The Sun. — London, England, 1815-02-04 00:00:00

2+ik it was irtpbs.sibie TO take 44-thk-Anen it.i'k‘44.lfllial; a 'ddy it l ohlf he v,•outif - ;*rnve t h/t -General Clinttiti'• iliV;• eiki -mist lug . 61 . 250 - 6 men', were all ei.n . barlied in three quarters of all •liour. ivould prOVe the 'time when they cinne down for embarkation, and the tin:e when they wete.all embai - ked. He wished nly,o, to be allowed to prove _the time Mien the tandinv: o.7as begun and conipleted on the morning -of the 3(t of June. The President observed that the Tatter part Of . !his .vas already in evidence. Though the *ptecie lutir was net mentioned, it bad been stated, that • the troops, Ste. were landed in a reasonably short •t•»e. _ _ _ This ,luestion was reserved for Consideration. 'lke Judge Advoeate said, the next question related to the time it would have taken 'to remove the guns from thebatteries to the beach. This was rejected, as General Clinton was not the proper Officer to state this. The Judge Advocate.----The other question to General Clinton related to the hearty co-operation of the navy. Admiral Hallowell said Sir JOhn Murray had stated that hearty co-operation on th'e part of the navy was not afforded him. Sir John Murray said he was sorry he bad . been misunderstood. He had always admitted a hearty naval co-operation. Admiral HalloWeil said he alluded to that part of the defence, in which Sir John Murray Con gratalated Lord Wellington on his good fortune in not having a naval co-operator to thwart and impede him in his measures. Ile stood forward there to vindicate the profession to which be be longed against these charges. In his letter to the - Duke of Wellington, Sir John also spoke of the tlelays and irregularities on the part of the Navy, by which his measures had been impeded: Sir John Murray said he had stated this in con sequence of the observations thrown out by the 'Admiral on His conduct. On all 'occasions he had been willing to acknowledge the hearty co:ope ration afforded by the navy. General :vlinatresor said nothing of this was in 1' the evidence. • Sir John Murray Was wiilin that it sliould in some way appear on the procecding , ,, that lie ad initted the heart) co-opgration afforded by Ad miral Hallo Well. Admiral Hallowell-I Fek leave to decline ac cepting it in this manner. • The Judge Advocate said, the next' witness was Captain Inglis. The.first question related to the nuinher of men which could been landed by time boats of the Malta in a giv,=‘, time. Another related to the possibility of emb;irking the guns beim e day-bieak of-the 13th . . The next, whether if prevented from embarking on one side of Salun Bay, they might not have embarked on the other The next, uhether the bulk heads of the ships of the line were net clown, and the ships were not ready for action during the period of the siege ? _What was this meant to prove ? Admiral Hallowell,-:-To p-rove a hearty co operation On the part Of the navy. The moment of the Pnettd Reales being "stormed, the ships wo.::1 have tired the town. 'floe Judge. Advocate, after going over sonic questions which w e r e rejected °a the 'Same grounds as similar questions proposed, to be put to General tiin:4n, said, the next question was, how near the Malta anchored to the road by Torre del Barra. Admiral Hallowell .said, he meant to prove by this-, that the Malta anchored within half a nuts . - ket shot of th e The questions to the next Witnesses, Captain Stoddart and Ccl. Williamson, were similar to some of those already stated. Admir a l Hallow e ll, wished to produce the letter of Sir J. Murray, in answer to the one from him self 'quoted in the defence, Sir John - Murray. objected to any new, matter of accusation being brought . t . orward against him. He had merely quoted the Admiral's own ‘'vords, without drawing any inference from them. 'Fite Judge Advocate thought the letter of Sir J. Murray, as an explanation of' that of the Ad miral, •,tdinissible, Admiral Hallowell.