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HT-GARDEN. Fro. oh 1810, Nem Dram" is Ilea THE FREE AGNE. law Farce, caned Feb. 43. 1410, frforae the COW* Drama al ELLA '" LIFE BELOW ATION, by au• Imperial rape!, h A . ER 4aiag a Aloe Ciiitv, foassaed Stow;" 1,0 bane •igig the whole deem r e, 'trend. LSE Lit ENS. lON, • • = i ea TVs. ' E It ei,untry ind Brood Cloths, Kersey- Suoteser-blescho4 reco onu ndrd, for or private fsiai esrtety of vibes 4 Mr. Donne, No. 7, .nla*el, Covent garden ; continues to ad ante sale. kGIL. lON, 61', v ibe 296 inst. KOH CORD be espresstd is teIIELDT. 'EEO EVIDEIVCE raker Woo • the COM ITTEE WHOLE HOENE, ibyruinieJ toemssidrr of the awl oseduet of the lave LXPLDITION to the ELM". Lust, in tilt more*, Butiit be. ri eveleuateJ the right be. fere. At what time did tie tranapleta with the cavalry aad at. tillcry arrive at Bath: ?-.-Tratiapurta were arriving at klaghs fur se'veral class, I think from P;th SI I behave" the with of August, bin, without applyiog to °Our popOs which I have net with Inc at this mount'', I cannot eauetty oay on which of those d tysthe cavalry and artillery arrived. Can you 111;stowhnt wt's tiko (muse of their arriving MU 61.2 believe sand inmedi•uants mtt I4h uear Ws Teheran lib alt. Slouch Pam :age, and utthe mouth of the Scheldt I had various letter. free Sir R. Strialisu, eVpreqiiiii as anxious desire to get the antitla and the awn of war up the Mat. Scheidt ; I had letter. Gina bun as tarty as the 31. t of J rtruegly enntsuire uf his iksire and of his intentiiin, ai, frigates weietstewfrosis isie e fire the ourpuse of going up the l~estMcheldt, andel' iny. flotilla; and nuke., t was ver) prebensive, !Davin been contraried by the winds instil the 11l of August, in genial to S o uth Raclin& I was very US tiny lest the a tllla should have piwied 'tribe O r e.' , Sche l dt, e srr ilionl.l have an oppurialial Or landing upon South Be %Alia _ . 1)u yon thsi, if Kw! ajvirchwil ire* tittled nut to Po+r tides st Ftwationt or. Wati:lferbei bet to proctrit immediate!, to sultan", y7gecl,, 11te any/ c•mshil Lave anivrdnt ROIL st on earlier perit!ti. l -1 do out to lliodce tint It war 411 ndvt.. gir,n .Isx.itie ;,11 havr sir . cioly +toted, that I 'ltd.:. 1'1011111.14. It an n r ffiral l•nonf,, , neinn ;i1 an& - they all 010 , 1 Pit 1111 l nn .1 *mat ue sed ur olootooc.l In., r try opinivo or stirm...c refit) las not Piked. Had such ken the plan, do you think the armament could have arrived at Hattie at an earlier period ?—alt met with difficulties, and dillicnltiel which so their essinequenees were, I thmaght, very serious, the first day So Hu•,tsud Stn.-ban lyid int.thled to have equipped Ins flotilla far Ilse Western Scheldt in the tVest Putt, c oat icuous to the en• trireme of the West Scheldt, but the weather necessdated him to sack shelter fur it, and the only place aresodme to the stale of the wind snit weather at that tour that afforded a Orlier was the Ituompot, the other side of the island This I always considered as a very arrive• misfortune, but visiaveigable, a. ace r ourt of the state of the weather, for the eguipmest of flotilla was always understood to be a pet. Wary point to shy uperst ions and a very material one. What was the state of the ;ladle ?--rh. flotilla consisted of hetween so and 90 gen-boats ; they were to be rearm d, provisioned, and to receive their gllll.l, water, .tininuoutioit, soot ether ordnance stoma, and as the enemy were supposed to hislnsn a very strong flotilla to 1011p011e 1141 r coinsure up ei ther of the Ficheldts, it became the tint naval measure ati eolittely relitnittr. Is 11Se 09011611C* to Understand this flotilla, Was to be equipped after its arrival in the Scheldt !—After its arrival in thisfiebelJt, it would bare been umiak to Isere attempted looming them with their gnus in, they ware to be ismoted Gam the men of war. N hat tune del that equipment rewire!—lt was my first object on airmail in be Koomput, on the 'nth. Sty men flotilla, consisting of 243 sail, were ready the Next dav, hut I cannot state how many of the remaining part of the Mobile were ready that come delay sane from one of the ships, baring the guns in, nut haviaig waived in soffit:kid time Do you know whether say difficulty was experienced from the want of ssiairtent pilots by any part ofthe fleet , —From the experience I have had, I think myself justified in say ing, that, of all classes of men in swirly, ne it least id men attached to the Navy, Pilots ale the leant to be karate tn, end I shunt., mot have ebonite id taking • fleet up either of the Schelilts, upon the mint positive assentot I of plluts, without having examined the nevi= sties, and sa tisfied myself; my experience of pilots makes that caution necessary. How Wag &yea think it