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a r • " ,; .7 • e r fis r • 4 , • i.)•1411. .. • • , • • 4, • • , 11)141111, firQl S V Li SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1815. 8707. PRICE SIXPENCE-HALFPENNY THEATRE ROYAL. Mktlitlf-LANG. 'PHIS PRESENT EVENING, their Majesties' Servants will perform the Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. TRIAL OF SIR JOHN MURRAY. which he had assigned for the delay of the trial, and history of the transaction . which h e gave . The e urt would recall to their recollectian that in this cement, it appeared that the fi rst step taken by the Ike of Wellington was to calf f o r furth er i n f orma . l, but before this could be obtained, he received ttfelcommands of Government to frame charges. , iitHere Sir John Murray read that part of the Judge Advocates speech to which he referred, from which itlypeared that in consequence of the publicity given to Adtdral Hallowell's comments in England, a 1 tirMartial was considered as a mor e p re f era bl e m than a Count of Inq uiry , r or any other pro ceeding which. the Duke of % ellingtor. from his view of the subject, might have thought proper. It was ;also intimaied, that in all probability such a course would be most congenial to the feelings of Sir Jul.n tbfliwral* ...After this he apprehended be vros2l4 not be mined of usi ' harsh terms , in ascribing his pre s ent situa tion to the clamour excited by his prosecutes-. thou . 'y' feeliag of dirapplibilliotapea the pate r :k of his Maj esty ' s Ministers. The Duke of Wellington, upon receiving the charges in question, in discharge of his duty, cor rected them and sent them back to England ; and he (Sir John) felt himself warranted in saying, in discharge of his duty, for in a communication from his Grace, he distinctly stated that, but for the Ad. miral's letter and the orders of Government, he should not have thought of making his (Sir John's) conduct the subject of public inquiry.—lt was not then by his Majesty's Government—it was not by the Duke of Wellington's orders, that he was brought to trial for failure and disobedience of orders—but by Admiral Hallowell, ignorant of the plans of the campaign, ignorant of the instructions under which he was acting, and, with all respect for his character in his own profession, ill calculated to form a sound judgment upon military points. He had at all times mentioned the name of Admiral Hallowell in his dis patches with consideration, and even now, where he had occasion to notice it, he would do so without ani mosity or resentment. He had only to lament that Admiral Hallowell, both in his letter and his subse quent proceedings, had not manifested a similar mo deration. After vhicia tbe bevy superb Pantomime, ailed THE VALLEY OF DIAMONDS. Tem!ay, the ,ame performance& WINCHESTER.-SEVENTH DAY, FRIDAY, lAN. 27. The Court met this day at tea o'clock. agreeably to the adjournment. After the names of the different Members had been called over, Mr. LARMIT wished to state to the Court, that as it had been agreed that Admiral Hallowell should be allowed to shake oath to spell parts of his state. ment as came within his own personal knowledge. lest any doubt should remain as to what parts of the statement he had sworn, on his suggestion the Ad miral had marked all such parts with his own hand. The paper so marked had been afterwards shown to Murray. The Pawanzwr asked Admiral Hallowell if the Court were to undeistand that he had made oath to every paragraph marked in the manner just men- i'IIEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. r piiiS PRESENT EVENING, will be per formed, the Meio-Drama of THE FOREST OF BONDY ; or, • THE DOG OF MONTARGLI To which will be added, JOHN, OF PARIS. After which the New Grand Pantomime, ailed HA RLEQUIN WHITTINGTON. Tuesday, the Tragedy of Isabella. ORATORIOS. iurESSRS. ASHLEY respectfully inform the 1,11. Nobility, Gentry, sod Public, that their performances will commence es steal, at the Them Rept, la Gwent- Garden, on Mestpia Mot o ;Oth botrot, bhp tee bt per. formed the Sewed Ontario • THE SSIAti: board ThirAtnernaz. answered in the affirmative. Gestoil /1(00 1 47411,11 rose sed,sta(edjzithaCourt, ....drat as the papers 'winch he bad drier* np in Ls de- fer* mere of great length, be wished the Court would allow him to be assisted in reading by some of his friends. ..:~._. Composed by O. F. MINORU Principal Performers, Miss Stephens, who will sing the - Scene " There, were Shepherds " ome unto suer" Irkirt beautiful ;" and " I know that my Redeemer Beetle iihs Griglietti, "Rejoice greatly;" and" lf Gad be for us." Miss BM erten. (her first appearance)," 0 thou that tellest r a He MI feed his Bock ;" and the Duetto, " 0 death where is thy attn." with Mr. Duman; and Mrs. Childs, 'I He was cut off," sad " But thou didet not leave." Mr. Bcabam, " Comfort ye my people;" " He was despised;" " Beheld and see:" sad " Thou shalt break:" Mr. *Pinney, For behold darkness. " And Mr. liartlenum, "Thus 'deb the LORD" " But who may abider " Why do the nations." and" The trumpet shall sound." Leader of the Band, Mr. Assum..