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sOMBEIt 2209. IMEATRE-ROYAL, COVENT .GARDEN. NHIN EVENING, TUESDAY, Feb, 20, *ill be refirirel, (Ina OW ) A.New M agna ; i n i n t er s / of wstf. Music, celled - THE FREE. lIGHTA; OR, 'rue FDIC OF CHARLEMAGNE rill be added. (fourth than) *NA.. Farce, called BUDGET OF BLUNDERS. tircieUM TN R 'IS EVEN TU ES DA Y. Feb,. 20, TibltiT Majesties' Serwasts win or the revived ld THU HYPOCRITE. To :Hi rt ,iii b e .44,4 Fsree THE. MAYOR OF GARR ATT. KING'S THEATRE. • EVENING, Feb." ..0 be perform/4 (lint ha), a sew Grua Serious Open, eats& ROMEO ET JULLIE - ITE. led +(the Fent Aet, the heeled** Dirertitemest LI CONTAI)INI TYRULESI. of Ara after doe Open, the Grand Ballet ,if PIETItO IL GIIANDE. • - EAST 61111.4-HOUSE, Jan. 91, late. 'MIE COfIRT • V DIRW;TOR. 4 4 of sh i L UNITED COMPANY J /WERCIANTS ILlG tia, trochee to the EAST IN IP ES, de awitbeg , to Afeeito That the 'ERA ssrsa vot4K4 hu. vn.p k wy.. rill br SHAM se THWRSDAIi t the tat Itlareh aloe Two &Clark, emu OPENED spew a. THURS OAT, the Olt April fulloiritag ; Tied & QUARTER LT GENERAL COURT of the said ONYANT sill he held at their linnet., in Leadenhall reit, ea WEDNESDAY, the oath March twat, at Eleveu Chet is the Fortstoon That s GENERAL COURT of the said Company will ad d at th e ta Noose, in Leadentiall-otreet. on WED r:SUAY, the I Itb April next, from Nine o'Clock in the .4a We, until ills is the Eweeins. for the E:cction of Ist Din:dors of the said Company, for four year• ; And that the Lists of the Menthe's of the said Company It he ready to be delitersd at their House, eto THURS \Y,tbeo,td March nest. WILLIAM RAMSAY, &N. hAeIiIIITION TO THE SetiELDT. HOUSE OM COMMONS. I D•11' --TT 11. I& MINUTE% of EVI tithes befoii the COMMITTEE of the WHOLE HOL'S.E., appointed to coosider of the polin anti coodeet of the late EXPEDITION to the SCIIELDI*. The night Hoo. Sir JOHN ANSTRUTHER, Dort io the Chrir. hear.Adeiral Sir Rtrnsuli Joan Sill•C11•1, sailed is. Er:amulet( by fhb Conamirtae. Previous to the Expedoioa, were mar cossulted with by my of His Majesty's Ministers, reareetiire the pvieticabt• My tithe Eaperbtion to the Scheidt was cossetted. At what time!—Abort the tytth •I June. Hy whom were yes cartoolied, and what peeved el Hint eneseltatios wen seat for to the Admiralty. when I itsw Lord Helena., Sir Richard Orekertaw. and Mr, Wrlliefey P.M; after some towverestioa, Captain Pimple was nest sad NOB afterwards Lord Cartlereash came in. After vs had immersed upon the subject, particularly shoat the lambs' at timovneit, Lord Ilulgrave proposed to mud for Su time Popham. Is the previous commensatien. I ob served, that 1 !bought there weal, he some diericuhy in get ters to the stirrio• alMaitta of itit Seimadithe, a• them might lemma diSroli les la Ore navigating' of the Sebeldt than yrearni appeared. When Sir Home Popham came to, be ma rowelled abort a toadies( at i antrum!. I do out ievol tiet any thing r!ae particular Stoat vas do natant of those difficulties conceived, that, notwithstamlieg the Goverismeat had reminn in believe the meaty had very few troupe *a Flanders or is Holland, that, is a very short time, long before we mould get to ditserp to aecompliah the objects of the Expedition, the pertains' ask, comet. , " am; the troop" in the rout WAY amid I.e collected tagethae is sods aemhere that the Matt of the grim might be eat of, if it pawed shove misery; I elm thoneht it would be necrseary, to tumble the am' to get up to A.atwerp, to take the forts of Lille sod Liellieuthorik, and I knew that the enemy had a twangs acmes fres I. din to Lierkensheeik ; at the same tune I believed Ste imriligence that Om Government bed received, that %nem,* very few troops in Flanders oe iu Holland, hot I sH • golly reactive it pussibk es arany could penetrate so as Amway., without being rammed to have their retreat in of ; for in the time it mm 1411411, o f t indiestroy the naval nemesia, and to got at the eneiny*a ships, which I conclarled amid, to war themselves, go above Anoserp. the enemy • meld lov.