614 
bought up’ with the public money. 
The way he paid his lordship’s 
balances on his quitting his office, 
was by selling 20,000/. stock of his 
Jordship’s; also 30,000/. - India 
stock, besides 13,000/. that he re- 
ceived fro6m another source. Te 
never explained to his lordship the 
precise amount of those balauces as 
applied to tlie two accounts, but 
estimated them generally. Lord Mel- 
ville néver enquired of him if he was 
trenching upon the public balances, 
nor could he (the witness) swear 
that his lordship had an idea that 
he was rectiving advances from the 
public stock, He atlmitted that he 
was himself worth 65,000/. of 
which he had derived between 5 and 
6000 from inheritance, and 3000 
by marriage, and that he had built 
ahouse near Edinburgh. In an- 
swer to a question put by the bishop 
of St. Asaph, he said, he became a 
ender of money immediately on his 
being put into possession of the pub- 
lic money. 
Mr. Robert Trotter was next exa- 
mined, who, in addition to asum 
of .2000/. and another of 3,374/. 
sent to the house of Forbes and co. 
and the house of Ramsay and co, at 
Edinburgh, on lord Melville’s ac- 
count, proved that two other sums 
of 10,0007. and 5000/. were also 
paid by Contts to Ramsay and co. 
on his lordship’s account. These 
sums were paid by order of his bro- 
ther ; but out of what funds, or for 
what purpose, he could not tell. 
Mr. E. Antrobus, a partner in 
Coutts’s house, was examined as to 
lord Melville’s account with the 
firm, and proved by the respective 
entries that the house paid the instal- 
ments upon lord Melville’s sub- 
veription te the loyalty Joan, and 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
that they were repaid by Mr. 
Trotter. ; 
Mr, Chapman, a élerk in Coutts’ — 
house, and who kept Mr. Trotter's — 
accounts, was called to prove the © 
specific balances in the hands of the 
paymaster at different periods. 
Among many others it appeared, that 
in the month of February 1795, 
there was a balance of 47,4127. and 
in April of the same year it in- 
creased to 107,9717. 12s. 3d. In 
1797, the balance in hand was 
45,7001.; in 1798, 31,0000. ; in 
1799, 88,000/. ; and at other periods 
the house was in advance to Mr. 
Trotter. 
Mr. Coutts Trotter proved, that 
Messrs, Coutts and co. ad¥anced to— 
lord Melville, in the year 1800, a 
sum amounting to 13,000/., and, as 
a security, took in exchange the 
assigument of his lordship’s salary as 
keeper of the privy seal, and as 
keeper of the signet. Also the as- 
signment of 2000/. India stock, and 
the collateral security of Mr. Ro- 
bert Dundas’s son. 
Mr. Charleton, a clerk in the 
bank, produced thirty-five cancelled 
bank notes, thirty-two of which — 
were for 10002. each, which notes 
had originally been issued to lord 
Melville for the public service, on — 
the aét of parliament new account 
in 1800. These notes were subse- 
quently paid in to Messrs. Coutts’s, 
in satisfaction of two drafts made 
by lord Melville upon Mr. Trotter, 
one for 13,000/. and the other for 
19,000/. 
Mr. P. Antrobus, the stock bro- 
ker, proved the purchase of two por- 
tions of Kast-India stock for lord 
Melville, each portion amounting to 
6000/. the money for which was ad- 
vanced by Mr. Trotter. en 
Mr. 
