3. The third charge repeats the second, stating the risque of the public from such practices. The evidence here bore equally upon all the articles, so that it is unnecessary to follow it more distinctly. The loyal ty loan-the knowledge of Lord Melville of the impossibility of Mr. Trotter making such advances from his private fortune-the burning of all books, vouchers, &c. and the joint purchase of India stock, were all points of given evidence.

Such was the application of the evidence to the principal charges, viz. the three first. -Whether their lordships were of opinion that they bore rather upon Trotter than upon Lord Melville,-whether his lordship's participation was not made sufficiently evident, -however it might be, Lord Melville was acquitted.

ABSTRACT OF THE CHARGES,

NUMBERS WHO VOTED.

AND THE

On the 1st article, charging him with applying 10,000l. of the public money to his own use, previous to January, 1786:

Not Guilty, 121.-Guilty, 15.

On the 2d article, charging him with permitting Alexander Trotter to apply sums of the public money to his own use, and con'niving at such fraudulent application:

Not Guilty, 83.-Guilty, 53.

On the 3d article, charging him with permitting Alexander Trotter to draw public money from the Bank, and place it in the hands of his bankers, Messrs. Coutts and Co. in his own name, and at his own disposal:

Not Guilty, 84-Guilty, 52.

On the 4th article, charging him with similar connivance, in respect of public money placed by said Trotter, in the hands of Mark Sprott, for the purpose of private emolument :

Not Guilty unanimously.

On the 5th article, charging him the same as in the 1st article, only laying the act subsequent to January, 1786:

Not Guilty, 133.-Guilty, 3.

On the 6th article, charging him with receiving public money from Alexander Trotter, and app ying it to his own use, and in participating with said Trotter in the profit made of the public money:

Not Guilty, 89.-Guilty, 47. On the 7th article, charging him with receiving 22,000l. of the public money, without interest, from Alexander Trotter :

Not Guilty, 85.-Guilty, 51.

On the 8th article, charging him with receiving from Alexander Trotter, 22,000l. of the public money, for which the defendant was to pay interest;

Not Guilty, 122.-Guilty, 14.
On the 9th article, charging that while

the said Alexander Trotter transacted the business of the defendant as his agent, he, the said Trotter, was from time to time in advance, to the said Viscount Melville, in that respect, to the amount of from 10,000l. to 20,000l., which sums were partly taken from the public money, and partly from a mixed fund of public and private money.

Not Guilty, 123.-Guilty, 13. On the 10th and last article, charging him with taking, at divers times, between 1782 and 1794, and between 1784 and 1786, 27,000l. of the public money, and converting the same to his private use:

Not Guilty, 124.-Guilty, 12.

An interval of near an hour now took place, occupied in casting up the votes; af, ter which the Lord Chancellor rose, and addressing himself to Lord Melville, who stood uncovered at the bar, spoke to him nearly as follows:

"You, Henry Lord Viscount Melvilla, "have been ACQUITTED by your Peers "of all the articles of impeachment exhi "bited against you by the Honourable the "Commons of the United Kingdom, and "of all matters and things therewith con"nected, and your lordship is dismissed "accordingly."

As soon as the judgment was pronounced, Lord Melville's friends flocked around him, eager to congratulate him on the issue of his cause. His counsel too were congratulatud on their success, and the faces of his lordship's friends all wore a holiday aspect.

The Peers returned to the House of Lords, and at half past three the Court was finally adjourned.

The Prince was not present, but the rest of the Royal Dukes were in their places, three of whom voted " Guilty" upon several of the charges.

The guards were stationed outside the hall, to keep the multitude in order, who were not very respectful in their remarks concerning the High Court of Parliament. The following List has been given of the Names of the Peers voting, and of the Manner in which they voted,

GUILTY ON THE FOLLOWING CHARGES.

Lord Chancellor, 2, 3, Donoughmore, 2, 3, 6, 7 6,7

Dukes-Clarence, I, Rosslyn, 2, 3, 6, 7.

2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10 Kent, 2, 3, 6, 7 Sussex, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10 Gloucester, 1,3,6,7,9

Charleville, 7
Viscount- Hereford,

2,3,6,7
Bishop-St. Asaph, 2,
3,6,7,9

Lord President, 1, 2, Barons-Clifford, 1, 3, 6, 7, 10 2, 3, 6, 7, 10

Lord Privy Seal, 2, 3, St. John, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 6,7,8 9, 10

misfortunes, and the remedy to which they ought to recur. We are charged, Sire, to express to your Majesty the wishes of the representatives of our people: we intreat you to grant us, as the Supreme Chief of our Republic, as King of Holland, the Prince Louis Napoleon, brother of your Majesty, to whom we deliver, with entire and respectful confidence, the administration of our laws, the defence of our political rights, and all the interests of our beloved country.-Under the sacred auspices of Providence under the glorious protection of your Imperial and Royal Majesty; finally, under the authority of the paternal government, which we demand of you, we venture to hope, Sire, that Holland, assured for ever of the affection of the greatest of monarchs, and closely united, by her, very destiny, to that of your immense and immortal empire, will behold the restoration of its ancient glory, of its repose, of which it has long been deprived, and of its prosperity; which losses, that will no longer be considered as irreparable, will have impaired only for a time."