—Orgaa, by Mt. S. We sLLY. Places for the Boxes to lee taken of Mr. Brandon at the Box office, Hart-street, from ten till faun Doors to be opened at Six, and mainsence at Seven precise* Loxes 71. Pit Ss. 6d. Gallery its. Upper Gallery is. Hai. price commences at Nine. The Band and Choruses (which will be numerous and com p'etc) by the most approved Performers. N. B. The Free List of the Theatre does not extend to the Orztorioa• Mr. LARPUT observed, that it Will the usual practice that the Priagger should read his own de fence, or that it should be read for him by the Judge Advocate. General MURRAY said he would not have claim ed this indulgence, were not the papers of unusual length. Mr. LARNENT said, it had been laid down in the last case, that of Colonel Quentin, that if the pri soner slid not read his own defence, it should be read by the Judge Advocate. He hoped, however, that the General would be able to read it all himself. General HARRIS said he recollected instances when the Prisoner's friends had been allowed to assist him in reading. At General Whitelocke's trial two or three.of his friends read for him, he having first read as much as he could himself. REFUND OF PROPERTY TAX.DEDUCTED FROMTHE BAT AND FORAGE-MONEY IN 1808 AND 1809. HE OFFICERS lately serving with the Army L in the Peninsula, node' . the command of Field-Marshal his Crate the Duke of Wellington, who may have sums due to them for Property Tar, deducted from their Bat and Forage Money, viz. On 165 days for 1808, On 900 days for 1809, Are hereby informed, that they may receive psymont thereof, applying at the Office of the Commissary-in-Chief, No. SS, C.: tat George-street, Westminster, between the hours of twel►e and area daily. Commissary-In-Chlers Mike, Jan. 23, 1815. 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MANORSoi f ar ROSS BOROUGH an 4 101itt YOREIGN, in the county of Hereford, with dill T lls , F.nes, QAtrents, Rights, Royalties, and Appurtenances thereto beloisgiug. ,Ilso a tal*.f. flealraisle Tartu and Water Mill, adjoining the tow n ' of Rots, caned ChesenbiU Farm. • A very valuable Stack of Corn MOTs, situate in the town, call , :d Ross Torn Mills, with great command of water for the some. '1 he Reversion of Ross Water Works, and other premiss% subject to a lease for a short term. And several parcels of very rich Meadow I.and, situate in the parish of' Ross, and within a convenient distance of the town. Further particular!, with the day of sale, will be advertised in future paper; and in the mean time application may be made (it by letter, post-paid) to M essrs. 1.14 d, Solicitors, Ludlow; or to Mr. Davis, Horning'sham, near Warmlutter, WM*. s 'wary 16, /616. The PRESIDENT, after collecting the sentiments of the Court, stated it to be their understanding, that though it was not allowable for Counsel to read the ckfence of a prisoner, he might be assisted in reading by his friends. Major Ctrtusr. one of the Gentlemen who has assisted General Murray throughout the trial, then began to read THE DEFENCE. However oppressive, he said, the situation of an officer called on after a long career of service, to an swer accusations as painful to his feelings, as inju rious to his military reputation, he congratulated him self most sincerely that he was at length permitted to appear before the Court. Amidst the clamour from popular disappointment, and every species of misre presentation and abuse invented by private animosity, :ee originating - in ignorance of fcts, he .knew not what could have supported him, but the prospect of at length presenting himself before the Court, and tls• knowledge that his cause would be heard by a tribunal of officers, whose experience would enable them to judge, and whose honourable lives were guarantee to the world and to himself, that that judg ment would be given which a conscientious discharge of public duty stepuld dictate. It was this, and the consciousness of having discharged his duty to the utmost of his ability in the service of his country, that had supported him against a tide of prejudice, he had almost said persecution sufficient to overwhelm the strongest mind, and had enabled him to appear before them with firmness and confidence. If any thing could add to the satisfaction with which he hailed the long wished-for opportunity afforded him for explaining his conduct, it was the contemplation of the honourable men by whom he was to be tried, and the conviction that rank and talent and eve.: rience had been combined to administer justice, to speak peace to the feelings of the Bildtls army, and tarry conviction-to the minds of the British people.. For the selection and formation of this Court; most devotedly did he offer his humble tribute of gratitude to his Sovereign. With these feelings, he would not 'dwell on the length of time which bad elapsed since ,a public trial was determined on ; nor would he ad. vert to the peculiar hardship of delay at a period when popular clamour gained fresh strength every hour, from the determination of his Majesty's Mini. stets to subject his conduct to public inquiry. But these were hardships that would naturally occur to the Court, which though unavoidable, could not but be felt and lamented by the individual who suffered from them. But was this all that he had to cons. plain of, it would never give birth to lasting tumuli ness. Uafortunately, however, it was combined with other circumstances which bad affected him moat; deeply, and on which, with their permission, boa would dwell more at large. He alluded to the crud manner in which the public clamour bad been raised. fomented, and increased by misrepresentation* founded on mis-statements of individuals, whose high rank and public situation had given weight to their assertion—had carried premature conviction al the public mind. The clamour, Sir, continued General Murray, of a free people, ardent for honour, and impatient of disappointment, may be violent, but it is not