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Ti COitiat: 4t4Rti4t.. tIiTH DAY. PORTIK•ntaI. net *AY, JOLT 31. Upon the l'resideat's dishing - the witnesses to withdraw, as usual, Lord COCHRAN C submitted to the Court, that it was not thecuatouiof Courts- Martial to "titrude the wiineases from the Court during the defence. The PkalltHENT--" Lord Cochrane, it is the wish of the Court, in the present instauce, that the witnesses should be excluded." Lord COCHRINE—" The trial of Admiral Har vey is a case in Fond, where the witnesses were al lowed to remain imi Court during the reading of the defence." Tire PeestoeNT—" My Lord, the Court has discuseed the measure, in the present instance, and it is its wish that you shotild withdraw." Lord COCHRANE bowed, uud withdrew. Lord airman was then called upon for his de .• • truce, which the Jt.uoa ARYOCATIt was periuitted to read for him, as follows: " Mr. PRIALHENT—I thank you, Sir, and the rest off be 'Members of this flouourahle Court, for. hat tug complied with my request. that a short toter vat in.ght be allowed sue before I entered on my defend. I have also to express thy satisfaction, that the whole of my conduct and proceedings in Basque Roads is uow under your consideration, in eousequesiae of my having applied for this Court The necessity of this mitt be evident ; either 1 had to adopt this Measure. •r e by a tacit ac quiescence in the insionations thrown out agatsist His! by LorJ Cochrane, have compromised Ind only ray own honor. bat also that oldie brave officers . and mull under my command. The proceeding s of - the Court swim, thew, wheth er ally miticonduct - has mrsisted in the execution of the service under cons:- efeyation ; if any has ehistrii, of which I sun per 3ectly. unconscious, It is rigid that the nation aliorild Lome et ; not as resting ou the unsupported '4:wi llows of .et individual, hut en the .uoprsjildiced judgrneurt oftbi s tsibiutal . . I was prepared, when !Ind a one before you. with what appeared to toe complete justification of my conduct mid pro eeodings as Commander-in-Chief of the Channel leet, Misplayed in Basque ;Roiids, betwscu the 1711, of March and the 2;M April last, to which your inquiry is d irected; but i con id not be aware al the oral testimony that was to are firovight for ward in support of the charge which their Lord whips hate, at the instance of Lord Cochrane, been iitilticed to snake against me; namely, that On the 11th of .April, the eisemy' s shi ps b e i ng t h en on shore, sad the signal having been [wide that they could be destroyed, i dill for a tooeiderable 'rate o ttr(t ro le yi t i t g ier dre m ra . y taking lw effret was v u t a to ol admit, tt ea fur ha ile that, fren; time time of my otrsersiog, ou the morning of the 12th, the matronsu df the enemy, Conittlouicated to use also by signal fro.o the ineperieisse, some time clod elipse &lore the enemy's ships item attacked ; but I was prepared to prove most ineootroverttbly, that nu neglect or unnecessary delay took place tin effecting the tirstrtiction of those ships ; wail I have H ow t he satisfaction to and, that nut of all the Olk lE. of ilia fleet who are atitnnunietl ou thin trial, the charge rests on the unsupported, red, ja4ay say, oh. ready refitted, teitanimy of the enirtai9 gf tile ha rerievet. I believe there plXCrdrat to be found is the avid auualr of Great Britain, of an 11.)Ricer of the rank I have the honour tri - hold, core tassuiling a fleet which has Aierformed so important • sere lee ai Mist riceimiplished aproved Mit Service 14 0 .0 p yeit by the Board bard considered by Ili. Majesty's tsoversiment as arse ileeerving% the posies of fools Hossein of Parliktneut ; helot obliged, (nun a sense Of rigid is due to 11:1 111•11 ZIIIINCifr NUJ ho pour, as . it'iert ei • irt the piofessiuti to which he be longs, to appeal to a wive{ triliotiaLogaiost the loose alai indirect accdsiitiOns of an Wilkey so much his inferior in oink'. I mit warranted iiiiiirytog,tinitthe execution' of this ss r. tt a was itiiproverlL i y the Da un t sit A auilroty ; Itecouie in a letter from their Lord ships' Secretary, dated Aped aclitiowleilging the C trip! of my public i;..pateliev en the occasion, he says, he is commanded by their Lormiihips in con gratu:ite int on the brilliant success of the hires under my coinmand. in the attack of the enienty•s ships int the Ise d'Ai'c Bolds, by four vessels, and aubatouently