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~ 4. ',', . General Clinton to take the command in ;.,• absence. , Sir J. Murray took the road for O , reaching Torre del Barre, he de :•,'‘l me to atop there and refresh my horse, and 7 , e ready for an-. 7 orders he might send to General • c;i:lton. At five in the evening, Sir John returned 2 TOrre del Barre, and on passing Altafulla, Wvn a mile nearer Tarragona, Sir John had. t:onle - -- conversation with - ,Lord Frederick Ben- - Hock, who had arrived with the cavalry.-- On leavi►n that town, Sir John Murray de sired me to go back to his Lordship, anti - .. tell him to have a good look but, and put a strong piquet along the road. Ahont eight o'clock, on passing " the Oliva, I met General Clinton, who iminired for the Commander of the Forces : I toH him. I snpposed he bad taken another road, as I had not been able to overtake him after his li:tying dispatched me to Lord F. Bentinek.• I returned tohead-quarters a littleafter nine o'clock, and found Sir John Murray had arrived a few mi nutes before me, I delivered the orders to Lard F. Bentinek as' I was deSired, in presence of the Brigade Major. Q. 'State, to the best of your recollection, what passed after my return to heart-quarters ?—A. About a quarter before ten, Sir John desired the to find out the commanding Officer of Engineers, anti to bring him to bead-quarters. 1 remained about an hour in search- of him, without being able to find him. On going hack to head-quar ters, Sir John gave me an order to deliver to the. Commissary-General, at a village a . mile and a half . from head-quartets. I returned after twelve o'clock at night. - , - Was it a written order you delivered to the Conmiissary ?--L-A. It was a letter., • Q. When yon returned to head-quarters, not , being able to find the gommaniling Officcv.of - gineers, did you understand he bad already been • with' Sir John' Murray No ; Y understood he had not come ; and Sir John Murray told me he had sent other Officers in search of him, and desired me to take the order_tO the Commissary-- General. Q. 'Was you on board the Malta on the tnorn ing of the 14th, and how were you occupied ?--- f I was on boil the 'Malta on that morning. Sir John gave me a dispatch •to copy along with Captain Milan, his Military Secretary, and I was occupi•_al in copying this dispatch. Q. Do you recollect ma taking it from you when yon were copying it, and before it was completed !—A. Yes, dor recollect that. • Q. What did I then do with my dispatch Sir john Murray took the dispatch into Admiral Hallowell's inner Q. Have ybtuany reason for supposing Admiral Hallowell to have been then in the tnner cabin? — A. I have. I saw him a short time before when the door was opened. Cross-Esanzined Q. Was the dispatch which you copied the one of the 141:h of June, now on the table, addressed to• Lord Wellington ?-=!-.A.. It "was. • Q. Was the copy of it at any tirie completed ? A. I do not recollect that it was. Q. Did you take any minute of the conversa tion between Colonel Mansol and General Murray, --()r . do you. trust to your Memory ?—A. I. did . not make any minute ; but 1 recollect the circum.- stance perfectly. .well. • ' Re-examination. Q. Did yciu,not interpret that conversation for mo ?—A. I did. After this witness had withdrawn, Admiral Hal lowell .stated, that on inspecting his log last -night, he found the signal- for the anchoring .of the Bristol, entered in it ; and that he would af terwards explain that matter to the Court. Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Kenna!), AsSistant Adjutant-Ge neral to Sir Job) Murray in Catalonia, and in charite of that Department. Q. Were any orders :Made . for .our landing in .` the .Bay of Tarragoba on the 2d of, June, and were the orderS afterwards countermanded'?--A. Ar.-angements were made for our landing Col. Adam's corps, and the troops were in the boats for that purpo - Se ; but the embarkation did'.not take place, and-the orders were countermanded. Q. Do you know why the orders were coun mailed !