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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



and Polyphemus, none — Swiftsure, 

 Alex, iit'll liandcock, midshipman. 

 • — Thunderer, John Snell, master's 

 Biate; Alex. Galloway, midship- 

 nian. 



C. Collingw'ood. 



Report from the Select Committee 

 upon the lOlh Naval Rci)ort,S;c. 

 Ordered to be printed 27th Moj 

 1805. 



The select committee to Mhom the 

 ienth report of the conimissioners 

 of naval enquiry (respecting the of- 

 fice of the treasurer of his majesty's 

 navy; was referred, to enquire into 

 Ihc application of any monies issued 

 to tiie treasurer of the navy for 

 naval services, to purposes not naval; 

 and whether any, and what repre- 

 sentations were made to the lords 

 commif.sioners of his majesty's trea- 

 sury, or the chancellor of the ex- 

 chequer, respecting the withdraw- 

 ing from the bank any suras of 

 iDoney so issued, since the passing 

 cf the act of 25 Geo. III. c. 31. ; 

 and also into the proceedings had 

 for the recovery of the debt due to 

 the crown by the late Adam Jcl- 

 licoe ;— have agreed to the follow- 

 ing report. 



In taking into our consideration 

 the three subjects which arc re. 

 ferred to your committee, it oc- 

 curred to us, that though the first, 

 in terms, comprehends an enquiry, 

 generally and without restriction, 

 into the application of any monies 

 issued to the treasurer of the navy 

 for naval services, to purposes not 

 naval ; yet it must necessarily have 

 been the intention of the house to 

 exclude from our consideration all 

 such monies so issued and so ap. 



plied as were to be the subject of 

 measures which the attorney-gene- 

 ral was directed, by an order of the 

 house, to fake " byduecourse of law 

 for ascertaining and recovering any 

 sums of money that may be due from 

 lord .Melville and A.lexander Trotter, 

 esq. in respect of any profits derived 

 by them from monies is.sued tor na- 

 val services, and that may have come 

 to liu>ir hands subsef(uent to the first 

 of January 1786 :" we, therefore, 

 conceived it not to be our duty to 

 enquire, whether any sums issued for 

 nava! purposes had been ajiplied by 

 lord Melville or Air. Trotter to their 

 own use, for which they would be 

 responsible in the civil suit to be. in- 

 stituted against them. In prosi-cu- 

 ting onr enquiry with this reserve, 

 it could not be previously known to 

 us, how any |)articu!ar sum of mo- 

 ney so issued had been applied, till 

 such sum had been traced to the 

 actual application of it. We Avere 

 therefore necessarily, in some in- 

 stances, led into an examination, 

 which, w ithout adverting to this dif- 

 ficulty, might appear to exceed the 

 bounds of tlie enquiry, which we un- 

 derstood to have been prescribed to 

 us ; leaving it to the party examined 

 to object to the questions that were 

 proposed to him, on the ground of 

 their tending personally to charge 

 hin'i, whenever he thought fit to do 

 so. Of the sums issued lor naval 

 services, and afterwards applied to 

 purposes not naval, which the cause 

 of this enquiry brought into our 

 view, it appears that the sum of 

 40;000l. came into the hands of 

 lord Melville, and was advanced by 

 the joint concurrence of his lordship 

 and Mr. Pitt, then chancellor of the 

 exchequer, for the use of the house 

 of Messrs. Boyd and company. — 

 Another sum of lOjOOOl. so issued, 



appears 