by iliouchtuents from my fleet, which ttlfittinatert in the ceps':rearmd destruction of tour of eiteitly's ships ; mid to signify their Lordships' directions to We. to express their approbiition of the great exertions of inter-Admiral Stopford,Slr Harry Neale, and the serer:ll other officers Mentioned by loaf, as litvin liven most actively einployed, and hewn% particularly distingtsieheil tloqnseli-es ;upon this impottant service. Lord Cochrane. however, Warned the Notil4 Lord at the head of the Admiralty, that if this measure were attempted. he should, if stapcliug alone, oppose it, ao far us re girded the Commander-in-Chief ; thus, without specifically objecting to the thanks be i ng giveu for the service performed, directing hie hortilivi peren nial,- at Me, and making his Attack as pultitelY, though tint so fairly, to if he had at once exhibited former charges. Lord Cochrane, as a Member of laarliainient, MeV stippoft or oppose public aura', as lie shall thit.k proper. In the present pro essifingo, however. he stands in the situatiou sikcer, serit.mg under my command, as appears by the following letter to we from the First Lord of time Admiralty: " Admiralty, May 29, ;Only " Mr Lorto—llaving ill conversation informed Captain Lord deeloraue, that it ass the intention yf Lisa /livery's lioverousent to move th e t h au k s o f b oth Houses of Perlis moot to your Lordship, and to the Offte. is, seaman, and ma tises,iiervime under your commend in liawiue Roads, Lord Cochrane, declared to sue, that, in the event of hatch a sure heihe proposed in Parliatuiut, he should feel lihnscif bound, by he public duty, to object to the thanks, as far as they shonld apply to the Commander-in-Chief. coder these eikuinstioces, it has been deemed expialient to sup. paid thv motion for the fete of Thanks, aad to call upon Lord Cochrane to state she ground on which he has iutimat ed to the First Lind wf da Admiralty his iuteution to oppose OrThaahn;,ss far as respects your Lordship, that the Bond of Admiralty may thereby be enabled to judge bow Ibe grounds to hemmed by Lard Cochrane may be of a nature to 'lmpend the motion its Parhaincist, or to call for apy further inersligaitoo by the Board, or is any other way. I have felt it due tuyuar Lordship Waive yine Hot earliest in of this, state earthiest, sad to antitank you, that • *Me sill this day be wastes to Ceptain Lord Cochrane, in roollonoity to the above mialatfan of the Booed of Admi ralty. &espy ofwhich, together with the swear of Lord Cothran*, will he without doloyeummuslicaled to your Lord ship. I bars, he. (Limed) " 31ULGII AV E" [We are obliged to defer the conclusion of L'.4 Gliglibicell &demos till to-morrow.] _ 7,7 P, I . X l3 ITISII PRESS OFFICE, Three Wednesday • . 1 We have just received the following Repret of the Proceedings of yesterday, at Portsmouth, BY EXPRESS. • LORD GAMBIER'S COURT-MARTIAL. Tresday, August 1. 1803. The Coati re-assembled, pursuant to adjourn ment, at nine o'clock, when Captain ißligh was again called in. Q. When was it that the two ships of the enemy that continued to float in the morning, moved to wards the Charente ; cud when do yiiii recollect did the three grounded ships get off the Pallas ?—A. At half-past twelve, the two ships 'het were afloat went up, very shortly afterwards the three ships that had been aground followed them. Q. You mentioned yesterday the strength of the enemy's batteries in Isle d'Aix ; did you observe •altat any of the fortifications thereon had been blown up and destroyed ?—A. I did not observe that any of the fortifications had been blown up or destroyed ; I think if they had I must have seen it. I was so near. Q. Did you hear Lord Cochrane express to Cap tain Beresford, when in Aix Roads, the probaliihtv of three or four of our hoe of battle ships being lost its attacking the enemy, and what missed on that sub ject ?—A. N'hen Captain 'Scream.'" asked Lord Cochrane his reason for Stinking the signal to the Commander-iii-Chicf, that half the fleet could de. stray the eterny, he said, he calculated on losing three or four ships, if the Commander-in-Chief bed sent the squadron in. Q. If the two line of battle ships of the enemy which had remained at their anchorage in the morn ing had moved towards the Charente at hulf past if. could the attempt, by frigates alone, assisted by the smaller vessels. heve succeeded ill the endeavour to destroy the whole of the severs 'ships of the enemy Iliac were ashore on the Pallas P—A. Nu; 00 the contrary I think that it would have been endanger big the loss of some of our own, if we laird atteinvt ed it. COuaT—Q. Do inu saran that they could not hive made ;In 11111Pft - bliOti on any of the ships?