The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-08-03 00:00:00

1.0. . . • • • • t LORD GAMBIER's DKFENCE. [Concluded from our Paper of yesterday.] :77" FtF tit DXY. • --, .. • ri• • lynx n.kr, JUI.Y 31. I ordered ' l le.O.:set In hemn noared immediately I the. wigs at hi. W. and the tide war then nearly at the last quarter ebit. awl much too W.-pest. to admit of a force hetng rent in. Li as to elect any thing with a pnwihility of returning in rate of discoter. before the snaking of the flood. st bleb would elfectaal.. have luck al ills our ships within the memo's eon fine:l anchorage during the whole of that tide. lime they scatlid hart heen evpmed nut nary to the poio•-blank shot from the h Mertes. hat alai to the broads' 'el of the above mentimuyi lan line or Willie ships thew lyio in Ai y Road, sari *which even. withnaf nssistaore from the batteries, must have entirels crippled every note of our ships in their ap rr tacit throw! h sit narrow a eltaoriel t besides which, some of the getweiriel ships were scOfteleatly upright. and so situated as In enable them to bring their glues to bear upon the vi tro/cc. I would here submit In the Coin, whether the idea which riPP•lttm to have been emertained by lord Cochrane, that a f tree rout I have been se* in, so In have arrived heftire low water in the et bruin; um oat in itself preposterous and int- Upon the fullest ran ideration that tin possible attempt enoLl he 'mule until the tide had flowed for some time, Mims a pr •wionis change a wind should tike plate. all I had to do nit- to make peeperatien far the attack no the enentv's Ay/monied solot I ercordinly I made the signal fir the fleet to well's, ani the Itestr- Admiral and Captains being rtmernbled ms 10. ) .rd CaledAttia. I care fled rs to the Commander of the Enet, the n .1v bolo present, to proceed, as soon as the tide wool 1 permit that ve..el to approach near enough, to bonshn it the enemy*" ships; I at the mop tint- ordered the libolent. Coetairt. and Growler :so-hrir to accompany her, lad directed the Captains of the Valiant. Belloona. and Re vell!" wits the frigate., to take no adeaured anchorage as bear as po.iihle tot the Bunyan shoal, to he in rendinees to proceed to the attack as stem as the water had sufradeally • lowed melt-Mir them to do kt. At h.., a! n and la A. which was snueh before the 11 rod was se Mewl. mote to commence effective opera lions, the fleet ran in. anti mime to, an anchor within about three rode- distant from the enemy's fortress of Ail t the three ships lief 00-asentioied, with ibefriewtes. anchared about a stile n oar.o t the Ruuyart, bet the bomb and brigs did not terse is,. , At t O eel ti le mad-. three of the seven ships which hid ay-moiled on the Pallas shoal, aud were the farthest torn us. be or lightens 1 , succeeded in warpilig off, and made for the Gib 'renter. T.e inn line-a•-battle shit:pistil' at their anchorage, in the situation befor.• 'oak, at the same time, advantage or the flied, and proceeded likeo Ist towards that river. Moo, tr met all anew lye ships now ran agrtund at the month of tie Chsoente, and here never msailable. These umeensests of tae cruan,'s ships were not, as I sob pelt to t le Court, In be prevented 'iv any means that I enol I adapt. wit's the smallest rbnnee of success, and without his Malest.'s ships briny put en the toast *Dwane tattle peril and warn, ts Rear-Admiral Stoopforil hits, in his evident* an the part of thy pe ssecutioo. moot emphatically described,— " One- wanid have been all the los., and the enema's all the otivao.iire." • Thr 4* ind blew ;Werth in. so that in the event*, our ships bc,,tx cripple I. white the A and-tide WA= riesling. which aP pe.fryd i•ievitable, it would have been impossible For theism Lave worked not, or to have retreated to an anehorngeost of the reach of the atemy's sOnt and shells ; the rievemerwee of which cauld scarcely have been less than their utter de s' These serloot impeiiments induce:) me to delay the attack until the latter pin awe told, In order to give say *biro. which might be disattird on their approach, eels/me of re turuin„e, b. means of the reeeding tide. • i1 . 5.•1 the wind been firmorahle :or sailing both in and not. or even ate latter nude. th-re enuld have been no doubt that the IrUiIIMY tile eemy's ships were attacked the better. And I taink the Comm still allow. that I am completely hone out in what I has.