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that inquiry, I should wish to hope were now extinct, • it vvas naturelly to. be apprehended, ,from the,..cone Unfortunately; however, appeerafices serve . too mach stunt' communication between - St. Salvador end "the to warrant a contrary apprehensien._ ,But, yet I feel Rio de la Plata, that every information ' reseeel confident that no description of prejudice can operate ing . the. naval and military , force of the am - teem-set against me on this occasion, at least SO 'far aS this would be transmitted to the . Governors of. - Moete 'Hon.• Count-is Concerned. - 'Lookin roun 7 d. -rne here i Video and ReenossAyres. Therefoie, - under - every at so - many distinguished and konourabie men, at 50 e sieweoE thessubjea s it was most advisable not to she- Many of the first ornaments of the professioti to e fee thee:attack- of the Spanish . possessions.:: Urgent, which it is my pride to belonae . l cannot tinier my- • hoverer,` ea, these' considerations may appear, they self to imagine for a moment that prejudice, or any : were not: sufficiently powerful—to , fix inpettentiou kind of midde infinence; can have weight liere—'-can '. aifogether,on the immediate 'execution of the pro operate in the slightest degree to affea the result of : jet referred'to. Various circumstances remained Co , this trial. But now tolsrticeed to the "share before ; be - weighed and examined; but none more partictiler yotr. I trust that I shall be able to shew, that thedirec- ' ly than, the.original cause of delay,stated , by Mr. Pitt, .tion Ireceived was not only Such as, under the circum- , namely,: the anxiety of the Emperor-Of Russia to et ltancess was fairly admi ss ible, b u t s u c h a s the Minis- • each Spain to the Coalition forming on 'the Continent terse under whose orders I-sailed to the Cape of Good' of Europe at the time I sailed from England. •Hope, fully warranted by their concurrent opinions, Carly in February, 1806, I received accounts . of at least by the concurrent opinions of those:who were the termination s of the war in India. In the course -understood by all to hold the leading influence in that i of the saute month I also received the news Of Lord Administration. I shall, however, not only afeew thee Nelson's glorious vi&ory off Trafalgar, and the ac an-expedition to South America was a favour'eteobjea count of a general Coalition against France, froM with;Mr. Pitt, that he had it in contemplation, - and an alliance with which Power it was .evident the .actually took some steps to carry it into,eliecution in ' Emperor' Alexander had not been able to detach .they course of his former Administration; but that he Spain. Towards the end of February, a Danish Yea never lostsight of it, being only restrained from at. i sel,which arrived at the Cape, brought English news tempting the execution of it by political reasons, which i papers, giving an account of the fate of the Austrians, no longer existed when I felt it my duty, foe the inte- By the capture -of the Volontaire French frigate, on rest ofeney Country, to proceed from the Cape of Good the 4th of March, I learnt the defeat of the Russian Hope upon : - .l)is . long prejeaecl,Expedition... In the • army at Austerlitz ; that Bonaparte was in posses conrse of the year 1804 a change occurred in the . sion of Vienna; and that when Willeamnez sailed Government of the Country; soon after which I was from Breit, he left in that port no more than 'six', appbinted- to the pose of bl oc k ading Antelope in the Dow hs, fin - the par- . ships of war, of which three only were fit for services the harbour of "Boulogne, in the From a German Officer, who was taken prisoner in abienee of Admiral Louis. that While I commanded ;the Volontaire, I also collee.ted such presumptive ship, Lord Melville, then First Lord of the evidence respe&ing the. ulterior destination of Willau- Admiralty corresponded with me on the subjea mez's squadron, as induced me to adopt the idea that, of Miranda's plan and on my coining to town in -after cruizing a certain time on the Bank of La , the mo nt h of O ctober i n that year' (at which period gullies, he would put into the Brazils for water and the probability of a :Spanish war had increased), -refreshments, and thence proceed to the West In- Ns Lordship direar'd line to consult eosin) with Gen, dies, more especially after he should have been in- Miranda, and to sligest my ideas on the subject of an formed that the Cape was aaually taken by the Bri expedition e ga e est t h e Spanish Settlements in South tisk forces. Indeed; so strongly did 'this presump- America, in t'he form of a Memoir. To the best of tion -operate on my mind,. that -I dispatched a small my recollefstion, I delivered this document' to Lord copper-bottomed transport brig to Admiral Cochrane l'lelville, on the Vei t of Oaober, 1804. Shortly at Barbadoes, to apprize him of What I conceived after. I was direaed to attend Mr. Pitt, at Wimble- , -was the most likely course to be pursued by Wil doel, i n order that lie might converse with me o n -l aumez , as w ill a pp ear by m y L e tte r to Mr. Marsden. 