—A. My answer is on the ground that the two ships had moved towards the Charaute, but were still in a situation to have assisted in opposing its. Q. Were these two shipa,iu your Utilld, so far re. , awed after they went up, as to oppose our fleet; or give resistance ?—.4. The impression on my Mild at the time was, that they had mond so far. as not to be stile to assist their own ships, or Op- - prise our frigates. Q. II7(1 t h e three enemy's Ships shat were a , ground min the Pallas, end afterwards float/d i nar/- I ed un from that sltution, before or after those two thine I—A. To the best of my recoilectioti, they Swaim(' and mast up after the other two 5:144, wont twi its inn; ales lifter. Q. Did it appear to you, in the moruinsr of. the ads of Aped, or at any time when the enemy's Ifllep4 were on shore, aid the signal made that they donlil he iTestroyed, that the necessary steps.and ef- Ilectual measure were taken for dt,troviiig then,. on My part 1-A. I have already stated, that if tie ships had been Sept 111 on the morning of the .12th, it would have been sending them to inevitable de struction. I do slat think the ships could hav e been sent in sooner that( they were ; Pull there did not appear to me to he the smallest neglect OA the part of Lord Gambier. Cesar—Q. From the 144 atteelt upon the ene my, to the lima cessation of hostilities ine,ailist them. was every thing done that (void he dune to s.ffect their destruct' I thilik that every thing was done ; Iliad more was door thesis 1 expected. Q. You have stated, that you olieerved no pert of the fortifications on Isle it'Aix that bed the appear alive of being blown up, or destroyed ; did vou take notice of any heaps of stone or roiliest ! , gave an appearance that any part of the batterie. was in a disordered' state ?—A. I looked very at- tentively, with a gond glass, at a little distance from the fort, and they appeared to me perfect; I saw no heaps of atone or rubbish ; if there had beep any, I moat have seen them. Q. Was there any part of the works of the Is land that appeared to be under repair ?—A..No pint that I saw ; towards the sea they appeared to be throwing up another battery under a very close and long tier of gun. end mar to the water side, I believe the whole works pn the Isle D'Atx were perfect. but they were strengthening them. Q. Yon have said that the responeibility of tak ing the Valtant into Ant Roads, rested of yourself. the pilot having refused to act, what reason did his give for net taking her in r—A. 'That the water was too shoal, and as the wind and tide then were, he thought the ship would be boat. Q. Were all the enemy's ships that were on shore on the Pallat., near enough to the Batish ships to be destroyed by them .?—A.. No ; the three ships moving - up the Charaute were lying to die south ward and eastward of the Ocean, and she was never Within einc.shot of the Valiant or lireetage. Q. Du yuu mean that these ships were not within g•Wii-shut before they moved up the Charente?—A. ! They weir not within gun-slim, in my opinion. Q. If the Ocean was not within gun-shot of the Rieeve, or Vahan:, was she withili reach of any ether 'ship; of our fleet I—A. Not when they an ehdrea, hut frigates might have been moved near enough to have reached them. Q. Could they have done that without being aground ?—A. Yes; at about half-tide I think they might. Q. To what ship did the Caletitta strike ? 7 —A. I have Already stated that the Calcutta never struck. An officer of the &ask , reported to me, that he had taken possession of her. Q. Did you give him Hoy orders in consequence of that report Nis-A. I did not. It was my inten tion to have sent a party of Marines, es she lay considerably without the reach of the enemy's hat-. tents, and I think might have been brought out without the lose of a man—she was upright, but I think not afloat ; but she was set on flee in a very few initiates after, and I do not know by *hem order. Mr. SToKes, Master of the Catedunia, agaia called Lord Gambier asked Q. At what time did the istemy's two ships of !IT'w • . . • the tine, which remained at their ancherage on the I?th of April in the mortriug, cut or slip their ' bles, and tort toward.' the Chansete Canoed, helloing a COllOOlO lore's I.ratinl ll: 4 ll ,l 4n t i slipped or cot; red made sail for the Charente, e' ten minutes pa s t one, p. no. The Foutiroyc twining a Rear-Admiral's !lag, made bull for ' Charente, at twenty minutes .past one; I noti the time by my watch. 