• an opportunity of collecting all his Sieve trove mir.s..ii wenn is Frame, Flanders, sod Holland ; and et that too it was iumuured, there would be a cessation of itswihiies between France and Avelino; throe a ere my Plonval doable of the esteems of the ulterior objects of the Ispeditios. W. re uo, at that time, well acquainted with the tiaviga. nuf ahe 9elseldt ; 1 wat l id Tun imagine that the naiigation of the It. - hildt, op to ttat t p, •Al veil known by soy prisons in the Admiralty, tins •I service at that tone i--1 W 414 tk it was well known by any officers in His 31ajeaty's J Omit, Let Sir Honor Popham hail the most perfect smkolge, and heal tubby., I think, Captain Plampin. Wt. as peva. placed wort 'OM' orders, or with whoa 41 were denfird to cominwaieste, or on whom to rely, ri-satel to the it:dawdlen of tbst river ?—ble bat ne ••• a person whom the Admiralty recommended NM trust with regard to his knowledge of the toterim part the Scheldt, mid I hare shies found bin. very trust- *list ion's Committee to wudorstand by the neterioe port the '44140. ..From Flushing up to I silo, and I should tpmc sp to Antwerp; het up to Idhn us, the eldest or pruof 4 g ay s us as to his knowledge. ihtl you nod sop difficulty in Int want of • nkritut koiroledge of :he u.vsLatioo 01 the Scheldt r• Usk .re did ; and it ass oseesesiy, before the fleet could }nerd up theScheldt, to have the pnion;• • buoyed, *loch " sp noise tone ; for it could hove Ist.o tons cable that I oti:4 have conducted the tis h 110 of the armament N. ichehlt, union those passages contd have ken bossy. for is Ow etrohn p lad intriescies of the - • the who uot liinsletifeard such other as,.,‘ were thy charade beloved", and at hat was the time vics se ia so las o yin g t h em ? — . The •"( ' , Walrus the Ilia,gplaatt shoal along Ili, thircireut shoals lac Elvaetwlyke Pas. tip to the island of Stiefitngau ; this ~"h• eaphiiiiii him 1 eats give of ilia diliereut passages 'wheel um,- I cannot say. allow al a i time !--I think at least it was • week before ; but during this UMW the ships of • tsduthr r tt-osel• were conat•mly gulag up the bvischlt, S tyß^t thrush the vluti;li Paitsagr. WU there were than one yei.rin to your quadrille, . 40. heal khus ledge c.iuld y ou to disewverine the is t"teal cf the navn, - ..tnoto ut the hello-Mt tioi•k the 00,17 ho. tatept the *1155 I I.ltlld . n le, B•4i t. ,, oho ball any and h ad o•t th e `irlieldt, i was Sir Hu had Pup "ad •aa soo vie i'wear • A n 'es CMS isr Rinse Puritan ateurately acquainted maitaain o n of the Schrift', fic were you obliged to Xoll k146 .01 , ..11 110113 C PUIAI.III sad aprltrial of Jcb. lila ot.J Lot tX4I 11, I. °ow ulicie •hotl Lay, %Seethe ma i l s foe ay.iiihug thus. ;it • fefelua ti li••• the otolitoe n t •Ittuf;s pointed 4 "llu use.% ut vessels slath e r as erred huns. ' 4 Pm sal *caudate aaweisaievii of the ditiv at leading navigation, ONE 1111 1 1 • *in f r et sets* 'NIGHTS T o irbieb tr BUDGE' nriti IS • Tlieb Cesotif tbs Forte iI riillll4 1 L (ant twidt 1. Am' E • I.NII LAND, too That the SIAWIL VI st,la To DAY, the 'not a COM PA NI shelf, on ► is That a t, I-h.tdet A VADAT, Nor ilig, DIRCOU And that oat be read BAY, 'bet BINUTEg of the '0 pnhet at SCIIEI.I The Bight kear.Ado Previous soy of Ili. ky oldie I At shad By rim eassiihstio Lord Molt P..; sari Mr. sad lambs' at liar Ft POW arm{ thi lis[ to the lir (Mkt ( al ass cousall Pert any Oil Slot Ira patel the ataeaay ikst, it a A..torvy It miaow' twos ousi reheat of liateerp ; the my) to Utrf testis.. he 1 din Ile laitilii (herr •tie ei 'H. aril I 4 at %tow • ere awash, as soak!, to sold 1311. 6 lls por.m.l st that to 7 ti boothie Puryst Earilitiss irl re ‘.l en of ti e; Did pm AblVerp, • ▪ la Hui 5 ▪sk Ile tat write lassal., Will ley .ere ',lb mPI theca. I le (MN • • rf lk SA% F. What is a Otte set., "Paste al s• th , Proof h us Ihd sou • ^'ikrtent k 4:41 $ or e iM PN.(1.1.4 Up 1 44.1 k 5p .• • ▪ 141 10,,,,N. ▪ 0 .01(1 .1 lale r fr., b 5 ' best of tte:lo o t It lb o I yid 4 ... d oil Dta 11". • pq Ma Mel ono sl'4, lutq SIT,. tx+toacf ex, oth t '4e of it. fat oeti to e t T. • ✓ wog 111.• " ''..101 • .11«...1 I•,t 441 4, 666, t ‘ 44-vde , . 7 ••'`. r . • 434.1v,* 0 !in . 14 . 1) rutto b 21 6 13ref 04(i .k . , . . ‘-- -,1110040 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1810. Oates it the island of Walcberea aid Catisand, or in the weighbourhood of liantrliet ?