'the 'various, p o i nts com prehended in my Memoir.—, - I also dispatched the Proteaor gun-brigeo . Sir - Ed- In the month o f- D ec ember,•lBo4, I was sent for by ward Pellew in India, and•the Rolla -brig to endea his Majesty's mi n i s t ers to Deal, and at the same time your to fall in with whatever British squadron might the biadem, to which ship I was appointed, was put be employed in the blockade-of the:Mauritius, an (.:0111inissien for the express purpose of my pro- • These measures of precaution evince to this Ho ceeding in her on theintended . E x p e di t i on to S out h noura bl e C ourt my extreme anxiety to comMunicate • America. Various circumstances, however, occurred ' to the Commanders in Chief of his Majesty's Naval to retard the execution of this project; but, with the Forces in every quarter of the globe, and on every exception of the short interval of peace, it. had never station liable to attack from the enemy's flying sqlia . - been relinquished from the mOment when the idea drons such intelligence as might best enable them to 'was first suggested. _T hese fasts, as far as Lord Mel- intercept those squadrons; or to act on the defensive; ville was coneerned his Lordship will substantiate. and to altord every proteCtion in their power to the It,, July, 1805; I . received an account of the weak I commerce of his Majesty's ' subjeCte. state of the garrison of tl;i:. Cape of Good Hope, and While I was employed in transmitting this desire also learnt that a strong squadron was espeaed there ble informatioet to the East and West Indies, and frem Prance. Conceiving that the capt u r e o f this other-parts, little did I imagine . that J should have eettlement, while it would materially contribute to . been accused of not affording protection to the trade promoteihe interests of my Country, miseet like- lof His Mitjesty's millet-As, merely because I did not, wise Gifford facilities to the projeaed conquest of th e with my Squadron, becorrie stationery. at the Cape, Spanish Dependencies ou the East coast of South where I was not enjoined by my instructions, or call- Anierica, which was a main object ein the mind of ed upon by any apparent necessity to remain. Mr. Pitt, 1 hentediately pro e osed to him that an During the late war our cruizers were constantly . armament should sail without delay for the.attacic of either off the mouth of the River, or absolutely the Cape. This proposal . was acceded to, and, in cruizing off Monte Video ; one of the ships indeed the course of a few days,„l.received my instriattions which had cruized there, was under my•conernand 5 to proceed in the Diadem, as -Commanding Officer and, independent of every other consTderation, I of all his Majesty's ship's and ve sse l s des need f ee not Only had the opinton ofthat respeaable Officer, that service. Mr. Sturges. Bourne, then one of the Captain Rowley , who was on the Cape station secretaries of the Treasury, was present at the con- •last war, that the Rio dela Plata was conceived as a versation to which -I here allude, and will corroborate 1 part of that station, but the unanimous opinion of my account of what passed on the occasion. On every Officer under my command, some of whore the 29th of July 1805,1 took final leave of Mr. Pitt, will, I have no doubt, give their teStimony to this With whom 1 had a long conversation on the original effect.--I beg' it, howev er , t o b e un d erstoo d, t h at project of, an e x Pedi t i on td Soinh America. Mr. these opinions were expressed long before our arrival I'itt informed me that from ,the negotiation then at the Cape. pending . with Russia, it appeared that the Emperor • Does not this prove that the Admiralty considered Aleisander was extremely anxious to' attach Spain the Rio de la Plata as an enemy's port, which ought to the coalition, an d th at unt i l that matter should Lie to be constantly watched by some of the cruizers determined, he,(Mr. Pitt) felt a delicacy in tee , d under the orders of the Senior Naval Officer et the to the commenc e m ent o f h os ti le operations i n Sonatrh Cape, and consequently within the limits of his corn- America; but that,. as soon, as possible after such an overture should ha v e been rejeded by the Spa- mand ? But, notwithstanding the opinion thus pos sessed and enforced by a former Admiralty Board; teish Court, it was his fixed intention to enter on lam brought to trial by the present 'Board for peearrlead