1 ant positive as to the as 1 made it memorandum of it, which 1 have.i on board the Caledonia. Q. Do you remember at what time the enemy's slops, that wore on shore on the Pal warped off and removed from thence To best of my recollection, about out o'clock, or little after. CouRT—Q. Did those ships remove from thence before the ships that were at anchor mu woof • the Charente?—A. They did. Q. You were on !heard some of the British ship at their anchorage in Aix Roads; were mite pin eoemy's ships at too great a distance to be destroy• ed by them ?—A. I was on hoard the Imperitusi during the action part of the time ; all the eiseine• ships were at too great a distance to be destroyed our ships, except those that were destroyed, sic. Calcutta, dignilun, and Varsovie. Q. Was the Tunnere destroyed It was ra ther doubtful to me whether the Rem:age's shut reached tier. Q. Do you allude to the Kers:age, from her being the nearest ship to the enemy y es; tf ii r T might have been nearer thou I thought for. Q. Was there any other situation in Aix Baud% in which the British sqnartron could be placed, from which they could have destroyed the other ships?—A. No, there was not. Captain BIIIIESFORD. of ere Trierus, called in turd tacos is. Lord Gambier asked— Q. Were you scut into Aix Roads in the Theseus, in the afternoon of the 12th of April I—A. The Theseus's signal was made at five o'clock, to pro card into Aix Roads and mime the ships in distress, winch I did aceonliugly immediately. Q. Had I seat its Alps of the line into Aix Roads, curly in the morning of the l2th of April, were any ships of tile enemy's in a position to rake our ships as they advanced?—A. Two of the enemy's ships were afloat, and their guns could have .been brought to rake our ships as they aelvenceil, and they world have beau entirely crippled had they been went in. Au Admiral's ling. imil a Continodore'« limed pend ant, ware flying on board of thrum ; h icl-twis of our ships been so •placed, we might have defied oily -approaching ships, for the approach must have lit en going red on. Q. Had any of our ships advanced under circumstances. and bed been crippled, either by being raked, or from the tire of the batteries, cowl' they nave returner or what would hoer been the . COalleqUellera I—A. Fron t th e ctrehrostances ot the wind and tide I do Hot think tiny corrld have teturoed : if they slid, it must have been by mere good fortune ; the consequences must hare been must serious. Q. Could two or three bite of bettle-ships, on the movising.of the 1-201, when tenni' the enemy's. altos 'twinned afloat at their anchor:foie, have advanced to attack them, by posing near to the Boyort, withal; their helm o.lre, the fone or main top-sails being to the moot; having thuo•hronght their I.ende to tlie.N. E. would they,•by, three mess's, have beta enabled to being-their vine to I beer with effect upon time eneruy'• elsiresiand them selves eut of the reach of shot, from Isle d'Aisl— (.4-n41411y-riot. Q. Could any hue-of-battle ships have run to leeward of the two enemy's ship, there lay at their anchors on the morning of the lith April, and have spare enough to hove anchored, and by these mean. to have attacked them I—A. 1 should not like- tb have risked it ; huh it appenred to me, that there s s a - si• reely room for a fm-ed to pass between them • •oist, letting alone an roomy, who would be firing on me a. k tiosisid t the smoke alone, be side the ship being crippled, roust have caused you to have been entan g led, a n d th e s hi p must *beet been lost. la short, if I had been ordered to attempt it, I should have thought the enterprise aunt hazardous...the tide a strong flood, and wind . Q. Did you ever understand by whose ardent the Calcutta was set on tire I—A. The only thing I know respecting the Calcutta being set on tire, win by conversation with Lord Cochrane, in the pre treat,. or Capt. Eliah and several others. He said, it was a thousand pities she was not brought oft, that he sent is youngster on board, to use his own diacretion, and the boy set tire usher. . Q. Do you think she might have