—tbe bad, in the island of 'AM cheren, and at Cailsand; not so perfectly at Cads:mil, and at Sautvliet iinly_• general ,destbat there was a good lauding tgelace ; but Mediums Popham did state, that as misty could landed at SillalVlitt. and Captors Melina corroborated that statement. What others do yen allude to !--neuterar Aiesnader Hope; Gonave! Cal Terri, Colonel Gordon's, and Gaunt Brown rigg's, together with some nymoirs of Sir Home Pophirsn's. There were other papers, not o: much t onsequeute When you returned flume opinions, did you maks any comments upon them did not. t‘irl they occasion any 'lteration In your opinion ?—.They rather confirmed my owe opinion, that the success cif Pim Expedition was doubtful. _ . _ I/o you conceive lit.at the whole of this Expeditioe, with the artillery warhorses could, iu twee proceeded safely. to Sasityljet, itliout the delay mei saucy to buoy the Cbesurel sheidd &obi rely lunch that the whole would have procreated iii safety up the Scheldrodthout *Aaiun to buoy ; but 1 eantreire a era y prat part of it would, try tosses that we should bare Liken to prevent weld...ids. fro you know what portion a the arinauseut was intended to 3ei.aganlYt Antwerp . !•—At this time I cons•d exactly soy what proportum ; hut it will appear in the orders that were gives., and the arisugeraeats that sere made for the progress ads. army, thAt do:Arian» of it ruder Sir Efre Grote was intended for WActieren • the other part of the unity, under Load Roselyn (add will; that part I concluded Lord Chas lutns proposed toto) was intended for Antwerp, awl would have bees, joined .by Lord Hood. y'r sod Sir Jolor Hope's dit talons. You have mentioned that one of the objections to the Bret proceeding to Antwerp, was a boom between the forts of LIN and I.lefkinishoetk; do you kaiser wheo that boost was plated then !—.l think it was placed, if I is to believe the totclligetiee a e got, iu the month of April. Dow soon after the >2.1 of August. when the fort of Bathe was taken, was the British navy iu possession of the Bergen ep chased and the WesternAelieldi !—The }kip:m op-Zoom channel, or a part of it, I think, bat I cutout speak pusitrvely, was wearied by the navy, on the 3d of Angina, 11111 in the Western Scheldt about thy nth, sod on the toth of August some of the flotilla got up to Baths. - Now long was It before the British navy were in fall pot of the anchorage at Baths '—tip hen the flotilla got up there, the uotry might he said to be in possession of the anchorage ; it is out a r..gniir anchorage, it is only • reach in the mei I wish not to be u orterstd to stale posttively' that our flotilla was up by the toils, hot I thtuk it wig I It' was under the coninsaud of Sir noose Popham. Did you understand hat there wail a ford gonad between the ithiud of South Beveland and the main land near Bergen-sp. Zoom ?—I knew of that ford ; it had been there many years. Wan not the possession of Flushiog considered, iu a basal sad aattilary India of view, as of ate streak - 10 miportance to this cosutry '—l thought so; sod /intik Ito still. What iminher of line. of-bottle skips is the basis of Flush ing, capable of cootaimag believe twenty sail of large ships might be moored in Ore basin. What depth of a ster was there to the basin at Isigh•walor and spring tides!—l cannot positively say, bat I believe is feet. Du you imagitie ll at the Canoe whirl, you have nosy stated, Winkel with lb? pruportiou ut artillery end artillery horses, Could with safety hare beeotuaneyed up the %testers Scheldt, without a adiug to buoy the passage ? have already Egret& opiatou spots that lead, that If every lbiuj •Issid been favonratile as it - was-at Grid intruded fur our catering the Westcra St laeldt, we *hunk! certainly have endeavoured to proceed up uttl.out the delay of buoying the passages, but la cottansatece of our being under thews-mkt, of going into the Rouwpot fur security, owl lig to the blowing weather, the ueignial tole of the Espedit was . diverted to smother channel, ah,.l was the reasuu we took time to Lucy the Western Sal., lit. Had the Lspeditious not beep diverted into ar.otber chan nel, would not the attempt to pats without buoying will. *o larmsa force have been attended walk consoles ra,k would have beets attended with some a isk , but the object, think, would hmejustified the risk. What length of time would it pro:reds hare taker, to lrive conveyed that part of the Expeditiusi from the nao.aila of i lie Scheldt to Sentrltet, taking such pre, aathmui ai were Mills.. pensable?