Star. — London, England, 1808-01-28 00:00:00

a J,_ ~ .i SUPPL EMENT TO TILE EVENING STAR. GV:ERAL WHITELOCKE'S TRIAL. FIRST DAY. t: URSCAY, JANUARY 28. members w h o were to compote the Conti previiodly afremhled in Cheifea Col -1 preceded to the Great Hall precifely at eleven w h e n, having taken their feats, the Jonas ;i rk GtSFRAL read the Four Charges again(! ~a l Whitelecke, to which he generally pleaded Gado% • following na mes of the Members were then over, and they were !worn in the ufual form: G , t , er d si r W. NtkAisov..s, Pr, fident: Lo d CAI IiCART, Lt Gen-r%415 Si, J. Dun!, CART". -•••-•••••--- HA Rill/. hA R IN OTON, - Lord LARS, MANNERS, CLARRI CRA R DE, I.I,ETUi CUTLER, G .1 It ill, Gov & ill P U N MOORE, ST AYR , FOX, Sir C. ROSS. Sir Greece NUGENT, L in Court was arranged in the following manner: t he left °fil great table for the M e mbers of F ps p ie Aallaced a (-mailer table, at which were • HGenetal Wurrat.ocus and his friends. On tS riAt was another table,, which was occupied by ie General- 1-10? s and CALVEIT, the Adjutant. , se „l an d Q2a!ter Mallet General of GleAt 136- sew condOled the prufecu:ion, tx edo. At fame table fat the julge Advocate's Clerk (Mr, ,PHAFI) and hi , Affidavit'. 'The JUDGE ADVOCATE Elitn addra (feel the Court which he forbo.e Irons ao animated fpeec li, in ring upon tke detail of the expedition. This, he w :iild best appear from the evidence ; brit he .tiated with great enctgy ?nd ability upon the lu nde of the cbje& in the • ;ews of G 'vertr ent, / fitting out the army under General Widtelficke. I nc Military and Civil Commiffionq, appointing as Comnianel-ir of the nice:, with a grant r f ,cl. per annum ; the private inarOlions given by I . Win um to hhn and Brigadier General Craw• !d; arr.l a difpatch of General eke to Mr. l t dham, as et wained in the Gazette, were all pet , and lead. Upon the fuggeflirn of the JunGs ADVACATI, the e at sweed Pa divide the ex minaii,,n o f t h e w i t . into two branches. Tth. heft branch to relate ! he rp:rations of the army previ , us to the ruck Ins Ayres on the sth r I July ; an d t h e tarter to &tail the operations during and after t h a' 'Fiery cf Capitulation with the Spanifh the Orders in Council, Afis of PArliameca, ,elnfed in Mr. Windtnan's private inftrations, . then entered, as having been read. liyir General Gowen called in and ermined. Being reverted to sletail the operations of the army Genet.' Whitelocke againfl B renos Ayres, his tce was nearly as f Bowe :—" I wa- fit and in AA in the expediti . n fitted tut againft South erica, trd failed from Ent,land with General Llocke and the at mv, of 4 „ids had Ore rin ta In chief. I never ',deist,' airy r (pular re;ton the f tees which faiied t m rue Video t. c soinfl - Apes, fn that I cannot IpeAk accurately to vita. At M me Video I embarked with tte.tr tmiral Murray to gn to Colonia, by casters of Whitelocke, for the pur pole of roper intend the enbathation of the troops for Buenos Ayres• ta way we took the whole garrifret of Colonia hoard. It confined of three companies of the di regiment, and I think there were date:: compa afo of the 38th And 4c•h, but I do nor recollte exaa numb r. The ulcers I received were, to irk .o ~nu..!diy as poffible, leg the fleet and ,Minn ntould receive Any damage in confequeece the had at oiler feting in. General Whitelocke 'erne a d. c•etionnry power to leave a fmall force i! neceffery ; but, from the deftertion of 'll.ribi•ar.•., and other circtrrnitances, I did not it at all revilite. On the salt of June I Caw fleet c mi• g 11;) the liver with the army on board, nn the xfult I land;' at the .Enfenada. I re :l orders to advance imme.drately to the heights re Buenos Ayres, and cannot fay whether the tle army U'a that (las landed or not. The num the advar cell guard I cr n minded I cannot r tell. I rec:i ed orders to •Ake up a polirism, i I did, and next day I dirt the lame thing. On To or ning of the sd of July I received orders to I Pic dikovety of a pals acrofs the Chuello, to !a lodgement in the of Buenos Ayres, if I could, to open a cr mrroidcation mid; the In execution of this order. I marched at a'cl..ck in tie morning, and grin f.:11 in with a met r.f the enemy, which 1 drove hack. A large of the enemy was teported to be en the heights, I marched on the moaning of the Id ; and igtdier General Crawford requefled permiftion to liter them, which I granted. On the fame j ling I received the above orders from General tl•cke, in writing, I received a co;ty of a to he fent to the Govern:r c.f Buenos 'es; and C, bnel Burke, the hearer of the& in wtri:e down the terms upon which a Ca .on would be granted. thee paper► I gave the pofreffi‘tn et my Aid du Camp, who was prifoner by the . eryy, but, as .1 was in he had prtviouily dellreyed SECOND DAY. • (General Gowsa's Examisszti •n Continued.) ).IVhst was the name of your Aid dit Camp who, ':en prifuner, as 4•.fite derctibed? Captain Maxwell, of the 63.:. rec , innent. Who brought the orders from General White- 1 to you? A. Lieutenant Colonel Burke. Is the Court to undernand that ihe Terms of tion were alluded to nri there orders? A. Cer : fo funs as I received them, and faw Briga tneral Lumley's btigade ready to m.ive, I rdeth to do In, and went forward myfelf to „ Crawford, he having arrived at the junction ro rnads which lead up to the Coral of Miler i• tying halted the column previout to tale ttg up potation, we dircovered the enemy's infantry and 'airy potted behind thick inclofures ; findi .;; . . . . . „ the line which we occupied was a littte.diagnnal to that which the enemy tor k, I theoght I shout.; lee fewer men by an imnrediete attack than by waiting ter Brigadier Gen. Lumley's Brigade ; .I e!irened Br:gadier Gen. Crawford to charge with the bayonet. which fricceeded fo completely, that in a very few minutes the enemy were completely routed, and ten piece; of cannon were in out potiellion. By the time the infantry WAS again formed, and a referve placed over the captured cannon, General L.uorley's brigade arrived, and he took up an excellent p..fition nn the right of General Crawford's line. I determined to remain in that Ration until joined by the main body, and loon after daylight the next day, I fent the Itim• mons to the Spanifh General, who returned for an. fwer, that he wished to know what terms would he granted, and I fent Captain Roche with a cotrea copy of thefe terms. Q._ Have you any doubt that the furrender of the Civil authorities as prifoners of war was contained in General Whitelocke's terms of capitulation fent to you through Colonel Burke A. A. I have de doubt whateber. rThefe terms were then read, and the anfwer re teived from the Span& General was admitted as having been read.] The enemy attacked my pickets loon after day break, on the sd, and I continued the action until 1 the arrival of General Whitelocke with the main body at two o'clock, when my command ceated. I Q You trill be pleated to detail the proceeding.. I ofthe army, from the junBi rn of the main body up to l i the 4th of July. A. Not having had the command of Ithat army, it is impoffible for me to give an account !of general operations, or of more than the general !orders I received from General Whitclocke, who had !the chief command. Q .... State the particular orders you received. A. On the arrival of General Whitelocke's no. limn, he directed that the whole fhould be formed in the p , elongation of the line previoufly occupied by the Brigades of Generals Lumley and Crawford. As the preffore of the enemy was very great on the picqtrets,thortly after he directed that the line fhould withdraw for a (hart time behind the heights, and that the picqucts fhould fall back, in order to entice a confiderable body of the enemy into the open ground. In.this we did not fucceed, as the enemy would not quit their buildings ; and we were obliged to reoccupy our original line, the General withing Ito cover the men from the inclemency of the weather. The fire continued on our picquets, by which we fuffered contiderably. What orders were aired by General Whitelocke fubfequent to the junaion of the main body with my advanced guard are already de fctibed in the public difpatchesof GeneralWhitelocke i previous to the sth of July. There was a general I order Hilted, in which General Whitelocke was pleated to approve of the conduct of my divition in the aeli .n of the 2d. General Whitelneke informed me on the morning of the 4th of July, that he inten ded once more to fummon the town, and that he fhould refer them to the fame terms of capitula;i .n offered on the 2d. I know of no other order, to the bell of my recolleaien. Q Previous to your leaving Monte Video, do you kn. a what information General Whitelecke obtained as to the feefon being favourable or unfavourable to an expedition againtt Buenos Apes ? A. Ido not. Q. Wa. General Whitelocke in the habits of con feirieg with you as fecund in command, on the plans and operations of the army? A In very few instances: in fame, but by no means on all occafions, he may have aiked my opinion. Q .. Did any communication take place between you and General Whitelocke as to the fpecific time of the attack of Buenos Ayres, before leaving Monte Video ? To this qneflion General Whitelocke objeBed. It had a tenviency, he Paid, to impeach his conduct, in a point which formed no charge ageinft him, name ly, as to the period of the year in which the attack on Buenos Ayres was made. Mr. Rune, the Judge Advocate, contended, that as the fir It article of the charges contained an accu• ration of general impropriety of condua throughout the whole fervice. every thing from which an infer ence might be drawn of General Whitelocket mit cnnduel, mart be admitted. Ihe Court was then cleared for about twenty minutee, and upon our readmitlion, the Prefident &fired the Clerk to put the quellion. 