His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon answered in these terms:

"Messieurs, representatives of the Batavian people, I have always considered it the first interest of my crown, to protect your country. Whenever I have been obliged to interfere in your internal affairs, I have been struck with the inconveniencies attached to the uncertain form of your government. If you were governed by a popular Assembly, it would be influenced by intrigues, and agitated by the neighbouring powers; if by an elective Magistracy, every renewal of this Magistracy, would be a critical Moment for Europe, and the signal of 'new maritime wars. All these inconveniences could not be obviated but by an heredi tary government. I called it into your country by my counsels, at the time of the establishment of your last constitution; and the offer you make of the crown of Holland to Prince Louis, is conformable to the true interests of your country, to mine, and capable of insuring the general tranquillity of Europe. France has been generous enough to renounce the claims upon you which the events of war had conferred; but I could not entrust the strong places which cover my northern frontier, to an unfaithful, or even a suspected hand.-Messieurs, Representatives of the Batavian people, I coincide in the desire of their High Mightinesses. I proclaim Prince Louis, King of Holland. Reign, Prince, over these people; their fathers acquired independence, only by the constant assistance of France. Holland was afterwards the ally of England, and was con

quered; she was again indebted for her existence to France. Let her, then, be indebted to you for Kings who shall protect her liberties, her laws, and her religion; but never cease to be a Frenchman. The dignity of Constable of the empire shall be possessed by you and your descendants: it will remind you of the duties you have to fulfil towards me, and the importance which I attach to the keeping of the strong places that secure the north of my dominions, and with which I entrust you. Keep up, Prince, among your troops, that spirit with which I have seen them animated in the field of battle. Encourage, in your new subjects, sentiments of union and love towards France. Be the terror of the wicked, and the father of the good: such is the character of great kings."

His Imperial Highness, Prince Louis, then advanced to the foot of the throne, and said:

"Sire, I had placed all my ambition in sacrificing my life in the service of your Majesty. All my happiness consisted in a near admiration of those qualities which render you so dear to those, who, like me, have frequently witnessed the power and the effects of your genius. You will therefore, permit me to feel some regret at parting from you; but my life and my will are yours, I will go and reign in Holland, since those people desire it, and I am ordered by your Majesty.-Sire, when your Majesty left France to go to conquer Europe, which had conspired against you, you were pleased to appoint me to protect Holland from the Invasion with which it was threatened: on this occasion I learned to appretiate the character of those people, and the qualities by which they are distinguished.-Yes Sire I shall be proud of reigning over them; but however glorious may be the career which is opened to me, the assurance of the constant protection of your Majesty, the love and patriotism of my new subjects, are capable of exciting the hope of healing the wounds occasioned by so many wars, and by events accumulated in so few years.-Sire, when your Majesty shall affix the last seal to your glory, by giving peace to the world, the places which you shall confide to my care, to that of my chil dren, to the Dutch soldiers who fought at Austerlitz, in your sight-those places, I say will be well guarded. United by interest, my people will likewise be united by the sentiments of love and gratitude of their King, to your Majesty, and to France,"

After this speech, the Extraordinary' Ambassadors retired, making three profound reverences. The Emperor then proceded to his apartments to give au

dience to the persons there a pied, He was preceded by his august brother, who was announced by the door-keeper as the King of Holland.-The Extraordinary Ambassadors of Holland were conducted to an audience of her Majesty the Empress, in which the forms already described were observed. They then returned to their hotel with the same retinue as attended them to their palace.

at an early period multiplied for him the means of instruction; a perfect morality, which makes him discover duties to be ful filled, where others would perceive only prerogatives to be exercised; such, gentlemen, are the omens of the success of the new monarch, in the career to which Providence calls him, as well as the guarantees that he will render his authority useful and dear to the people who are desirous to live under his laws.-Cardinal Fesch, gentlemen, is so intimately connected with you, that you cannot behold with indifference the reward con

Gentlemen, I come by the command of his Majesty the Emperor and King, to acquaint you with various regulations, which vill be, to the Senate, both a new subject for applauding the great and generous views with which our sovereign is animated, and an authentic testimony of the respectful confidence which all our neighbours have placed in the Imperial House. After many suc cessive changes in its government, the Dutch nation, so deliberate in its measures, so steady in its resolutions, seeks to fix its destinies under the aegis of a throne, and chuses for its first monarch, His Imperial Highness Prince Louis Napoleon. His Maj. the Emperor and King, consents that his august brother shall comply with the wishes of the Dutch nation; and when he sacrifices his dearest affections to the public weal, his Maj. thinks it his duty to indemnify himself and the French people, by securing to his Highness the dignity of Constable, and confiding to his keeping the northern frontier of the empire. His Maj. likewise consents that his Eminence Cardinal Fesch shall comply, by his acceptance, with the choice made by his Electoral Highness the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Germanic Empire, in appointing him his coadjutor and successor.-Lastly, his Maj. has conferred the principality of Benevento on M. de Talleyrand, Minister of Exterior Relations, and that of Ponte Corvo on the Marechal Bernadotte. Holland, whose relations with France have never been impaired, but in consequence of false conceptions, is now re-attached to her by this great alliance, which becomes a pledge so much the more sure of the establishment of peace, as it deprives ambitious and turbulent neighbours of the hope of deriving advantage from the troubles inseparable from an uncertain government, and an elective magistracy.-The assiduity of Monseigneur Prince Louis; his military talents; incessant labours, which,

prelate to the electoral dignity, will multiply for him the means of doing good, as well as the opportunities of giving his Maj. new proofs of his fidelity and of his attachment.