—rlt adi colt to answer that titat-ation positively with regard to tone, as it would a good depend upon the weather, to enable us to place the differrat biloy-eeniels that sere indispeoiably necessary to insure the armament p ursing up the Scheldt, through all the intsicaries of that river • even ahem the ditfereet ebonite's were buoyed we were istatigel to bete vessels with aims statitmed at diternit parts as guides, indepseeleet of the buoys. What leumh of time de you think it •nuld.have taken, supposing thr Wrath'? to have beans favourable think the resets might have bean stationed aliumt as tau as the 'Abets could proceed lip. What length of trine do you think it wood have taken, in favourable weather, to have perseeeilerl with that amount of force, (ruse the mouth of the Scheldt to Ilentvliet I —.l think in two or three dais after they had towed Flusloug , by the third day the whole ought bare berm up. His you think they could liars posse.' with the whole of the twee, ineturlane 6-estimates. bulls tVaicheren and t'aibmaid, without oacupystes eollter posisibee certainty to pass, but 1 iltilik a very rop•iderable loss, B ud many seriu tu ts would haw• happened. if otteh an attempt hail h,'en to tile. yea think it would have been practicable a ith trios parts?—li o practicable, under 111111/Itar Cif rUttletilllClll of great iota In Sweaty there fact of water, could tuella, sail of the liar, baring theit gum mad stores on board, cud harm( two months' provisions. go out by the Scheldt in one tilt ?—No, it would be orcessary to lighten the ship. , to enable theist to go out of the Moils ; *hire is a 1.0 at the entrance of the begin, therefore I believe the hips cannot go into the basic or come nut of the bauu alth their guns, for I know, ist the mouth of March or April, when the ~my bad reason to thick it was intruded by this Government to attack WEl cbertu, they hurried their ships out without either . their glans Sr stores, and they seat up to Ternewse to take their game and atom su, which were oral eller tham is ar-heyb.r.• The great &dramas., that the enemy had derived frost this hisio was, that their ship* runlet tie so mimrity from the km, cud, being at the mouth of the river Scheldt, told maws . go to sea than they would have been able if they were fitted oat at Aataerp i and I have beard, that, no rowsequemee of our baring poice.Mini of Watchmen, they have been obliged to make slips fur their ships above Antwerp,,lisat they wiry he clear of the ice, so that it would be eery-Joliette', if not impracticable, fur the emeriti tu It out a squadron is she Muter. Is the event of the enemy ever being metaled to At ens a fleet o 4 , , er ,e sad of the hoe. to toverioinalinta to this routtiry, ....aid at net he necessary to bare a Inn to s 0W ...4, to tic sole to aet exempt the creasy. Won ens liftts b. leeward probaltly would he moittred. lamas of a salaam- Itte of easterly .4 olds, totally 410 II ifiCWlll4. l l4 to is Mee I suppose, I. uncoot near OM C Willi of %Vskberes. If the euemy bad it 8c..1 of Jig or • 0 4.114 we 44%114 of avert, I couclade, have • fleet of the MEW stouiber a vowels ot per tin.' Stationed um the coon of al'oleispees. Wqmold it Rut be eictrewtoll obwerer.i, to keep esa En** fleet ep• s. an roam v's coast, without having soy port or any shelter for our ships f.... 11 would Do &magentas, but it might be aeceesery Would nut the possessing' of Flushing have greatly lessen ed that danger with regard to the ships ; but the es- Fosse of brevet Flushing, and the greet loss of meta that would attend it, mike a men thong out to keep the Island of .IValet.eira Would it not have required considerable toneto have die. eialinikerl the troops, the honors, mini the milder', iu the neighbourhood of ♦taleliet thistollossulatillt brier than v thseenharkat•on at any volt, r place.' • % bat length of time would it probably have taken !