The Sun. — London, England, 1815-01-28 00:00:00

-sure c o ire easily oveti • I.)* ctilcttl a - lion, if necessary. Up .to the 17th of June, army was const.antly in presence of the enemy, "whit h Of course prevented the embarkation. Af r that, when the embarkation could ,be safely entered r. u., in less than three days the artiliet y horses and ea‘alry onshore were einbarket.l. To' disembark so large an army, not less than four .requisite ; and it was impossible to join tike Duke del Pimple in less than seven days. It was impossible for him, therefore, .to reach the - Spanish army in less than fourteen days ; where as it was possible for Marshal Sachet to reach St. l'hilippe in seven clays. There was another eiremnstance which prevented the embarkation from taking place on the 16th, and that was the . suddeo and rapid return of the enemy from the Lobregat. Notwithstanding the roads were dc co:eil by Gen. Copons, Gen. Murray heard no thing of his return till the - enemy was before Tar ragona. The onlyconclusion that could be drawn from. this return - was, that a combined attack was meditating on the Allies ; but the enemy retired again the same night. It was his duty, however, to. provide against this attack. On the 17th, Lord W. Bentinck. arrived, and in consequence of the arrival of Lord Exmouth with 12 or 14 sail of the line, which afforded great additional means of em barkation, the army was all embarked at P 2. o'clock of the 19th.. When it was said that lie might have resorted - to more expeditions means of embarkation, he would state, that by the retreat of one of the armies of the enemy, he considered 12imself equal to the other ; and that there was a prospect of cutting off the column of the enemy. stir Bandifio. ; hut their retreat in the night frus trated that object. Yo conclude, - he denied this charge, both with respect to its principle and the application of that principle. There was nothing in his instructions by which it was w;arranted ; and the application, even supposing his ir.struetions to have been dif ferent was unfair. He wSs left to pursue that line . of conduct which he conceived best calculated to produce the safety of the army, and that which he actually pursued was in direct uni, son with the spirit of his instructions. In an., swer, therefore, to the charge of delaying. the embarkation of the army, he would state, that that embarkation was interrupted by imperious cir cumstances, when it could no longer go on with safety. The siege could not be said to be raised till the whole of the army was embarked. it was one thing to linger unnecessarily, and another to extend an important operation, when such exten sion was required by prudence. Here he was left to the exercise of that discretion which was vested in every commanding officer, except ht was tied down by positive instructions. THIRD CHARGE. General Murray rose to read the Third Charge. Mr. L'arpent observed, that probably Admiral Hollowell was not, led to expect that the Defence on, the 'Laird Charge would be entered on, before the evidence of the two other Charges had been gone into. Admiral Hallowell said•he was not. General M. then proceeded.—lr was no wonder that a feeling of discontent prevailed in the army under him, respecting the manner in which the siege had been raised. The Army of Catalonia were.desirous of rivalling their brethren in arms and.they felt' keenly the disappointment of the expectation which they had been led to form, however unwarranted such expectations might. have been. But .was it -astonishing that the dis. appointment should have become general, when it was considered, that the Officer at the head of the naval part of the expedition had told them there was no cause for the precipitate. retreat which had taken place, and that he had made an offer which, if accepted, would have prevented the loss of part of the equipment. Before, how- . ever, he could admit the Admiral's responsibility in this case, he had to consider how far it would have been admitted by others. If the offer of tanbarkation had not been then made, and since persisted in till now, as possible, he could not have believed that the idea ever would have been enter tained by an Officer of Adm. Hallowell's experi ence. With only two line-of-battle ships, he un dertook to have ail emhatked in the course of the night. Admitting-that he could have so embarked, every thing—how did Admiral Hallowell propose to accomplish this ? He said, if the army had been permuted to remain on shore till night, it might. have been done ; .but this involved Gen. Murray in the hazard which by his instructions he was to avoid.. He knew very well that the guns might thus have been saved ; but from all the intelligence received, General. Murray was led to suppose that the enemy would be in contact with him on the 13th ; and this