guineas, another with ten
guineas, a third with twenty, and In with different
fume, and they are all thrown promifcuoufly into the
cheft. They return in a (hors time for the money,
and Mr. Trotter, very complafantly, Pays, "'Tis true,
Gentlemen, I did receive your money, but I threw
it promifcuoufly into the chef', and it is altogether
impoflible for me to feparate the different fums."—
Exaaly fitnilu to this is the conduit of Mr. Trotter
conduaing his money concerns. He opens no lefs
than five accounts. We have his own account—his
feparate account—his account as Paymaller of the
Navy—his broker's account—and, Jelicoc's account.
He opens all thefe accounts, and when the Commif-
tioners afk him for what they were intended, he has
the affurance to tell them that they had no tight to
interfere with his private affairs, and very flatly dif-
claims their powers.—He draws under thefe heads
immenfe films of the public money—as for example
a million of money in one day. On all the accounts
there might be expeaed to be a number of curious
and intereding items. The Commiffioners demand
explanation,and again Mr. Alexander Trotter refttfes
to anfwer, and tells them to draw their own inference.
The Commiffioners. baffled in getting information
from Mr. Trotter, take up the bufinets themfelves, and
here a curious fcene is difclnfed. Mr. Trotter, it is
found, is bufily engaged in buying all forts of flock,
and particularly waive in purchafing Navy Bills, when
they were at a price which rendered it almoll certain
that they might be afterwards difpofed of to advan-
tage. But, while Mr. Trotter is fo bufy, what has be-
come of Lord Melville and his refponfihility ? Does
he ever interfere to prevent thefe fpeculations ? Does
it never occur to him that it is extremely indecent
for a Paymader of the Navy thus to be fporting with
the public money ? I do think, Sir, that it was the
facred duty of Lord M. to have told Mr. 'l'. that he
mud either give up there conneaions, or eeafe to be
Treafurer of the Navy. If it had happened that in
fome of his extenfive fpeculations he had been difap-
pointed, inevitable ruin mutt have been the conle•
quence. Mr. Trotter fell, but it was not to him but
to Lord Melville that the public were to look for re-
drefs. But Lord Melville was involved in the fall of
his Paymafter, and all the confulation the public had
was, to know that they were again to make good
what the fervants of the public had peculated. I can-
not allow myfelf then to think that the Houfe will be
backward in agreeing with me that the negligent cri-
minality of Lord Melville was deferving of the feve-
reit reprehenfion. Let me, Sir, recal to your atten-
tion what was the period when thefe fpeculations
were going forward. It was in the very mida of our
diftrelles. It was while the people were ftruggling
up againft that load of public burdens under which
we groaned, that Mr. Trotter, with the affißance of
that filent and difcreet flock broker Mark Sprott,were
laying their heads together to lay out the public mo•
my to the greateft advantage. What was the whole
amoutat °IAN (tuns to employed we have not the