—A. I understood.if was because the" surf Won't' not permit the liinding. Q. Were dispositions. made 'and - orders: given for the assault of the Puerto Reale on the,even:- ing of the 11 th of June . i—A..Yes. Q. \'hen and . by whom were these diipOsitionS made and the orders given ?—A. dispo?;itionS .Tiera made on the early part. dt the (19y by . Lient.- General Clinton. The orders were given to .. General Clinton by General Murray, early in the morning previous to his leaving bead-quarters. Q.' Do yolk know whether those orders were countermanded, and if so, when, and by whom A. The orders Were _countermanded by Sir J. Murray between nine and ten o'clock, ou the night of the llth. Q. Were you dispatched on the night of the 11th With any orders relative to the raising of the siege I was dispatched by Sir J. Murray "about eleven o'clock in tire evening, to the Ad miral. and the Commanding . Officer of *Artillery, to communicate the intention of raising the siege, "and that 'Sir John wished to see them at bead quarters. Q. Did you find the Admiral and Commanding Otircer of ,Artillery, and at what. time ? —A. 1 thitik I found the Adriiiral on the -beach in a tent he had, in aboutn . quarter of an hour after eleven ; don',t recollect whether or not I saw the Com inandinp-, (Ace: . of Artillery then. , ' * - • Q. When you were sent with the order, bad Sir J. Murray any Staff °facers with hiM?--;A: I . do not recollect that be had - indeed, - I aim-al most .certain that he had not.. Do you remember AdmiralllartOwell and 'Colonel .-dank coming so my quarters on the morn ing of the 1 2 th .?—A. Yes, .1 do recollect seeing - them there. . Q. Did I give you any orders then ?—A. Sir J. Murray told we that there was some mistake .re specting orders which had been given to General Clinton respecting the spiking of the guns, and desired me to go to General Clinton with orders. that the gUns 4hould not he spiked till further or ders should be given him to that effect; and I went in cobSequente to. General. Clinton, and de-li: , :tred. the order. On my return shortly afterward's I met General Smith, and while in conversation with him, we otscrvcd the Officer and ar!illerytnen run ning front the Oliva Eatte4y. We went to the Officer to ascertain -the -reason for his leaving' the battery': he informed us it was in consequence of a signal made to hint by General Clinton, prey vioudy agreed on betwvo.them. ,Were the orders given and the ernbarkation conducted with regularity on the 12th of June A. Yes. Q. Did)roit observe any confusion which could be on the construction Of. beirw. discreditable Or disgraceful to the service ?—A. '. None whatever. The embarkation was conducted with perfect re gularity :is far as came Within . My oliscrvation. Q. At what time were the orders given for. the -embarkation- of the army on the lith ?-=-A. In thu early part'of the day, as far as I can reCollect. Q. Ifol Sir E. Pellev's fleet, with Lord Wm. lientiock on board, then appeaZed in - sight ? A. No. Q. Was the embarkation previously ordered bye me carried , into effect by Lord W.- Bentinck A. Lord W. Bentincji. arrived in the afternoott of the 17th, .and the embarkation took place on the, morning of the 18th. The Judge Advocate informed the Court, that the.next qUestion prOposea to be put by Gene . rl Mtirray,,was 'to' eStablish what signal was ,made ,on the arrival of Lord Wm. lleutinek. 'lt was for the Court to ,determine whether they would allow this subject, which did not come under the charges to be gone into. - - The President stated, that it was the wish of the Court, and their dctermination, that nothin! , personal should be allowed on either Side; and they, therefore, could not allow this question to be put. • - The'Mthiral left it to the Court, whether a signal made on , the 17th -- of June .had any thing to do with the 12th . ofJune The President,—Clearly not. Adthiral Hallowell, on being asked if he had •any question to put to the witness, said, he did not mean to impeach Colonel Kennah's veracity; but as tie had pot s,ditt - positivOy that he sqw him Oh the beach oft the night of the 11 th, probably tant recollection'he would express him Self-differen- On day iii 4uestion, from nine to. twelve o'clock at night, he was not on the beach, but at tiwbattoics. • , • Cross-examination. Q. Do you mean. to say positively that yon found me on the beach on the night of the I lth, at •eleven o'clock ?