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APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
Mr. Joseph Kaye, a_ solicitor, 
proved that the proiits and interest 
arising from the stock purchased at 
different periods for lord Melville, 
by order of Mr. Trotter, amounted 
to 22,062/. 15s. 9d. 
Mr. Mark Sprott was next ex- 
amined, touching the innumerabie 
speculations and Change-alley traus- 
actions that he had been employed 
_wfor Mr. Trotter ; during the whole 
- nected with such transactions. 
of which he said he never heard lord 
Melville’s name mentioned as con. 
He 
added, that he had frequently ad- 
vanced Mr. Trotter money to pre- 
vent his carrying his navy bills into 
the market when they were ‘‘long- 
winded ;”’ but he never knew that 
Mr. Trotter was making use of the 
public money ; though from the mag- 
nitude of the sums laid out at times, 
had he given it a thought, he might 
have imagined that to be the case. 
- Charles Bragge Bathurst, esq.was 
called te prove, that during the 
period he was treasurer of the 
“favy, he never made use of the 
public money for purposes of pri- 
vate advantage or convenience, 
and that he always kept it at the 
bank. 
Mr. Thomas Wilson stated, that 
he had long held a situation in the 
‘Navy pay-oflice, and that he acted 
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for Mr. Trotter while that gentle- 
man wasin Scotland. He had blank 
drafts left him by Mr. Trotter ; and 
he had also-his sanction and authority 
for using the public money for pur- 
poses of private advantage during his 
absence. He could not, however, say 
that lord Melville knew of such use 
and advantage. In the year 1796, 
the time he was acting for Mr. 
Trotter, lord Melville came to him, 
and asked him, if any, and what 
sum of money, could be spared from 
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ihe public stock ? The witness said, 
40,0001. could be spared, and that 
sum was paid his lordship in the 
presence of the late Mr. Pitt, Mr. 
Charles Long, and others.—[N. B. 
This was40,0004. advanced to Boyd, 
Benfcld, and co.|—The witkess 
added, that he took no receipt for 
the money so advanced. 
George ‘Tierney, esq. was exa- 
mined as to the way in which he kept 
his account with the bank when he 
was treasurer of thenayy. Iu order 
to prevent the transit of large sums 
from the bank, he paid a certain um, 
to his own credit at the bank, and 
Satisfied the claims upon the public 
service, by giving drafts upon the 
bank, which were carried to his cre- 
dit account ; so that the publicmoney 
ran no risk, 
Thomas Beverly West, esq. proved 
that lord Melville carried the bill to 
the lords for regulating the office of 
treasurer of his majesty’s navy, and 
that he was the principal instrument 
in framing and bringing in suck 
bill. 
The evidence on the part of the 
prosecution was closed by reading a 
general monthly statement of all 
balances in the hands of the pay- 
master, during the time lord Mel. 
ville executed the office of treasurer 
of the navy. 
Sir Samuel Romilly now proceed- 
ed to sum up the several heads of 
evidence, and apply them to the 
charges exhibited against the noble 
defendant. His speech occupied 
the whole of one day, and was list- 
ened to with great attention. Ue 
animadverted with much severity on 
the suspicions faét of burning the 
vouchers, and of his lordship’s re- 
fusal to account for one sum of 
10,0001. which he confessed to have 
misapplied. He also dwelt with’ 
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