proposal was neither more. nor less titan to allow the army to remain on shore at the hazard of its safety. Admiral Hallowell could not have been responsible for this. Had any thing been wrong in his 'own department, for that he would of course have been responsible; but it would . Itsve been no excuse for General Alurrav, with his Majesty's Ministers, that he had failed in conse quence of his listening to the advice, and the,prof fere& responsibility of Admiral Hallowell, who might in some measure-be considered as an indif ferent spectator, .and whose - honour was no ways implicated in'the issue. But Admiral Hallowell erred front ignorance of the truth ; he knew only of 5,000 men. of the enemy ; but had he been aware that there were more than twenty thousand, instead of five thousand, pressing forward to at tack the allied army ? This proposal of the Ad miral Mauled the minds of part of tlke army against General Murray ; but this Court Would see that he could not lis:en to it. I: appeared that he was in this charge accused of making no pre parations previous to embarkation. He knew of no preparations which the army wanted. If any were necessary for the fleet, he_ could not be blamed for any deficiency in that department, for Admiral Hallowell knew as early as the 9th bow probable it was that the embarkation was to take place, and on the .11th it was determined on in so ,far as related to the army. The transports Which brought .the troops were still there, and All that bras necessary was to order the boats to repair to .the beach.— What was the consequence of General Murray's adhering to his own determination Why, th e artillery horses and cavalry were all brou g h t on board, and nothing was left on s h ore but such things as were not immediately necessary. ror innately it was not necessary for biro to make any great preparations, tot had any such preparations been necessary, they would not have been made. 'the precipitation of which he was accused atone from the determination of adhering to the last mo ment to the ol;ject entrusted to him, Which ne cessarily brought_ with it the loss of some artillery and stores. This mea=sure as necessary to render the operations of the" Duke del Paripte as complete as possible. For want of judgment he might he. condemned ; but of want of foresight he stood acquitted. He had only to justify his retreat by proving the : superior-force of the enemy against him.-- 7 When the. Duke of Wellington retreated to Torres Vedras, was this measure condemned ? Vas the retreat from Burgos ever considered degrading ? And yet in those- cases much of the equipment of the army was lost ; and it. was only neces sary for the General to say that be was not equal to the .enemy in force, to stand acquitted. But the General was happy in being alone ! He bad no naval co-operation to impede and thwart him. When Lord William .Bentinck afterwards retreated fro►n before Tarragona, was it con sidered degrading ? The enemy was so superior, that prudence forbade hint to. hesitate a moment `.as to his course-. The superiority of an enemy depended mote on its composition titan its num bers. What crime Lad he committed, that the same credit was not to be given to his statements which had been given to other Generals ; and that his reports were not to he believed ? The cause was evident. Fix had only to cast his eye to the puree ‘vheticJiis,. accuser Admiral Hallowell was sitting,'and, the. source oral( this was evident. To prove the superiority of the enemy was a difficult matter, from the care %illicit they 'alwals took to conceal their numbers, and their activity in detect ing and punishing spies. fie did not mention this difficulty as an excuse for not establishing his case, but in order to bespeak the indulgence of the Court. The gallant General now . proeeeded to:state, that he would call the best evidence in •his power of the strength. of the enemy. He would first call General Donkin, from whose report, founded up on the. best authorities, it- would appear that the army of Arragon amounted to 24,000 men.• From subsequent accounts received, however, through the m , . ilium of an intercepted letter of Suchet's, it turned Out that the Jai' and 9th hussars: had been added to Sachet's corps,and that the total amounted to 27,900 men. The next person he would call would be Gen.Whittingham, from whose infornia-. Lion the Court would collect the army of Arragon to have amounted to 31,260 men. 1 his Officer obtain ed his intelligence through a channel distinct from that of General.Donkitfs, and had never seen the report of the former till his cwn had been deliver- • ed, so that it was clear a pretty fair calculation_ might be made. of the total army of Sachet in Va lencia: The next source by which this calcula tion would be - confirmed was a report of General St. Cyr's found iu a port-folio of Joseph's, in which it was stated ; that Socket's army, indepen dent of si c k, was 32,676. men. In taking the force at '24,000 men, therefore, he (sit John Murray) did riot think he shotild be accused of exaggeration. In Catalonia the force under Gen.