igioal proj e a, an d attac k Spain in that dis-. i ng my squa d ron to attac k the Span ish P ossess i ons t but most vu ln era bl e quarter. I lament ex- on the Rio t i e la P lata, when I had every reason to t emely that 'any proceeding should have made it ne- believe that no French ships of war were in the cessary for me to state these _particulars relative to vicinity of the Cape, - or likely to arrive thither from the calculations upon a Spanish alliance, but the Europe. . fault is n o t m i ne. Any thing that serves to shew lam charged too, with having left the Cape ex the value attached by those from whom I derived my posed to attack and insult. On the contrary, I main appointthent t o t h at o bi e&, for the execution of fain, that through the well known zea l, abili t y, an d which I am now brought before you as a deli • judgment of 'Lieutenant-General Si r D av id Baird, Manifestly pronquent, per and requisite for my jostifis is the' Cape of Good Hope was pl ace d i n a state of the most perfea security. The raitary dispositions .of Cation. From wh a t I h ave stated, it will, I am confident,' appear evident to every Member,of this that distinguished - Officer were so judicious and skit- Honourable,Court, that if the attack on the Cape II fuls as to inspire the . firmest confidence in a successful of Good Hope preceded that on the Spanish settle- iesult, even, under the supposition that an a tt em pt meats, the priority was th e result of mvown immes . ' should be 'made to wrest this conquest from the Bri dime suggestion to the late Prime Minister. , It- will tisk forces, while his political arrangements gave likewise, lam persuaded, appear not less obvious to i the most general satisfaaion to the inhabitants of that on my interview With very unpr e judiced mind, every destription. The garrison had been strength that illu s t r i ous St a t esman , h e f u ll y an d unequivocally ened- by 'a levy- of native militia, and its me a n s t eengtleaed the. conviaion wh ic h I en t erta i ned O f of defence were deemed so ample and adequ a te his an intent. eis to follow up the ca pt ure o f the Cape, •by Sir David Baird, whose opinion in such , a final intaerview, on the Spanish settl emen t s e for at ti n§ case I considered mySelf justified in adopting, as Huskisso r n y' sit evvvh Mr. Pitt desired m e to fur n i s h M r. he was the most competent judge . in milit ar y Gentlemen a memorandum of the names of the ntlernen from I '' affairs, - that this intelligent Officer did nut he w lone he was likely to obtain any. sitate to furnish a detachment of his gallant further informatio n he might _ want on the subjeet. troops, in consequence of my submitting to Mr. Pitt was then leavin g him all the intbratatiOn I had received resi7ealies the Secretary's Room at the Treasury to go intothe ' 0 the Board Room ; and Mr: • defenceless state of Alonte Video and 'Buevos Ayres, liUskisson coming • in at the other door just at the and my urgent representation to him of the great ad moment,l instantl com • ale "of ,tan ee . of 7 communicated to him the sub- ~ vantages which our Country was likely to derive, alless ati _ it ."what had passed. The veracity of this ! particularlT at so critical a period, from such a Ya iheetecirn will be confirmed to this Hon. Court by . hiable acquisition ae the conquest of One or both of ,1 of feat s sh ci ai ri t Y l ," Mr. Huskisson. When this chain t those places. Certain I am, that it is not necessary'; the ee have been completely established by ! for me to impress on this honourable Court, that - -neurr Sturges B o,lent "depositions of Lord Melrille, Mr. 1 the preference felt by the Dutch Colonists and necessary for the and Mr., Huskisson, it will not be natives to the mild and fostering proteetion of the that on rny i tne to urge to this honourable Court, British Government, would dispose them to have lent strongest conve•av!ng England, I sailed under the • ! their 'most cordial assistance in repelling a French taking the Ca iction, that after having succeeded in i force, if it were possible to expea such a force, as in tually to acco P m e, if:tothing. could contribute so effec- : the event of its succeeding in the attack, the Colony by .whom I hati Plsh the views of those Ministers ' would have become subject to the oppressive exaction to strike a blow' been entrusted 'with command, as . and tyranny of the French Government. But if any Spaniards should -be South America before the ! additional proof were wanting of the peelea state . faa, as there was prepared against it. In lof security in which Lieutenant-General Sir David necessity for the Squadron Baird considered the Cape after he had furnished me 1 under my command -to- touch at St. Salvador "for ! ; with a detachmeet of ai • , ~ I s garrison for the expedition ! water, on its passa g e f 0 row Enef 4 , to the Cape, land to Rio Bela la Math, itis to'be. found in thecircumstance . .of loviagyeilifun2.2l l a se- . detachment el his troops, Tnis sUreiy n:she3 incontrovertible eviden , :x that Si,. I).,Blircl • co:: :,16 . 