'the quedien being repeated, A. General Whitelocke informed me Tome time after his arrival at Monte Video, that when 11; iga dier General Cranford arrived in the river Plate, he would not tote one moment in attacking Buenos Ayres, and Rated at the fame time as cne of the reafons that induced him to take that women mea fore, that it weld.' he impartible to feed f 1 large a body of men on the left bank of the river Plate dur ing the winter. Q._ By the left bank of the river, do you mean the Buenos Ayres or Monte Video fide ? A. When mill i tar y men defcribe a country, and when fpeaking with i reference to a river, they are always guided by the current of water. Looking down the dream, there ! fore, it follows that the Monte Video fide is on the left bank of the river. Q .. ._ Was that which you have Rated the only communication made by General Whitelocke to you as to the time of the attack, and was them no `ether ? A. I do not reeolleB any other politive cone. mnnicatien. There may have been general conver faticns on the fubject when I was prefent, but I do not rcealleB precifely any one of that defcription. Q. Were you in habits of confidential cornmunica. tine with General Whitelncke ? A. What degree of cnnfident:. General Whiteloeke May have been pleated to repofe in me, it is impotlible for me to Rate. He employed me in many of the details previous to the embarleition of the troops to go againtt Buenos Ayres ; hut all the great leading ar rangements were made by himfelf. Q. By the expreflion " confidential commimira tions," contained in the former cpredion, the C urt meant that degree of confidence which your Ration. as fccind in command, in an expedition of In much importance, entitled yin to etpeet. Does this expla nation of what was rsally meant, makeany d7erence in your anfwer to the lag queftion ? A. Conceiving that a tecond in command is as much under the orders of the Commander in Chief as the rungett Subaltern, I executed every order entrulled to my charge to the bell of my ability, and tint cnne caving any power retied with me, while the Caw- . . • mend-er ;n Chief of she. Forces was prefent; s was fully lathfied to he em; toyed on filch Ter vices' as he might chore to Idea, . Q .:. Were you .from time to time informed of the general plan of operations by General Whitelooke ?I A. I have not heard that any plasterer was tanned. L was not acquainted with any. Q. I the Court to underhand by your lafi anfwer, that General Whitelogke . 's plans of operation were not communicated to you before they were to be carried into execution ? A. My answer related tat a general plan. I have already dated, that I was net aceptainted with the exigence of any 4 whatever communications were made to tug were in the lhape of orders. Q . _ Do the.arfwers you have now given; allude to the period previous to the embarkation of the troops to go againtt Ilttersos Ayres ? A. I have no diffi culty in Rating that they apply to the whole period of the fervice. As there were horfes, artillery, and Bores left behind, do yr , u know whofc duty it was to provide traorporte during the expedition ? A. Never hay. ing had the chief command rf troops, I do not know what the orders of Government are upon that fubjeEt. Q. Do you know - who did provide them ? A. With the eacepti sn of one linen !Lop trader Ame rican colours, I do not know of any tranfports that were not regularly hired by the Tranfport Board in London, and which had been employed in she con veyance.of troops and times from the variourpoints at which the army employed on the expedition--wat collefted. Q Did you know if there were tranfperts fve conveying horfes at Colonia, when the troops em barked ? A. There were none at Colonia—there were eight hone (hips at Monte Video. Q .:. If there were no tranfpnrts at Colonia to con- i vey the horfes at the time of the embarkation, how were they to be transferred to the oppofite fide of the river. A. I never knew that any horfes had been colle'led for that purpofe. Q :. Did you take up your firfl