would require In hate made that examination of the navigation, as far as Weiorvftet. '--In ex amining the eavigstion, very great advantage wool I have been derived from the survey with which we were supplied Icy the Admiralty, a very excellent serve,; the tint, that it would have taken to have examined the uavigation, must have ilepeeirkd greatly upon the weather• ender favourable circumstantial, being, as we well, is possession sit hood. Beveland, on the tat of August, I should impel.", a very few days would have been respitsite, for we wet , very welt sup plied with the mean. , small vessels, Irony-bout., martens, attendants, and penpk aeriistomeil to snood and buoy uni gation ; it would he very unjust nut to any that Goverimient hail vet y abundantly supplied us, le my opinion, with the re quisite means. Were you acquainted with the state of Lill°, and the holm across the river at that place ?—I Ind the advantage only of arcing Lino within ..few miles from the ship in which my flag was hoisted, and on my approaching nearer it in smaller vessels; I was twice nearer, I presume, than three miles sail a half, or four mik-s the boom was early throw,, across, 1 am not retain of the day, for I am nut sore that a , per ceived it immedlstrly. but I think it must have been thrown Reams the teth of August. Do von mean that it was not thrown scromi the river earlier then tkis teth of Augus t?—Their flotilla set keit to Lido on . _ " ' Right Hun. Sir JOHN A NSTKUTHEX, Bari. in she hair. bat the channels sure Suoyeta, will' the strew:: of tide thew is in the Scheid:, the asasiers sir tuaab pus le being reserally•much accustomed to tide up and Soso rivers, I Il,i ,h the difficulties would intro boas got nye, {Valk, it one Lave ucJeasiented some delay to buoy those chimeras I—.lt might, eiadet (stateside circumstances a firmedww.• I two 4wye , will' the aihr list slice which I have before eatasoended. aslueh w. p!wsessed. Would there sot have been 6mi:6/terabit &flintily is car rying so large ■n ■rutaarwt dp Sehrlull witt I verel wools would have hero tame difficult with foul t had wills fair winds, and cestaknlypniaislarehle ctilficalliwa smut . . bore ileer expected„ and would have becu experienced, to movies ao large n fleet up ; bet they would !Ave been aur— inotnited, our means bring greed lx it by the Eng or t h e West Scheldt, yan imagist. the 1r ... . ... roatuest coukl have prioareded with the fiesteit — expedition, ouppoetug Satitsliet suit Antwerp their utpjPets was of optistun, judging (rein the charts uuh, behire I sailed from Eargiecal, that at would liave been wore advantageous to have moved tire Expedition tip the Fosters than the tYreterti Scheldt, but the Louwiedge I 11..• ptlektlS tOClto,s ate to Ore prefereece to the Western Scheidt Ervin the Liewletlg! you !sere of the Western Selrldt, do you thluh it _probable that so large sit vm.un , nt could be rativeyed up to the pace, and feint, thee:, proceid by sus wad by hwtl u ttd`iltilreeip, without? given; the wormy . - , le very considerable time f or pi e par st ion :;--I ameslee, under • fienowahle cocionstaiscro of weather, thr ansameast baring arrived ou the g9th of hay, drat-a 'is posstble it - might have been at Santvlirt M three dams. Doyou its:lode buoying the diastole' ?—I include buoying the rhanucl. Ito you include taking possession of the batteries ether of. Walebereit or Cathinad .—The batteries of Soufli-Beveleud were in oar posaessium but for afleet of transports to have goue op the 'Western Scheldt, I conceive the possession of Flush- Inc in Crils.iiiil would hove 'wen nitwit.; but I understood it to be the original ;Mention, that all lire troops lutesided to proceed up the West Scheldt weir; ha he embarked in nuns of war, which I conceived, being in pirmemiost, as we were, of South Boveland, might have pawed into the Westevi Scheldt, nutaithmandinz Cadsand and Flushing were both in p 1 ,1111410.1011 of the enemy. In reference to a former ques tion, I would hex to have it understood, that, in the event of r o il.; up the Scheldt with A fleet of franspotti, the trimmer I . gave was suppusiog Coldballlt or floalring to be in our pos session. I would not attempt to take a &et of transports up with Cadsand and Flushing in time possemion of the enemy lot with troops, winch, I torderstoral, were to he in men of war, I do nut consider Comisaador Flushing at all material. Is point of fact, were the Moor which were to land at Santyliet conveyed in men of war ?—The arrangement, I be -1 lifer, was made to take them all hi men of war; hut, by some mistake, at the lime of entharkation, some troop., tuteuded to bowe gone in men of woe for the Western Scheldt, were embarke - il in transports. At all events, must not the orilwome, the morters, and the artillery horses, have brcit conveisil in tratisports?