1:6c1 the Ca - Pe in n , J.dangerfrorn the weakness gLari ion, Or means fEtfenee ; Ibe availing In - yself Of aid which hiy ;or ja:lgment, felt could. be afiimi - 2.:.1 v i.h prfect salety, • my, eptcyprje beingcrp - Facd' i wthr.snoclels_,*on i 4. • petOing truth, sir,, it. is manifAt!,,f i rotv every, : yiew ; of °c,n,. conduct.of the Actrnir?.lt , ,Ebard, that, they. had no. intention whatever -to arraign me 1.. t ibis successful exercise of tbe diccretionary: Avith i .hich, I maintain every commanding :Officer, on a distant station, is vested, and which he. has I :am alto chatted with having' left the Cape with pit the mc,ans of taking et any ships of the enemy which havepu.. into any cf its bays or harb.,)u: - s, or any of the pores adjac'ent. :ow, Sir, I submit to t censii:lerayqp ofthisHon,Co:irt, whe .thor, after the retreat of Willeomne;:s squadron from what may be called the Indian Se-4411eredution of the French NaVal Force by. ~afMelson's glorious vitory off 'Fratitivr, and the ,brilli,na success of another .gallant Admiral, whoyendered that vidtory still more complete, by.the.capture of every ship ► .that had 'e , ,eaped from .the former scene pf there was the most distant probahility ,of the Arrival of any French ships of war at the Cape, or any of the bays or harbours in its Vicinity ? with„ the exception of one single fripte, mentioned•in a letter to the Admiralty,: by capt. Styles, Of the Ada-. moat, no French ship whatever attempted to enter toexeq for the,gooduf his : country. • The stz . " pjrcession, I conceive, .was .meant as t! :e extreme measure of pun'shment Indeed,.Sir, were:not . uur Naval and Military CoMManders, employed On 4- o*- reignierVice - , in distant quarters, allowed a for;the exercise. - of their discretion ; what.ill eonsc - quences would often arise to his Majesty's` ;ervie: ? ,To the Members conOsing this Honourable Court', the majority of whom have alreadv s filled, and all o whom are likely to 'fill, high. commands-onditant ' stations, it,iS scarcelynecessaryjo point - out the'com bination and the variety ofunexpected circutmtance3 . which. may . occur, and imperiously dictate the ne cessity of advantage . being taken of the moment in promptly acting against an enemy, which circum stances. may be such, that, delay might lead only tc) discomfiture or disgrace;. and that no , time could be _spared for cot - Ist - 46n the Superior Authorities at • . Valse Bay, or any other bays or Itarbonnt near the Cape. • _ . . . home, or waiting f6rtheir orders. Had such ex treme caution, such rigid regulations as Se:MIS. to The Cannoniere affords a solitary instance of an enemy's Ship attempting to shelter' Herself, or to re connoitre, in tbose parts ; and her arrival was a mere prompt the present accusation been biaherta) ch forced, that daring spirit of enterprise, that prom;,t and decisive energy of action which have -1 tam fortuitous event, of which it would not have been in Brjtish name and character to so proud and enviat)lo my power to take advantage; even had I remained in Simon's Bay, with all the squidron ; for the 'na tural Probability is', that, as soon as she should dis coverfrom her mast-head our ships lying there, she would immediately make a precipitate retreat into the otling, without my• being able to prevent her escape. Besides, at the time when I left the, Cape, the winter season was about to commence, during which no ships can lie in Tabld - Bay with safety.— 'Commodore Johnstone justly observed, when he was sent into those seas on a Secret Expedition, in 1781, it \i'as deetned unadvisable by himself and General . . a summit of distinction, would not only bare bt-en checked, but in a great measure . annihilated ; and the annals of our liitOty would not have been distin guished, by- so many gallant achievements, .which, though undertaken without orders, have, in ventral, been eminently conducive to the interest and glory of the Country. Numerous precedents exi..t which 'fully illustrate the truth Of this position, some of which may probably occqr to the recollectionof the Members of. the ,Court. Amongst others which .present themselves. to my memory it .this mornent, I shall beg leave. to mention the.c6w) de'maie which _ . . Meadows to attack the Cape in that season. No at tack, indeed, on this Settlenient was to be appre hended from an .enemy's. farce during the period, in . which I am charged with leaving the Cape exposed to attack and insult. put 'the 'British .Qrown in possessdn of ,Gibraltar. Sir