* stated, by the sentiments which, it Will he proved. w• sus e tpreased to nse by Lord Cachoun when he come ' , Ohmura tae Caledonia after the action; that had I acted upon lois uißusa. and sent in at that time half the lie he calculated uann ill Lot of three or four of hi, Ma jest, 'w Hoe-Ist-battle raps. .Itel i have moreover to observe, that if to Ike:tore of the obstrortioo of the other ships of the rue iv. I had sent In a farce, before the three ships had warped la tar Pallas 410411. .t positive fact, that it rood mot have tidy:towel t • the attack of thee! three Alps, ea acetate* of the Areal water. It atipean `or use lag.. -wilt of the Loperieuse, that at JO pur: it, she weighed aod rut' use, in comp for with the Etna huoitt and n gan-hed,s. The fact is. that the Ems passed the Imperietide w bilat at welter, about one, and that rx maw ilk: attack same • one before tar Imperiems arrived up t half ItO how tiftera..re- t , e tipperieuse and the B•nzfp faii..tred tale Ftna and gun-brigs in to the attack, sue between tea mimic- before, mid begets foliates after tan, ea with seen by a reference ta the tog-boohs mu the tcolk, 1 ordered those Inolefatizable, Unicorn, Aigle, and EMerahl frigates. with the ‘'alitint mid Retries. (and the Pallas a few "Mialete• to weigh ; Caotaia mi g h. the stator Officer. Aar ek: ovine huum lietare received my /inmates for his pro ee.ottiag a nino theemetuy. . • The Imp-rine open vi her fiir, nt about `:0 minutes after two. the A at thee, nod the other skips as soon after as tbe *min silk permitted. IA ronermielee 111 .trot„ mirth-westerly winds, the flood tide en:timed nee:lino until pit three lot I se afterimou, which Lord Corlinvir has not antic/A in his evidence. la my letter of the lath Mae to the Admiralty. I could .mt state these. cieruyeaances sninutelt. as lam mow m alted to do. lit a reference ostee made to the Ing-bock'. At lea minute. ofterfone, P. M. the enemy's shops Calcutta. and the Vlitu de Vaninvie an-I Avian' attain an hour after, were tales piesession of by the boots of the advanced squa dron, and it net tire. as snort as the prisoners a err removed I *short time aner, Le Taimere seas bona by the enemy. Tnis ship is al niltr‘i by the evidence of Lord Coebraoe to have been out of the reach of our fire; and it is a notorious fart th u the tree tirether, and the other two 'hips that god afloat, ball beets aground at some di-lance beyond Ibe Tonnere. lo Cots manner she Court will find, that the four ships ca pable lime attacked at the time the signal was made (if the To nnere may be so ronsidered. of which I doubt) were coomplooely de-troyed ; the other three of Ike octen first on Aare, never haves!, as I have already gaited, been in a situ ation to be .tsusited. Au I I venture most positively to mere, that the destruc tion of those ships would mot have been eliectid, if had not dela. ed the attack moil the time I did. At the close of the afternoon, I judged it advisable to at tempt to ailloa up our Weft/ by ms attack upon the fire ships that hall c-caped to the month of the Charente which I thogzhi it might presible to effect during the night I therefore sent Rcar-Adai. Stepfard, it the Come, with the Tbrheoft fit d the fire-sititm and boats of the fleet with Mr. Cou,:rsoo. s rockets, and gave the Rear-Adm. discretinual orders to pooceed no he 9110.1t1 judge proper, and for his mp g/tying that force as he should think tit, and according as tie s essweasees shield reader it expedient. Scarcely bad the Cesar reached Air Road, before she and lay io a very perilouts situation (as has been I Ise the !tear-Adm.) reposed also to the point-blank sbat Late the batteries. ?, The Rear. Idmiral. perceiving that - nothing could be ef fected tit tac lone-of-hattle Ships, all of which hipi grounded (as bad ..nve of the frigates), and that they lay to immi nent Jaeger, awl satisfied that if any thing farther could he h eb e l e a t ords the destruction of these snips. it could only b e fits„alloy vessels. he therefore very judiciously, before de -1i emit* 4,14, .airaitcd hit:itself Of a providential shift ist•tii • whithillocittle him. when the line-of-battle ships She ,to ehttriesite them from 'that danger, and to return to N„-gnat dtimadi. Captain of the Valiant, also on S:s return reported to me. that it was foetid impractical* to destroy the tnree decked -hip, and others which were lying at this emease e of t h e t haranar, as the former (which was the eater out was protected by three lines of boats placed In advance from her. In addition tot the itwootestible proofs already adduced of the imp ractleabilor. of effecting any further destruction of the enenit (fret, I will adyeet to the high profesaineakehaninee of Rtar•Atlesind atopttird, and Captaue•herestord, Bligb, • aid ii.err, who cahoot for an instaat be *apposed likely to on it an s- circumstance that cloud elect the object for arlsltit, they were seat by me into Aftivalls; and I ant morally certain, that they did not witlds'aw their skips nail it wasp wholly i m practicabk to annoy the enemy Caliber, 'omen