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Does your experience as an agent for trans ports enable you to state what time would be re quiredfor the embarketion,of an army, with its guns,, stores, and equipments ? —A. I think it does, out the time must depend upon the number of transports, and their means of embarkation. There were, how ever, officers in the fleet of mare experience, and more competent than myself to give a just opinion upon that subject. Q. Could a force of 13,000 men, 1600 horses, 46 heavy guns, with field artillery; engineers' stores, and provisions for three days, be embarked from Tarra gotta, supposing the weather to be favourable, in so stort a time as twenty-four hours ?—A. Considering local circumstances and the means we possessed, am most decidedly of opinion that it is inipracticable, and I consider the impracticability to be rather mat ' ter of fact than of opinion. Q. Do you suppose that the army under my com mand, with guns, stores, and all its appurtenances, could have embarked in a shorter time ?—A. I con sider it to be exttemely improbable; but when I re flect on the resources of th?. officer commanding the naval branch of the expedition, I will not, with ra.y limited experience, and with reference to the state of the weather on the 12th, say that it was impossibte. Q. How long a time would it require to put on board 1000 horses ?—A. If all the het se ships' ',nits and flats were employed, I think it could not be done in lass than twenty-four hours of perfect-day-light. Cross-exaiiiined. Q. Da you know hoar many transports we had in the bay el Tarragona, in Jutre, 1813 ?—A. I believe 130, but I do not think the precise numbet necessary to my opinion, when I know the force to be em barked, and that we brought no empty ships, except pt ihaps the hospitel ship. Q. Did you take into your calculation of the time necessary to the cmbet king the army, that the horses and the battahaas, together with the field artillery, had been seze. La Balaguer t—A. I answered on the supposition that the whole was on the beach at Tar ragona. Q. •Do you know that, instead of forty-six pieces of heavy ordnance, as stated in Sir John Murray's question, these were only eighteen to be removed at twelve o'clock on the 12th of June ?—A. Yes, but the former question did not describe any particular period. Q. You have spoken of the exhausted state in which the seamen and working parties would have been, it employed on the whole of the day and night of the (''4th. If the guns had been removed within that pe riod, would there have been any thing left of conse - 'on tbe beach tote embarked en the morning of the 13th, except tit; troops, the artillery, and ca valry, having been sent to Balagner ?—A. Not that I am atiare of; the horses having been sent so Bala guer, the embarkation of the infantry would have been light work. Q. Do not you know that we embatked horses all filons the bay of Tarragona, by means of stages tted to the boats' gunnels ?—A. I have seen to the best of my recollection, about three of these stages at Balagutfr. Question by the Court.—What time would it have taken to embark eighteen heavy guns.and 4000 in fantry on the morning of the 13thi—A. I am satis fied that it could not have been done without erecting shears. The beach was remarkably fine on the 12th, but we carried on the embarkaiun with triangular gins, a very unusual way of embarking heavy guns. think the gees mi g ht have been put in the boats in two hours, and on board in two hours more. The embarkation of the troops might be going on and be completed in the same time. Q. Would it have required two trips with the boats to embark the troops ?—.A. No, certainly not. Captain PATTEN, R.N. examined. Witness deposed, that he was a Captain in the Navy, and resident Ageht for Transports at Ports mouth. Had been employed in that character up wards ot 20 years. Q. From your experience as principal agent for traespurts at Portsmouth, could an army of 13,000 men, 1600 horses, and 16 pieces of heavy ordnance, with fi :Id artillery, engineers' stores, and three days' piovisions, be embarked from Southsca beach in less than two days ? , The Juous ADVOCATE objected to this question' as necessarily leading to a long cross-examination, era as bearing no direct reference to the question at issue, which relat_•d only to the beach at Tarragona. 6;r Join Murray wished to chew that as it was impossible to accomplish such an embarkation where all circumstances were favourable, it must a fordori be imp ssible at Tarragona, when the weather could not be depended cu, and when there was a heavy surf. The Court was cleared to decide whether the ques. don was regular. On our re-admission, the Deputy Judge Advocate intormid Sir John Murray, that his question could not be put in its present slsape. Q. Supposing that as principal agent for transports you had orders to embark from any open beach the force already described, could you have effected it in a shorter period than two days, even in a perfect calm ?—A. It I am to speak from my own experi. % nice at Portsmouth, I can only give an opinion as to the embarkation of infantry, the horses being em barked at Portsmouth from the dock-yard. Captain HALSTEAD, R. N. was then sworn aid ' examined. Witness was a Post-Captain in the navy, sod had been principal agent for transports on expeditions for four or five years. Did not think the army, with all its guns, stores, &c. could be embarked in a shorter time than 48 hours, with such assistance as might be rendered by the crews of two 74-en ships. Q. Did you give or send Sir J. Maim any infor mation on the Ilth-of June, and what pissed on that day in consequence of such intelligence ?