bees hrostght off I—A. I was nut on the spot *lien she woo tired, but Lord Cochrane told me she might have been brought off easily. Q. Did you go on board the Irnperieuse on the afternoon of the 13th of Apnl ; what was the purport of your conversation with Lord Cochrane ; and what was her situation N—A. She was on shore —I told hint I had just some from the Caw, which was also on share in a critical situation, with in the range of shot and shells ; that in my opinion the ships of the line were in a dangerous situation, and had no business thee; that Lord Gauthier seemed to me to be matt anxious to act with his fleet, but that if he had sent them in there, it clearly appeared they would be so crippled, that few would have returned, if any ; and that it would have been madams to have done so. His Lordship said, that three Sea of the line might have been lost, which, in his opinion, did net Signify.— My reply was, that pia sail of the line being lost 'would have been a disgrace to the enterprile. This, peeled in the presence of Capt. Bligh, Capt. New comb, and several other officers. Q. Under the circumstances of the wind mid tide at flood making 14 six o'clock, did it appear to you, that, on the mooning of the 12th of April, or at any one when the enemy's ships were on shore, eats signal had been made that they might be de 'strayed. these was, on my µart, any neglect or un : taking effectnet measures to de lete: OW eastereehtps le was my opinion, as well no that et several others, that the time of tide. l erieeding ships in, was when they could come out again. Q. Dues Captain Beresford remember a signal being made by the hupstiestsc, on the morning of I ..:s w ~r; _ ---I . • .. Q. an Admiral is informed, by signil, fr iliat • specific force is sufficient to execute any iiertiee, is it generally understood that the Nice poiniteit out is the greatest that ean be employed, orf:eliu mustiest that will be required ?—A. It req-ires the force panned out. •• • , Q. Pliers, if yew hid been Coiti.tiander-m- C hic. said 'hat sizmil hod been nisile to yria, %slat would you hate considered as the smallest force yon ewall have sent in to destroy die eiieaW ?—A. in that case send 'in inure this, butt, It; Lwuull nut leave it to chanci , ,, Q. Do you think; that, on the niurning of the April, it would have heal proiletit or riper to have sent in more than half the fleet to &sour the enemy?—A. It Would have heed very iraprsiver and, as I said before, I did net think s:iips of the line had any business there. Captain Kzatt, of the Rercer, acting at tte thee of the action in Beira Itwids, called in and :worst. Lord GAMBIER asken--Q. Do you trriiiriaher the state of the enemy'. Ileet, on the morning a the 14th of April ?—A. I think ilk bawdiest, as ex pressed in the chart, viz. seven sail on ,bore mid two ,_float, one line of battle ship iu 'advance tip the nw.:r, and the frigate* all sl,Ut the late D'Aix is correct. both of the consertoemte her of the•sh , ' Q. At tirf dolt order tack the et gave yon o'clock; tee and qewinted Witte ships t Q. When you an.. ; bat teries, and ran to the southward Or wertoard, eac you confident of ending there auffinieut water, or what wan your purpose ia gouig that way , A. No 11.1.1 110 idea 1 ,110111t1 I.e able to kem the Revenge afloat—to the Sotitli4erril SiJ, the toll petition I could take; and I considered a my duty to ret her ground out of range, if potsilde, rather than M. Q. From the pon;tien ire whirl] you place.! ifeetrage, In the attack, and the dept:i aster you found round you, would it hive liken lior.ibk for line-of-hattie rhipr, or large tr;kite-, to k.e.. gone ahead of you, to attack the three-debked ship and others, towards the entrance of Hirer, with effect?—A. Certainly not. When the Ac reage quitted her sithation, her keel was in the mud, and I was forced, trent the ebb tide ireking down the Cf 4 teente, and the wind on the larboatd beam. to make soil intshere ; and found Ao little water as I advaned, that any slap, {limey..i short a distance a-head, could not po-ribly hay,. gone aliont *Om ! "MA& must have brim beo, tit she would be itnitaedihtely under the tire of the fort. Q. .Wee every exeruJii used, according to your jodgiutitt and observation, by every ship or vessel cent in to the attack on the enema' ?—A. Every thlrig appeared to cue to be coterocted sett& the greatest see and gallantry. Q. Were the three ships of fp( enemy that were ishorCon thePellat;and Which afterwards got off, at any time in a position to he attacked by us ?