—The answer to my letter of tame 9th Jane,- informing him Of an advance of a column of the etieiny, would prOve that the Ge neral did not credit his intelligence. The Admiral said he next . Wished to state ills reasons for reComtilending the cavalry and artillery . to embark Balaguer. General Murray olOcted to this. Admiral Hallowell s a id lie wished this, in cOn 7 " . sequence of the observation of Mr. Larpent in the two, first charges, General Anchnnity.—This did not arise out of, the defence but the prosecution. • Admiral Hallowell said he offered himSeif 'on the subject of the hurry with which the General's letter was sent of-Reserved fOr consideration. The Admiral said, be next offered himself on al; the po'nts on which the Court might wish' to exnunine - him.. He should notice many . things which had come from Sir John .Murray in the course of his reply but he should- wish also to state them on oath, that the Court inight_see that. nothing was stated in his reply which was not also stated on oath. The President said, the .defence was, not on oath, ,int;! this would . gri'e his reply more weight than the outer-could have. Admiral Hallowell expressed himSclfsatiAed. "BR: Judge Advocate summarily stated the ques tions rejected, and those reserved for considera tion,-after which the Court was ordered to .be cleared. remained closed for netulv two hours, and on. being tc-9pFned, - Th_e judge Adocate stated, tliat 'on the points to which the evidence of. Captains . Bathurst and Jr;gluf - ici'd was iiitencfed.tobe•gi.vcii, the Court was cif Opiui the riticstibtis - should 'not be put, wij,pcsse,s, •iherefore could not be recalled. ni o rbu, the Cor:rt- was of opinion, -Should. bv7:i:xamined -on one point;-ii - :„ as to the num bj'r °Niels he 1 received - on tile 12tliof June. He was lil4wise clesirird by the Court to state, that it necessiiry to submit :a6y as to'iht: co-operation of Admiral J-lalloWell, the veal' an-il octiviiy of Admiral .haVing ^h( To inliy established and akfinitted by Sir John &;.aray, t:iii Or-Ai :The - r,Vort - shoishl be :Allowed to give evi dence—first, a to the recortnnt-thia . tion he had ; .,, , iiren Ice setiding tine . ca`vtilry and -artillery to IL lagtrer ; next., iig:to The letras sent to Sir Edward (lattid the 2d and 4th of June ; lastly, as to tjiietnii-ry with whitit Sir John 'Ain't . - ray was constrAined to send off his dispatch to Lord WellingrOn on the 14(h of June. General CL'vstroN was then recalled and examined .Idmiral II A.Lie.vELL. Q. What orders did you receive on the•l2tb of June, for the movement of your division, from whom, arid at what time ?—A. The first order I received ,was at an early pleriod in the morning; that order directed me to proceed (the order was . signed by General Donkin), -with three divisions of my division, and three! of General Whiffing ham, towards the river Cabo, in the most favour able ground I could find—the object of this mo tion ‘<as stated to be to cover the movement of General C.'s. The next order I received, among the numerous orders, received on that day, was also a written order; which I hold in my hand —(order produced : this was signed " J. Mur . - ray," directing Witness to march with his division to concentrate with the other part of the army). - , 7 --This order had scarcely been declared, when a verbal one was brought me, directing me to send the baggage of my division on the road to . 13,11agner, throm 4 h which pass it was in tended to march the army. While giving di rections f , r carrying this order ifito effect, I received another order, which I also hold in my hand (order produced: this iVAQ signed "Dunkin, half-past-nine," and desired General Clinton to take the shortest route to head -quarters, avoiding only .the fire of an enemy). I had not had time to give nly diiections upon this order, trite» one reached me which directed the spiking of the guns in the batteries, and that I should proceed to the . beach for embarkation with my division. I have already stated in evidence, what 1 did in conse quence of that older, And only bog leave to add, in reference positiveness of that order for the spiking of the guns, that I remember well to have felt-it at the time to he so positive, that al though,, for the reasons I - have before given, I "ventured to deltiv to give the absolute order for spiking the guns, l'instructed the Officers in the batteries to fire away all the case-shot, and to cle s.troy the powder. About 20 mintites after the re ,ceipt of the order to which 1 have just referred, came the counter-order for spiking the guns, and that General Whittingbarn's should occupy the ground which mine was supposed-to have left, hut from which it had not stirred, it being- intend ed that the Spaniards should- have charge of the batteries, out of which •it teas determined every piece of ordnance should be taken that night.