Georae-Pook9 had no orders for undertaking that bold enterprise ;. nor was be arraigned by his Superiors at home for having e)celioied his discre-: tion on that occasion : on the contrary, her Majesty - Independently of these circumstances I would ask, }did every honour to his enterprising spirit. In the how often has the. Cape been without a single Ship of . Ainerican war, Sir Peter Parker, I believe, and Gen. War to assist is its defence dnring.'the time it was 4 DAling, the ,then Naval and Military Commaeders in possession:of the British Forces in the late War, at Jamaica, concerted an Expedition against the and the .Flag of the Naval Commanding Officer on ,Spanish Settlement •of Omoah, which, was to a. the Station left. flying on bOard• of a small Vessel, i certain degree seccessfule No blame, I under scarcely capable of making any resistaitee?' Indeed, stand,,' way attached to either of those Officers in l the hennediate expeaatien of the 'arrieal at the for having . dirteted this attack with ou t ord ers .— Cape of some men of war from England, I, left an At the .heginping of the. lat e. war , in rep, Lord order, dated the 13th of April, teed, addressed to H:.md entered r.i.leulon, acrd afterwards attacked ;any Naval Officer who might `arrive there, and be Corsica, without orders, and, / believe, against the j unior to myself, by which order he or they were at opinion of the General, who would not co-operate perfe& liberty either to remain at the C a pe ; or to . with him. Yet that Admiral was not brought follow, me to the Rio de Ia Plata, as should appear ' before a Coure-Martial for having so aaed , nor most for the benefit of his Majesty's service, after a was it ever known that his condudf Was censured. consultation with Sir David Baird on the subject. ---, . .1n 1796, Lord St.. Vincent (then Sir John Jervis) .If I am asked, why r. was so anxious to leave the : sent the heroic Lord. Nelson to attack Teneritie,• Cape in such apparent haste, as not to wait for the 1 in consequence of information which he received, arrival of the . men of war eXpeaed from England, my that two ships had loaded their treasure. there.— answer is simply this ; I was fearful then the delay , Every person is acquainted With the issue of that ee. inetw' departure from the Cape, added, to the pro- pedition, which lost to this Country su manY brave bable - length of the- passage froth, that prenteet.eay j L. Notwithstanding the disastrous result of this to the East coast of South America,might defeat the , intended coup-de• main; Which was unde r t a k en with .out enders fromany superior authority, it i s certa i n object of the-expedition, by retarding my arrival in the Rio.de la Plata until that season, which, from I that no public inquiry was ever instituted against the information I was possessed of respecting the Lord .St. Vincent, although if an opinion were to navigation .of this river, might render it impossible be formed from the event only, with o ut cons id er i ng the motives orate enterprize, the r e wou ld p er h a p s to sail up high eaough to attack either of the Settle,- ments of,Monte Vid eo or. Buenos AvreS. appear sufficient ground on which an accusation Another point -to, which lam desirous to call the might have been .expeaed and su pp or t e d aga i nst attention •of this HonourabieCourt is this—that from that Commander. But l e t t h e C ourt . patt i cu l ar l y lo . ok at the Letter recently p u bli s h e d f rom t h at il the manner in which the Secretary ofthe Admiralty replies ti ins' letter of the 9th April, wherein I al'" Instrious Officer .Lord Nelson, to Sir Simon Tayler, of Jamaica, relative to his di re 6tib n i n go i ng fr ont prised that Board ofeny intebded departure for th e . Rio de la Plata, for the purpose of attacking the s p a the Mediterranean to the We st Indies. These . Dish possessions, I had a just right. to supp ose th at precedents, Sir, will 'clearly prove the ex i s t ence the Admiralty Board, did not disapprove of my having and toleration of that cliaeretionary power on which sailed with the squadron on that service; for certainly I 'ewe aaed, , But I - have yet to, cite a case still it is rational to infer, that some expr ess i on of t h e e.. more m point, since the Officer whom lam going displeasure. would have been inserted in ,Mr. Mars- 'to mention - commanded ,on the very station which den's letter, acknowledging the receipt of mine of I arn accused of having left unproteaed,,aod who the date aboye-mentioped. Am I pot therefore' jus- actually prepared to embark the troops on board tified, Sir, in construing the silence observed on this his squadron, with which he was :ready to sail frotri head, as at least a tacit acknowledgment on the ' the; Cape to the Rio. de la Plata, in order to attack • part of that Board which has now brought me to trial those identical Settlements Which were the objeas for having undertaken the expedition against Buenos of my enterprize. The late Str Hugh Christian Ayres without orders, that it did not then excite their had carried his intention so 'far as I have stated," dissatisfaetion ? , But-in truth the importance which ,whet an account reached him froth India, stating the Admiralty now profess to attach to the Cape; i time urgent necessity of sending the military rein seerins extremely singular , when contrasted With th e i forcemente to our army in the - barnatia. This in- W • opinion, hiCh; from Mr. 