—A. I cannot ,he quite positive : I think I lately gave an answer that I was not quite certain, but that it was after eleven when I saw the Admiral. Q. As you were in, the Adjutant-General's. Office during the .Catalonian expedition., was it not lily constant practke to send when \ any ship was going - to sail, that ,there ! ni g ht be.titue for sending, off dispatches .? A. That generally ,was the case. Q. Were we not in the midst of the embarka tion on the 17th, when the fleet appeared ?. A. I do believe the embarkation e was going on—there was an embarkation of horses, I think. Captain Wolter :Ticks, 20th Light Dragoons, who commanded - the Foreign Hussars, with tile advance of the Army muter Coluncl Adam. - Q. Where was you-stationed on the morning of the 12th of June A. At Valls. Q . Did you receive any orders, and at what hour that morning received an order to prepare for marching•abciut half--past two o'clock in the morning. Q. 'Relate what occurred then . within your knowletigei—A. O . n the 12th of June the advance marched from Valls at about half past three or ttiur o'clock in the morning, and reached Tarra -gotta, I think, about ten o'clock. We halted in the vat) of Tarragona till the arternoo'n, we then Marched to.Salan, Where we were,, to embark.— 'The infantry were embarked, and I received an order from Colonel Adam to proceed to Balaguer inimediately, and to take - in charge four guns. On my • march to Balaguer, rnet ian orderly of the Brunswick Hussars. He asked me if I could di• rect hini where to find the Lieutenant,General who, commanded, as he had dispatches from Co- l on d , rrevost at Balaguer. Ito l d him . most pro bably (Si)" "the beach, where the troops were eni barking.. I . enquired' of hiM if he had.beard any thing- of the enemy in that direction. He said, before he left Balaper the enemy were marching .round the nimintains, and'had turned the fort:— Shortly after 1 perceiVed several fires on the heights on the . right,leading to I.3alaguer and frOrn some -Spanish.Sohliers WhOralmet marching, I _was in . funned it Was the fires" of the -enemy:. I 'arri'ved at Hospitalette at about one in the morning of the 13th. I reported myse,lf to Colonel lientinck, who commanded the cavalry,, and was clesirecl by hint to remain there.l - . What infantry dO you mean..were embark-• The infantry of the advance. Q. Were itot'the fires 'on the mountains near the pass of Bandellos, and considerably on the right of the-road from Balaguer ?.—A. They were considerably on the right of the road, and . ' should think iir that direction. Q. Do you know of any part of the cavalry of the Allied Army being engaged with the enemy on the morning of the 13th A serjeanes, pa trolc was sent nut on the, morning of the 13th on "the road towards the mountains, in- the rear of - rlospitalette. Oil his return, he said lie had had an engagement with the enemy, who had fired on him, and killed one man. A subaltern's picquet, on tither the 13th or 14th, stationed - in the neigh bourhood of Bandillos, was also attacked by the ' enemy's ca‘'alry, and some men were wounded on •lioth sides. , Q. Do you know of any other picquet having been - attacked_on the morning of the 14th,•,-and having been oblictlto retreat ?—A. On the moru ipg of the 14th, a picipletbf cavalry vas obliged by the-enemy to fail back into the plain of ' • Q.. What was :the consequence ?—A. The ca valry brigade turned out to support - it, and come infantry were ordered up to the •heights of.whieh the enemy had possession. The enemyhad also possession of thedefrle, and had some men in the plain skirMishing with the picquels. • Q. Did you command the cayalry.picquet on the night oftlie I.;lth-l—A. I commando d tile, cavalry outline-picquet on the night of the 14th.