lit ' appear-) to those Ogicers-thatthe dostrection of their own ships wield he the certain coosequence of their longer cooti es:awe in Ais Road. Lord t:echraite remained in the Road of Ms daring the '4th nod 14th, accoetspanied by the Pallas frigate , the sloops an d gun-brig', and Etna bomb , but taithiug wits attempted by the frigates. Daring the 13th the Furs was employed in thrusting shells, the Orbiting schooner is trios rockets. and tie other small vessel, firing upon the enemy's ships at shore, when the tide permitted them to approach, On the 141 h/ keying by ,igual directed the Imperiettse to join Ise, 1 ordered ,~ Captain Wolfe, of the Aigle, to take the consumed of the small meets admired ; these, with the Etna, continual fie ine• ou the enemy's ships at the rotenone of the Charente, us opportunity ntfered, during the remainder of the day, boa ss 'thou, effect. Oa the 15th I dispatched ir three Nettle to their Lned ship-, iirthe Impeneuse, with my pithily kner of the [lii of Open, giving an account of the service n hich lasi bent pefinened. . From the 15th to the 24th, the attack on the enemy's ships on shore:it the mouth of the Charente was continued by the bombs (the Thunder having arrived on the 19th), assisted by 'the 'mall vessels, as wind and weather permitted; but the enemy had, by throwing overtmard their gum and stores, got so is:An up. that even the gun-brigs and other vessels of light driaght, frequently gtenntled In their endeavours to ap pmach, and uever could get enfficieutly Dear to produce any elfert. ' The orders of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to me of the 14th of April, to detach two squadrons of fear ships of the line each, to cruise for the purpose of intercept ing the Frenels ships which had escaped from L'Orkut, in February, having with the other orders which t reeeived,, from their Lordships between the 17th -March said 29th of April, being read upon openingthe Croon, I take acesseatfo observe, that I hatianticipated the orders of their • in this respect, and the se. ceto in the operatioata the 1 whored the loss of any of the King's Mts, use to do so. 1 bad previously apparent two ilhe that seesrice, one of which had actually sailed befog* tea-' ceived the order of their Lordships thereupon. From the 24th to the 29th of April hs:hing menial elei curved. and having received the Admiralty letter of the I of April, siguifyine, " that their Lordships eintwitlering the Mate of the enemy store, in consequence of the brilliant sue- eels of the fleet under my command, so much reduced as to render my fhrther presence unlit-crosses, directed me to re- , pair to epithead in the Caledonia," I accordingly completed ye arrangements of the fleet, and proceeded in the Caledonia to England an the 19th April. . Previous to my leaving Basque Roads, one of the enenty's 1 fiigats was set ou fire by themselves at the entrance of the Charente; another was observed to be wrecked further up libel miser. The nu:nber of ships that escaped whereat to- Jury, did not, from the best information. e weed one or two fte-o&battle amen and two frigates; what may have bens ' the fate of the remainder. I leave to be considered by the Mee hers of this lionoor.:ble Court, who are well qualified be liege of lii condition of ships which had been so It:tossed 1 a repeasedly w'en'd. By the foregoing narrative, as well as by the log and simnel leg of the Celt-dote& (to which, es also to every correct log of the fleet, 1 am as desirous to refer to as Lord Cochin* Say bet, it will. I conceive, be seed that I fully meet the charge which has been preferred a gal.nt me, and if the ha pftwiun arising out of this inquiry should prove less focueirable to Lord i 'adults/is, tam t oat w inch may have bees produced by ney letter to the Lords Coramisioner‘of the Admiralty after litb April. Isis Lordship must be 'curable. that .1 the instiga tes- of ibis Court denial, he will himself more been the cause ef bib change of sentiment. I have ouen willing Li grant to ais Lordebip the fullest credit for Ids personal bravery, and *.e his judicious manner of appear-aim the enemy in the lap • ,to which poiuts the commendatioa expressed ha itie letter ernes 14th of April related. For to fact. the amen of tbe first part of ,ehe enterprise. as I have before observed, arose from the terror excited by toe appeanmee of the fire ships. as they faileit In the prince. 