-1 belie►e that proeisiva was wade for their being cooveyed in transports. • Theo it would have hewn seems:err fm an army to have proceeded anth a view to besiege Antwerp, with all that was necessary for that swge, to have been is poseetwuni either of Flashing or of rudsmot '--1 orm. might have beet laud. d on Berrlmil ned m imbed to the other mut of the islaud, and the needier of transport• in which the artillery and mor tar• would have been embarked, I should contrive, morlit have been towed by the men of war, or taken with the meo of war. ResoAdmiral Sir Rims •Itia KEST!, called ia. Examined by floe Committee. e sun consulted with by , any of His Majest ! ,'s lois , psettinitla in the nailing of the Expedition .--1 sin not tonseited ly 401 of 3layesty's Ministers, but I had a carrnalion sub lard (astir:each •I Deal, which I did out eunsuler to be liffirist It woe merely accidental. "d that coneenating regent the F.speslitioa I—eft did. e tbe 'warn lu ital . . it* selbstamee of that cost er sad the am. of it'—ll lest related to the state of the .r slink I reprearisieil r a very Waproyfallie &Adh irestirw at 14.41 itS•Ol.l of the year; the ante, I Iselitve, Jody, %he day before I received my orders 10 I off W ileherea. Hu Lordship then mentioned to one ieet of the Expedition, and spoke of the meatuses to inert. I observed lob's Lordship, that if the fleet of nil al Antwerp was considered the great object of the mita, that I hoped we should sot Gail ourselves ir is the siege of rhishing, or the operations in %Val ., bat that we shoolit proceed on to the ultimate ob ;nivel dicky. On his lairJ•liip qurshuniog me as to owle4. of ‘Vakheree ' 1 informed him that I It id no than what I procured scow the charts, and that I coo -1 from that luwk,lp , that the better way probably ta tr,ir up the Cud Seheldt ; his I.orillihip replied, die bad been m roatemplation, but that it had bleu on a farther comoderation. I also represented, reiy b a d hatch cf weather we hail at that lime, I hainl, sinks. a favourable change look place, that !neat rob by cal tying a flirt au nary nor-lows upon , aat, for that co tastily the scattier was of a worse asap we 'night reasonably have am...rte., at that tee the year. That wa. the substance of the cuovarsatiou had with Lord eavtlervagh. yun slate what farther conversation took plan, in f ,,,, 0-oenee of your anx.estiou that ilmo 11.50 should he Will I h r alto lc of Wale here is and ['Melong l—Lord astie. rather heard what I had to say, than appeari d di , I thulo4lkl, of asking me porta. ularly, nor do I se in it he no o k any labbeirt &buil II pull I hot sonnet. no know whether asp plan was concerted fur the at- Antwerp u, I du nut. I knew that Antweip unlimite object of the Expeildion, hoist as W i llie IA mu. sot of boy, exerpt that I viii ~fowl pa. t ‘.r I he 11. it to have guns up the Neat Scheldt ; but the mode of aim *meter I iltil mot know, woe Mil I evkti know at Isis the pla , :e at whirls it was iatendeil to disembark the lu the OM rob shun I was asked, whether I was by Hie Majesty'. Ministers; I shield state, twee r to WWII, and Wos informed by the first Lord of the idly, that I was tia ;Maputo OA I:v.11,401os, Ant I wag mutaletl; I was slily informed that I was 1.. go, stud ;le *Nett of tbe Espeditiou sea, and the that wig, but I was asked no imestiisn you give the Arid Lord of the Admiralty any *pins** leg the probable imue I—NO ; l was asked no goes eons quently, gli.l lent ventlirr t•.giVe any opinion. 'ere you w• II anima/used with the oarigatiors of the ni rev was In the Scheldt ; the only Imowledge sod was from the charts with *bleb we were supplied. d were the lostruchotas with whir h yos sailed —'.sly rises are in nay pocket. thty the same as the eriated paper '—l presume they have sot re a d th e printed paper. I WAS ilifeeteal , o.ire III) commas,' I think thirty. three ones of war, • , •ie k-e• other vessels. is which were embarked the 1 ,- r the may, eirsettmailed by Lientemint Ciesesal fist lip ' , and to emoperate wills him in poweediug up ao scheldt, and in geraiirg promession of Sautk Ite%e nth a view to take or destroy the SO% Batteries on that and alio on the islands of Selneweu and North &Air- Anil to secure the command of the narigatim of the Scheldt. This woo the foundation of my orders; het 'Ls are information reaching the Ailnairaily that temy's legit (rum Antwerp bail proceeded doss the It, and were at anchor r was directed by rimed So-arisen, who neat eat telegrephic wilco, Cross banally, to 1011)CCCol 111:111iCal itchy to sea off %esti here*, ('NN the cominairl of Ili, sq tadCo.l Al that tome nutter oimaiiit of Item-Admiral Ira 4 0 ; tr !tot.' Ito the emb u.s the-17th I j oiled Lord trarthrer, I "k u,. eau-need of Om Seri. Ou the ejth, in the " se. I 1na.,,; a Met, wk eh I issiderstood to lie part of `,.' 