polition without any artillery ? A. Yes, without any. Q . _ When did you receive your proportion of artillery, and how was it conveyed ? A. Two fix pounders and two three pounders were ordered to attach themfelves to us on the la of July in the , morning. There were knifes yoked to them, but of in miferable a defcription, that I fruited mu:11 more to the artillery foldiers, and to a detachment of (eamen winch accompanied them, than to the holies for their conveyarce. Do you know what artillery belernoe,i to' the main body, when it joined you on the soth of June ? A. When the troops came up to my petition, there was no artillery with them. I underhand that it was in the morals below the heights, and I heard two battalions (littered down to affitt in extricating them ; the amount of this artillery I do not know. Q Do you know whether any, and what meafures were taken for colleting horfes after the landing of the troops, for tranfporting the artillery ? A. Ido not know, but in my opinion no meafures of this defcription could have been of any avail, all the knifes of that country are fo wild, that they can be of no ore in hornet's. Do you know whether the horfes left behind at Colonia had, or had not, been trained for the fervice of the artillery? A. There were a few reported to me of that defcription, but they appeared to be vay bad, and not calculated for notch hard labour. Q . Will you defcribe the nature of the Around between Enfenada and the heights where you took up your politicsn on the 28th ? A. It was a morals covered with a furface of water, varying in depth from two feet upwards : filo/ deep it was in tome places I cannot tell, not having had time to fotrid it. In attempting to difcover a pafftge better for the march of the troops than that pointed out as the ufual road, I got into many fituations, from which I with difficulty extricated the honk on which I rode Q : As far as your judgment goes, was the depth of the morals fo great as to make it impraCticable to pats the artillery, if pr"perly provided with horfes ? A. I cannot Raze what condition the road was in on the 29th. The ground was fo tender when I paired it, that the rear of my own fmall column had mach more difficulty than the front. In going up the face of the heights, in two, if not three fituations, there were paffecl - o deep that my horfe fell three different times, not being able to extticate himfelf. Q .. Do you know whether General Whitelocke had obtained any, and ':'tat information of the diffi colties you defcribe in the march of the troops from Enfenada, previ• us to landing at that place ? A. I remember to have been prefent wizen Genera! Whitelocke examined one of the inhabitants relpett• irg the march, and relative to that road previous to the embatkation at Monte Video. lie Rated it Was bad, and at all times attended with difficulty.— Ile particularly queßioned him as to the practicabi lity palling with a wheel carriage through the morals ? The aufwer given was, that the Enfenada was the c. moron glace of embarkation for people going out of the river Plate from Buenos Ayres, and that it was never at any time impraCticable to pars that way in a coach : this was his own exprellion. Q .:. Do yon Itrow whether he gained any other infot nation ? A. Ido not ; I was not employed on the fervice of reconnoitring ; Colonel Burke, the Q2llalter Mailer General, was employed on Oat ter-Vice. Can you Rate what motives induced General Whi:elocke to land at Enfenada ? A. It is imp , ffible ' for me to nate what motive induced General Whi:e• locke to prefer the latter, Q._ What proportion of commifftiiat (ores were landed at the time of the dilerulSalkation at Enfe nada ? A. Having been detached even before all t h e troops were landed, I have nu knowledge what ever on that fobjeet. Q._ Do you know whether it was pranicable to communicate at all times between the fea and Re. duftion ? A. Public difpatches (late...that there were continually commvnications between the army and navy. I have naknowledge of tins fad myfelf, ing been detached in advance. o Having Hated that you received .orders from General Whitelocke, to march on the ad of July, what was the amount ot the troops and artillery under ycur command, when you began your march in coy f:ontece of thefe orders ? A. I cannot ex telly tell; I (hould that's General et awtord's divifion femethinA tinder 930 ot4n of the 36'h and 88th Re giments—lo many men were ot advancing • SUPPLEMENT It TO THE EVENING S'l'A It • IV II I TELOC KE'S TRIAL. GV:ERAL FIRST DAY. t: wescAt, JANUARY 28. ,e Members who were to M r pole the Contt previinifly afremhled in Cheifea Col- , preceded to the Great Hall precifely at eleven w h e n, having taken their feats, the Junott vicars G EN ERAL read the Four Charges againil , a 1 Whitelccke, to which he generally pleaded ,e following n ames of the Members were then r a over, and they were I%' or nin tire ufual form: Gt .