1141 edect they were uuteaded to produce and the blast of the expl seal vessel's .der his Lordship'. immediate direction, did not take place by any Incase so near to the eueiny's snips as his Lordship hod pr..jected. The general result, boa ever. of the attack was so successful. tau under that jewellik' I Jim mu hesitate to empress in my public ler the degree of approbatlou which le therein marked, paillug over circum stance* sue altogether, satiseictor, to me. mad not at teat dose ueressary tole brought into public notice. The Coen is maw le possession of all tile facts aid r ircum stances its which I rem my justificative, and it remains so be considered bow far they are directed by the evidence produced ou the part of Coe prosecution. 1 nave first to refer to the evidence of the Second in Com mand, and to that of the Cap.aius of 'woo the frigates en ogee in the attack, vie. Rear-Admiral Stopfurd, and Cap tains Redo aid Wolfe. f hese o.llcers. far (rain supporting any part of tar charge *pert use, have &meanly denied there barley; bent an neg. lect, deloy or dedcieacy hi any part of ins cuoiluct in Knees; ;ad I am persuaded, that bad the Prosecutor all thi sneer witnesses he surunsooed upon the trial, • OW requnaliag testboauy would have bees given by ask eit thew. 1 beve next to refer to the evidence of the log and boosts of the fleet, en. whirls the charge purports to be led ed. and 1 east Isere beg to call year mammon tootie very no. ussat circunautoce of there beiag alre, es year table two I log books of the same ship (namely, the Imperieuse). , _and , materially dile:rim from each other ; one of theta ptiodeted' by the Neater of the isoperieme, es the authentic palate doe mutest of that ship, to the accuracy of which be has depos ed ; and the other prese n ted by Lord Cochrane, and admit i (eft by his Lordship to he a co.itpilation by himself in Los (dun, from metes-tee is bleb are mot produced to the Court. In addition to these circainstancer I stave tv lay epos vale table a tuird paper, purposing to be aLo a log-be kof the Impel-icier, but differing from the town already before seine This paper was delivered to me by Lord Cochrane, in ibe diem to my order of the 12th of May lad, to furnish um w ith " a copy of the books urines and signals of his Majes ty's ship Imperinee, under his command, from llth to 15th April beiusive ;" and to this log the Coon would find af ' axed he Lordship's signature. The Casa itvelf having so attentively inspected the Master', Mg, l'oeed ant paint out the alteratioes evidently made there in, and It moot fail to observe the variations hi the other two logs ; I must, no:sever, remark, eat .among the devia tions in teem papers from the ship's original 10,,, the signal ins nediotely lu question, wheat is recorded in the latter to have been for " half the fleet," mends in both these compile times as nava( been matte for " part et the fleet" only ; and of use two logs received from Lord Cochrane, that ouly pro duced in Coon by binuelf records tee. eiretiaseusce of his having bailed the Indefatigable, and propteed to hr a jabot attack upon the enemy's ship the Orem ; and I cannot lelp *re reminding the Court of the applicateso made by the Mw ter of tie eisperleme fur access to the In 'elatigable • s log. I beg leave to submit, whether documeob formed sine time sr ter the event they record took place, and ye contrary to the practice of the Navy. can be deemed nucleonic. or ought to be referred to as, or in support of, evidence before thl. Coon. I have no doubt the signal made by Lord Cochrnoe on the inuritieg of the 12th April, which forms a part of the charge agnitin rue, will, combined with other subsequent signals, ap pear to the Court unprecedented and improper; of this his Lordship now seems aware from the manlier so which he has expectant hinseelf in his evidence; and that there may be so doubt of the accuracy of toe shoal log-book of tne Cale &vela, I mat again call oefore you the Signal Officer. to thew that thesigual of recall ou the 13th April, mid to have been observed by the imperieuse, was Bever made by the Ca ledonia ; and also that the signal of the 14th, recorded in the CaledisMa's In% as wade by the Imperieuse. 4 that if permit ted to remain calm destroy exicy" is denied by Lard Cochrane ever N have best made. I have yet Sa call the attention of the • Court to the plan drawn by Lord Coehrohe of the position of the enemy's ships as they lily aground 016 the morning of the Itth of April, and to that pre.ition as..rked open the chart, verified by Mr. Stokes $ the fanner laid claim from misertain data, the lamer from angles measured. and other observatioss made upon the spot ; the diference between the two is ton apparent to cveapc the notice of the Court, and the respective merits of these charts, will not, I think, admit of a comparison. The atearacy attributed by Lord Cochrane to the Frenth charts will, I doubt not. seem very extruordinary, after it 'hog he abewo is evidence that his Lordship expressed a very opposite opinion. It now only remainv for one