4 4,05. I real•iiad the command of the squadron to lia.-Itter, awl proceeded sod joined Sir Hichera p a sii the atone Iteep areal or, that day. a lid yi•w areve led amiss :.—.I west by lush from the ti - I lead takes up at IVemelillugs va the yd of Au 11'0.1Id not these operations have been considerably re tarded, tithe fort of Baths bad been defended a• it might base beer'—They would have Leen retarded I presume Biala was a work ib it the army would base got hint is the enure.. et • few Aar, aftbiesrela It had keen defended Dad you understand that Idllo sad Liefkensh +elk were en. palate of eonsiderahte defenee!—.4 understood siirh In be the opinion of mdiiary officers; 011 the tith of Amos*, at Balla I behave they welt works that add not have been reduced by the navy Was it not understood that they might here been defended for a ton.mterable number of ,t., believe errs:wily it was, but the enemy, at that time, had bad abundant eof time In provide modes of dttelice that possibly they Jot out rumens armour brat arrival. What modes of defame do you allude to, that tame within pier knowledge '—Striiiiuly yarns • e them t probably mmintine autos that might not hare been mounted, fie we oliserred them busy at work at an old fort near Lill", • h.ch they put into a .tote of itefenee ; and they opened a mor tar battery near Doti, whilst we lay off it. the what limy did you oti•erve this baitem Conetrofted . . . . . . . , They were constructing u bather' , at fort Ilendrick, which is the Slat I allude to , I think front the isth of August to the Stith or 27th. .he oust of the guns were mounter'; sad the twortur battery new Duel seas opened, I think, us Om glib or 29th. Have sin any reason to belie 'e that the forts of I.illo sad Lichen.hoed, were not in N dale of di fence %ben the arum meal sailml front Eueland isclom filthy opining that there weir fry troops in the country 011 our first arrival; het I do nut know that those forts were n o p er n e rty vvr j e spiet Have you say mums to think that the fortifleatioaa of Lille and Lief kensborik weie not in a .fate of itefeare, owd that they were out provoltd with a sufficient number of suns at the time of the sail's.' of the Expedition !—No, I hare nut ; I sweat to allude to troops, which I was of opinims the enuatry was almost destitute of at the time of use first ar- rival. _ the I ith, ow the so rival of our flotilla, and, I think, no the tath, went above the hoists. I think, inn the lath, se the I tth, the boom was throw■ acro,s, when their &sidle was all above the boom. It was thew that the' boom a% closed ; probably it had been constructed some tire before !—I prawme it Is shwa). in construction, ready to be thrown arrow,. Were you eousalteJ with resp,,t to dr! possibility of flee ing the passage ?—el was prow-so at • conversation on the 'Oster, of laths and Lief ketnatorik, ►ith nay Lord Chatham, Sir itichar.l %treat's, aud s:veral fkiseral Officers. ow the 26111 of Auzust.. . . _ . State what took place In that conversation t respected the marmite of the a. my, mot the mcaaarea to he taken for getting poseemion of I.illo and laerkesialiocilt, hat the Navi gation being open to %herr the river mirrors, a little brio* Ihmel, it was consulered hy Sir Richard Speclino that no An ther meaaures costal be taken in prosecution of the ultimate •bjett, hot in conjuuction osih army. Wm. it yam opinion that the boom conlil have bees forced 't —lf the l..rnn coul.l have horn (meta, I int WI polisilile good that cook! have repotted from it, except the forte of Ulu and Lief krn~husik could have been taken possession of. . Supp.ating it po-5.14.: for the .I..pring to have proceeded up the Scheldt inwards Antwerp, in raw the arty were com pelled in retreat, would it have hero pewthle for the large Vr..Cl. to Inv. etre. led their retreat, exerpt with a very fa truurwhle wisd it empowithle for the dcet to have pawed up the Scheldt tiativecompauird by the army. Their return, in the event of Ile army retreating, in that Harlow no• wig ohm, gnat hare hers, greatly depewk.st nem the wind. ; fur I helm% e the chanuel a is some place. an narrow, that it wuwl.l bare hoeu unprortscable to have titled it dowse. 'rben tittle ...1001.1 have bees danger that the Sect, in It, retreat, would nut have kept pace with the retreat 4if the army —I think, with strong westerly wiptle t the d.et utizitt nut havebare been able to g../ rlnwu twat with a change "(wind. In it year opinion that the fleet enuld not have pc... ceded up to Antwerp, mule.e the army were 111 pown.a..un bolts of Ltliu and Latheoshovik '—lt &Imposing the at ay to pure...tun of those forts, could the fleet bare procred.