--I t►ink the whole of the infantry, and the artillery belonging to t►e isteutiy, would have been landed is one day, ■ad a great part of the cavalry if not the whole ; trials regard to the ballerilig-tram, I moot exactly how ion it might he, hot not more than two dais Do you know the 11141110 of the bear h ?—Not feum my own obacrvatiou, but from Sir H. Poplians'e report, I had reason to t►ink the heath was good, mud very proper for the disembarkation of infantry and cavalry ; but I du toil know what the comaey might be behind the Dyke, a* it was at too great a distance tor as to observe, from the mast levels of the wormed@ that lay nose it, ►o that the cesustry algid have been inumiated behind the hank, for aught 1 know, because • part of the ronatry was observed to he in t►at slats. Would the Muse requisite fur that diwntbnekation have de posited much spun the state of the wrath. r and theater( ! In that part of the Inver Scheldt, near Saiitirlirt, the weather would have very lace interfered with us, hot 41( Course it would ►ave retarded us a Lute we may say leaf a stay. Do you know what number of men could Mat thhark at tine time front the whole 1 f your thee !—Ttic liert noon eit err nu collected as to make it MO obiet t to ascertain what aumla•r of men could be disembarked at ogee from the 1/ 11.. r of the belt ; but au arraiigeusetit W:11 mink to land at Cadranil and Wakh►rra, and a division of the army ou South Iteschnitl, at Ike ann., time; and afterwards, attest the army came up to Baths, preparatory to landing at Santvlict, I understood Corn Sir Itiehand heats, witb %shuns the arrartgernent fur dis ernharkieg the troop or left, that he could l i me landed between ten and lash* thousand men, in the course of a few boat". Did you elite he■r an Wen soireeeteit, of the possibility of inattlatlu• Flushing, and tuitmg It Of entirely from the 111:Ilad or Vt ale herrn, when it ...aid 'ignite a vary atoll gairisoo to hold it, sod, conatqaeatty, the loss b Waives. ...told Ile NI mach tkereased u have braid of it, bat•l never aporovi d of it ; the coonequesee would be, the anchorage would be no contracted that me consult rib!' number of ships could he of the town H... could it possibly enatrart else aerhorage by insulating Fleshing f—The teensy would pet passessiuu of Itsasektilis mud the Cootiol Mier it, and woulil stf tonen .nary all the •lipping teat bey towards that tad of Flushing ; and to oat ds the mouth ut tbs Scheldt, and as she Illuerbto side of Flushing, the anchorage is Not very secure for small runs( In. Dolt°, you think that by mandating a great part of the Island ofherrn, new Flushortg, 1114* would have been peveuird - ! . -1 .10 not think it con! have preemied the enemy hum gittiog Itamekiaa aad the Iryk• towards fluilsrog but did you consider as the ultimate and meet material objcct of the Expedition ?-1 cos...ides. the destruction of. the gctt, and the Jests...pint the docklard mid aresind at Aatwerp, the pat object of she Expedition, rota-. hissed with the distinctive of the dock-yard, bun., amilarse a.l, at W ahl , rea. . . . Weis ton moulded with chemist/dyer of boots,Aat boats, he. sacutioned is the .Irastsiiiii,lfim of the Admiralty, No. dated the trth oldest '—We had more dat boats than aid meetioced in that paper; I rerollect Mr. Pole Aewiag me that paper ie the Secielaty's room at the Admiralty, and I think, to the best of my recollection, I remarked that that would do very well, supposing we bail the whole together, and that It would not On to pot troops is the psi. butts, al thosigh some of the gssii•boats sleight he made war of for that petrpose. I consoler that the means which the Admiralty famished. were most ample, mid that nothing was wattling to forward the 1111rIed11 of the Expedition ors the part °f the Admiralty ; if I had thought there had twee gay thing wanird, I should hove stated it, and I aro sure It could ha. e reed complied with immediately ' ; I believe all the dat hoots in this country wrist with the Expedition and besides that, a great number o f rowing and soiling•loimr, were hired at Dt al, and added to the formas of lauding the troops, as well as buoying the passages of the Selo I dt. Were you acquainted with the state of air fort. of 1,1:1n end Eiellteeshimuk übarrs alum it •porirr,l to 1111', that