— The last order I recollect to have received no the 12th. of June, was one brought to me by Lient. Drew, of the 2. 7th regiment, which, after the: many orders-and counter-orders-I had received no that day, I directed that Officer to repeat, and•in his presence, and that of Capt. lc:este:mart, .and my Aid-de-Camp, Lient. Floyd, I noted it down.. —.(A copy. of .rhis • Note was .then prodnettd—it Was a memorandum of an order received by Ge nt neral Clinton at half-past vne,• to take ofl his-di vision towards head-quarters, to withdraw all picquets, and destroy all guns iu the lines). In consequence of this order, I sent Brigadier-Ge , fiend Smith to march with the division as direct ed, following the movement of the Spanish troops, but detaching the grenadier company of the 58tli regiment, and -Lieut.-Col. Beauclere to the Olivo, there to receive my orders. I then went to the mortar battery, .where I found Capt. Thompson, I the artillery Oificer in command, busily employed in preparing for its_ evacnation i : and I delivered him the order for spiking the guns, and destroying the. carriages. Proceeding after this•to the Oliva, I, remained there 'till five o'clock ; - I then told colonel Ikanclere, that I should leave him• in. change of •the picquets of the division, amounting to nearly 500 men ; and I directed him- to keep a good. look-out on all sides, for I knew not which way the enemy might not be er pected. But that "nnless . obliged to abandon his uost, that he should leave picquets and sentries as they hintl•hcen posted until dusk, at which time, and when the enemy in Tarragona could. no iionger perceive Ins move-. ments, then to withdraw, and'bring in with him the whole of - his picquets, to assemble them at the bridge of Francon, where they should receive 'further orders. I then proceeded to the Coni mander of the Forces, in -order to report•to him the deviation which I had thought proper to make from the orders I had received from him, not only ••in not withdrawing the picquets, but in reinfore 7 in., the,:, and my motive for having so done. Sir J. Aiurrsy assented to what I had done, and wise— ly said, hope you have taken measures that your - p - icquets shall not be cut off; and upon my stat ing to him that 1 had left them in charge of an Officer, in whose conduct I had perfect comti fidence, Sir John seemed perfectly satisfied.—Wit- Hess withdrew. •. Admiral Haflowell now proceeded to his state ment, upon oath, as to recoMmending the cavalry and artillery being sent to Balaguer. It was as follows \Vlten I was with Sir John Murray, on the night of the 11th, after he decided on raising the siege of Tarragona, he told me that we Must get as many guns down as possible, but that the horses were out of the question. My reply was, No, Sir, if •you.will send Your artillery and cavalry to Balaguer, with a column of infantry, we can em bark them easily th=e ; and it will facilitate our embarkation here.' This is all I have to say upon this subject." • • • . The-next point to which the Admiral directed . his statement was the two letters of the 2d and 4th of June. - Sir:John -Murray, in his statement, has ac knowledged ,that he gave me that letter of the 2d on the 3d, before he went on shore. I had no vessel by which I could send it immediately. 'th Ganvmede arrived irr the afternOon of the 3d, and I sent her away by ten o'clock the next-morn ing, with Sir J. Murray's letter, dated the .4th, and he was well aware that they both went in the snipe ship ) as will appear by his letter, which I hold in my hand. [The Admiral then put .in the letter : it_ was. signed J. Murray," ancr-datedlune 4 and, after sonic: othervatious upon the embarkation of .