•l sad veto. wed with wady, of the heeds were is puweetion of owe Lank of the river, Itetir.44 n IS,. foils and Antwerp ) —1 thigh there etwahl hare been. snaniterahle rovk ; bet with ouch ow ...Neel in view, I saw a oisimiusi Sir Richard Strarlsois worth' lave attempted It. Conssikung the ratent.nf the 11/1114•11111111, mid She itttether of gruel.... is, w it Not probable that • cutianterable war. of titer ...old hate eterted, from the mutat of the Bret from [teal, IA the tune *heti the tr•wps "Dahl hare horn all thweraharked at Saiti.,.el • —lt oust Mat, brew J-p,inleat upon weather; awe •it those measure. that al sohjeet to great chance. Them you have no mesas to (blob that the forts were ant in a perfect s of defence, with reopen to their works, at the time of 1011, lint arrival —No, certainly not. From the entail (ditto works of Lille and Lief kenrhurik, do they require many men to garrison them?—l do out know . the talent of their works, but I should apprehend they mast require some handrail mew at least to garrison them. Supposing there were some hundred men barters in those fort*. would it cut have brew omit those forts had been reduced by siegr. far the Bret to have co•opirrnied in any titlark upon Antwerp )..-The Bert ihruld not Imre co operated in as attack two* Antwerp, above Lilly and Lief. lcashurik, moil they were reduced Had you any knowledge of the • of the fortifiritinas of Antwerp at the time you arrived at South Ilescland ?-n-1 bad rot Had you any knowledge of the amount of aroapsin Ant werp opus the :oh of Annum , —N.,, the. , wet. cartons re. pu t ts an to the state of Antwerp; some strung Antwerp to be destitute ; others the reverie What tun of the service did you conduct yourself !—My original orders direeloil me la petered up the L-.at Scheidt with the ..serer of the army, to get pairoresear. of Swath flerelsod, mid the islands of Sehmeen and North Bevelaud, a n d I 0 teCeure the ,sas quit ton of the Clittelt a Scheldt ; I was rifle, word. onl. red be nor k 'chard Straclian to lake upon me litersmomod it hod; it bridle, and en the lath I Mdfied my Gag Loin the kint to the West Scheldt In rhr rut . % 111111 U of the ottleci , which you received, hew rums ilid you arrive with the naval force under your constuand at South Ilerrland ?-1I landed the printip.it part of the re *vac uf the a r ray, with Lieot -General Sir Joint Hopr, tot the las of August, but at that time Sot well sarkeitsuiling the rinvi4 thou, abrupt of woe curly were taken tap with toe. but wt Aimless& moved •p the frigates and even skips cf the line At shot period did the frigates sad ships of the ling a.. rine I .-annul at present state the dins, bat I could JIM , * CArl ler owned theta Up if I had (nowt it sequin a.. Can you state within • Jay ur two of the time ?-..alt the 60 4 o f Aur.o.t tort. rent some fr9gaies ar, sod on the nth the Superb. ■ ship of the li..t ; in the conntrainil I had ,it the Fastens Scheldt, I kept ships tilt Zinc-hoer, wills a •ii w corer that Island (as we found it very u,firl to .Iclis the supplies) to keep the iiihalotents to mite to overawe th em sad to keep On enemy floaA A, end nil *hips were. f,eqii •ntty Is not the Awes of &la, soefiderably its Teased be tior autortsess, thu wttut. As, gam,' tatttcuei of the sustrusalton ' . .• - .. i . . . • ."; - 1 - ,1(0) . "k • ... . b' ..1„ .XL'11 .:: ° " . ,,,. ". ;. :C li i: f") '1';'. . 1...: • .: '. ililli:* tiii. ? !.. % ` .4*. e ' :-.V-111..'? ..:-Zt • , . . . . . . • Ilmili .... 1 ilk_ / • • . ‘ : *.'"'.1 6,,. .'' •4•••• •• . ' .. f5,11',.6 . c.. 41-.‘ , .. r,..r7.- :.P . - .-.-”-------..r..11-Zl--at , f • .• • • .—_,.—._.• . . . . . .... ______. .. lt FRII)AY, FEBRUARY 23, Ist°. . r - •-:•:sv • eit-nAtirrlNitr. • - •.%; -. • --•........,;44.,i, ~... -• i .-- . .., : . z . . . .• .NI . 4 0 , . % • • . , ••• I eyed, Wi t h ... -.. tar , • ••' the Nallidie il& Now r• ~,i haw • . ' 1 1 i eaters of trans ... .091 • u eidiged . din o4lni . . ,op awl *WS had spi...- '''...c • I ~ 11 OVCr. • Os. ll,y nth y,..... buoy those no the nth, a .tep or n,lances a ....hr.' skein op snorter, if ii.... i which I induce, you to think It soma not nem.- . Looser •—Aecordisitt to the command with Vr... , 'ls rat- I stationed my ships, as 4 thought, best calculated, .... sled*, circumstances. I Mond ft requisite to station some ships ii. I ;. I ilthan the keels,; lnniAt 1 kept off North nevi-land. .My object 1 . utast for stationing ships in the Ktetais was to cover the islands • t, in of Duireaud and Schowen ; and my object in keeping ships mar- eiWColletiplvat in North Beseland, was to Protect the few 1 ' tedispiwis .hark I had orili-red Slime, and also conceiving 1 •.. that the knot emit/411in°, whenever it luck place, would be • fro. Coltespla.it in North Bevelsod. .1 Yon thought Ilia abipi were snore woefully employed in • other services ?