they were in *perfect state of 61.1 1 It ut lire° represented to the Govern's...of, that there foils 11..1 b• tut much neglected, 'and were not in a state to resist an attach upon them Did you consider the destruction of the ducks and srse •al et Autwerp as a aisles ul ohjict of the Expeditiou Do you know whether the lot anchorage occupied by the enemy's fleet was under t►e protection of the rine of the st Antwerp part of the enemy's fleet lay on the era face of Antwerp, and of coarse they were within the range of the guns of the citadel ; Inst I doubt if the meaty had any batteries or guns aionatcd on the wharfs at •ut werp ; the enemy had Aatwcrp ou their r.gbi, sod the Tele de Flambe us their left. (7ould a landing have been elFerted at tiantvliet, without bruai/ is pumeasiess of t►e fort of Bath: '-11 might have bee., het at would have been molter to have possession of the fuel of Ballet, because in pawn( that fort the ships and boats vrinald have been under tin hrt: of it, and must ha,' tiered very considerable loot but Bat LE suncndereJ wdb- Ynl the least 0pp0.111.405. Had your nelson 1.. be satisfied with the professional j u dg. rent and resources all. , Home Pophino, wink acting under pier orders to the Scheldt '—Most fully so. Yoe bare stated, that oupposOis the *hole ft, e t at. tempted to pacer Up the Scheldt a dhow F 01..% a areas 1 1 .11 t steed hate traetteti Satatvliet,ilsough some might suppos iug %.00e the ship. had ain , wLnl , 1.11 it ptottalite that tit troops on hoard Home shire might Lave been ttaitsfewed to mth-e growls list scald mil have peened on )- -ThVy CC, tain t., would have horn taken one of thitee trwoch , and Ibe Ohie'ct if the Expedite°a right hate been g titte.l, that to, the hook tog the troops, notwithstandnag scow of the vessels got so shoes; and indeed even buoyed as the river wits, every day at bvd several vessels us shore and some lay two • cos...stealth' time, but INT were all at east got tar. Did you ntederatsod that she deist.. wf f;overnroent we, to take Ants-sip by a joint @Hark of Ilse army sad navy •••••-.1 r ee ta,, 4 l, hoer that Goes ressiveot "kiwi the artery ask 113” tuniA et,. operate Lea.tdy to gain the object 4.4 the Evvr.Ltion, mot ile,,lleor soy •41lsape that as. made *Peru •o:wri wmild he Its aa.operatiuof the 'so e,•,ros rte U•411.1.-.oa that tioveraneent e,,usidentvl the es. em ration .4 the navy au oeressiery to the taltiog Antwerp t hot., the Govern's. nt re.pet led it 01 noetellili you stlh air ii'vt of the tsar r.; slat.- J ths fortideatiuus of Autsre•yr ; I bail - - - Did either Luid Castlereagh or Lord fifulgrare make any observation upon tin vlntruount you made, of the dillicultee that would attend the iimmatioo to Aut•erp'-.-I do out re collect that they ,11 , 1 I know that Lord kinlgrave was ea. moiety anxious shout the Expedition, and opus my re marking to hum that 1 thought all wc should du wool/ he taking Valrheren, he said that the country would be very little satisfied with sash au catmint's*, sennesurat, doing no thing more th a n taklng %Vnlelterroa ; 1 retnarkra to ha Lordship, that I was fearful it would torn not ro, ; that for my part I knew eittliiag of the navigation, bet that I would do my beat to in - 1.0.13014i all the obit-clout the Expeditor*. and that I should be veT7 ready to serve 11141.1.4. avy officer they had 1/10/1 . 4 4 .44fideertitl 111.411 re; Loral Mulatto., oh- Served, that he ha./ the (sines, runtiolenre sa tor, owl that hr had rearms ta shook am should do very well Did pw t are, prairie.* to the Expedition, thr military °riotous that wan given by the Coluntander-to-Chtet Ye., have r. ad tb. H•A smog reed it pra %ions to flip sailing a the Exp,d.t r ou —I bait. U) Osborn was it romTnut:lrated t.. boa. sad alien?..