to examine in what manner Lord Cochrane hiss attempted by his umupported opioion to maintain the charge. This is to be collected from toe long narrative evidence gives by his Lordship. It tethno, I am sure, be dressed necessary for me to follow him timough the 'rouge of this evidence. There are, however, some parts of it that r require particular animadversion. In the coarse of Yl5 evidence Lard Cochrane, in allusion to the danger which would attend his going wiolooot ellenli tuipaiket to tbe.anack of the, ships at the mouth of tne Goa ratite, ays, mama* of himself, ' A heavy, a very heavy respmaibility would lie upon my sbnuldets in ease of disas ter, which In military °madam is sometirnett assvoidable. If I ILA* my cable shaS away, tee *mom, I might have been so ak . ' Yet, whikt os owe hand his Lordship seems 0 to Lave beeu so sensible of the weight of responsibility imposed upon himself by the cowhand of a frigate and a fesemsolle'r" vessels, be appears do the other to have bees autaialfal of the far beavier degree of respoosibilits attached to iny cappand daring BO complicated an sossernsking, in alludiu lo the danger: of which. I ma-t take this eitime nosily t illembon Ivelirbeces for heating Coot. whim boa Cochrane oeplorStuf to septa have himself discovered when he s‘enii- to . previous to the attack. Lot C.se be plates. Ord 74-gun ships may go into an • lane; ; , literdeikstbe Beloyart Shoal soothe Pallas at I soy time seflida.. • . 7HE STATESMAN. He asserts also that the tido rises Poly from tat to twelve het. •By the French chart, which he produced to confirllin ore r ip s i r e r r , l it i : t p e p t r a r t s Ant there w i. i a th auk from en pow ighteen av to er t went y Peel *low water. Ilist by (be charts of the Master of the `Peet, and Master of the ts aledooia„ who *omitted storm the flanltl it appears that there is only from it ta 19 feet, and the bosh fulls"! knolls; wader these oiscurostaisees, if, Lord iii=we'sapinion be correct relative to the rise and fait of Old %an Inliii senses would veuture a seventy-four tredk erns its the smoothest water, at kw than three-quartet I and therefore fro to the refuge that this inner anchor ne would aorta crippled ship, haw little would the podia ' baity be that the opportunity of both tide. and wind should olkr for a crippled ship nt.the moment at which it was roost Wanted. to pass over the hank, and get out of the reach of the batteries; but if I bad even previously known 4inuels of this later aisehorageas I now do, I would not. pm the win& wasatthe time, hale door otherwise than I Sid. And if e:Coeknuse redly knew what he has now professed to kWh* wheirbe was in Alt Roads, it was a duty ins . y istramebeat upon him to have ronsesuniested that in- MI oft on the afterglow of ate 12th, to the Captains of i -of-batdiships which he Saw in so perilous a situa tions. wooed within point-blank rangy* of the batteries. seen Caches.* has expressed as option, that two or three sill pf the lime mat issoothe mondeg of the l'lth, might, by r'Poo the verge of the Ilisovart Shoal, have passed - 11111.011ral of the two Preach *ins remaining at anchor. I declare to bare been ab s olutely impracticable: as 1 bon tie mkiag fire of the two ships afloat and of the ones on shore ti our approach, and the fire of the as from the shoal water dose under their lee‘ The y of Captain Ruin, the only *Rom e tangoed on at, Oa the part of the Prinecetims, corroborates my Vl4mce which I have no doubt will be further suppartet by of other comp tent witnesses I propose railing. . iftspect to the force of the Aix batteries, I apprehend what appeared to Lord Cochr.me and to the Master of his *INN ruins of the fort, were in fart materials kw intros . - big or isereasing the winks. .lodeed, out it be natural to sippove that the enemy, who are so active in forming bat teries wherever they e.ut be useful, and whose engineer are to be equal to arty, would of all moments (hose disramotling, or blowing up works, whets they ex rt, these works would be most renaired ; fur it I. very o, he jointly was as fully apprized of note intentions of elbsektag their fleet as myself: AO it will. perhaps, he am = sidered lea likely that the enemy should weaken their de heves on the Lie d'A it, raised evidentit for the protection of their fleet, when sit the Flate time they were esidertyouriog to foriu others on the &Irvin Saoal ii farther protection fur it. Relative to the service that bad been performed, and what :night irwilhly still be farther attempted towards the dostrue tion of the enemy's ships, Lnrd Cochrane states a cewer. lotion to have passed between his Lordship and mraelf, oa bk; !omen from Mx Roads, In which be reprewets me to hafte told. " that if he threw