means of afcertaining. But this ;sof no confeqttenee;
for, as I have already obferved, it is not the extent of 1
the firm rnifapplied, but the general principle of mil-
application at all that I contend. I affert that Mark
Sprott ought to have been more fcverely interrogat-
ed.. There is no doubt that he is the man to give the
clue to this nefarious bufinefs. Even his (Hence, how-
ever, was extremely expreffive. It is not eafy to con-
ceive anything more firange than the reafons he urged
for his filcnce. He tells the Commiflioners openly,
" I have had the opinion of Mr. Serjeant Shepherd,
and other eminent lamyers, and they advife me to
preferve a religious (Bence, Only be filent, fayno-
thing, and we may be able to do fomething for you,
but if yOu give anfwers we much fear it is all over with
you. Lord Melville and Mr. Mark Sprott are not
quite uniform on this part of the bufinefs. Mr. Mark
Sprott lays nothing, but Lord Melville owns he knew
of the tranfitaion, but not of the detail. Sir, I fry,
if he knew of the tranfaCtions generally, and not of
the details, this, In far from rendering him lefs cri•
minal, renders him far more guilty. If he was ap-
prifed that his paymalter was fpeculating in the
Funds, and if he derived no part of the profit, he
was bound to fee what was the extent of fuch fpe-
culations. He ought to have felt that his refpon•
fibility was in danger, and that it was full time
for him to put a flop to fo fcrious an evil.—Af-
ter illu tracing this idea by reference to Mr. Trot-
ter's Wary AS inadequate to any extenfive fpecula-
lions, he proceeded to animadvert nn the origin of
Mi. Trotter's connexion with Lord Melville. Lord
Melville hid found Mr. Trotter Clerk of the Navy
Office. He made him his Paymaller, and in a fhort
time Lord Melville contrives to make him his Agent.
In this tituation of an Agent Lord Melville has pecu-
niary concerns with Trotter to a vaft amount, and
when his Lordfhip is enamined he is unable to inform
the Commillioners whether the advances made by
Mr. Trotter were from his own or from the public
money. The Hon. Member animadverted flrongly
on this declaration, which was, on the part of Lord
Melville, extremely furpicious. How was it poflible
that Lord Melville could for a moment flippefe Mr.
Trotter to be making advances out of his owa for
tune? The fad was, that Mr. Trotter 1,4 d originally
no fortune. He was a man of a good family in the
part of the country to which he belonged ; but Lord
Melville knew when he tirft began to patronize him
that he had no property but ,chat he derived from
his Glary as Paymalter of the Navy. It was abfo-
lute equivocation then to pretend that Lord Melville
could be ignorant of Mr. Trotter making ufe of the
public money to a stall amount. He condemned,
as extremely fufpicions, Mr. Trotter's adling as Lord
Melville's agent. When Mr. Trotter the paymaller
and agent of Lord Melville was known to have ex-
tenfive dealings with Mark Sprott, a Rock broker,
was not the inference the molt natural that their deal•
ings were mutual ? Would not people have a right
to preftime that Lord Melville (hared in the profits of
thole fpeculations, to which there feemed every Tea-
fon to think that he was accelfary.—But, indeed, it
was not ealy to fee how this concha-ton could be eva-
ded. Was Lord Melville ready on oath to difclaim
fuch a connexion, or that he had ever derived the
flighted advantage from any fpectilation in which
Mr. Trotter was engaged ? What was the language
of all the predeceffors and facceffors of Lord Mel-
ville ? When the Paymafter of Mr. Barre was
anted, whether he had ever received any emolument
from the application of the public money ? he readi-
ly anfwers—No. Had Loi d Bayning received any
advantage ? No. Had Lord Harrowby ?—No.—
lad Mr. Bragge ? Had Mr. Tierney ? No. Lord
Melville is compelled to give evative anfwers. lie
filchers himftlf behind the confidential commuaica-
lions of Government. He can afford no informa-
tion, for his papers were deffroyed. Ile has no re.
colleetinn of what took place only a few years ago.—
The Noble Lord was remarkable for his retentive me-
mory. He could reckon up, with accuracy unextm-
pled, all our idles or our viCtorics during the late con-
teft. The Right Hon. Gentleman oppolire had not un-
frequently derived the benefit of the Noble Lord's me-
mory, when recolleCtion was not of the molt trifling
moment. Yet here the Noble Lo: ecolle,9 ion to-
tally forfook him, and certainly fuck an initance of
weak recolleetion was not a little remarkable. Sorely
it was no great effort of memory to recolleCt whe-
ther profit had ever been received fr•,in the life
of the public money, and a timple monofyllable
was fufficient to (late that recolleCtion. Ui.for tunately
this monofyllable was abfent, at a moment when
it was molt wanted. Mr. Trotter's anfwers,
refpaling Lord Melville, were of the moll damning
clefeription. Did you receive any emolument from
the tile of the public money ? I won't tell you.—
Did you know the amount of the fums advanced for
the confidential fervice of Government ? I won't tell
you. Did Lord Melville authorife you to life the
public money for private emolument ?—I won't tell
you. Did Lord Melville (hare with you in any profit
ailing from fuch a ufe of the public money ?—I
won't tell you.—ln the whole of this part of the
fpeech, in which the Honourable Gentleman read
and commented on Lord Melville's evidence, We
have been compelled to confine ourfelves to the heads
only of what he (tared. He adverted to the cafe
of Jelicoe, who had been fuffered to remain a public
, debtor for a whole year, atter he was known to be in
arrears upwards of twenty•four thoufand pounds.—
During the next year eleven thoufand more arrears
had accrued. He had a flrong fufpicion that Jelicoe
was in the fame partnerfhip with Mark Sprott, Mr.
Alexander Trotter, and his Lordfhip. It would not
have been fair to have turned too than on an old
companion. It would have perhaps too been dan-
gerous, fince unpleafant dilcoveries might have met
the pnblic eye. It looked very much as if mutually
confcious of criminality, they had agreed to be fluent
and keep their own ferrets. Mr. Whitbread com-
mented with great ability on the haft letter of Lord
Melville, which rather aggravated than palliated his
guilt. His Lordfhip even admitted the violation of
the AEI of Parliament. He allowed that Mr. Trotter
employed the public money for private emolument,
but he denied generally his participating in the pro-
- fits of fuch application. This denial was nothing.
It was not that fair open denial which was the only
I tell of innocence.