—Tleat an ~,, g ogLere eras (tat lo se q tLe itleasralty, early atter tLe ! ',vet le. n soy. Rd you ressou to homer, from your eautimooleatiors will I Gofers / slew, has th e y ea* a iutv•sitot of any 14.40 Ir ,llis nit* state of the fortifications at Antwerp do not halo whether Govenaniest had any plate. licom your cummouications with Goierdusent, did yaw support them to know whit'. r the &het* was usmitAble fur ships of the line shove Autaerp, or Mot'—ln camerae. thms I had with - Lord Mitigative, and .bent of the Member* of the 8,..4 orAdmaralty, I think tiely • did nut seem to •nd e rilMt4 that ahopa of the line amid go shore Antwerp. , I was always ofopiniun myself that they could, sod it has locoed out more, that they have gene sheer Antwerp, and diatom oke of my reasons for thinking (bat at should find it a dialcult matter So destroy the enemy's fleet, if they should go shave Mowery, and our aria, not be able tu gain posses. Mara of that place. Is the t uninsittee to saderstand, that pour (Vision wait oat distiactly tales by tilotrottseat opus the fact; whether ships d.-the lute ruat4 piss above Autwerp or mot ?—t druid out satisfy Cute& anent upon that bead, become I bad no lucttl kitewledge myself, .and it was quite matter sat opinion with tee p • 1 stated al) ..pitiiiis Crum my observations of the lest french survey. Was your opinion asked upon that point ?—.lly opinktat was asked, sad I gave that unmet. Vt,ce you familia:id by G meat with Any Omer the state of the forts of Lille and Lief kenshumk was net ; soi l t do net hetiwee Government bad any. pleas ' Mate to the Cotamlihre s oh -lime, pa mieusly to the sailing of the Etpeditiun, you were star rowelled, conjuiutl) eith the Cumniander-imUtief of that Expedition, oat the best model. °keening it into effect, either by Lord Maltreat or Lord Castlereagh ?—1 was frequently cousulted by Lord Multrime, and Lo:d Castlereagh was occasionelly primal; sod I frequently had sternest with Lad Chatham; but there never ea. a sneettat between Lord Unitise/a and any of the members of the Government and iimor:f. Wb.t day did you appear &AI the Schad', with the Hut taste year coinatatad ?—lt ade an the 211 it uf July. [The witness west:Waded to withdraw.] [The witness was agma called nil At what time were you ambled to put that part of yi* (estimates.' into retailitia; to push up a milli:mut samiat of year forte shove the tows of Fleabag, to prevent lbw escape of say vein& is Realmog, or the enmity of it, up the Scheldt tido& it was no the ad or ad of Astute, that a considemble pert of the flotilla gut into the West ocheldit; it was not necessary to pooh any part of the larger lA* tats ths Sfrkehli, in compliance with that part of my otitis because the enemy had no forte at Flashiag that the gas. Mats could set intercept ; isideer:st that time they bad NMI any sewed vessel in the mouth of (be Scheidt. A part au* sigasdron would have been ordered Mao the liciveldt, if I bed oat received intelligetam that the enemy's /let hail get above lbw boon at Lillo ; I thertfore did pot iriasirier it was proper to expose the ships suareessarity, wlies mar objet could Mt obtained by it. Then the Committee daderetand, • could have robed but for the r , • Is _ you • • town of flushing, roma it No • t have prevented the trim. forcements par.' from ea nosed to Eissabing,•••-be n it etentld out , and at the time those terforcements did pry Mere was bout of the dere in a situstiou to pose tato the *tete; rieept the thymus end./ tennendore Owes, sad -be •a•eattr4r)ed spun that primula/ service of lauding at Cadres! iv et Miry the batteues, a eustd u it sell posit tutu the Scheldt , sod :the bat door so, hr wou , d h.'s 1.. sr Inside to suffer veal. great damage Com the batteries of Cad. siind. Lem! (aels. r, with his disisinu, as will he seers by his orders, sheet, betas the Committee, iv , .a um dcred to co. operate with Count:maths Oseu. aud to push io.tutli, Schelde after the Imtitries t.f Csdnand were litho, but *boo s its cosseeuence of tl.s setae,. r, w. folio,: it oreemary to gn late the East Schott is, noes the Ruckert) for the meant, of the seniamout, I -rut mders to CuraudJors Owen th , t to land, but to pi es.,rt e a menacing position and Lord Gard. net bad similar orders to Obeli°, at the month of the Deer fu: the same pet4ose. Met the etosebu y might imagine we iiitesiisd to laud sores here abut &Attire Ba) ,• and it saaaered this good pure..., that the !Ural! :Omar detached way of his voice is prevent oar lauding.hum we did, spots the Bees Sand tier Durnri k battery. 