-De Caen, from authority equally satisfactory, appeared to be 23,000, part of which was in garrison, but-13,000 men. of which were completely disposable.— From- hence - it was clear that the united army of Sachet and De. Caen-. formed a general total of fifty-three thousand men. In corroboration of this calculation, the gallant General read three military memoirs of Spanish Generals, which, added to his other .sources of intelligence, he pp.: - prchended would be considered by the Court as a fair foundation upon which to form. his judgment of the force which he had to oppose. it was clear too, that the army was, while at 'Tarragona, is the very centre of the enemy. They were threatened on the flank by the Catalonian army, and in the front by the army of Arragon, withont mention ing the garrison of Tarragona itself- 7 a circum stance which, he truSted, would convince the Court and the public that he was- not so culpable as the charge of Admiral Hallowell had boldly stated. . Sir John Murray next laid before the Court the intelligence which he had ,received at the impor tant crisis which formed the subject of inquiry. Some papers, on which his -judgment had been formed,,were lost, but. others he had preserved. These consisted of dispatches from General Manso, the Spanish General, and were. dated' at different' hours °Nth e 11th 'of June, 1813. Their contents went to state that the enemy were advancing to Villa Franca, ten thdusand men strong, with ten guns and two howitzers, to which information were added reports which he had himself received, of from two to three thousand men. And On the 12th he received a letter from the same Officer; stating the enemy to have arrived at Villa Franca, and on the back of the letter was a memorandum front general Whittingham, announcing that they had actually advanced to Vandrell.. With these circumstances in his knowledge, it was for the Court to say, whether he was not justified in the ff measures he had taken. The gallant General now adverted to the evidence produced by Admiral Hallowell, in support of his statement, " that the fire of the enemy consisted of but 5000 men ) ", and asked, whether the vague information of Spanish peasant, ill understood, and in all pro bability, a . French spy, wa s to li e rece i ve d in preference to the judicious intelligence ob tained front General Manso, confirmed by sub sequent - occurrences: He then continned to comment on the other evidence produced by Admiral Hallowek'and contrasted it with such facts and opinions as he ' intended to produce hereafter in his defence. He also account ed for what was called a breach of prom i se to Colonel Williatrison, by the receipt of intelli gence of the actual March of the enemy, and also the fact of General Capons being willing to arrest the progress of their advance. He then entered into details to spew, 'that the calculations of Ad miral Hallowell as to the numbers of-lhe.enemy were incorrect, and those of himself accurate.— From facts he was authorised to assume, that the force which Suchtft brought from Valencia was fully 9000 men,. and subsequently this force was - augmented to 12,000 infantry, and 1000 cavalry. On the lltb and 12th that force approximated so The Duke of I.VELLINGTON left Paris for Vienna, on Tuesday morning (the 24th) at five I o'clock. French Papers to the 2‘itli reached us this morning. They contain various new vcis►ons of territorial arrangerrients, which, 'they say, haVe been agreed . upon at Vienna ; but as they are• substantially similar to those we copied from the same anthot ities yesterday, we have not thought it necessary to load our columns with their repe7 tit ion. The Parisian Funds have advanced to 77 , or above 5 per cent. since they commenced a gradual progress upwards above three mouths ago. Some of these Journals speculate upon the actual signature of Preliminaries of Peace at 'Vienna. It appeari that the friends of the legal Sovereign of Naples-are acquiring strength and confidence from the rumours afloat respecting the instability of the. Murat dynasty—Success attend Lthem.— The following are extracts from the French. Pa- pers NAVISf.;, Jas. 6.—Reports (the circulation of which our Government have not been able to prevent) re•specting• the uncertainty of the Congress upon the fate of Murat, have revived the hopes of the partizans of our ancient Sovereign. They are very active, and their zeal every day increases the number of the partizans of Ferdinand. The improbability of Mnrat's remaining on the Throne of Naples, induces a great nanther of his partizans to abandon him. The army will not go soon desert him, as he has taken great pains to obtain the attachment of the soldiers. It is 'said, Lowe7er, that many of the troops in the Ofanhes are dperting. The health of the King and the uncertain :tate of thopublit , opi nion, mill not permit him to leave Naples, as he intended. VIENNA, JAN. 14.