Star.
London, England, 1806-06-13 00:00:00

TWELFTH DAY.-WEDNESDAY, MAY 14.

Mr. Palawan •Ma day renamed the defence. Having on the
preceding day em Mitred three of the articles, be now took •
tepid slew of th• remadoing fever, dlftingelthlor, übe proceed-
ed, the notate and dr • extent of them, and applying to them the
known ptiadplcs at law.

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THIRTEENTH DAY, THURSDAY, MAY IS.

The Houle being refonted, and the ufual Proclamations made,
the Counfel for the Vi(count Melville were informed they might
proceed in his defeties.
'llan Mr. J. hn Litchfield was called, and bciag (worn, was
examined as follows:
What is your flotation? I am one of the Clerks lo the Privy
Council Office.
What is the twit that now I es before you ? A volume of the
Coaudl Regilters.
Turn to the order of Council of the tyth Pamir! 1795.
Read from Page 165 of the Keener, the following motet :
At the Court of St. James's, the ,7th February iyog.
The Lords of the Committee having fully conficlered the
raid Report of your Majelty's bid Principal Secretaries of Stat.
sr opinlnn. that it may be ad,' fable fee your Mielly to con-
Inn foch of the regulatlous refreting the Paid offices propored,
by the Commigioners appointed by the before-mentioned Ad,
palled in the 15th year or your Meknes reign. as appear to be
aro, eed of by the Paid Repeat of your Majefty's raid Principal
Secretaries ot'State ; cod liken Ire, the farther teguLtions and the
ireheme for the arrangement of their rdpedive °flees. (Copies
whereof are hereunto annexed) propefted by your Majefty's lard
Principal Secretaries of State; and to direr, the fame to be adop-
ted and carried into execution, eacept (o far as relates to the
propolition fuggefied by the Report of the Paid Commiffioners,
and concurred In by yinr Majefty's Lid Principe! Secretaries or
State, in the cafe of a vacancy of one of the Under Secretaries of
State. upon which point the Lords of the Conitaittce will take
leave to offer their opinion lo the proper place.
o And the Lords of the Committee do agree further to report
as their opinion to your Majefty, that with refpeffi to the Wade.
of the Principal Secretaries of State, fuch (sloths Mould be ennui.
per annum, clear of all dednetioos, and in lieu of all form r
kllOl and fees : And that this arrangement amid be confiderec
as taking effect from the nth of January, mit, with regard to
the Right Honourable Lord Grenville and the Right Honoured.
Henry Gundas ; and with regard to his Grace the Duke of Port-
land, from the dare of his Grace's appointment to be cote of your
brat-flys Principal Secretaries of State."
R ad alio from pap 1611 of the fame book, the following Si.
Mat
His Majelly, taking the fall Report into confideration, war
pealed, with the advice of his Privy Council to confirm filch of
fthe regulai .nt tele eking diet-aces of his triejeity's Principal Se.
!MIMICS of State, propoled by the Ceentniffinners app• inted be
the laid Ad, palled in the isth year et his Majefty's reign, as
appear to be approved of by his Majefty's Girl Principal Seen ta-
lks of State t and his MaJefty is likewile pleated, with the ad-
vice aforefaid, to approve and confirm the further regularlins
pr fed by his Majelty's kid Principal Secretaries 01 State,
with the exceptions above Rated in the Paid Report of the Lor,'s
of the Committee of Privy Council, and to order, ogle le her. be
ordered, That the fame be adopted and carried into evocation
And the Right Hoonurable the Levis Comooffioners of his Ma-
Jelly's Treater. and his M J. ity's Principal Secretaries of State
are to iive the neceirary elk_ aeons herein as to them may refire,.
lively appertain."
witness was direeled to withdraw.
Then William Pollock, Efq. was called in, and being (worn, wan
examined u foil-we:
Are you the Chief Clerk in the Home Department of the Sou I
vet vy or State? tam.
How long have you born in that Stood= ? Fart -nine years.
Did it fell in your department and du y. as the Chief Clerk, to
pay the ralarive that were due to the Secretaries of State for the
Home Department ? Conftently.
From the Bth td June I yip to the testa of January 1792, did
Ton pay airy (~Lary to Mr. Dundee ? I did not.
From that time to the loth of July, Me, did you pay him any
falary ? I did not.
If any rotary had been demanded by Lord Melville doting
that period or time, would it have been viur department en have
paid it, and mutt you have bonen it ? I Should think fo.
During that interval have ydo accounted to Lord Melville for
• fees. Yes.
To what peeled have .you In accounted ? To the Utii of July
$794, when his Lorditilp removed to the War Department.
Was he entitled down ro the period of the Order is Council,
to th- rotary, ezehtfive of the fetal Yea.
What is the amount of that (story which he would have bees
Retitled to during that period. prior to the Order of Cooed', frame ,
the month of Jane 1791 to the period of the Order rat Council 1
Upon the near& e.lculatiots I could make, it would prelims I
17131 as told.
From that period to the time of Lord Melville going to the
War Department? 14 9581 tBs. rd.
State the amulet of fen which bed been received prior to the
Order of Council, which are to be deducted from the fum you
have given t The amount of fees received by his Lordffilp pre-
erinua to the nth day of January nes, 1511321. Se. gjd.
Are thrife fees which wore prior to the Order of Couacilt Prior
to tNe lath of January 1792.
That Order to Council had no drat whatever upcm the right
to r.eetve tkefe fees f Noee.
Take the amount of fees fubfequent to the Order of C.ionell,
and which ere to be deduded from the (urn before given he
rum total of the feet was IMO! • es. 4 id. the espences of tbe or-
rice in the iaterim dedgeMed tbetefrom being 39321. 160. 611.
loft past. 7a. 61d. clear to his Lordthip.
Was that Ave net amount of fees fuldequent to the Order of
Council? Yes It was.
What is the total smarm of the money telinquithed to the
politic in the account you have been pm' g I-59331. roes. 3ld.
le that (um the sentient of what was given up to the public
libicquent to the Order of Council I think
Have you tail that the amount rehnqinitiert before the Order of
Council was 27151. 26. toid ; is tat fn? It is ft.
What Is the total summit of thole two lures el•en up In this
Department, as Secretary of State kg' the Heine Department ?
he two fetes added mike Men 130. M.
Ha. the wh lc of that ruin 1641. 13s. M. been raved to the
public by this relinguilluncitt t It has.
Coif. reamincii.
Thaler the time that Lord Melville received any fee or emo-
when, witaerver, was it paid to him through you? His Lurdffilp
feepeatly pve me orders foe payment, and received money of
OWN
12 in the rondos of your !minor, to receive fuels Narks
god Fees for Lard Medd* in the Secretary of States Depart-
ments t It was. •
To whom did you pay what money you did pay on this ac-
count t Soinetlnies to his Lorilfldp's banker, at other Mlles
to itu ordert at Other 'leas by verbal orders. ,
Can you tweet that else cakulatioos you have made of the feud
retinquitle,! by Lord Melville are seeorete I may be Cubjtet to
amt., but they are as arr. unite es I could make tilSlll6
tuanoned by the Lords.
Are you wide:flood r ghtly m eke Order acoosti
l
bore de 27th February i 795 ?—Yes.
And t •
.skeines were to be reltoguillted from tbe lath j.osa•
ty 1792 ? dir,ded in that Order of Cornell, that with re.
oe- CI to the Set:fetal), a State, that they fhr.uld have that 'Mow-
' a &col, a yea clear of sU dcduetiunt, and in btu of kp ;