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The Hon. Gentleman then concluded by apologii-
ing for having exhaulled the patience of the Houle
in going through the ilatement which he had dented
it neceffary to lubmit, to make the fubjeCt fo intelli
giblc as he could with. If ia the courfe of his invetti-

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lieg a t';,o,nd lri er p
aatr !lel
queflienably been his objet to prcterve,
era-ern:el), forty. He was happy, :iliac) ) fit;
urelerfant as his talk had heen, tom ..e
have a tMijoeity of the Member. ot that 1 helie re
fupport him in the Refolutions which hr h : the:
night to propole. A wound had been inili.cted oo the
very exillence of the country, which it was the dirt
of every Member of the: Houle to lee checked aie.!
punilhed. When he turned his eyes to the Country
Gentlemen, thole guardians of the public mole, he
could not doubt of receiving their eairdal fupport, in
oppofition to a principle of peculaticn which had been
fuccefsfully prattiftd on the public Great Btitaist
for many years, and that too by petf entrufled
with the official conduit of its retburces. If he I-icked
to the officers of the army or navy, who crimp-tied
part of the Houle, he knew that there Was no'. one of
them who would vote in fupport of a re item of cor-
ruption, fuch as had been praaifed hy the petfons
againa whom his inquiry was direel. He war.
convinced that their mieds were not tainted with
!itch fordid ar.d corrupt notions as te, induce them
to fupport public peculators. It lie wined to the
commercial men, he was fati,fied that they were
not filled with horror and difettill alone, but even with
trembling, at the conduit of which he had now en.
deavoured to point out, by which it was poffible that
ruin might have been hurled on them. Even as it
was, had not the Ipeculations of Mr. Trotter injured
many of them ? And might they nct have injured
not only the mercantile interells of the country, hut
i alfo have been produetive of great 101 l to the public
in general ? Would it have been a vindication of Af-
let, fuppoling that his fpeculations had been more.for-
tunate than they had ultimately turned out, to have
come forwent and laid, " There is Your money hack
again—you arc nut ;:jtired —you heave no right to
complain—l only took an accommodathai from you,
by which you have kit mehing, and you have no
right to pals any pimilinent on rre ti r lo trivial and
innocent an offence " Such, finely would, to Gen-
tlemen ecquainted with !mercantile affair,, he an ex.
cafe provoking only indignati••n and rcltnianent. Or
would it he elleoned a better argrammt to alledge
that the books and other documents, It cm which it
might hevc been poilibie to have call form liyht on
the accounte, had been burn: or intentionally delft ey.
ed ? An allegation of this kind mull with them meet
with equal roped and attention. Everyday of their
lives they were called on to prof-cone for offences of
lele, magnitude. Would the Right Hon. and Learned
Gentleman, who prefided in a Court of Equity—
would another Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman,
whofe duty it more particularly was to profecute for
delinquencies, and t, ho did think it fa incumbent on
him to check even the appearance of corruption, as
to profecute a perfon in an inferior rank in lite for an
attempt to bribe a Right Hon. Gentleman, then at the
head of Adrniniaration (now Lord Sidmouth) ;
would they attempt to palliate a bulinefs of this kind,
or would they not rather feel it their duty to join with
him, and affilt in bringing delinquents of a higher
order alto to plaice? He begged Gentlemen to keep
in view the diareffed (late of the counti y in general.
The opulent were obliged to part with their fuperflui-
ties ; and from the I\lhnieman to the Peal-ant, every
one was obliged to make correfpondirg facrifices.—
We were told, indeed, that Inch were neceffaty for
oar falvatirn ; but, in a cafe like the prefent, it was
the duty of this ufe and of the public to be fatis-
fied that our refonrces, lo painfully raifed, were not
thrown away by improper rt•anageimmt. The Ho-
nourable Member then tee ved,
r. That it ..ppez.rs to :Li t!•.a*: or the tEzh of June,
1782, the Fir-:!c of Cort.n.ups of the what.: Matte
came, amongtt ()then:, to the fu:h.-rh.g ions
t• Tha• it is the ep,tO• ^ ut teas (:,:rrnittce. that lathe reehla-
ti,.ns ought to be ad ptcd tar the reep..L of and !seeping
Clown the r ot,ey soh.icts sr to I.ave au ally
hern in the hmids or' of the N.,cy : and it would I.
heneticht: to do. pubhe if the deft end other Ch r;:, ha the ditt:rect.
bl:111C11(3 belontiog to the :ohi Oflice were paid lay liscd aid per-
ohineht .o taco Oi rah...ties, at..l ether peryuilita
whatfurver."