• AlVat A letter to Sir k.. Ptile,%, an,i int iniated the -ii!tpor tance of the " letters" to Si-, E. Pelciew beitg sent "to hint with disinitth.] lie tiof ai.Cressed himseif to tloit part of Bit 'John Murray's statement, as to the tru:rty in Ivhich he was obliged to send off his dispatch. `1 At tett minutes alter ten on' the morning of the 14th," said the Admiral, " a geuvral signal was made to The whole fleet, that au oppoCtunity Would offer of sending letters m England. It appt'ars, from tke evidence of Captain Alilner,.that Sr; John Murray's letter was closed shortly after that time; and it appears by the evideoce of,Captain Sharp, that he did not sail until half-past four in the al termion. This is all I have to say upon this.sub ject." The gallant Admiral now produced a letter from Sir slri - din Mut ray, for the purpose . tit proving that the General thought there %vas no - occasion, for going away from Tarragona in the hurry with Which he did go. Sir J. Murray said, it. was exceedingly probable, front thexircumstances which came to his know ledge afie,r he had abandoned the siege, that' he Might have thought he need no t t o have left Tar ragona so quickly. He thoiight, hots ever, this letter, if ,ilkted at all, should have been submit ted On the prosecution and not in reply. The Court was of opinion that the letter ought to Itave-been produced before. It was thexetore rejected its nt..w evidenoe. Admiral Hallowell said he had nothing further to offer. Sir J. Murray said he perfectly knew the two letters alintled to by Adutiral liadowell had youw together: He was then rifted if' Ire had any obi4ervations to make on Adniirizi Hallowell's last evidence ? Sir John Murray said, he wished to submit a few remarks to paper. As the hour (if 'three approaehedi, it was ar ranged that those observations s:;oithl 'be pre pared, and shewn to Admiral Hallowell out of Court, so that no time would be lost in answer ingthem._ It was then arranged that the Court should ad journ till. to'-niorrow t , at half -past twelve, to :af ford the Judge-Advocate an opportunity of reply ing to the first and second charges. And it was further arranged that•Ailmiral. Hal lo:vfAl should enter upOn his reply on Monday... Lord Northesk, and several Magistrates of the County, were present during. the day. In oar Pa - der of Thursday, in the Report of the Proceed of the Cfn:rt Martial 03 General Murray, Lieutenant I've zumle to s.,y, " I think it extremelyimprobahle, that if thi4 army had begun to he ,enaharked at twelve o'clock on the 12th, th;,tth'e mina - Y:44,a could have hoef: colupletedou the I::',th at day-break." It sl,l.tat to hare been, " I thick it Cxtryniely improbable, that. it this army had begun to be era bari,ed di ihiv-break of the .1-:'111, that it 'could have been caul- Rieted by suit-set of the Mtb." SP. Nbll AMERICA. CAuTuAceNA, Dec. 23.---.Ey - yesterday's post letter Was receited from Popayen, stating, that O•le combined armies of Buenos Ayres and Chili, under the conitnand of General fleigrado, had en tirely defeated the royalist army of Lima, under • General Pestlela, near Cizuro, in Upper Peru.,-- After the - engagement, Major. General Tamil, the second in command, retreated to Lima, where the people of the town and iti environs, on re , . ceiving the aCCCiUIit3 of the defeat of the army, tevolted. Gener a l Tacon immediately for Quito, where .his_ family wags, and had • only time to remove them to - Gtadyaquil 'for as " eon mis the events in Lima were known, the people followed the esaiiiple of this last city, so that th.. Whole province of Petit is now become independent.— Almscat, the Viceroy of Lima, and Torriaoi Mantes, the Cape.-Gen. of Quito, emhaiked for: Guayaquil, the only ttiwn iu Ycru iu possession of the royalist party. CueAcoa,, 0;;T. 28.