blame it welid appear like rieto glittiv claiming all the merit to hiinselL" I, however, Wont; /be Court will not cuoreive that the expression of ame is a any isthmian to my conduct, for as I More c h=g 7 641. , „ rd Caehraar never expressed one syllable from whilli M form the most faint Idea, that be fell disappoint II awe tents; resting with me. His Lordship's allusion hall 'vibrance only to the several Officers who acted with MO% Aix Road.; rit whom generally be cast blame, MOON giving tire smallest intimating, either by word, or manner, that in his expressions of dissatisfaction he included his Com mander is Chief. By the mousier in which Lord Cochrane has experned kiln eV, it might pernep• be cowhide', that I had been deorous be should bear my dispatebesto England t and aft"( the roe that he represent. toe to usve given him, it misfit, if I allow ed this statement to pas- ti co.s radicted. be supposed by some tint I protsreed this as -a inducement to secure Lord Coch rane's silence; whereas is 'stet his Lordship creels the circum stance .0 his 'Mud it will, t am sure, lead him to acknow ledge, that so far Iron pre-si .g this service upon him. ise the Gm in*tatice. I gave him to tout c.taud that Mir !tarry Neale. the Captains( the Fleet, was in , beer Inv dispatches nod at width Lord Cochrane. I positively declare, expre ssed evi dent marks of dibeatisf ictioa ; and it certainly will appear to every reflecting mind. that my trending Iris Lordship to Eng land, with orders to go to the- Admiralty, betra seri no desire of concealment, nor appreaension of any repreieutation Lord Cochrane mig it snake of my (-riled. Ur a general review of the evidence of Lord Cochrane. it w II Appel' . that his Lisrdship has founded his statement on the narrative log. compiled shire hisreturn to England—Her the French chart—and on the posithin its which is placed has his own chart the enemy's several ship, aground, soul the two ships which remained at the anchorage aught mr.ssing of the 11th. . • • , When It Is considered how ratentiallv this log differs fralo 8p . % log. and b nth o f them from the decuotent Lord ane has furnished ore with, I conceive not amen' credit ran be given to either'. With regard to the reliance to be.pineed on „the-Preach chart, I have already observed, tilt Lord Cochrane de dared before the mane: that it was incorrect. With respect to the position of the eiteni ., ships in the saseming of the 12th April after thieir dispel:limn It ie . Aso ir ideli, different front that iu which Vey: are Oiled ip rit e chart,. which has seen delivered in liy the Vaster of tile C aledoeln and Will be swilled by the 31aster'-ofthe Fleet, thatlt is Med: *lsi to be outvoted they relate eirthe'same tranimetion. Aad it, Is very fair here to remark the [Act acktmoledged by Lard rare in his evldertee, that he erred no kss than Ave of the compass in the repoit he ma le tome heroic the. . . or the direction iv/which the Freneh fleet was moored in two line* trout the fort of Isle &Aix. • Uhl Cochnine huts thought fit to resent that the enemy's gedl three grounded ships, whirls .eses rom off the shoal of the Pallas, were lying so near together as to give two of theta, which he states to he heeling inwards, the appearance of their 'noes and yard,. locklne: this desertption of them is cer talhl y well enleulated to make a strong Impressiont of their de- fenceless state ; but w hatever may have been their appearassre , to his Lordship. such is not the fact; Co in reality, tfry were lying perfect, s sepia:tie awl clear of each other, or is shown Sy the aforeinestinne4 chart produced by the nowtar of the Caledonia, as will also he Proved by evidence. Bat what. ever their situation might have been with respect to prod;- ' mity; I must here terent. that they coedit never have been l i approve:but by our ships within the tench of our shot, as Lord Cochrane hia• allowed in retard of the Ton:sere, which was nearer fo our attack WA forte than either of the Three ships in quest too. It no* only rentalas for me to request the attention of the Court to some coacluaone which I think may be drawn frown the whole of the statem-nts I have submitted to the conside ration of you, Sir, and the rest of the Memhses of this Ho. Pourable Court, and by which. witn the additional evidence I have to adduce, It nat.! fl utter myself, di.tioctly appear— " First. That during the whale of this service. the most unwearied attention was apirlie.l by toe to its main object, the destruction of the COCO • ft 00. , " Secondly, That in no part of the service was mare 7eat and exertion shown, than Autism the whole of the I - Ith of 1 April, when I had nereeta.rily in view two uhleett —t he de- 1 structimi of the enemy's elect, and also the preservation of that under my command : for the eytreme diferulties in -p -preaching an cursor closely 41Pcsimilird by shoals, and .trite- It defended by batteries, rendered caution in my proceedings peculiarly oerawary. 