—riseisely i.o. Whew did all the ships at ris e,having these things that wen votessary fur the equipment and acting of the army of re. Irve I---I to:lied; ow the Id of August there was a victualler, II belietes ship with sonic honors, absent. I think those e tie only abips that were at that time absent, it appear. t bs by mistake. vs did the ships, having the heavy artillery, and bay horses fur tbr draft et ilia smithery and obta the , living cavalry on board, arrive -T here was one of I ry silmmi.gat ins shore near 7.4tetseeroossiListi• berms ed up sie small redels ; but I heltevaall the burros 'is the reserve, and all the artillery of the mserve„ I Nit landed, were, if I mistake nut, lauded on the ' of August. the batteriog-train, destined for the siege of • , .e '—lt went up the Western Scheldt, and . . vl between the 2iith and Attb of Angell. . i o unnecessary delay in their arrival; so far as li. `hey, hoproper nivnagement, have arrived so usumeessary delay. Wasters of trans. gees, if they are with.ut men-of-war, we Is left entirely to themselves, and were •, . ~ ilow • I have no know/leder of muve- or iiideecithe nice of war, at lb. en- whit, l. shifted your hair on the 141 k of time West Scheldt '—l'erfeetly. i the state of Ilbe flotilla wbicb :- I • 9ne 20-gun stop, tro sloops, i 3 lip, three divisions of goo 'led with carrosades. k Mt time in a state to per , taptditios, at the Array th yon'-Nu; I did not f , ficient, et that time, to ready, to bare entered ; Court Rosslys„ on the 11 t bavitie receive , . or an. plan, a, d tit i ishm.,ii of the la the tic i at Aot. • command ssf runs had been I ktor ,, at the I nu) was not not ; I had pretaturn, .tes, &Oil ',ire any 'sail at not A nil .it k,, 1 Is ii ' ! . • ! , . I"i ' i i i t . Ito of 1 1., lan A. fi ef it; mi if II: f 1 ! yon ord• ea some frigates to he moved up, and. os Me sib, a of the line, but you say you could have ordered glum ~ p sooner, it recess cry ; what circumstance, induced yen to ilmik it was Rot necessery to more On ta ttp sealer —Arrordiiie to the command with which 1 was left. I atetioned my ships, as 4 thought, best calcialated, under all circumstances. I toped ft requiaite to station some ships in the liertim; BOUM . 11 kept ofr North Macleod. ..11y object fur stationing ships in Ktetaii was to cover the islands of Duireaud and Schowen ; and any object in keeping shims eff Collesettat in North Beveland, was to wutect the few temisports which I had ordered ilsere; soil also conceiving that the final embarirst inn, nbenever it hook place, would bt fruits feltesplaat in North Beveland. You thought the shipi were more usefully employed in other aervices ?—Precisely i.o. Whetted all the ships atria e,baring those things that were necessary fur the equipment and acting of the army of re. Seim biseve ow the ut of August there was a victnaller , 04 I believes ship with some homes, abseat. I think those were the only ships that were at that time absent, it appear ed to he by mistake. When did the ships, having the heavy artillery, and bas ing the horses Mr the draft of the astillery sod when the ships haring cavalry on board, arrive -T here was one of the revelry ships. gst essi shore near Zinietssemeesitels• bevies wee aimed up n small erts,els ; but l helimeell the horses belutighic to the reserve, and all the artillery of the emotive, requirrd to he lauded, were, if 1 mistake not, lauded on the has, gd, or 3d of August. IViaico did the batterieg.train, destined for the siege of Astortp, arrive'—lt weal up the Westcru Scheldt, and must hare arrived between the 20th and lath of August. Was th •re a.iy unnecessary delay in their arrival; so far as yea know, could they, Loproper nivnaernirat, have arrived somas. ?—1 know aim unnecessary delay. Masters of trans ports, left to themselves, if they are wittieut men. of- war, we know are very idle. Were those transports left entirely to themselves, and were they Mk do nut know • I here no know/irate of move smatsairthe transports, or ;eiders:lth, own of war, at the es trance of the itfestern Scheldt. De yos recollect !weenie slate,' your flit on tLe 4th 01 Attest. to the Camila, it tiro West Scheldt 1)6 you recollett what wag the state of (be flotilla which WM with you at the time ?