'Marsden's letter tome,telligence compelled him to dispetch the troops to acknowledging the receipt of my ace) ant of its cap- India, and thus was the expedition to the East Coast Pere, they appeared to entertain of it a indeed, the i of. South America at that time prevented. This last . tame, the cold terms of that letter, would naturally case, whieh I shall prove by the testimony of Mr. induce att idea, either that the Admiralty thought the I.l) , l'Leeti, then• Admiral Christian's Secretary, ehews Cape.of little value in itself, or that it was of PO that. that Officer considered himself justified in cot - ISt:queere comparatively with the. ultimate objeet asing . hiS,diseretion in the manner I h av e d escr ib e d ; of the expechtion.—Really estimating the Cape as it and although OK expedttion did not take place, it deserves, it wouldhave been reasonable to infer from i was not becauae that Admiral had received no orders this letter, .that the Admiralty there aware of„ and for e undertaking it. , The , real cause of its having , highly prized that ultimat e eejea ;. but it is difficult i been relinquished was that which , I have already - to account for their coed 5f When the acquisitibn stated. If, then, Admiral Christian, without any was made, not one solitary expression of thanks *as orders from home, or previous communication. on prenoenced upon:those to whom it was owing, and theeubjea, thought proper to adopt the necessary yet lamto be condemned for having exposed that measures for undertaking an expedition to the Rio acquisition even : to imaginary hazard. The impor- de. la' 'Plata, during the period of his 'commandi n g tatice'ol e the capture was passed ov er in silence when the squadron at the Cape, how. moth more urgent, I night. ha\'e been gratified; but it 'is loudly en- and how much more justifiable Must havebcen the hanced When the.ohjea is to.depreEsame. Whence , motives which induced me to -engage in. that en this difference, I leave it to your reflexionS, Gentler 1 terprise, who' .had been appointed to time men ; I leaVe it to the rell e xi on i of m y C ountry. ship I .conunanded for the express purpose,`of pro- My letter of the 9th cif April was received by the ceeding in her to. South -America, and ,Who had been Admiralty Board in June last, and it was .not till confidentially apprised of the secret views and plans the end of AugUst that Admiral F,Tirling sailed to of the King'S ,Ministers respe&ing it long before I superSede me, with an order of-recoil. If my con- lett Engand ? -But, thoogh the intention of Minim al deal, in having engaged :in this enterprize, had Christian to proceed to tire at tack.of the Spanish Set been really disapproved by his M a j es ty' s ,me tlements was well known to his Majesty's Govern nisters, why, on their perusal of my dispatches, i ieept in England, yet I find on inquiry 'that the was not the Admiralty Board dire6ted to send out Admiralty - Board of that-day expressed no disap a fist-sailing vessel to signify to me their disappro- probation of the measures, he had pursued without hation of my conduct in having sailed to attack the their orders ; whereas I, who . succeeded in the same ... enemy without specific orders to - that effeet ; by enterprise, executed from exaaly the same point of which means also the visionary expence of t'he Cape - departure, and what is still not a little singular, une would have been of near three months less duration, ' der the auspices of the same Military' COmmander, No reason whatever can be assigned Ihr their hay- - I mean'. Sir David Baird, am now arraigned foe hie, kept me so long in such a state of anxious sus- my success, even at the moment: when Ministers pence, except, indeed, the uncertainty whieh the I - are :following up the blow I struck with all. the, British Cabinet seems to have been in at the time energy in their power, by employing all the forces. respeaing the conduct to beemrsuel n the event of l ' i the well can muster for that service; I have . saide . ; Sir, y that when the Achmiraltr learat-by,ray ienrrof • . .e- 1.4 r~l ,'. s~ Fy ;~ jR ~ 4 l ;~ ~K ~ j. ~.._ ~` A 444((({~j