'flit pilots in Lord iliardaer's &Orem of the neriadros would not take charge of the large *biro, either to pass them lola the treHin or into the thierkno, and thtrefl,re it was not in his Lordship's power to pis lota the Schs:ilt, even The had bees mite: ed if this division had posited hits the Selreldi, :t sapid Lave been obliged to'nuchorlbutt Flesising sod a4d se it blew too Laid du busts to keep la the .pace freemen those two places, fir sairny could always with the triad, r it was &S.W. semi reinforcements over, either in the d.y oe nighty and this will sipper by Corevidore Orectio state ment, whir warted Itinmegto the utmost to present it, to. .dssd it blew us kirelsatione time, that the gun- beats were !seder the 'Necessity of &ming the West Scheldt, and drop. pi it fiz tits Slough passco fur security. Cumsuittse is to understood, there Was we part of year fleet that was le a situation to go up the Scheldt, se your Int appearance ar the Scheldt t--There was not; but it was intended that Lord Coroner should hare gene into the Schelt, as I lire sad before, after the batter es bop Cadsand were taken and orders were given to how, In Coe formity to the order. I bad received *um the Adwrs/th mime the ken that the euerra drones in a situation to be attacked by ours ; but when I found that the co. my's Seed' Lid gown .gels up the Scheldt, it did nut spoor to me sit ✓ich impedance pestling and risking our large ship. through the dangers' shoal. at the entraiscr of that river, sod there- Ake I crustrasiced Lord Garduer in remaining at am ri cher in the West Putt that is, off West Clippie, as by teat means he was so a sthrstion to assist Commodore Owes with his heals, iu ore we bad found it necessary to heed epee CaJeamd, a :*: pooh is It rough the. Mosher se Welen pus. Sages, when we cook! get pilule to take charge of the ships If yoo had thoeiglgt it necessary, could sot you Isnot 'got • the elope up between the sd and the soh of August '—i can ton eitnetly a' tins inouteut nosier to dates, but I thick Itmg !odors the o , h of August 1 sent orders fur a amoeba of Al gres to push into the Scheldt, meaning that they atmeld go asp to Balla ; bet those frigates did unt pre the hotter+, tilt the 1 ttb, owing to several canna of wind awl weather that oireeemed theta but I du not think the pulite rivet marred from tlome frigates nut passing in sootier; sad t. - deed, ea it was, they wore insufficient time at Balks to give Cosutesance to auy operations of the Orals. Du you admit, that between the Wand the nth of Anger, the orders you gave for those frigates might base hewn Obeyed t—ln the interval between the ;Lb, I think, and the tire that the frigates passed ill, I sent an order to simpeed their tough., by which order a day was het ; that ors. s• eessique..ce of sore repot ts I had heard p the last order to arfores the frigates guilt( i.e., the ScheUt, sod the line.uf bottle ships phi, into Dyeeshosit Say, or, to the twit sat toy Reativettars,liwat the sir, sad it ass etedited as su in a. it MsN poribly he. 1/id you ~,,, write & letter us the 27i1f0l August ti. the Ad essatty , —Yes, did Ma. th,t loam of n pahlec or ;Nitrate uatura!—• tut tatter that 1 mete to the S.-creta.-y al the A lail..tty ta. ter I bal.t , e au lusbitahat4 %%la's po'llic unbolt Did )vu to‘ capons 4 tuacrtu that that lame twat r •s. wows .—Whes I tarot. lbat latter. ft WS, with so islaesewit that the cattalo ruatJba ~.y math dissatisfied that sawn walnut don., and I ti..y►t it **a, 1., wan ) na,r. u .l Iu ilia Navy, tit state lethal Wane% a tha Giiwerouw ihat I warn loader (thir. AJoihrell)) am we woe &sawn top to , or Lau the t'nermlltee it to eederttind, you could bare lied a pr.liortion of your duet up the Sceviiii avermr, bet Le resat.. you have gs eta !r—Yes, certainly we might. I cum you bad peaked soy part of yuet fleet above dm a of Flushing, would it wit hare prevented the min- emote risen from Carissod to Ploaltiug ! '['The Witness oat direetyd to witbdrawl :The Witness was gem called and Wormed by tbt Cbeirsein, that if any question r.. 4 pet to simmer to uhiebwyokk is his uvariou teed l say il. der e> to halal,. de er.trisioste basset!, be we. libe.ly to tot"v sneweriag it I ease wu had paahed any part of your fleet am* Mk . . I OWE) ANT( I '... .. , 1 , , . i ~ 0, s . 1 • i ! : 1 0 . 1 , ''.; i t j 11 1 ~.: , • - 'i 1 oil!' !I 1: 1 1 - ) 1 . 1 I c a