—One oci-gun s►op, fro sloops, omen gun-brigs, one rorket;sbip, three divisions of gun boats, and thirty list boats, armed with carroandes. Did you consider !myself at that time to a state to pro- teed to the ulterior objects of the Laptilitios, if the Army had befit ready to cooperate with you '—No ; I dot not consider that the naval force was sufficient, at that time, to have jmitibed me, had the artily been read', to li.tre entered intoasy uperatious. For ',bat purpose did yoje write to Lord Rosalyn. on the 17th of August r—in euissitittewee of my haying receive , ' nr der. (now say Coarroander-aadlikief to fors any plan, ao d to art with wily Land Itosa4n fur the accomplishuirut of the uat lento otieet timely, the destructioo of ibe 11t.t all Aos werix Hid you consider the force then under your command suf ficient to have induced you to proceed, if the army had been ready to cooperate would have guise; but I knew at the time I wrote to my Laird Rosalyn, that the army was not ready ; 1 hoot tveiy femur to believe they were not ; I had sent my Lord Itt.slyn on the I.lth, and l was in expectation', misery fide, of trivoi•i.taar ships, of the line, oiol hix.tes, 3J141 11.1 I mu-t hove had a matfieseut naval force, bcfne any plan could have been formed to act upon. yve ewer he be weateratmeaL thei it the army hail it list tune been reedy to co-operate with you, you hod not a sufficient naval &are '—‘ffia; I think it would have been my Maly to have go:or On, if the army had been ready H.. you consider that you had at that time a suificirnt force to operate with the army, if it bad been had not ; I hod uo other flat boats than what I hsoe,ht sue from the 1: .lltTn Scheldt, the fiat boats from 'lie Wes tern Srhe:dt had not arrived; I could have tromported at that time but A comparatively small body of MVO , if I litaiitlol 14 its allusion to naval finer in the sitwatton of the enemy at Antwerp, and with their boom scram, with myself in possessio• of a very fiensidalite hula and is fingates or sloop., I should have COI isolcreil it any ditty to have rota es, kit.inieg also that a fonds more fotranklable !moat force was On it* inionnee to sue. Winn slid you rective any rcinforremext. was j.,1, receiving resat - on-twenty Ho the next shy, the ISlh, one ship of she tune, one fifty, neir twelve frpole9, not lswer.ty gon 11.11., eleven sloop , , four bOus6l, eight gun brigs, amid bye dismally of gun-Lows. Hid you on that any or the next, send Sir Home Popham to Sv Reichard Strachais ea, I helieve it who the inits. What 11.1 your olucet SO sending Ste Home Poptiaio to llir Ito hard itraebs; ?—My tilijet4 is module S.r Huse Popham to Si. ittebard tkinetiaw, was to beg that 6.. i boats snit& k hissiesiest, and el.piewoug sty that the Co *- mow, i in l'is:sf Of bulb SerVICCI MIMIId at celesitie, by every ata ma in their poster, waster's' :• *ere to be ander - tslo . II lien yon were informed by the Admiralty that you weer te take a past in this Expedition, allot was stated - yam by the First Lunt of the Admiralty Is be the object the Expedition >—Tbe taking of Flushing. swathe &slime. tins of tlw enemy's Beet at A .twerp, were pointed oat me as the treat objects for shirt, the Expedition was (onto , Did toe rapres any hope to the Font Ehrd of the A.!nil rally, that you 'humid not he ineambereil aid, the .i r , e Floshism, or tic twentieth.* of Walebereet I did nut 1 ass not eons ailed, nu °pinatas' was mind of me, as I bur , before observed. Whet you empresen to Loyd Vestment Castlereagh your hope thee the Kap:datum would ant la• nicsinskuireal with the ewe.* of Floshime, or the oecupation of Iyol. Item., what oh sertithaw did land Castleresith mate t, you —I think my Loe.l Castkreaub, (but I tho not tot, taut it was thought Walehereu could not be passed without Lielog taken pusenain of. An nut west..rly Winds the most prevalent winds in the Selo Idt .hulne the time when the Lapedniun wits in llytt river'—At that Wasuu of the year. I think, sesterlt a tuft soec t All) pi et ail, sod, I think, they preluded in the h held*. %%hen lon *cm asked, on a C.l met pail of Salton, roe opinion as to the pi cettealithly of how's, you soul, that even 1.,a ih e bo n . bleu dot nut thtakti.valltp• eisolJ pay. up without the of the CAI' tef Sono sued Let attualsmik y du y..it em.antertag the brad of the crew., atwl the obluis, the h•oom, it INV% likely that your altipacinstal I a , way sufficient to base broken the boots'—l doubtful, but the preferable sat, pettier*, of I Munn, would have been by spproorhtog She e , think tt would 1/4.11 beeu Junes it for the obit.* I ken the Imam, RCA, iiideed,rErensely elitheolt is without! ham.% p. 11.014.111 of those torts cl "old not the e--els, wlritet er they had hem attempted to break the boom and h•sioth hove hat tiara*u or muter the eon. of fart keostweik, an. sit 1:3•10 hum n conseqise.o It rikrd he Slut furl.t4 out more tnientet) Running where thertids of the fixed trot v,;. ‘..th the lotto, I canoed p.. the nimatlio. 