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figata. by Ward/ s sad pleaded his beiig protege&
by the fifth clack of the A& by which this Commit.
God is conftituted, although he declared he had not
derived any profit, advantage, or benefit whatever
from or in confequence of the pair* money having
been applied to private ufe by any peon or perfons.
Such conduit in a perton in offiee appeared to us
by no means creditable' and if it were generally
adopted,, it might be the means of rendering inef-
fraud all fpcbCommiffions of Inquiry as that under
which we ad.
Hieing no other means of obtaining information,
as to the manner in which the public money had been
applied to private ore, and the extent to which it had
been tarried, but by retorting to blab. Thomas
Coutts and Co. we examined Edmund Antrobus,
Eiq. the principal ading partner in that hook. Prom
him we learned that M. Trotter, during the time he
was Paymaßer, had five accounts with this haute, of
the following defcriptions,
An account in his name, as Payinafter, which commenced the
toth_ei January, tylitS, and was tided on the 4th of March, dot.
This account was pripcipaily =Mod to the money received
front the Eacisequer for the payment of Exchequer Fero,
. and fame other contingendes.
Slo account in his own name, which commenced the aft of
Ark tos, and n now open.
To this meow the greater part of the. monks drawn from
• tin Bank wascarried, and blooded with his private monies.
A Swats account, 'Oda continent:6d the stir of April, 1711/1,
and was dieted the 534 September. t 791.
is tisk Amami the money drawn from the Bank has We been
blended with his private money.
A private account, which commenced the 9th of OdoberoyB9,
and was elated the Bth of February, 793.
This account wee Brit defoibed by. Mr. Antrobus as contain.
bog pubis money ; but, upon a further laveßigatioo,be
area to akor that Raccoon.
An account in croft for the date of Adam Toluene, Rfq derad'-
ed, which commenced the atotis of t 789, and was
elated the tick May, 'Soo
To this aemone was earned the money teeovered from the
date of Mr. Adam Italian, late Deputy Paymaito of the
Nary, which will be hereafter e
Mr. Antrobus thawed great difinclination to giving
us any information with refped to Mr. Trotter's ac-
counts without his eonfent ; alledging, that the money
received by Meffrs. Thomas Coutts and Co. at the
Bank, on Mr. Trotter's drafts, had been carried to
accounts in his name as an individual, and not in
his public capacity of Paymalter of the Navy ; but
after Mr. Antrobus had taken the opinion of
Counfel as to the authority veiled in this Board, to
require him to difelofe the tranfadions of Mr. Trot-
ter with his houfe, as far as the public money • was
concerned, he fubmitted to anfwer the queßions that
were put to him on thofe points.
By the evidence of Mr. Antrobus it appears, that
public money received by Mr. ThomasCoutts and
Co. from the Bank, on Mr. Trotter's drafts, had
been invefled in Exchequer and Navy Bills, lent upon
the fecurity of Stock, and employed by Mr. Trotter
in difcounting private Bills; and that confiderable
purchafes of Bank and Elia India Stock were made
by Meffrs. Thomas Coutts and Co. on account of Me.
Trotter. We thereupon ifued our precept to Meffrs.
Thos. Coutts and Co. for the account of Mr. Alexan-
der Trotter, containing any entries of tams received
by his drafts on the Bank, giving them an option
either to produce their books, or to furnifh us with
copies of the accounts. They preferred the former
node, and accottlingly laid before us the books coo-
lib. Trotter's Amount, as Paynaller of the Navy, from its
commeneanont to the time of its being elated ;
The Account, in Ms own name. from tbe seth of june,tnit
to the t yth of July, act ; and
His Separate Account, from the a7th of February, r 789, to
the aytb of histy,l79o;
of which accounts we canted copies to be taken
They withheld the parts of the two laR accounts pri.
or and fubtequent to the• periods mentioned, and his
private account as not containing any entries of
fume received by Mr. Trotter's drafts on the Bank.
This reafon for keeping back thus much of the ac-
counts was verified by Mr. William Chapman, their
Clerk, who examined the accounts for that purpok.
and produced to us a lift of the drafts given by Mr.
Trotter on the Bank, which had been carried to Isis
credit in the accounts, dillinguilhed as his own ac-
count. and his feparate account.
The money received by Meffrs. 'llonaas Coutts,
and Co. by the drafts of Mr. Trotter on the Bank,
appears to have been money iffited for Navy Ser.
vices, becaufe Mr. Trotter had no private account
there, and drew upon the Bank folely as the agent or
attorney of the Treafurcr of the Navy.
If official convenience only had been the objea in
opening accounts with Mail. Thomas Coutts and
Co. it might have• been expelled that the public ma.
ney placed there would have been feparated from all
private concerns, and kept under clear and diliind
heads. Inflead of this obvious caution, we do not
find that even any open declaration was made to the
Hoofs of the nature of the property entrufled to
them ; and the whole of the public money received
on account of Mr. Trotter by his drafts on the Bank,
was placed to his private accounts, and fo mixed
with other monies, that the one cluld not be di!:
tinguifhed frourthe other; nor could it be dikovered,
upon the face of the accounts, from whom leveret
of the tunas were received, or to whom paid; and
Mr. Trotter hitafelf could not afcertain whether
certain advances of money made by him to Lord
Melville, were from his public or private balances.—
The manner of keeping Mr. Trotter's accounts is
*Kt affigned by Lord Melville as a reafon for his not
being able to aufwer tome queftions which were put to
him, relative to the employment of the public money.
It was not in our power, without the affillance of
Mr. Trotter, to difiinguifit whether many of the items
in the accounts related to public or private money;
and Mr. Trotter, when called.upon, refuted to give
us that affifiance. We have therefore entered in the
Appendix copies of the accounts, entitled, hit own
amount, and his feparate account ; and au Allred
of his account, entitled, his Paymaßer's Account.—
We have obliterated the names of all entries in the
two former accounts under one hundred pounds, to
prevent the unnecefary expofure of private concerns.
It this had not been done to the full extent we could
have withal, it mull be confidered, that blending in
one account official and private money erantaftions in
she manner before dekribed, has rendered the bring.
lug of them together into public view unavoidable.
Tile infpedson of thefe accounts will afford much
faller Weation of the manner in which the public
money bai beep, applied than any defcription which
k is in oar power to give.
We have diaiagudbed is the accounts the toms,
that were received by Mars. Thomas Coottsatad Co.
loy lir. Moises drafts its the bad.