lasting., The British nation more particularly has been accus tomed to unite generosity with enthusiasm f and al though the first burst• of popular feeling, in cases of failure of military expeditions, has been always marked by the tumult of disapprobation, yet has the spirit of prejudice usually subsided with the ferment of disappointment, and yielded to the moderated feel- ings of fair and impartial'inquiry t I appeal toevery Member of this Honourable Court,. whether this has been the case in the present instance, and whether the violence of the attacks upon me has been the mere re sult of popular resentment, and the simple conse quence of honest though misguided disapprobation I He intreated them •to recall to their recollection the succession of abusive paragraphs with which the Public Prints had teemed, is which exaggerated ac-. • •• , comets of the army under his command had been un generously contrasted with mutilated statements of that of the enemy and his positions, and in which motives had been assigned for his conduct, with the sole object of prejudging his cause, and influencing the worst passions of the British people against him. This unmanly course- was pursued down to the pe riod when the hour of trial was fixed ; and not gads. tied with attacking his reputation as an officer, his feelings as a man were wounded by ungenerous ob servations upon a departed relative. To these unge nerous attacks be never had condescended to give an answer ; and he noticed them merely to show the practised by his enemies to give strength to po pular disappointment, and prematurely to influence the decision of the British public. But though he Win silent towards his anonymous accusers, he could dint pursue the same course with regard to the con ct of his avowed accuser, Admiral Hallowell, be eiuse to his letter be owed not only all the illiberal abuse with which he had been assailed, and his sus 'pension from military command, but the necessity of justifying his measures in the fate of a public tribu nal. 'He alluded to the public dispatch addressed by Admiral Hallowell to Sir Edward Pellew (a copy of which was at the same time forwarded to his Ma jesty's Government,) containing a. direct attack on his military reputation, and not only condemning the past, but condemning also in advance, every military measure which he might afterwards plan or execute. In this dispatch he was found guilty before being judged, and condemned before being heard, and held up to his sovereign and country as having degraded the British army. OE the contents of this letter he was ignorant till some months after it was written, when it was too late to counteract hs effects. He could not have suspected the transmission of such a letter; for, previous to forwarding his own, of the same date (the 14th of June), he read it to Admiral Hallowell, and distinctly asked him if there were any points in it incorrectly stated, or in which he differed from him in opinion ? Admiral Hallowell answered, that the only thing in which he differed with him WAS, as to the possibilityof bringing off the guns, a difference which he (General Sir John Murray) had already distinctly stated. This conversation passed on board the Malta, on the morning of the 14th of June, when they were alone ; but this would be an additional reason with Admiral Hallowell for recalling the circumstance to his recollection. It would be useless to point out the difference between the two documents in question—nothing could be more opposite ; and yet when the ink was scarcely dry on his (General .Murray's) dispatch, did the Rear-Admiral declare that he perfectly coincided with him as to facts, and only differed with him as to the consequences which ought to have immedi- ' ately followed. In the temper of mind in which the Admiral then was, be did not look for the frankness 'of former cordiality ; but something should have whispered to his mind that a more candid line of conduct might not have prejudiced his cause, for on the 22d of July, something like the communication was made by him (General Murray) to the Admi ral, to which lie had called as a proof of his candour in the opening to the third charge. But this was S 7 days after the dispatch was written, when he knew that long before it must have reached its destination, and produced its desired effect, and at a moment too when he was even intimating his regret that Gen. M. should seem to raise any personal feeling in a point where public duty was alone concerned. Even this scanty and verbal communication was the effect of accident. Very unexpectedly he touched at Vime ros, where the Admiral and army then was. on his passage to Sicily, and after he was actually in the boat to depart, and when the Admiral saw that he had no longer the power of writing home, he reques ted to speak to him (General Murray) and merely lold him that he had written to gn g land, strongly, very strongly indeed, respecting the Tarragona Ex pedition. Little was he led to conceive .that the Ad miral had controverted facts which he had previously admitted, or been the author of charges of such a heavy nature against . hint. He was even taught to believe, that however strongly the Admiral might bave.written General Murray's share of the censure would not be great; for the Admiral distinctly told him, that he was not the person whom he blamed ; and that the misfortune of the army could no f u rther be attributed to him, than in listening to the advice of those who,' by their counsel and information,' had sought to mislead