—A. Certainly not, they were admired further dean the l Tonaere, and the RevenKes shot just teethed Went. Q. Could any inve of the enemy's ships have been destroyed, had any more ships bets. omitmi in than were sent?—A. No; it was env biro that had three ships gine in sooner they would liar* hern cr , ppled, by whit% tnersht the Treotli rheiti *raid here diseivirld ire of titbit prat" taxi, mid hal* of able. reniel4 . , iottesd of gong out of the Road, met }relented the feat ships that were afterwards destroyed from brig so. 1 nasal the two ships that were afloat would have retnallgrit Q. Under the circumstance.' of the sold and tide, did it appear to ”iti. on the Ich, in th e morn lag, or at soy time When the enemy's vivo wete its - --; spy. • on the f ft the I ?ti t of April, that threnity.) 4 4 •A,arii . its eir ea- shore, and that h u ff th e ..et,ouli i i . e . "/ - "' , i ' ? Tote -9-4. 1 1 was reported t o HO! C.A4t th e ; • V/00 " 1 4 11 % inaoo,l did nut we it'. . ite, pt. 'Q. ".Vilat uttpretr i o. ?fifth 41144 4,4p4pii e lv 1 laza. a. to tlie r iFnety of e . web alma! Jr ,< e 1-y it the. A: The it satoo wit se trOmg i , ' 44111 et 'a , gic - ed• the tiine, A t thjilighal .V 40, .I. 15 1 „: ,moe,. . fact, that on goi oollnard the hop .- t .;c.r.r.• .--4., ~.. ~ ...nna-... Cochrane tirnignal seemed to In .. • o- • • tier-m-t 'lll , -f trer •mue1...."40... it t:r • three hellion' ; the ruo.onel.thouufil tl4p " ' -.- '4 4 , , or, ..ne was" it was waitossinble gar o' ""- .. to o the boys acted e•-sing thcsn• ' 7 ,• ~ .., .pr '. ' i t or a Coutur-.Q. Froult4Erst attkli alloy toe taipe of the elp.uay s -te the tr,./ ce..ti6i, 0 - 14,,,0,iii..s tenet* ay,-ttio..t theht. " 4, ‘ , • , crY thtuC dui r i "'" I ' l 6 ' ,rtia door to rfr2t.t theirlientructiott? .. thioit civil Hying wsa d one th at cou ld 'be iii.'ankl:touelt %lips wore w:is done than I could hare itmedL . rt . tile Q. Are y ou (lent. th ynjg receltettnettp.t . _ y eti" the : ~i .troy. report m at t e t o you of sigD af v. ifs. tiiikt Ng fit, rit us* fleet could deletroy the enemy i'l--A. C..rtalo UV ; rent's but I thi n k b e f ore that the report was, this: is; set oil be could do it. I, tit. I O. 11'i.,.. an •rim,....1:. :-r__—......1 t... S._ ~ -.. I Q. Do von remember a 'telegraphic Signed firing • . I made on the mooriiii‘oftbe 12th by the Laptricwi , • that stren Of the ship s trete o:t shore. aid 4r : Ii !-# half the squadron could destroy tticiu;—A. yei- fettly weti; I am positive di to the signal, hainig seen it myselfiand'havii?g'resd - it off thr telegraph: Q.• HIM I I-nt in lin* . oT battle Ships !o Ant i t r ' 'toads:at the tirrietliat sigifir was • made, oret after, Wire any ships o f the adernyiu a rennin sto i I enable theist' tb traVe or iiipiretoar ships es ihey*- sauced 0.-s-A - . The two ships that tiver. ,. a Most, .; certainly. in a position to flare raked and Ilk any ships advancing. The. thre.t , -decker was t "t wise in a situation that part Of her saris would Unto i f borne on the ships ring dotch. Q. Had any of our line of 'battle ships hrottipp. „. wencing under such tlrcunist slier'. and had; Meier by the fire of the enemy's ships, or Omit blittitric• • been crippled, conk! they have tetiitnied, or %%Lot would have bt en the. cordiequeuce? --LA.': i'Cri,Liiiitip could have rammed, Si the wind was dii4tly.perie- ink firolsobad, land the depth or water I i'd Itti 4" . • the Rewesirriae an trustier tidde„of the 'ebb, in - afterritsim, it , is - .My firm b:lfie4 that iiie sfo.l", vancing.estild hot have iot• sufficient!, ova, t have brou g ht thoic4 two s kips . to close action, wi l d .. would base *obtrudes', ilirwatives within rani, both of ther battelrirs in file•d'All, and the sin p' ; the consequence would' have been the sisevitiMl sy a I. of the sh •ips. ' • Q. At what time in the afternoon' ef that gni . . 41.1 I order you to proceed with the Rereege to at- tack the enemy, and state • . whether the orders L f gave you were diseretionary or not?—A. At ton o'clock; 1 certainly considered my orders, of forte three, discretionary, from the 'Aka., Imtli th thy . pimp and the Cakdstne, not lo-i. 1 6; smificaenty it- -1 qsainted if there was tratet eoolgh fdr the liiielot- nattle ships to act in Aix Itoads. Q. Wbeii you stood out from under the bat` • . _. -?! • • • :4 _:_l..-AJ