The Vet of the account rendered to trt, entitled.
Mr. Trotter's feparate account, contains only a few
entries of money received by his drafts on the Bank;
but the money fo. received appears diffinaly on the
face of the account to have been applied to private
purples.
Although the only direa proof which we have
been able. to obtain of public money having been
carried to the creditlof Mr. Trotter's account, with
Meas. Thomas Coutts and Co. is, by their having
received money upon his drafts on the Bank; yet on
an infpeetion of the accounts it will be teen, that fums
of Inch magnitude not received by Mr. Trotter's
drafts on the Bank, have been brought to his credit,
as to afford Ilrong preimption that they were part
of the public money—depofus of money, not receiv-
ed by drafts on the Bank, to the amount of one hun-
dred thoufand pounds and upwards on the fame day,
and in the conrle of a few days will be met with fre-
quently. In one intlance, namely on the i tth of
April 1795. the rum of one million, not received by
di aft on the Bank, is placed to his credit.
As a further proof of other public money, betides
that received direaly from the Bank, being includ-
ed in the account called hi, own account, we fubjoin
• Comparative ffaternent of the furns received direitly
hem the Bank, and the firms paid from that account
to the different tub-accountants of the Navy Pay
Office, and for fervices which we conclude to be of
a public nature.

Amount of rum received by
Mail% Thomas Conti' and

Co. by the drafts of
ter en the Bank, ;ad carried
to the ore& of his tiara se-

Amount of (urns paid from the
account of Mr. Trotter with
Meifra Thomas Coutts and
Co. entitled His own Ar...
count, to the different Sub-at.
continues of the Navy Pap
Office t t,716.804L 65.6&
Amount of the fuma
paid from the fame
account, for Cervices
fuppofed to be of a
puhlie nature, viz.
To Aft of Parlia-
ment Aceount,"(by
which is meant the
fitit part of Lord
Melville's Second
Treafurerthip), and
" Aa of Parlia.
manNewAccoont"
being the Second
Part e( that Tres-
furaffilp 3431,933 6to

mut 1,295.1-1-01:=-01.1d.