—T1me schooner_ Elizabeth, from La Guvra, has brought intelli,genee.of - the recapture of •Cntmunt by time it , myalists, undrr site ac ti ve B o res, "ho catered that city on the I tith inst. just. after 'Outing •the: lodependants; with considerable loss: It is added, that the victots• stlevcd,little mefcy to the inhabitants, in revenge for having, during' the short lime they were in, in posst2ssion of the 'town, put to death all the Spaniards .and Creoles attached to their party,- 7 it is greatly to be lamented that this savage war fare still continues. • DERPEN ATE • RoBEcERY . .—Mr. Satnacl Srrlith, of, Paradise-row, Bethnal Green, .was _disturbed on Tuesday morning last by a noise in the lower part of the house, and observed his shop door open ; he took a loaded idunderbuss from his bed room and went down stairs, when twonten rushed. oat of .the shop ; he instantly. fired,.when one .of :them fell, but got up 'again and run out at the street-door. Mr. Smith was again loading, ,when a third raffia!). came .out of the par lour and struck him, a violent hlo.V On the bead, which [nought' .him to the, ground and stunned bins; In rite mean time the flintily got up ; tliey tom - RI him in, the.pa.ssage covered with blood, having been stabbed with- some sharp instrument. The robbers -unfortunately escaped with their wounded companion. The carpet in the parlour was taken up and tilled with valuable articles. .The Police Officers have not yet disco vered the robbers. Mr. Smith is declared out of danger. . . On Friday; the 3d instant,. John Houghton,. the driver of the hackney-coach, No. 324, was con victed by the Conimissioners of hackney-coaches in the full penalty of twenty shillings,., for misbe haviour att the6 - 27th at. January, in - endeavouring to extort more than his fare'lroin two . Ladies, by follov.ing them into a shop M Piccadilly, and alarming them after they bad paid him Ii is. legal fare. The same day, the drivers of rour.other hackney-coaches were convicted by the Commis sioners in the full penalty, for bejug absent from their coaches at the Foundling stand - in Guilford street, on the 31st of January. . Between four and five o'clock . this , .morning,- a,dreadful fire broke wit in the cloth Manufactory of dr. .aufiare, Calne. Engines were imme diately procured, but from want of practice they did little or no .service and , M a short time the buildings, .with a large quantity of wood and im plements, were totally clestroyed: . ----(Buth Feb. 2.) LAVv JX42AExcE. COURT OF FE u. S. Onespecial nrgtiment lasted the whole morn illy; which was on A n aleerage loss on a policY cif containing; neither interest nor enter tainment to any but a Jegal reader. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. kIATTON-GAION.. CHAEGiI 4') F S G G k r /an/11dt Seeirelt , of Piccadilly, dealer.in lace, appeared to a sO!': mons, on an information, at the suit of the.r.c7 cise Otlce. chat!...ing her with. having in her pv ,- . session a quantity of smuggled goods.—Eiv o “ l Hart said he w,-;s 'an .Excise Officer, and I,a , i 4 received information that %the dd- e nd a nt " suatnity of smuggled goods•in her possession, " E a house of her's, in. Charlotte -street, Portlaod place, which house was to be let, and only a we ) " man- servant in it for the purpose of shewing he went there, on thel3th of -October last, 11 " 7 der pretence of taking the house. He inquired who bird the .lettiog ,of the house , " and was formed that Mrs. Search had. After some for thcr conversation with the sch ant, he inforMea her that he was an EKcie Officer, and came. 0" search the house. There . Was: a room on the tit', tic, the door of which WaS locked, he called for the key,_ and was inforthed Mrs. Search had .it ; consequence of which he forced open the drew, where he found a quantity of cards with Ir l ' S,rareh'S address, and,, ;Among other 'thing's, he found logr remnants of silk crape's, amounting"(/ ,yards and 'an half, and the foreign silk to 3 yards and - an half, valued at 3/. 16s, Mrs. Search denied any knowledge of articles being her house; she had not lived there since 24th cst Jane, since when the hotts'Z had been' let until within a few days of the seizure. 3'h:! Crates were of opinion, that; according to Act " Parliament, it must be knowingly in the posse'' sion of this there was no 'prod; cousequentlf they should acquit the defendant. QUEEN-SQUARE. A CHILD DROPI;ED.