6 ' Thirdly, That three out of the 'even nt the enemy's ships aground on the Pallas were, from their Asst being on shore, totally nut of the reach of the elms of any ships of the fleet that might have been scut i i awl that at no time what ever. either snowier later, multi they hive been atta•died. " Fourthly, That the other four of the eleven ships • of which the enemy's fleet consisted, were never its a -boat lob to he assailed after the are-ships had tailed in their main object." . .. These are the poluts oft whist, I rest my ittstilleation, tree ing that it will appear to the Coert,epon their review briny whole case, that I did take the most effectual measures for de stroying the enemy's &et j that neither neglect nor unseen sary delay did take place in the executton of this siviee i and on the contrary, ttt:a it was , swing to th • time chosen by me for sentilog a (Ogee in to make the attack. that the screire wits accomplished wicks' very ineonsiderribk &Jogs. Had I perused any of tire measures deemed practicable and proper in the jadetnent of lord Cochrane, I nm firmly persua&4 the success attending this achievement would have proved more dearly bought than any yet recorded in oar nasal no oak, and far from accomplishing ths hopes of and coati. rs or the espectutious of the Admiralty. ii.u.l have dis ippoitsWil both. if inch too tram the foundation of hos Lordship's pros. i peas, it is jest they should yanisb brlore the sitkrier Tani iterations attending a service iinoilsing the naval character and iscot important interests of thenatiou. • I cowhide by obsersine, that theservicenctualls performed has been of great importance, as welt in it. immediate effects. as in Its ultimate roneerramwes, for the Brest fleet is. to ril duced as to be no longer etlretive. It wn• upon this lett the essay relied for tbe.succour isod protection of their West In dia colonies; and the dc.truction of their .hip, was effected la their own harbour, it. .i. ht of *howled- of the French t tad I congratulate myself and Any country, that this imper ials service has been effected, under Providence, with the loss only of 10 men killed, .t) wounded, and one missing; and not even one of the smalle.‘ of nor yesseh etiolated ha• bees disabled from proceeding uu any s;•r% Ice that 'Met tree become necessary. The extra of Mk:ollie% and the pm. pact of danger, in thi) rive price. were carrels,. mad the gallantry and detaratined spirit of thee engaged most con spicuous. Them merits and tbove &Acuities might not to le depreciated. on mermaid of the inemelderable loos mi.taln•ti on tire orcitsion; Iby no enc.ow seek to arrogate to my;. if nay merit b these isb-ts ration. ; but I make them' 4, a tti , Nitro? prai.r due to ;be zealous services of the br .ve Ora. cars and awn under may command, aid with a view of p, • • ing out how justly they are entitled to the gratitude of die.r country. 11031 E CIRCUIT. KENT'ASSUES, 3tAiDSTONE, Tusspay, ♦oc.l _ CIVIL ',ME. CONLY V. JONEV. This was an action of trover to rinover the va• Ine of a horse, to which the Plaintiff and Defend dant both laid claim as their own. rive question tamed entirely on the identity of the animal, which being proved by the Mimill's witnesses, a verdict was given in his favesui. it V. wußcat)f An) •110THER. This was fur an assault on the Plaintiff, a man uproar is of 74, on whose head the Defendants poured a certain unsavoury liquid, whilst they pushed dose with a long pole, because he threw down a pile Qf wood of •theirs, in ortkr to tetaliate for their diving his fence. Verdict for the Piaintilt—Dumageg 101. wtOWN BIDE. Robert Girdler was capitally indicted, tinder the statute ul the ‘2tith of Geo. 11. fur plunderiog wreckwe the Isle of Sheppey. The case was opened by Mr. CUEWOOD. It appeared that uu the I gth of January last a boat w.as driven on shore un the Manor of Minster, its ibc tale of Shelvey, and marked as belonging to tMI Lthd OI 'the Manor until its former owner a peered.' Tits Wit morning it was found Luken to pieces, souseof which were found in the pus. seavion of the'prhoner. The limit)Cutts , BA eix,said, this was a quev.. tion'elf the tight of salvage, which aught to have been tried is a civil action, and reprobated this mode of indictment fur a capital bieuce. The Jury found the prisuoer Not (unity. • ././ • -1111_ • CORN EXCOAN . ;Et Auovsr q. The Market to.day is very thinly supplied with Wheat, and tine samples are at tt small eucirase in price; Barley likewise, and in very II hurt sap. ply ; in Malt and Peas little variation; there are several Foreign arrivals of Oats, and usioing the supplies from the North country, this trade may bisexpected cheaper ' • Flour at an advance of 5.. per sack ; and fine American 5Us. to 545. per barrel. Wheat, 764. Reis 944. I rode •entr, -- - - 44, Se. !Fine diito - - - • Al*. Imir. 0.414, 'Rye, ' 465. ifi4e Poland dkto - - - ilk. Ai. Barley, - - 11. 