„,. r dsir W. MIADO•orS, Pr,fident: e ats 1.0 d cal nC.iST, ' Lt Gem.r.4ls Si, J. DUFF, AIGAR 111. ....•••••••••••• HARRIS, ▪ _—Hoar or, hARRINOTON, Lord LAKIt, •••••••••••• MANNERS, CLASRICEARDE, I.I,ETVi Wecroaci, ▪ wea ls Jo N ii•LOR E ,••••••••• STAN IL LT Sir C. Ross. FOX, Sir es GI NUGENT, , . ▪ The Court was arrangeu m tne loflowing manner 1 1 , the left °film great table for the Members of cvri w as placed a (-mailer table, at which were to e a i ts f,lCeenetal W inurn incas and Iris friends. On i e ri.fht was another table, which was occupied by e General- 1-10? s and CALVEIT, the Adjutant. and Qa!ter tslalter General of Great Bri. sew conoufled the prufecu:inn, tx edo. Ai lime table fat the juige /tdvocate's Clerk (lAIr, pram) and hi , Affidavit. re. The J UDGE ADVOCATE Ilitn addrared the Conn a l en animated fpee ch, in Which he forbo'e Iron ink ,eting upon tke detail of the expedition. This, h, w oild best appear from the evidence ; but h. 'ated with great energy ?nd ability upon th s e wt . r ude of the obje& in the • ;;:ws of G , vertr eni eq , fi tt i ng our the army under General Wilitelnek e . ra• I re Military and Civil Commiffiow, appointim as Corr - imamLir of the nice:, with a grant r .ci. per annum ; the private inarthlinns given b ,Win? , im . to !inn and Brigadier General Craw . In _ utri.:. I b.. VI. B , i nns A ) anch to ea it! k. de. The Tr eat 12 ",. .netA, the • inclnfed I SSz ere then. eel Fr. Istejlt Gen Being, req . ' •det Genet. dec otoetce was .tama:•.d in iih• retina, ar hit.locke ru. • ana in chi ;to. .1 the f rev me- .Item Ayr elm je tie rniral at entre! MI not j the en.b, Inner way lot Adana. :Jere Ai regime es do of t ' 1 . 1 4. he exha nt may mberk pednirm 11. and •Ithe had .• f eve me a d : ye. C ina .. • e ...hi. a; is a nd it et all 120. t &et c n bar nd nn the • ,iot•I order 611 ' b•oe Buen ,bole army o w •r of the a imor lftly tell. s'al kith I did ,14 1 ' he mornin ir 1 ., cc. . 0 c gt .akt• a Ind ra" ..d, if Ict " 1 " 1 " • w rm ) • In nedc4 ri ation :Klutz r•lth Zit; •ady of t!, e On* hen I m •:irtdi er ( of niter II t ook ntning I 'v!icci ~ ;,4 . (+mons iallit !'es; an a lso 'lltuftion t 304 l.etietion wis In the p, • g ken prif cog lotted, h loofa 10 1 (Genes tel• COVhq • vas taken too ;ago A. Ca E ore- COVlit of AP ke tn kei Q._ Is Cipitulat isinl • f ROL ' tier Gene ate code geO. /*leen. Corr el two rn For Havi ng ti. a e pofi t C4VElry ~,~ , ..~~~, ht .• , . fit Tatigee'orthe precectare, morello o that the number of effective men left in .thole two regimente; by the lime I crofred tae Chuello, was very much reduced—zoi the preceding evening ter niny men werolame and tared by the time 1✓ got t kerbs , lalcm, that I was oblige s ' to icave Iso of them there: Next morning, when I gave the order to match, Brigadier General Lumley reported to me, that a vad many more were totally unable to proceed ; T ordered all . fach men to be fent np to the principal divifion of the army at" ReduCtion, bait cann , :t dio ally Hate their number: there remained fo day Itglitoo execute the orderb 1 had received that I 'lid not like to fubmit to the delay. which a coltethnn of the regoilar re ! turns would have cod my ar :—from the badoefs of the horfes, n nwithdanding the gri;atell zeal and exertion on the p rrt of Captain F ale'', it was im poffible to get up to the Corral till long after the aation ceafcd that evening. (t . State, as well as you can, the amount of force and number of troops at the time alluded to. A. / think the whole amount of the two battalions did not exceed tOOO men fit to march—they were not more. Q .: _ Having dated that General Whitelocke formed you that another regiment wonla he fent to join you on the morning of the 2d of July, when did it join ? A. It did not come op from the main divifion until the 3d: it was the 87th Regiment. Having been direfted to undertake fume im portant movements, what report was on directed to make to General Whitelncke dui ing the reparation of the advanced guard from the main body ? A. I do not remember any fpecifie order on that Altic& when I marched. Colonel Burke informed me that it was General Whitelocke's intention to fupport me with the whole army; I waited till ten o'clock on the focceeding day ; when, hearing nothing of the main divifion, I fent an officer with the 87th light