‘HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
was, in October 1785, reduced 
from the above-mentioned sum of 
10,000/. to 9,000/., by the pay- 
ment of 1,000/. to the bank, 
through the hands of Mr. Davis of 
the navy pay-office, being the 
amount of one quarter’s salary due 
to the right honourable. Henry 
Dundas as treasurer of the navy ; 
at which sum of 9,000/. the dif- 
ference in the ‘‘ new account” con- 
tinued till the death of Mr. Douglas 
in December 1785. 
All these facts were confirmed by 
the proof adduced by the commons, . 
that after thedeath, of Mr. Doug- 
Jas,lord Melville confessed in the 
month of January 1786, to Mr. 
Trotter (who succeeded Douglas as 
paymaster of the navy), that he was 
~ indebted to the publicin the sum 
of 10,600/. ; which sum of 10,600/3 
exactly corresponds with the defici- 
ency of 1,600/.0n the *‘ oldaccountt” 
and of 9,000/. on the ‘new account.” 
proved to be the residuary balances 
of divers payments made by the au- 
thority of lord Melville, for pur- 
poses extra-official and unexplained, 
to a much greater amount, and re- 
duced to the above-mentioned sums 
by different repayments, all of 
which. were traced back by the 
commons to private sources. 
On the second of these charges, 
contained in the second article of 
impeachment, it was in the first 
place shewn by the commons. 
That subsequent to the appoint- 
ment of Jord Melville for the 
second time to the office of trea- 
Surer of the navy, an act of parlia- 
“Ment was passed, intituled, ‘* an 
act for better regulating the office 
of treasurer of his majesty’s 
“Tavy ;” 
Whereby it is, among other 
things, enacted, ‘* that from and 
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after the 1st of July 1785 no mas 
ney for the service of the navy shall 
be issued from his majesty’s ex. 
chequer to the treasurer of the na- 
vy, or shall be placed, or directed 
to be placed in his hands or posses. 
sion, but the same shall be issued 
and directed to be paid to the go- 
vernor.and company of the bank of 
England .and to be placed to cer- 
tain aceounts according to the ser- 
vices for which it is craved and 
issued ;” 
‘*¢ And the monies to be issued 
unto the governor and company of 
the bank “of England, on account 
of the treasurer of ‘his majesty’s 
navy, shall not be paid out of the 
bank, unless for navy services, and in 
pursuance of drafts to be drawn on 
the governor and company of the 
bank of England, and signed by the 
treasurer of the navy for the time 
being, or the person or persons au- 
thorized by him ; L 
‘* And that upon the death, resig. 
nation, orremoyal of the present, 
and every other treasurer of his ma- 
Jesty’s navy hereafter to be appoint- 
ed, the balance: of cash, for which 
he shall at that time have credit on 
his account or accounts,as treasurer 
of his majesty’s navy with the go. 
vernor and company of the bank of 
England, shall, at the end of the 
current month after a successor shall 
be appointed to the said office, ac- 
tually vest im such successsor, in 
trust for the service of the navy, and 
be forthwith transferred, carried 
over and placed to the menount of 
such successor, ” 
And, in the next place, proved, 
that, in direct breach and violation 
of the said statute, lord Melville 
gave permission to Trotter, his pay- 
master, to draw from the bank of 
England, for other purposes than 
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