- • Q. Did you receive any orders Om the night of the 14th, and from wittna I received orders front Lod Frederick Beu:iltek, in the eariy i.art of the tiight, to march at day-break in themo - rn 7 ing, and to. find ont the enemy; he said .a light company was sent to cover tyy flanks through the inclosed .cotintry.. Q. What occurred in consequence ?—A. I marched. at. day 7 1?reali,,an &after proceeding about three quarters of a mile on the plain, I discovered a picquct of the-enetnY's infantry,:and shortly an.; other of cavalry.; they fell back on ottr approach, we drove in their p;rquets from two small villages : we came in sight of the bivouac of the main body, in frimt of • Q. Did you give icily intelligence. of this, and to whom ?—A. I sent-an orderly to Lord F. Ben- thick, _to say, that we had fallen in 'with the enemy's picquetv - ' .Q. Do you remember secintt'Cletveral Mnrrny that morningl--:-:A. I remeti,ber Sir John Murray coming up as th,e.enemy's picquet-was going out from the last village which they had possession of. 'Q.:What passed . then' A. Sir John Murrayre que-sted me to go forward to reconnoitre the 'ene my ; I went close up to B-andillos, and returned to'llitri and told thought the enemy about 3000 men. He desired met° go forward a second time and gain some. information. On my return 1 told, him 1 thought they were what I hid before Stated, and that from the peasants whom I had questioned at a village near Bandilios, I received information, that the _preceding evening the ene my'had occupied all the villages, and the road to wards the plain, • with 9000 men. One of these men stated himself to be the Atcalde of the vil lage ; and General Mackenzie, `I think, was pre- sent when I reported this last information to Sir John, hut I am not certain. • Q. On your advancing through the pass to Bandillos, did you observe any considerable bi vouacs, where it - appeared the enemy had passed the night *i—A. Yes. Q. Had you any. reason to know the F.rencb enemy, in the month of July, passed •and repassed the road between Vendrils and Altafulla, not; withstanding the gun-Jmats 'stationed .near the shore i—A. In the month of July, I think fah, a column of the enemy, consisting of. cavalry, and infantry, passed alcing that road, and attack ed our advance ; on recollection, I think it must have been in August, When wc: were covering the Barcelona road, after Tarragona was invested by- Lord William Bentinck. There were ships;of war then lying off Torre del Barre. Q. Did the ships and gun-hoata fire on the ene my during their march %—A, No. • Q. Have you any reason to believe, the fire.of gun-boats 'stopt the whole French army 43 the same postition at any other time Before Lord W. Bentiock broke up the blockade of Tar ragona, a column of the enemy marched by that way. The ships of war and gun-boats fired at them, they directed their fire chiefly at. a house . on the beach where Sachet was, who some time afterwards left it. The enemy made no- at-' tempt to push beyond. our videttes, which were considerably in advance on ourpiequets • and from. what I could perceive, the gun-boats had not done them any harm. They bivouacked. at a village near Crescels, and remained there the whole of the afternoon.. Q. Have you not been frequently employed-in the advance on the roads from Villafi:anca _Tar, ragona in posting picquets to cover the roads. • Q. Could not the enemy avoid the fire of gun boats in the road between Vendrils and Torre del Barre by a short detour There -are .several roads round by• the hills, I thiiik two or three-; out of the fire of gun-boats. ~; Cross-examination. • Q. DO you mean to say, there were two days when the enemy passed the road to l'orre Barre in. sight of the gun-hoat4 Lwas only present one day. Q. Did your cavalry and infantry picquets s,top .• the enemy without the assistance of our gun boats ?