118) 
for immediate application to navy 
services, sums of money issued to 
the governor and company of the 
bank of England on account of the 
treasurer of the navy, and to place 
the same in the hands of his private’ 
banker ; that Trotter, in conse- 
quence of this permission, did draw 
from the bank of England large sums 
of public money, and place the 
same in the hands of his private 
bankers, in his own name and at 
his own disposal, and beyond. the 
control of the treasurer of the 
navy. By which the said statute 
was grossly violated, and the enact- 
ment relative to the transfer of the 
balance of public money, on the 
death, resignation or removal of the 
existing treasurer of the navy, to his 
successor, would have been in a 
great measure frustrated and ren- 
dered uugatory, if Trotter had 
died, while these balances of pub- 
lic money were in the hands of his 
private banker. 
It was also shewn, that the rea- 
sons assigned by Jord Melville for 
_ granting permission to Trotter, to 
place the public money in the hands 
of his private bankers, were frivo- 
tous and unfounded, and were, 
therefore, probably not his real 
motives for permitting such a 
breach and v iolationof the law 
On the third of these charges, 
comprehending the third, fourth, 
sixth, seventh, eight, and ninth 
articles of imptachment, it was 
proved by the commons that Trot- 
ter, by permission and connivance 
of lord Melville, applied to his pri- 
vate use and emolument the public 
money so taken illegally from the 
bank of England and placed in the 
hands of his private banker, and de- 
rived great profit therefrom, and 
that lord Melville knew and un- 
dersteod that he derived such emo- 
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lument, and did not prohibit him so. 
to do. 4 
It further appeared in evidence 
that Trotter, by desire of lord 
Melville, opened an account, called 
the chest account, in which he de- 
bited lord Melville with 10,600/. 
being the sum of money, for whick 
lord Melville, by his own confession, 
was indebted to the public, when 
Trotter first became paymaster un- 
der him; that various advatices 
were made, at subsequent periods, 
on the same account, in cbdnse- 
quence of requisition from lord 
Melville to Trotter, of the nature 
of commands ; with which requisi- 
tions Trotter invariably complied 
without any remorstrance : that no 
interest was ever charged to lordMel. 
ville, or paid by him on these ad- 
vances: that Trotter always con- 
sidered lord Melville to be imme- 
diately indebted to the public in 
this chest account : and lord Mel- 
ville understood and knew himself 
to be so indebted : that Trotter 
having advanced to lord Melville 
in 1797, the sum of 10,0002. in 
order to pay the instalments on his 
subscription to the loyalty loan ; 
aud having in the first instance de- 
bited lord Melville for that sum in 
anotheraccount kept between them 
intituled their aecount current, | 
did afterwards, for his own greater 
security, transfer the same to the 
chest account, and did presenta copy 
of the said accont bearing on the face 
of it a statement of the above trans. 
action, to lord Melville, by whom 
it was regularly, duly, and formally 
settled and signed, and to whom 
the origininal book ora duplicate 
thereof, so; settled and signed, 
was delivered; and that at subse- 
quent periods, Trotter presented 
other statements and duplicates of 
the said accounts, containing the 
3 same 