him. And yet General Murray ass then almost the only person in that army igno sent of the aspersions against its Commander ; for a publicity was given to the whole proceeding by a na val officer having been dispatched with a copy of this letter to the Duke of Wellington and the Admi ralty...a measure unprecedented in the annals of mi litary operations. Beery Newspaper of the country was in possession of it, immediately on its reaching England ; and it was commented on with all the asperity which naturally arose from the countenance of such high authority given to the public disappoint ment. It was not the bunt of honest feeling, or the delu sion of popular enthusiasm, of which he complained, but of the efforts which were used both in conversa tion and by correspondence, to keep alive the flame of public disappointments. He was grateful, bow. ever, that the day had arrived, which afforded him an oppOrtunity of justifying his character against the aspersions by which it had been assailed. He had said that it was to Rear•Adiniral Hallowell that he owed all the prejudices which had been excited against him, and be felt warranted in making this observe.. tion, for as far as his Majesty's Government was con cerned, he had it from the Secretary of State himself, his conduct was unimpeached. Lord Bathurst, how ever, thought that be (Sir John Murray) would be most anxious to have the circumstances adverted to by Admiral 'Hallowell, minutely examined, and hence did he encourage the proceedings which bad taken place. The Judge Advocate, in his statement, had distinctly confirmed this remark, by the comes He was aware that, in point of fact, the motives by which his accuser was actuated, would neither condemn nor acquit h'ca, yet he would ask whether the dispatch of Admiral Hallowell was w:itten coolness and without passion ? • If it betrayed no symptom of personal animosity—if it bre:abed only zeal in his country's cavic:, and was only a statement of facts for the guidance of his Majesty's Government at home, it was naturally - entitled to every attention ; but when the very contrary was the case, the Court would no doubt view it with a jealous eye, and admit its assertions with caution. is Deeming it," said Ad miral Hallowell , 48 of the greatest importance that Lord Wellington should be made early and certainly acquainted with these &Nordic prcceedings, I have sent Captain Carroll, in the Hyacinth, to land at Ali. 'cant, and make his way across the country to li , s Lordship's head-quarters." Was it to snake his Lordship early acquainted that he sent a Naval M eer, when a courier would no doubt have performed the task sooner? Wasit to give the Doke of Wei. lingtoo early and certain intelligence that a copy, of this dispatch was sent home without passing through the hands of Sir E. Pellew, who was the Rear-Ad miral's commanding officer ? No, it was to make the whole circumstances more public, and to excite illiberally and irregularly a strong prejudice against him (Sir John Murray). He would ask *lto had constituted Admiral Hallowell a judge of the neces sity of apprising the Duke of Wellington of the si. tuation of the army ? Was he the person that was to do so, admitting that the necessity existed ? Could the Admiral take upon himself to say that the Duke of Wellington had not foreseen the situation in which the army might be placed, and had not given the re quisite orders to meet such an emergency ? The true motives of his conduct, however, were too evident to be mistaken, and the Court, as well as the public at large, would no doubt put upon them the proper construction. Bat if Admiral Hallowell had not been actuated by illiberal feelings, why did he attempt to conceal the whole from the person whose interests and whose honour was so deeply implicated ? The dispatch of the Hyacinth, he (air John Mur ray) was led to believe, was a sudden determination on the morning of the 14th ; but he would be enabled to prove, by incontrovertible evidence, that Admiral Hallowell's resolution, not only to send this ship to Alicant, but to send home to the Duke of Welling ton a copy of his dispatches to Sir Edward Pellew, was formed on the evening of the 12th. This he would prove by the evidence of an officer who was informed of it by the Admiral himself, in terms such as would, no doubt, be considered by the Court con clutive as to the spirit by which his Prosecutor was influenced. It might perhaps be urged as an excuse for Admiral Hallowell, that every angry feeling was influenced by a little circle he had long assembled ,about him, who looked up to him and his opinions as the standard rules of military perfection. They had long-been accustomed to bow to his decisions; and on this occasion they appeared to have heightened his raentment by the re-echo of his own mistatements, which the blindness of their devotion, or their igno ranee of passing events, prevented them from being able to detect. Admiral Hallowell had repeatedly put in his claim to an admission of the candour and fairness by which his proceedings on this occasion had been charac terised. Those, however, Who were now acquainted with the studied concealnient exercised by bim throughout the transaction, would be best able to judge how far that claim was deserving of attention. On the dispatch of Admiral Hallowell itself, it was scarce necessary to state that it merited reprobation. No paper under the name of an official document was ever transmitted to Government, which was more cal culated to deftly, hie Majesty's Moisten, and to in.