-01) eveninp about six. 'o'clock, as" a taylor residing inr West minster eras passing Peter -street, be perceived . 1 child about two years old on the step a Mi..Cror. per's door. After taking considerable pains r(,,1 find out its parents, he applied to the Overhler the parish, who discovered , that Mr. Cropper 44 son' had deserted his wife, and that she lett th child .iU that situation in hopes its grandfather would take care of it, site being utmtble to iorr port it. Mr. FIELDING said, the. evidence Pr" - (leed Was sufficient to tix on Mr.C. the cirirge of barbarity, and stated, son could found, he (night to support it: This Mr. C. Pa"' sitirely rt.losrd to do, alleging he Ii d no ri!:titf"' maintain his children 7 s children, The child t`•''' g • taken to the Workhouse to be taken'enre of. THAMES POLICE. OFFICE. F.P/LONY.—John Taylor, a Porter belonging!' ' the Budion Office (in thertnploY:ot the Hon. /3' 4 ", t ' India Company), was ch arge d on sosp i,iOn stealing, out of a chest, a*bag of dollars weighing 56 pounds, "anti containing 792 pieces, the Pr'''. perty of the East India Cotryany. It appeared 13 evidence, that on -the oft. the prisoner '" 4 present at the weighing and plcking of two che , ;ts of dollars in the above Wilke, and t.. ,, :.the ftc", day he received chargeof th en t ,, am t emi vevo' them .to the fast India Wharf, to b: forwar;le d from that place to the Hon. Company's ship 0 1° Illidgewater, lying at Gravesend, On the pre ) : pert y being pot o n b oar d t h e s hi p , t h e C onlon - 0 1'v ing Officer ordered the joiner to open both tbl chests, when,. to- the greet astonishment of "' i present, one of theta had been plundered 0 1 " bag, weighing 564b5. rtritl an iron hall-hnndre weight substituted in its place. On seiirchiu,l the desk of the prisoner at the India house, dollars were found it, ekactlvof - the same &T Seription as were in the chest, also t nieltittli pots by the side _of his desk, on the floor.. prisoner nikt being able to give a sati. - ifactory c. planation as to the property found in his poss 4t r e sion, he w a s committed to take hi s -t r i a l at ensuing Sessions for the City of London. BO W-STREET. Yesterday a farmer of liarrow„. aboUt ye'r r , g of age, was brought to the Office, charged a. rape noon a young.‘vornan, about 25 yearn age,, who is deaf and d um b. Lie. was.coulinit' - for further examination. James Carter was charged With making a turbauce in the Two Sfrilling Gallery of D rt irr . . Line Theatre, a n d .assaulting . Bond, one -0 0 ; constables, in the executi on o f his duty. 11 , !. 0 ''' ordered to find hail. - Gem - we Rochford was brought to the. Office 14 . Pearkes,,whO appreh e nd e d hi m ' on the coach . -- 6°)c o f Mr.• Wilson, with whom he lived as eoachnV, ii ' charged by James Cath row , E sq . Somerset fly., raid, of Fole . y 7 place,cilVeild iSII-•Sqllare; w ilh lac lived as a groom; with robbing him of vari ° ‘ l 'i articles of property, d u ri ng th e t we l ve mont hs was in his service.—lle was committed for fortb' examination. A Gentleman's house in Nottingham-Street, 5r. ;" Mary-le-boune New- roa d, was . b ro k e ope n (1 ;i Wednesday night, and ro bb e d of .a quantitY plate, watches, &c. •The robbers effected an el t; trance by getting over a wall, an d afterwa rt forcing the shutters of the back parlour. COAL MA It K. ET, Fs s. 3. Ships at Market. Ships sold. Price." oil. Newcastle 5 - to 539 : Oa' . Welsh Coal MARRIED. . On Monday last, at Elialiargh, Charles Mitintolleu Esq. to the !Light lion. Lady :4,loatzchnerie. s cot , ' DIF.I). ?sth J 1114... ult. at Vientil, Montagu, cond sun of Mathew Montagu ,"Esq. Portinau-squar qe e' On the :Id inst. at his house in L a mb' s Conduit - su James Anderson, Eig. aged SG. • e .• On Thursday morning, at his house in 13c4.1fgra - ' ll Duncan Campbell, Esq. • .._ . ,- ' • L(IM)O : Printed by J. B, CARSTA IRS, No. 71 -L-J. ve , 10 0 , bultiiovs ; and publi s h e d, by W. A. SCRIITS, of 1., ";76,:e• at Oa Sug-OFFIcE, No. i 12, Strand ; where Adv , ,,a, weal;, Or4rs, Litters (post-paid), ,Sec, roust be iiddics;