—The Cotifercm,:ts are now frequent amon; the Great Powers, and, it is generally thought that the Conferences will terminate 17.—The Military Contributions of this country to Au,tria and lhussiaa.re now paid, and ant Reve nues may be elnployed in fort.ifying our Frontiers and to augtueut our kany, ECNDS. 5 per Ofnts Bank Actto,is .... 771. 75c. 11651. Hamburgh and Frankfort Papers, have also reached us this morning, but 'contain nothing of importance. There is an angry remonstrance frotn Copenhagen, becatoe a German Newspaper, in speaking of his Confirmation, called the Son of GUSTAVUS 1V.." Prince of SwEDEN'!".th our opinion, , BERNADOTTE might. have let that circumstance pass. The King of WIRTENBERG, 1 is represepted, as so entirely Austrian in , his po litics, as to have lett a Carte Blanche with the Emperor FRANCIS, to sign any' Treaty in his name: 'rhe principal Extracts follow : FlnNovca, JAN. 12.—The fifteen battalions of the Land wthr which arc still in this Kingdom have received sudden orders to make their numbers complete. The young men bound to military service will draw lots,un the 16th to com plete the battalion in gam ison here. This battalion, it is said, I. will immediately march to Brabant, and be replaced here by the-battalion of Uetzen. The Officers of the Duke of Cunt , berlaud's Hussars have likewise received • orders to procure themselves the number of horses necessary for that service'. VIENNA, J.N. 14.—One Court Gazette contains an firfitAC relative to Tunis and its late Bey Sidi linitida . Pacha. It stares that Tanis can army in case of need, 40,000 men) but_ the marine consists of only nine chebecs, and tifteezi.'gtin boats, ill armed and equipped. The folloiving anecdote circulates here :—When,the Kin; of Wirtemberg paid his farewell visit to the Emperor, the latter expressed his regret that the King- would fact stop till the end of the Congress. The King pleaded . the necessity of his presence at home, and promised to leave. a plenipoten tiary with whom the Emperor would certainly be satisfied.— BeinKasked who it was, his Majesty laid on the table a blank.. sheet of .paper, which he signed with hi name, whic . a he pre, sented to the Emperor saying, nis Majesty ❑eed only write on this paper what he pleased, as the King agreed before him. to every thing. CorESHAGE‘N, JAN. 7.—Four hundred and thirty-five ships passed the Sound in December; Elsineur Roads arc now clear of ships, and the navigation seems to be over for this season. Having inserted the Charges againsi . Sir Jon . Mujui at length in Tag St/I', we were in „ins,- tice hotted to devote cur columns impartially to his 'Defence, which we trust will be an ap , ,h,gy for this day omitting so mapy, of our customary articles, to make room for the-Report from Win chester: A Dinner Meeting of the Southwark Reformists took place yesterday, on a project for getting" the Brother of the Piccadilly Baronet to stand for the Borough. Both Sir. FRANCIS and Mr. JONES BURDETT were present, and the redoubted - Major CA RTWE GDT was 'also theie. They all made long speeches in answer to some of their fol lowers who drank their healths, intimated how prond'aud happy a thiiig it would be for Southend: to be represented something like Westminster, and hinted - that Mr. JONES BURDETT was the veil man for their purpose. This budding Patriot, however, affected coyness,—he thought his merits entitled him to be returned free of expence,—he dreamt- of Committees of Management, and Sub and bamboozling High Bailiffs &c. out of the ,expence of Hustings, and he modestly stated that if the populous .Borough of Southwark deemed him deserving of being made first puppet in such au exhibition, he would endeavour to sus tain the unmatched glories of his family name. Sir FRANCIS pledged himself to the same effect, and as he did not as in Miss SCOTTS'.CaSC, give his bond for the performance of the undertaking, it is not improbable but he might have redeemed his , pledge. Even .this Meeting, however, did not relish the plan, - and so the bubble burst ; and . : lONES . BYRDETT and Mr. BROUGHAM, are fit to, read the fable of the Sour Grapes to each other. SMITH, one of his .Majesty's Messengers, sailed yesterday morning for Calais, charged ttial dispatches for Vienna. The Amerian Papers, contain a, report of Mr. DALL: , ,s, the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a totter from a Committee of the House of Representatives, requesting his opinion as -to the effect which a comiderable _issue of Tleasurf Notes, with the quality of being receivable in sub scriptions to a National Bank, would have upon the credit of th!. Government ; and particularly qua the :prospect of a Loan for . 