—A. I -do not think the'enemy had an in tention of passing that day, as they:.di.d not dri've in our out-posts. , Q. Do you not knoW tuat that same column was obliged ,to go round by another road before p it could get to Tarrogana It must have gone by another road, or it must have marched on the maiu road after the adVance fell back on the fol lowing day. Q. Cannot you speak positively that the enemy did .not go by the.main road, knowing that the Malta • and Royal George anchored close to the road, to cover it, and that the advance halted by the bridge, to the Eastward Of . Tarragona ? A. I do not know that they did go by the high :road, as I did not see them,' but I think the ene my could have passed by the high road. . [This answer was given,afterfrequent miscon ceptions of the question, and after a number of other answers had been returned] . Q. As to the advance halted on the high road, ,could . the enemy pass. along the high road with out your seeing them ?—A. I fell back the follow ing day. Admiral, Hallowell wished to caution the wit ness how he answered the question : he had be fore said he fell back the same day : he did nut wish him to commit The PRESIDENT Said • the Admiral did right hi so cautioning, the witness. The witness then said, we fell back every even ing, we fell back on the evening of the firing, and advanced to Altafulla next day. Admiral Hallowell.Certainly not. Q. Do, you know that ships can lie Within musket;shot of the roadfrOm Vendrels to Torre del Baia %—A. There is one part of the road where ships can anchor .close to it. The road there, passes over arches. I am not acquainted with naval mattm, and cannot answer exactly. Q. Is not great part of the road you have men tioned, within musket-shot of the beach ?—A. I Should think it was not. Q. Was the advance tinder Colonel Adam ever attacked in Altafulla ?--r-A...Yes; that is not in the town, but within 200 yards of it--the enemy never got into ,the.town. Captain ALEXANDER SHARP, of the Hyacinth. I was, stationed off Valentia,, in June, 1813. 'I bad information of the enemy on the 9th, that the enemy were moving towards Catalonia. 'On the .10th ,counnunicated with a schooner at Mar viedro, on board of Maid' weie five or six Spa nhli peasaots, and from thenec I learned that the French force consisted of nine or 10,000 infantrY) - and 1000 or 1100 cavalry ; that the last division , Of the French army had .quitted Castillon de la Plana lit two o'clock of the'Bth; 'consisting of about 2000 infantry, and two or 300 cavalry ; that Marshal Sachet had quitted Castillon la Plana: at 10 o'clock on the night of the Bth. With one ~ of the peasants I was previously acquainted, being a Guerilla belonging to Nieport, and had inter course with him when employed in landing arms and ammunition. I communicated the informa. - ! tion received on the evening of the 9th to Sir Benjamin Hallowell by a Gibraltar sinnggler.' The information 'of the 10th was dispatched-by''' . the Buzzard, to be for Warded to Alicant, Ind I. proceeded myself to Tarragona". On my arrival. at Tarragona, Sir B. Hallowell informed me that he had received my letter. .1 arrived at Tarragona on the evening of the 12th, about seven o'cloch• I cannot recollect whether it was on the:l2th that Sir B. Hallowell told me that he bad rieeived my letter. I am well acquainted with the beach of Tarragona, and the mate of the weather on that coast ; they cannot 'be depended on-at all tittles for the embarkation of an army. • • I Cross-examined. I recollect the bour when I sailed with Captaih_ Carrot from Balaguer ; on the 14th of .Jnne, the ship was tinder weigh at one P. M. and I made sail about half-paSt four. VlrE, Lieutenant of the Navy, .ott half-pay.---4 have been near 16 years a Lieutenant in his Majesty's service, and near 6 years an agent for transports. l was employed as an agentfor, transports in Anne, 1810, in the Bay of Tatra-. gona. I had the general superintendence of the beach from the 4th to the morning of the 12th of June, both day and night, when Capt. Withers being on the beach, I conceived my duties at all end. On the 3d-and 12tli I did niy duties under AdMiral and Captain Withers's direc• tions in a general way. The Court then adjourned to ten o'clock next day. CORONER'S INGUlEST.