The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-08-12
LONDON, June ]:
TRIAL OF LORD MELVILLE.


TRIAL OF LORD MELVILLE.
Agreeably TO the notice fent from the lords
To the commons on Tuefiav, that their lord
fhips would proceed further in the trial of Lord
Wis. Melville this day, that hon. houfe, attended
by their ipeaker, were in the High Court of
Parliament, Wefmintt ,r-Hall, this morning ex
aStly at ten o'clock. In confequence, however,
of diicuilion which previoufly took place in
the houe of Peers, it was not till half after ele
ven O'Clock that the procefion of their lord.hips
to the hall took place and it was twelve be-
fore the cutomary forDalities of opening the
court had been gone through.
The ten articles of Impeachment were then
read, and the queftion of guilty, or not guilty ?
was put feveraiy and respectively upon each of
them to each peer, beginning with the funior
baron, each peer laying his right hand upon his
left breaft, and faying to each article F." Guilty.
or =" Not guilty, upon my honor"
The following are the dvfions on the dife-
rent articles:
On the fiTR article, charging him with ap-
plying 10 ooo. of the public money to his own
uie, previouily to January 1886: Not guilty,
12o-guilty Is.
On the feeond article charging him with per-
hitting Alexander Trotter to apply fums of
.he public money to his own ufe, and connivina
".
7s-guilty rs.
On the sd article, charging him with permit.
ting Alexander Trottcr TO draw public money
from the bank, and place it in the hands of his
bankers, Melirs. Cuts and Co. in his own name,
and at his own difpofal Not guilty, 81
guilty So.
On the 4th article, charging him with imilar
cornivance, in refpett of public money placed
by faid Trotter in the hands of Mark Sprott,
for the purpofe of private emolument: Not
guilty, unanimously.
On the 5th article, charging him the fame as
in the It article, only laying the act fubfequcnt
to January, 1856: Not guilty, IsI-guilty, 4.
On the 9Th article, charging him with re-
ceiving public money from Alexander Trotter,
and applying it to his own ufa, and in partici-
pating with faid Trotter in the profit made of
the public money Not guilty, SO guilty, At.
On the 9TH article, charging him with re-
ceiving 2s,oool. of the public money, without
intereit, from Alexander Trotter: Not guilty,
s2--guilty, 81.
Onthc 9Th article, charging him with receiv-
ing from Alexander Trotter, %, oool. of the
public money, for which the defendant was to
pay interet Not guilty, loo-guilty, 3d.
On the 9th article, charging that while the
faid Alexander Trotter traniacted the bulinefs
of the defendant as his agent, he, the fad Trot-
ter, was from time To time in advance, to the
faid vifcount Melville, in that refpef, TO the a.
mount Of from 10000 to 100000. which fums
were partly taken from the public money, and
partly from mixed fund of public and private
money Not guilty, ll9-gIilty, 16.
On the 10th and Iaa article, charging him
with taking at divers times, between 1852 and
1884, and between 1884 and 1856, 27,oooI. of
the public money aud converting the fame to
his private ufe Not guilty, 12S--guilty, ~.
The lord chancellor then Informed the noble
defendant, that he was acquitted on all the cljarg-
IS, andthe court broke up.
HAGUE, June 10.
The following is a copy ofthe proclamation
which was read this day to the military, and
announced to the people:
"Lous Napoean, by the Grace of God, and
the conltitutionaIIaws Of the fate, king of Hol-
land, to all who fhall fee and read this, greet
ing Make known to all and every one, that
we, with the appreciation of his maieffy the
emperor and king, Napoleon, our luxurious
brother, have accepted and do accept the row.
al dignity Of Holland, in conformity to the with
Of the country, with the contitutional laws, and
with the treaty preiented us to-day, and the
reciprocal notifications by the deputies of the
Dutch nation. On our acceiiion TO the throne.
it ihall he our mot facred care 20 be alive to
the lntereltS vt our peopie-it fllail be our con.
Rant win TO give them incehdnt and manifold
initauces of our love and of our foHcitude; TO
that end maintaining the liberties of all our fub-
jeets, and their rights, and continually employ
ing ourielves TO their welfare. The indepen-
dence OF the Kingdom is guaranteed by his ma