1815, and as to.the practicability of getting forty-four millions 'of' Treasury Notes (forming, with six, millions of specie, the capital for a National. Bank), into' eir- , dilation without depreciation. In reply, after detailing the entbarrased state of. the Treasury, he states himself to be 'of opinion, that a roust derable issue of•Treasiwy Notes, with the . quality of 'being receivable in subscriptions to a iNiti'imiza Bank, would ; have an:injurious effect upon the credit of the Government ? and also upon the.pros" ; ! sects of a Loan for 1815 ; because it would col'', fer, gratutitonsly, an advantage upon a" class new creflitais, over the present creditors of tiyr ioverfinient, stranding on a I, , o',ipg of at 10', equal merit. Because. it•sVould -excite gent,r..1, 1 ,15 !Satisfaction among the present.holders of the pub" • , lie debt, and 'geliCrill distrust among the capita' lists, who ivere accustomed to advance the moueY to the. Government Because :a quality ofsubsci•ih ing the National Batik attached 0) 'freasury Note!, exclusively, would tend to depreciate the value err all public debt not possessing that quality ; 'an s whatever depreciates the vaine of the .public in this way, lutist necessarily impair the poblic credit. tie then.goes on to express his Opinias that would he extremely difficidt, if-not iinpi•ac ticable, to get forty-fonr millions of Treasury Notes into circulation, either with or '...ithout preciat'ion. Mi.. :STEPHEN KEMIII.F., took a final leave of - tl ie Newcastle Theatre on the - -20th instant, in the cll. racier of Sir "balmy Absolute, in 'the e:miedY 0 The Rivals. • We are happy to learn, that the 'inhuman mole ster; who"murdered the poor old cvoman at tit ° toll*-bar-house, near Tideswell, has been appfe 4 headed and committed to Derby gaol. 'the fellO's'' it is said,'has confessed the Mirrid deed. Fine. , --An alarming fire broke out about P it ' o'clock this murning at the. house of Lady i"; STIWTHER, in Conduit -street, which burnt such furious rapiditNy that in less tinAr an hat' the whole of the premises were destroyed/ The furniture was very valuable.' The early ho °r ' at which the fire was discovered threate.ned deg struction to part of family, if not the %vhL )l , e ; as they were all in a .state of repose, and as tl y , flames were so rapid in their course. The fe,oo' servints for some time were in such a state of o ° c l ' sternation that. they seemed to he stunned fear,. and could hardly be - induced to move 1 0 : 1 ; the spot. We haveliowever the pleasure to a‘ l %; that no .lives were lost, nor do we hear that person suffered any material is jury. JANUARY 27, 1815.—N0 261, drawn this ( 14 a Prize of - Twenty Thousand PoundS, and as t o First Drawn Prize. above 251. farther entitleare - Twenty Thousand Pounds more, makiint- alto'o .s then a Prize of, Thousand Founds.! ‘`` l ,l sold .in one Half, one Quarter, one Eighth, two Sixteeuths, by MARTIN arid Co. No. 8, C'' r t e at which truly lucky OThee • the fortut l , 9 e hOlders-Inay receive their PI ire-money on " fie . maid. • This is the most extraordinary c irco to stantein the annals of 'Lotteries, there beiog other instance ..of a Twenty Thousand fatlinb to a fixed capital of the same amonh_s/ , BIRTH. On Thursday evening last, at Gaddesden-place, MO. icy, of a son and beii. . . . . • ' ED. -On Sunday morning last, Dl William Leigh, Esq. o f Of Hall, near Liverpool, in the Gist year of his age. pee _ .On Thursday last, It his house in diarlesrstrect,Grosgef pli square, Sir William SkeffingtOn, Bart. is ,the 73d year ° ' 10 age. ' . . • The saint; morning, at bis house, Wandsworth, Sur rel' the 40th year of-his age, Thomas Barwis, Esq. _. ' __.„..„..% BOND() : Printed by .1. B. cAßsTArits, No. 7% rrac buivinizs, ; • pubffslied by W. A. SCRIPPS, ot 1.4 . 11- t ie at tti, SuN-OrE trE, No. 112, Strand ; where At i96 : o 4. merits * Ordcu, Letters (post-paid), &c. awst be add near 4t - rentenia And Bandellos. In three days the .inain body was only two. long marches, and the mlvance only one long march from Tarragona. The General was proceeding to state the other positions of the French force, when the Jodge Advocate announced that the hour of thr(.;e had arrived; and that the Court was adjourned till ten o'clock to-morrow: Major Cut in reading the defence, Nyas oc casionally reliever' by Sir John► Murray himself and by Col. D'Aguilon. MAILS. AaaivEn—t France, 1 Rolland, 3 Hambargii, I Dublin, I Waterford. DuE-1 Lisbon, I .Nlalta, 1 Holland, t Dub lin, 1 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS • • THIS um,' AT TWELVE o'ctmex. 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