—Yesterday afternoon, inquisitiow.was held at the Coach and'llorses, Condiiit-street, before A. GELI., Esq. Coroner for. Westminster, on the body of John Walford, aged 15, who . perished, in the tire at the house of Mrs. Walford - , on 'Saturday morning. Mr. Wm. Loaves,. uncle to-the deceased, deposed, that the fire out in the lower part of the house, but from what cause could not be ascertained ; 'that about fire o'clock on Saturday morning last the house wits in 4 complete . blae, which burned so rapidly that the rest of the family had scarcely time tnescaPO ,with their lives ; some carried a part of their clothes into the street and dressed, while other; , .dresSed in neighbours' houses. The deceased tised . to sleep alone in an upper room] at the back of the bouse';_ and from the rapidity with which the fire burned, it 'was impossible to give him Atil assistance, or acquaint him of his danger, for it supposed a part of front was down before th e fire communicated to his room.. The decease d had been missing from that time until del o'clock on Monday morning, when his head. 0 11 legs were discovered by four men, who were efrr . . ploycd in clearing the rubbish out of the ced e completely burned to a cinder ; his remains O r pitt into a shell„ and carried to the Coach and Horses - for the 'inspection of the Jury, Verdict"' Found burnt sto death. ATTEMPTS,. AT SUICIDES.—Last week a horse' keeper,. named Carter, in the employ of Air ' S►Ytit 1, stage-master, of Chelsea, attempted W e- Pal times to.hang.himself in the stables, but befit closely watched could not effect it ; at - lasthe too • an. oppoonnity of going to tattersca-bridge, - wh erc • he threw himself over the •battlement into • 111° rivet.;-but here again Providence interfered ; - Was observed by a waterman, who imitediate u went to. his assistance at the risk of his. own lif . e ; So decided' Was he on self-destruction, that u t grappled with his preserver,' who was nearly . 1 . 09 , 0 • in his humane endeavours to save him &oil watety grave,.in which he succeeded.—A few( l3 ,l ago, a little girl, about twelve years of age, vo. ed deliberately into the sea, near Sunderland Pie r ; and attempted to drown herself. - A: pilot obser V j ing her, rushed into the watery element, ti n he • brought her safe on. shore. On. questioning 't a :, o child as to the.canse.of her atteMpt - at suicide," declared that it was in consequence of her morher ili ti ; sisting upon her learning to write, .and obliging 'L to provide money to pay for her instruction, ! gathering and selling sticks. Remarkable Latanee• of Strength and Sagacity its a Fox:---On Sunday night last, one of these At i lt tnals was caught in a trap, at Bourn, with wh lc v , •he made off. He was traced in the snow thef°, s • low s ing morning, by the 'tart of DE LA WAs it ' gamekeeper upwards of ten miles; and was.ta l4. % out of an earth alive and strong. His pad *s ° it , - then in the trap, which with three feet. of trig at the end of:it, is supposed to have weibedle pounds. Another fox accompanied him the w l ' Q r o of the way, seldom being distant from him 0 1° than four or five yards. BIitTPS,; t 11( On the 11th ult. at Cheshire, the Lady of Itev. It. Egerton Warburton, of a daughter. DIED. • • OS' On Friday, the 27th , atiano JanuaryC f -d, Norther , ' ~t , shire, Lady Robinson, wife of Sir .George Robinson, 130 totts On Friday, the eoth ult. at the Vicarage-flouset,'A rrc , Isle of Wight; Henry Roach, Esq. in his 95th year. }lee' On Saturday, the 21st ult. at Newp , ,rt, Jr. P.dWard,LP • late of Southampton, in the 94th Fear of his age. ....aa l ' . On Wednesday last, at Mile4;nd Green, 'th • qi'v' - • t.. 1 Hill, aged 7G, • • „ n' ice After a few days. illness, on his return from 31 0 - George Leasie, Ssq. .. % __„,,,i" _ . LONDON: Printed by .1. 8.. UARSTAiII.S, No. • C1 :110 1 ' 11iiildinv:s; and publisltt)d by \V. A. SCRIPBS, of at the - SUN-Omeg, 119., Strand; wifere merits, Orders, Tatters (i)l;st,paid), &c. must be 3dtues' AIARBIED. • • On Triesday, at St. Georgo's, floomsbury,ThornisEaV ( o o " , Esq. of Monktou Juxta, to• Anne, only daughter of Jul ) gins, EN..of Chippenhani f Wilts. o f On the• 12th ult. at Dundalk, Captain John Ilarniltlev the Gist Regiment', to Anna Jane, second daughter of nos Biggar, Esq. Oa fm On the •C:ist ult. Captain W. fireball; It. N. to Leo „gel' third daughter of Richard Bingham, Esq. of Bingliatii 3 combo, Dorset. - • - •