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That it i 3 tho f.rhion of this Committee. titnt f •in henecfor •
yard the l'ayin,:lt.r tier:en-A ,•f I.k Nlajttly's hore,s, and
th:'l'rcafurer Ctae Navy, :V7 the tint.: being, 111:•il not apply a,.y
font or [urns of nunicy in:pr. lied to them, eitlP rof them, t••.)
any porpofe of arty:image or inter& to thaufavcs, citli:r direelly
or imil:edly."

That it :.Kicars to this ennitnittce, that the ConitniMonet: 7r.
poirtrti to t xarnine, take PAN: the pti!,lic acco,mt, of the
ft ve, fo fat a. aiipc.tr, from the r porti which they
ilithertO made, difch:,rB.d the dot./ t.ntritaid to them with vest
accuracy y ; acid fill tarry into
ext.cution thof,p!atis of rdo:.in ;:thi reguLtioli ,hit.h re hirgi
by the matter ctirtti.lacd Lc the Rt.port, of the Laid eutmiliPiuneri.
it cannot but be attended %vith the molt la.nt leial con:, quiticri
to the future welfare and ii.ruliirity of this kingdom.

2. That in furtherance of the intention of the Hottfe of Com-
mons expreffrd iu foch refolutims, his Nlajefty by his warta.,t
dated June 26th, t732,direded that the filar of the I...eafurer if:
the N.vy fliould be increaled to the fu:n of 42,x1. p,:r annum, is
full fatislaCtion of all vsges and fees, and nth:: profits and eno..-
lument:i theretofore enjoyed by former Trcaturcrs.
3. That it appears to this Committee, tint timing the Trev•
furetihip of the leiOet Hon. Ifaac ifarre, thee. Anions; f the afos;
Laid warrAtt were ftrictly complied that the whole c:
mon y from the Excilequer to Mr. Barre for naval frri'e-s
was lod:tsit in the 13aok: that it was never drawn from thence
previnufly to its bcitig atlvrinctd to the Sub-Areountantt, ro het
applied to the public ferviee : that dtring th;
as -Ire:darer and Ex Trcaruzeu, he had ia ;
cuftody any 0r the puLlie tromy, and that 't.: n ,fic
mailer of the Navy did dative fitiy profit or aclltitag,.... Irc..ft tits
or employment t lu reed..
el. That the Bight Honourable Henry Hondas, row 'Lord Va..
count Alelville, foeyeeded to the office ..f 1 r. 111:,.:7 Of the Nw
on the ipth of Atv,7ult, 17Rr.., when a further 1113 t!:
to the falary of the fail office. it; or.' rh, Frodue-.; a net arint..l i.,•
come of 4,cc01. after the paymi It ,u ail t3l(t, I,!` 7' •
fame ;and that tide fa.ary the ,•;•;
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Lord Vi:countll, a, gra;,:esi to t .1 s
profits and other eint,lun,ent, tnjoy, d'oy r 1
S. That the f:tid Lord Vtfc-unt lt.-Ir:r.
office till the tcth of April r 711-, ; that h
rived any advantage Iron: rlt I:I.! of tht.

iun , i.

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period, he i•• his ertirin.ti,.n h, tot, r! 4.
Inquiry, declined anfwAring avy qu ur!

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he has in :t le•ter (iince written •,) the ru.,

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the 28th of Mordt latt, deri?t,.,l t!:at rrtvt
not derive ?!.•. :1.1v...1nt..ge flee% :!.c Lt.•
uey ifruct:: tnr itT, on ft.: of ft
Douglas, who c•-;c l'ay•mtncr, !let.1:;
ing refuted to ante..l-

evidcrce 11.6 bc-n ,i, cie a

for the ftrvi erf N.vy,,,r the mode .!:t;

the Batik trin!,

6. I hat the , 1.•le C. Townlhend.
held the Other of rer cf the :".dvy ti tot t,•. t t.l!
7/S3, to tlt' nth of
..1,1 pa: y !!A Y

of his I..c.z..!ihip it lipcd:: duritg Li . Tit.' r :1114
the niciiity ifiti, (I for the let rice of :he

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private tat: or advantage, apt! tL t Lc t' • ,ot !!,at T.
noughts, whu Jdt, mitt hint a., r . •:. o• 1.,
advantage front !ha ufr or flan! nt, n: ! ' !,•• n.,!, y, Lit
We tuuncy iCucl to :Lc pA;T:::;t:: of 1. ;

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