and that with Wye& M Mr. Modes. now Lcrd ?Advil* It
Oululd have a rttrofpcdt from the zatb ofJaiivary
Are you to be enderftood that LOrtt Melville received bOOOL •
year horn the 12th January 1792? Na. ; his Lurdihip reedvill
&art of that mooey 503;1 Ins. 3}4.
The Y. 1. tide was directed to withdraw.
Then JamesCka,mtn, Efq. was called in, and,beingfworn,
was examined as follows:
Whether you ate the Chief Clerk in the Secretary of State's
Mee tor the War Department? I am.
Were you fo in the mouth ot Much, Int ? Yes.
Were you the perfun thrtnigh whom the falary, due to the Se-
cretary of State in that Department, would have been paid? Yes.
How none to point of fadt of Glary did you pay to Lord Mel-
Mlle a► Secretary of State for the War department? I do not
know the total amount that I paid. I paid Lord Mel-
ville his falary at the rate of mot . a year from January t 7 to
June Dian, and at the rate of 40001. a year, from the ift at June
[Soo to the time Lord Melville reigned the Seals in Match, I
believe, 1801.
What was the amount of diferenee between what Lord Mel.
'Melees entitled to receive, and what he actually did receive ?
My Lord Melville relinquithed from July 1794 to the time he
relived the Seals, upwards of 26,ochL
Arc you now (peaking ot the War Department only ? Of the
War Department only.
This has nothing to do then with any relinquiihment in the
Office of Secretary of State for the Home Deparlitlan ? No.