is,-.7 .737 •' 4

We conclude that the diff:rence, fix millions (eves
hundred and eighty-three thoufand three hundred
and feventeen pounds two (trilling' and eleven pence,
was money iffued for navy fervicel drawn from the
Bank by Mr. Trotter, and depofited with Meas.
Thomas Cantu and Co. after having paired through
his own hands, or the hands of tome agent employed
by him to receive it by his drafts on the Bank.
As the name of Mr. Mark Sprot appeared fre-
quently in the accounts, as paying into the houfe of
Meters. Thomas Courts and Co. on account of Mr.
Trotter, and receiving from thence very large fume,
we deemed it neceffary to examine him a; tp the na.-
ture of his. tranfaaions 'with the Paymatter of the na-
vy ; but after depofing. that, to the belt of his /cool.
'calm, he had not received any money from tits
Bank by Mr. Trotter's drafts, he refuted to *newer
every other queflion put to him ; alledging that h.
had taken the advice ofCounfel, who were of opinion
that he was not bound to *newer fuch titration*.
Upon the whole, it appears to us to be a clearly.
eftablifhed faa, that, during this Treafurerfhip, the
money Wired for navy fervices was tired to a great
amount for the purpofes of private emolument: and
this circumflance leads us to obferve,that if a'rreaftwer
of the Navy, after an increafe of his falary upcn the
terms contained in the warrant under his Majeftyi
fign manual; derive profit from the ufe of money
Mired for navy fervices, he becomes upon prinCiples
of equity a debtor to the public, and is accountable
for all fuch profit,
Our duty requires into add, that the withdrawing
of the public money from the Bank of England in the
manner and fur the purpofes before related, was, in
our judgment, a difobedience to the law as ellabliffied
by the 25th of the prefent reign, cap. 31.
•We cannot difmifs the conlideration of this Trea-
furerthip without adverting to a paper delivered to us
by Mr. Trotter, drawn up in jutfification of his con-
duit, and purporting to be a fiatement of the tranfae-
Lions of his Paymatterihip.•
AEtuated by a defire that all perfons who might
conceive their charaeter called in queltion by our
proceedings, might have an opportunity of jultifying
• themeelves, and explaining their conduEt, we have
never refuted to admit any details given with, that
view by the perfons whom we have examined, not.
withftanding filch details may have been irrelevant
to the quelhons pi-circled by us.
Upon this principle we received from Mr. Trotter
the paper in queftion, which is attached to his evi-
dence of the 25th of July, 1804 i but it is Et that we
fhonld offer Come comments upon it, as well as upon
the evidence contained in the Appendix. And this
is more efpecially called for in the cafe of an exami-
nant, who, to avoid the danger of criminating
fele, refutes explanations required of him, and after►
wards offers a jußification on his own terms.
In this paper Mr. Trotter does nnt deny his havres
made nee of the public money withdl a vn by him from
the Bank ; and in his fubfequent examination, he in.
timates, that in Co doing hs had aEted under permit:
Pion, although he rays he is not at liberty to (late that
he has ever explicitly authorized to do to.
Lord Melville, upon being afked whether he gave
permiffion to the Paymafter to withdraw the money
from the Bank and lodge it in the hands of a private
banker, with a view to his deriving any advantage or
emolument therefrom, *newer., 44 If it is meant to
afk me whether I ever gave any dire& authority
46 to the Paymafter to ufe the money iinthe manner
44 above mentioned, I (hould certainly anfwer No a
44 but I have no befleation in laying, tbAt I believed
44 and underflood he did, and never prohibited him
44 from doing fo ;. and I believe it was to underitood
44 by others at different times, when the enablithment
Is if the Navy. Pay Office was under confider Lion,
64 when certainly no competent provifion was made
44 for the ;s:rfon exerciling that trult of great extent'
44 and refponfibility."
Whether the falary of the Paymager war not in.
created when the general augmentation of the falaries
of the Cafbiers took place in 1786. becaufe he was
dot in the dire& charge or ufe of the public =
WILT than the money for Exchequer Cass,