When the Emperor determined to establish great hereditary fiefs, he told you, gentlemen, that he found in this institution the means of conciliating the interests of the dignity of his throne, and the sentiment of his gratitude for services renderd him in the civil and in the military career. Such are the motives of the distinction conferred on Messrs. Talleyrand and Bernadotte. Thè first has long been the depository of the confidence of his Maj. in the direction of foreign affairs; the second has more than once, and on recent occasions, powerfully maintained the glory of our arms. I deliver to the Senate, with the message of his Maj. various documents relative to the events which occasioned them. These papers will be deposited in your archives, and transcribed on your registers, destined to become in future the records of the nation, from the multiplied communications which the Emperor and King is pleased to make to you, concerning all that relates to the great interests of the state."

MESSAGE OF HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND KING

"Senators-We charge our cousin, the Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, to inform you, that in compliance with the wishes of their High Mightinesses, we have proclaimed our dearly beloved brother, Prince Louis Napoleon, King of Holland, that the said crown may be hereditary, in full sovereignty, in order of primogeniture, in the legitimate male descendants of his body; our intention being, at the same time, that the King of Holland, and his descendants, retain the dignity of Constable of the Empire. Our determination, on this subject, has ap peared to us to coincide with the interests of our subjects. In a military point of view, as Holland possesses all the strong places which defend our northern frontier, it was of im

portance to the security of our dominions, that the keeping of them should be entrusted to persons, of whose attachment we could not entertain any doubt. In a commercial point of view, Holland being situated at the mouth of the great rivers that water a considerable portion of our territory, it was necessary that we should have a guarantee for the faithful execution of the treaty of commerce we shall conclude with her, in order to reconcile the interests of our manufactures and of our commerce, with those of the commerce of that people. Finally, Holland is the first political interest of France. An elective magistracy would have been attended with the inconvenience of frequently subjecting that country to the intrigues of our enemies, and each election would have been the signal for a new war.—Prince Louis, being animated by no personal ambition, has given us a proof of the love he bears us, and of his esteem for the people of Holland, by accepting a throne which imposes on him such great obligations.- The Arch-Chancellor of the Empire of Germany, Elector of Ratisbon, and Primate of Germany, having made known tous that it was his intention to take a coadjutor, and that, in conjunction with his ministers, and the principal members of his chapter, he had thought it for the good of religion, and of the Germanic empire, to nominate to that post our uncle and cousin, Cardinal Fesch, our Grand Almoner and Archbishop of Lyons, we have accepted that nomination in the name of the said Cardinal. If this determination of the Electer Archi-Chancellor of the Empire, is useful to Germany, it is not less conformable to the politics of France. Thus the service of the country calls away from us our brothers and our children; but our dearest affections centre in the happiness and prosperity of our people-In our Palace of St. Cloud, June 5, 1806. (Signed) NAPOLEON. By the Emperor. The Minister Secretary of State.' (Signed) H. B. MARET

TREATY.

His Imperial and Royal Majesty Napoleon, Emperor of the French and King of Italy, and the Assembly of their High Mightinesses, representing the Batavian republic, under the presidency of his ExcelTency the Grand Pensionary, accompanied by the council of state, and by the ministers and secretary of state, considering-1. That in consequence of the general state of mind, and the present organization of Europe, a government without consistency, and without certain duration, cannot fulfil the object of its institution:-2. That the periodical changes of the chief of the state will always be in Holland a source of dissension, and externally a constant subject of agitation and discord between the powers friendly or inimical to Holland :-3. That an hereditary government alone can ensure the tranquil possession of all that is dear to the Dutch people, the free exercise of their religion, the preservation of their laws, their political and civil independence:-4. That the most important of its interest is to secure for itself a powerful protec ion, under the shelter of which it may freely exerce its industry, and maintain itself in the possession of its territory, its commerce and its colonies:-5. That France is essentially interested in the welfare of the Dutch people, in the prosperity of the state, and the stre bility of its institutions, as well in considera tion of the Northern Frontiers of the Empire, laid open and distitute or strong places, as with regard to the principies and interests of general politics: As ministers Plenipotentiary have been named, by dla wasjesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy; M. C. M. Talleyrand, Grand Chamberlain, Minister of Exterior Relations, Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Orders of Red and Black Eagle of Prussia, and of the Order of St. Hubert, &c. &c.-By Excellency the Grand Pensionary-Carles Feny Vers