—A. Sir J. Murray was absent that day ; about twelve o'clock, a Spanish officer came to my house, and told me he brought intelligence for the General. He informed ore that General Decaen was on his march with a con siderable force, lie supposed r• bout 10,000 men, from Barcelona, and that he would reach Vatfrene t that evening. Alter reposing himself, the effacer leil me. At aL•Jut six c'clock in the evening another Spanish ntlicer came to my house, who said he brought had , ligence for the General, and was extremely anxious to see him. As this officer was more circumstantial in his information than the former, I requested him .te let me take down in writing the amount of what he bad to communicete, and the paper which I now hold was the minute taken on that occasion. The minute is as follows From Barcelona to Molina del Rey, three hours•; and 10,000 men marched that day from Molins del Rey to Villafranca, which was not fifteen hours. Sope‘Ling the enemy to leave Vit. lafrenca at twelve o'clock at night, they may be at Tarragona in nine or ten hours." This information I derived from an officer bringing a detailed state. ment to the Commander ni the forces. The officer having lett me, I went to head.quarters, but Sir John Murray was not at home. Ile returned abunt nine &chick ; I met him jolt having alighted from his horse, and he told me, that in consequence of the in formation he had received of the certain advance of the enemy in force, lie was determined to raise the siege immediately, and a.td,-(1, that he had tilready countermanded the attack on the Purl to Reale, giving as his reason, tha: it would b an useless waste of blood to assault a place, when it was nut to be fol. lowed by an immediate surrender of the tetra. Sir John Murray then intimated to me his intentioa of bringing down the battering cannon. 0 r 'going back to my own quarters, I directed the officers of my department to held themselves in reediee,s-for • any orders which they might receive dswink alts night, as the siege was to be raised, and the guns ter be brought away immediately. I ales directed one of them to go on board to the principal agent foe transports, and acquaint him with Sir John Murray's intention, in order that he might be prepared. I desired at the swine Cate thAt the books and papers • of my departineat nti. ht be p-;ced up, icid th e y were packed up in two boxes. 11. ve slues heard it said that six boats were demanded for the conveyance of these boxes. I certainly have no recollection of sitclaa requisitioa, nor cm I coinpreheini oy what species ut calculation I could propose to ; a rt two boxes into six boats. I remained in my coal nes all night, expecting to hear the C3llllOll brought down to the beach. Q. At what time did you first see me, on the mor ning of the 12th, and what passed before t;ie em barkation commenced ?—A. Son after day-light, I repaired to headvarters to receive the General's commands. Sir John Murray expressed his regret that he had not been able to get the battery guns brought down during the night, and that he should now be unable to bring them away. He acquiiuteil me, at the same time, with the order in which the embarkation was to be conducted. It was to com mence with General WhittinAhem's corps, to be co vered in its march by General Clinton's division, General Clinton was then to retire, withchtaxing his pignets, after spiking the guns and destroying: the carriages. This was staled to me by Sir Julin Mar ray as his intention, not elb an erc.%:r fer execution. . On leaving hire, I soon :trier inot the correminding officer of the artillery, and I told him ..el!at about to be done, asking him, at the same time. it ;as effi. cers id the batteries had the necessary implements for the destruction of the guns, as I apprehended cr. dews that effect would shortly be given ? The of ficer said he was sorry for the loss of his c4nr.on, and that lie would go and spe.ilt Ki Sir Jo!in Murray about it. He then left me, a:id in about two hours I returned to headiearters, where I found a conside rable number of officers waiting inr Sir John Mur ray, who had gone out on horseback. Afar I had waited some time, a Spanish ellicer rode up in great haste, and asked for the Cotnmander 01 the Forces, holding a letter in his baud, and ing he brought important intelligence from General Copons. After softie further time had elApsed, the officer came to me and represented the necessity these WAS of a speedy answer to that letter, as Decaen's force was moving on. Knowing, as 1 did, that Decaen was Villafranca the preceding evening, and that if he con tinued his -march, he might arrive before Tarragona in the course of that morning (12Lh) I d:termined, after some hesitation, to open the letter, in order to send General Clinton word if the enemy should be near him, and that he •might withdraw his bivouacs, mid put his troops in line if he should think preipee.—. On reading the letter, 'I toand that it only contained a confirmation of my :former intelligence, that De. was the day before at Villafranca t; and a re. from General Copons to &lir John Murray ler . ,