4 ... flak. - - • 14$ ,e... 1. 4 . Nen. (liniku) •9Us. Ithts. Fine Flour -- - - &h. stn. t.h.e3 Peat, 464. PI Second. Beam s7s. la. • Rtenartoson,'Goonuuca, and Co. joint Con. tractors fur the present state Lottery, ruspect ' fully acquaint the Public, that Tickets anti Shares ate on Sale at their Offices, Curnhifl and Casting Cross, • London, anti by their Agents in the prin. ripal ton ns, &e. This Scheme is entirely new— Pita 5,000 Nunikers—.lll io lie drawn in One Woo -1-Yourlirkets 'of each Number. The Pur. chaser e . t . a single Tit ket eain a Mize of teo,ooo.snstrat; of Two • Ticket:, .elo.ooo ; e- Tickets, AS60;000; car Four Tit kets of the umeNeinbirr, 630,000; and all Abet Prises to the same proportion. Those who are partial t ti) particular Ntimbers, Should be early in their lopalicstion, to previna disappointment. 'TiIIttATENFI) iNreAsion.—At no Idiot of our biatoi7, has' thfuefitient strength . of ear brave sot. diets and 'tailors be,-otee more Importance than at Oh eventful crisiit. The wars of Venus, as well.is Met% *me not %infrequently obstructed thrir exertion* tithe ocean, and in the " tented fiellit"--It may, thervfore, be deenitid a national good, that a UZNIIDT is now discover( d, which is an absolute prerentire of Venereal Infection, and is likely, in time, to exterminate it from the fuec of the earth. —The AncAiruw , ur MEDICATED SoAp, according t.. the opinion of the mom re spettable of the Faculty, will he found a p..r. feet .SAVEGV MID in every climate, and is sold, with full directions,. in boxes, at 4s. each. (wholesale and retail), at the Medicine Office, No . It, lied ford.cuert, Curent-garllen. Any Gentleman re siding in the conntry, inclosing in a letter a one • pound note, may have tire boxes conveyed in a small-package (1)7 coach or otherwise) to any part 1 of the United Kingdom. I) F.; k FNESIL—TIte tame extranedioney Marco effected by L)r. Tai U3lra It ....I 1-,1)1f for s this Complalat the most handlem and innocent preparation that was ever a i r ied to thnt 'trader °man fete Ear). induces es to farms our Headers with the following par.iculars out of the mown mode of advertisements. 11 . e• tint, by n ktter dated May 90. 1809 (In addition to a vo lume of case, which has aces pui,lislicil, and may be had or all the venders of medicine, dead% demonstrating the sui commonly clbcacinus poser. of Dr. Taylor's Remedy), that a 1,14 y otgreat respectability, In the town of Stained. a be 11... i fir a length of time Wei ttff-eted with ell treat. I)catorw, w as Automate ea nigh to br recommended to that preparations and after u,in,- , a -mall portion la one bottle, she was emir pletety cureicisod oow Nears all well as any person living. l'ii satisfy the public, may iiiirtiry reaper& • this' *id 14 s itilfi the pin .4, . . „ Jetta , ~C IVIc at.. :§, wizard (if post 'mid ) by mi. sdisrxao, Praiser, Sim fred, the ren.il Ifehder ht that Ittatratrh. Hut if any proof he wanting of the sloo.lerfal etlieary of tight mild mid simple ILeoteJy to the earc of a ',Monty which has balled the 4ill of Cie molt eanmelit Medical Aril. that pro..f nay be had on application di Mn• hire. the Pauli,her of that reprehebie aeaspapvr. ' Thf hinitra WeeLly Advettiiier*, primed at laires. 0 eof the ra.seto v. • .ic.. came mater the c&ersatitms td-111er Lee, win the nut of Air. ',Vrionell. of l'aidditist! !twit, n Do nix. &iris cal of h!i heating by a scarlet fewer at the ice i. orer yr:tis, A uti-to, tulle w:itcli tic latitttlird wide/ o da file 'd„ of tit elre, during Which 1/°"1 OA divets t e pplicat lb had tioll feiortr , i In to *min Kappa y. Do w.'t els, nu, perfectly cared h the alone jja ), seat the 110)'s blather iiii.) since 5 ~,...,„,e,ged.,.. Nil, •,.4f...t Do Fritillary ratui•ierati•••4 ' could harc . nifinledber e nil kfitr:ina tahlelt ;he tett m hay *greased the paper.tissa tidarioal bar (Witte knot% lelge of ~,,t7, aawinart* reineib. • itesit-dY is sold, lilt•ilesair and Retail, liv she Pro , prideeiV Agents. 111ARCI. A I mid 30N. No. 95. Fleet 'aimetlits sped itrip",,prict lb 6.1. pow KRittlr, woo plain di 'eactioas, bt 111ditileiri. and i e giam., iB, SI toad, Loadusi i aid by A Sedithie 4 114,8,41 in Iliih AM Critiattiy. ....111ber—..... 21._‘.---i-__.... 'f.-1...,...---- LtPiruff4: *lisle &loci' ibilhio•ti ii. P. 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