116.;..th 11.. y might have lima t; fro!. St. I. %twat.... would have hem. I ere markt tt b. t was the hotal too cuticle% the creme shit heloiol the ho.iso ----rh,..c mi 14'7 0 , it , o o t.IJ permit WV., .141 titers, at c ice ilUm. 161, weir (city of alrecniit I larcifts Had the detest...of the !wow been forced, w of r fatt• mom tlit St lola', w kWh tint pea.... let Kf th , .) mold I use ti.athi d Aftwei • • HUMBER 2212. THEATRE-ROYAL, COYliMgr., Lulls EvENLN(;. FRIDA y yiti he performed, (itth Hum) dete r rkree aiedN is tempered with Merit, ea/ ; )a Einc - r OF CHA TS g be 'added, facecloth limo) a Na ----16Bt 'ET OE BLUNDERS. THEATRE. T EA • ins EVENIN(:. FRIDAY. F neer Majeatiee Serrate will pedal tVAVS AN') MEANS, frlteloc 6a Dra i ii:EsltEltG, and the Farce of AIRS. kn. %RING FOR I ' UBUI Al • l oaded, in Royal Quarto, sad tilt was I.:twat-nips-6km Copies ow lope 1 „.„,/ imponaiona t oN DON rii,l WIESTMINSTE Hie and Survey of these 1J 0" 1 " 1- - • • Aif semi ,„ P ao• torype • F ion P "'" ' ii x . 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MINVTIOtaf EVIDENCE taker (refine ti, of die WHOLE HOUSE, appointed I paw, sad coadwet of the ;astir LXPE !AM ELDT. The Kight Liao. Sir JOHN ANSTKUTH Lair. EtrAdwiral Sir Run •so )(ears Examined by tie Committer Were run consulted with by any of His • ter., punanislr In the sailing of list Exped, coasted In an, Of Hs; 31wieftly'd Kusist essurrnamm soh Lord f astlrreagh al Des turamder to be official. It ens merely amid Eat that corer/eta regard tips F.apedlt Have the goodness to ilts ilia! 'abates w hoa, sad the Jaw of '--.111 last rel•ded rather, who h I represented r a vet y es ▪ aware at that season of the year; tht mss 1k salt ..f Jody, %he day before I race pocued off W 411141rea. Flw Lonlabip then the °Neel of the Expedition, and spoke ul le avowed. I observed to his Lordship, I normal at Antwerp was considered the Lis:dome, that I bored we should MA • is the siege of Fhishiag, or the demi, bat that we shoolit proceed on I. pet, mihuut &ley. On his I...rJ•liip 111.4 It kanirktlze of ‘Caklicren 1 informed F • all, tha n sl a t I procured foots the chart eri.el Iron 11,4 knowledge, diet the het vow I L 1., 7,111 up the Colt Sehrldt ; hit I t!. , ! Lot bees in roatemplatiou, but • on a farther consideration. I the nay Lsd loth+ cf weather we Iss awl hated, nobs., a favourable chaitre • lama areal risk by tarrying a fl ir t li that coot, for that cti wady the s vatic Stop than we right reasonably hare tay retitle year. That was the substance u I. that I had anti Lord Castlereagh. Cs yon state what farther coneernat, t. eitasewieare of your 1111;fgealitry that so till 111 tie snack of Walamitis and ['lnstitut nigh rather heard what I had to say. • *sea s I u' n 'til, , of asking te e patio ul looker d he nook soy Otter* &hurl Ovals Boyar know ehether ally plan was co, a het of A n t wer p Idu nut 1 kr eat the ultimate object of tbe Expeddion, I knew out of any, except that I Rude rstra. Vt,e ho base goat up the Neat Sitieldt Mack upon Antwerp I awl toot know, nor that lino the plare at which it was intendk way. la the heat qu. onion I was asked, . " 11 . 4 by Nu Majesty's Ministers; I teat fie to town, anal wts informed by the a AUeorally, lhal I was to gat Nuns the I.:sie set evassercil ; I ass etsly stsfurssed ahrt the *Nett of the Expeslitiou was, as. .t.t gulag, bat I area caked no onestinn bid due give hit bird of the Adu respecting the probable issue w' aud, eons yttrally,lll.l tort veotwre t Wert you w• II arquasuied with the I 'dela es err was in the Scheldt •II I 4 .vord was from the charts with which Who were the lostruchous with whit I raehlital are is ley 'umbel. .r. they the pair ikt ernited paper I Lave out read the pouted paper. ;:• • under say ensinasil I think thirty, • ,cse (cc other messes. in which wry" 's t the lousy, teemstasiled by Lieut 11.,p ' ' and to to-operate with hit ttel ' arldt, and is ginning pusaessie title to take or destroy the S. N e'l, and allot on the islands of nelnewri :y VV and to secure the cu naiad of the Fcloeldl. Tins wan the foundation 9 " 1 ., on information reaching r, 0 / . • Gee Imo Antis Iv l erp 4. 7 , 01, sod were at at T Mashingpr hod Strachan, who rieei,rnl Weir I.hatralty, to pioceed tleosedi ately • *lssi the vontftletti of On tadran • loraaral of Hear-Attune' Lord ...sr ' • • da:ed lo min; u.s Oa* -17th I j.,i it,. eouiaoted of the Mere t. • ." term.: a heel, wk eh I wader ••• I ve 4 .1.0u. I resiAiod the command traidner, awl pc.reeetk..l and 4, u s tin Stour tired About ono, tb , • ••••• wrier mil Meths `S' I had takes sip at ‘Votschtlui y.llts. bryll...og tile !.i "kr yse 14 . •Al ripsi Ole I I 1.14. 1.440.1,05 s et ay.. bad erod- ible!' it very bmalting IN tutt•lvols. I to halm bet 111 ItVay Wan e, which b. 41 I,llhcir PHlt lagrouttltbei '—Vliib lit boom vt.,• att.%eil f. t ti 1.0•411 ; rev- telti d. lhot tntiecii• r entail rcto. *ea 1 b.f. V, O•VSI . 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