compa any, to endeavour to find it; the officer fueceeded in doing fo, and returned with the main disofioto T. what dillance did General Whitelocke march on the sd ? how far was the main body re moved from the line of operations of the advanced guard ? A. Not knowing where the main diViliort was potted during the night of the ad, I cannot tell. IZ Did you receive any direftiosv from General WilitanCke to keep up the communications with the main body of the army during their reparation, thrnngh the medium of patroles, or in any other manner ? A. Nnre whatever ; I confidered the order t make my lodgment good in the firborbs of Buenos Ayres, as peremptory, and fhatlld have • done fo without at all thinking of the main body of the army. Having Hated that the column under your commend, after having driven a confiderable body of the enemy actors the Omen°, croffed that liver and came in oreferce of a formidable body of infantry and artillery towards the evening of the ad—Could yau have derived any lupport from the main body under General Whitelroke, had certain circumftances brought your corps into imminent danger at that period ? A. 'Certainly not ; there was no affidance I could derive from a corps on the right bank of the Chuello, that could have at all availed me on that night. Q What appearances of hollility did you, on the part of the enemy, obferve between the period of landing and arriving at Coral ? A. Between the 28th and the ad, I taw nothing but the peafants of the country, who were all mounted, and kept up a defultory fire opon the column, except when I ap proached the village of Reduction, where I law fo confiderable a number of thefe men in a -body, that I formed General Crauford's divifion in line ; the rapid advance of which drove them off, and I took up my pofition for the night without any other difficulty than what arofe from the attempts of the enemy to cat off fentries and !haggling men. While afcen :ling the left bank of the Chuello, on the morn. ing of the 2d, I fell in with a confiderable quantity of cavalry, (pethaps 6o0) many of whom were cloth. ed uniformly, and had the appearance of regular fol. diets: !bereft were peafants. like thofe I had leen on the preceding day. ! obferved the left bankof theChoello apparently lined with corpsof infantry—they marched by the tight opporre merle for Come time, apparently with the defign of defending the high ground above the Chico pars over the Chnello. I outmarotred them fbtonfiderably, however, that they were foiled in that attempt ; and immediately after I paired, I obferved them make that movement which I have be fore defcribed. Q ... Was the Chico pals the one by whip your advanced guard paffed ? A. I btlieve fn. Q z. Can you Rate the breadth and depth of the river ? A. The breadth was about 30 yard., the depth was fo confiderable, that we were obliged to unload the artillery, and carry the ammunition over on men's heads, and to order the infantry to carry their cartridge boxes on their fhouldeas, to' prevent being wet. State to the Court if any, and what intent gen .e of the plans and movements of the enemy you received between the period of landing and takite ;soft at Coral. A. None whatever. With the ex ception of one, every houfe was deferted, and every man in the country was employed in active (price. Q, At what haur did the advanced guard arrive at the pars on the Coral ford ? A. About one 0 &milt - ding you did receive orders from Gen. Whitelocke to inform him of the difeovery of the ford, and having in corftquence given that infor. motion, how many hours march would it have taken for the main body to arrive at the ford ? A. I con ceive, that fr- m the pofition at Ruin&inn, the dittance to that ford is very little more (i! taken in a direct line) :han from the one from which I advanced—it occupied me aboot four hours to arrive at the ford. I raw General Wnitel cke's divition at a very confi derable Mance on the heights, and apparently in motion. I cannot attempt to guef,; the &Rance, but it was fa great that we could not poll.;vely afcertairt, with the hell fpy whether it did move or no ; or which way. Supp‘ding that Gen. Whiteleeke had marched forward in confeqnence of your having given Inch informa.ion as betore alluded tn, would there have been any feparati. , n of the columns for a longer pe. tiod than the two hours yon Rated to have been necelTary fir your marching the fame ditlance ? A. I Rated that I was four hr.uri on the march. If I had been ordered to halt at the ford for the coming up of the mail' body, I mutt have been obliged:to (eta a b rdy of ma to then the Alm who was to carry •1