Crors-examined.
Were you the channel through which all Lord Melville's fabuT,
Inch is he did receive, parfait Yes, to the War Department.
Did you account with Lord Melville for that (Amy t Yes.
Whether any part of the additional (slaty timed by you to have
been re linquitbed by Lord Melville ever was tendered to Ids
Lori:Stip ? It was withheld In eonfequence of Lad Melville's
direttion to me not to pay it tz. hia account.
When did you receive there direiflions 1 I regime when the
left quarter's falary was due, when I :iced Lend Melville whe-
dier I fkould pay it, or what I mould do.
Do you know of any resfon why that rotary was not received
by Lord Marine, or Out paid to him in the fame manlier it was
rid to other Secretaries orState t I believe, twinge Lord Md.
Mile conceived bimfelf receiving 00001. a year u freakier et the
Navy ; be therefore received spool. a year as Secretary afitete,
asking in the whale the Slimy of boot. a year, which vnia the
talary allotted to the Secretary of State.
Tbcn Lard Melville tor both elhees, the Tresforariblp of die
Nave and the other office, received becol. a year 1 1 =emir
fpeak to my own Department, frommouton!, meal
What (glary dol Lord Grenville receive frees the fame Mee t
_ _

I do not know%
Were you not Chief Clerk when Lord Grenville was Secretary
of State 1 1 ant in t►e War Devi:intent.

Might Lord Melville If he sad heal fo difporcd, betides his (g-
-lary as Treaforer of the Navy, have rewind the fa Scow. as Sc.
tretory of Stale for the War Depart:neat t 1 conceive unduubt-
cdlY fu.
Had you anthocity and would you have paid it, lilt had been
demanded t Certainly.
Was there any melon for your non-payment of the money, but
the voluntary rclimpnatutent by Lora Melville, which you &me
fated t None "tier,
The wand's was direCted to withdraw.

FOURTEEN rH 9AY—FRIDAY, MAY id.
TAts day the Attorney (Mural, iir !Arthur Pigott, replied to
Mr. Meaner, and was rillowed by Mr. Whitbread at Inch coat-
duable knob, that the Court was obliged to adjourn before be
same to a coaclutios.

FIFTEENTH DAY—SATURDAY, MAT .
The Court basing heat opened with the nfual forms, Mr Whit-
bread concluded his reply. We regret that our limits do net allow
it. even to offer an abridged view of a reply, which occupied two
days in &beery.
Mr Ornitsazati hernia then condoled,
She Loan CnAncattoz informed the Canard for the Defen-
dant, that as the Attorney General bad died cafes avian the
dodrine they contended wu law ; they had the privilege of an-
merles thole cafes, or obferving upon them, but not of entering
upon any uther fubjwit. The Managers would have alfothc pri-
vilege of replying to theft obfervationa on that cafes, babied to
the fame limitation.
Mr. P:3l/111 laid he mould content bitafelf with pointing oat
the difference lutvreen the cafe that was quoted of the King
againit B unbrldge, and the prcfent cafe. In the cafe that had
been quot-d, it appeared from the record, that there bad Wawa
traticulent lubtradtion of the loan of 411,00eL at the time that
Lord Hog ,nd was paymaiter, which was el• arty an indlestde
,ffet ce. She Learned Connie, then read, at length, the record
~f the coheir the King 'plait Ealabrialge, Stew the difference.
Tie Across:ay Gait not, la reply, read the opinion deliver-
ed by Lord Maoalleld on that cafe. ft bad been argued that it
was only a civil injury, a fraud, a breach nf trig, and not an
; list Lord Manigieli held that a perfon who se-
ceyted a public ~Illee of truß, atteodag with emolument to him.
[elf, molt certainly, as a public officer,""he amenable to the King,
and table t., be profeented by information for the v,ulatien of
oia treE ; and as it was a roarer In which the yublic was cow-
caned, he held it an inAlst bit offeues.
The Court then ajoarned.