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Ihst we ltad takes ail the ocaoset ovetasen to goes , sad
likseefeen 1 meet des letter, 11, eestantly, when 1 wrote
OM leder, did set think it 'veld be published, bat 1 was
wag le **drift as; had thenghl it would ban been
yeiliNeked, 1 almaid have been muse einetemse in wording it,
that it might not easy, a refection upon Lord Cbstesin or
the army. %ellen I sew the letter afteresi ds in die paper,
it shark me very fenefhly that at mould be the means of soak.
tags breach between the two servers, and then of carer I
expressed bur very worry 1 was tittle Jsad worded the letter
la that stiooltz i at theses. time 1 observed teamed Chat •
lima. sad Mcleod to away officers of the Misty, that 1 must
boot errata • similar letter, fee it was only a stetemesit of
facts ; bet I might have put it together is such a manner as
net to be offensive, kw in the way it was woidest it appeared
tit* cultism a reflection upon Laid Chatham sod the principal
Officers of the army, and 1 am very glad to have this upper.
lenity oft spl. ' • g myself, Itercuse l Oid not man to cut
asiv riffect ma opus Lord Chath.sen, or the ',Terme officers
*filo. ansiy, or any of the movements of the many, for I am
tot a .ocige of military tillattere. At the same time I could
.eat help regretting, and 1 do, at this moment, regret wont
'piseecely, that, having been hi ought up, as we were, to the
poke of attack open the enemy, and having worked our
maple up to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, we should have
*era wader tbe uneasily of in fillet. From what has Imp-
rinted since, is eousequeuce of He sicksessof i he twiny, I sin
ensiviaced that it ma the Wisest masere that the Cum-
masider-imCbtel of the army could pursue ; for I doubt ern y
mach whether his Lordship would have been able to accom-
plish the fall of Antwerp, cominlerleg the seasuil uf the year,
the very sickly state of the troops, and the increasing force
if the enemy ; but as we did not see much force, I thought,
wad I still do think, that we ought to have attacked Lille
sod Lielltenehoeik, which might have opened a field to some
**termite or other, sod might hare been the means of our
even getting hold of the eilem.,-'s fleet : and it was with this
imp-ration that 1 mute my letter.
Did yea ever calash with the Commander.in-Chiefuf the
army &Wet attacking Forts Lillo aid Llefketistmeik,and
poierforeard 1-oii the bath of August, Sir Hear Prifibaxt
and gamed went to headquarters to dine with Lord Chat-
ham, sad at that time his Lordship did nut speak at all as
IF he had tkpahos ahem, going as ; at the same time, his
Lordship inentioried, that the enemy were ineseasing in
Aare. Sir HAM: Popham spoke a good deal in favour of the
Ideteli fur landing the army on, and this was the (racial eon-
dination that ',abed at that time; however, Lis Lordship pro.
posed coining to Claim on the following day, which was the
filth, and there„ in atieVerseliein %Ili, me, he first strut...olC.
trialr, adelltiefalag the toreros. d force of the euriny, the ad.
vowed stases., (mid Waked eertaiuly very bad weather) and
the sickly state of the troops; the arum was just theu begin.
Del to be sickly, sad he seemed to lout to me, that he wish-
ed some letter from are epos, the abject. Accordingly,
Oa the unit day, I wrote to kis Lordeldp; and that letter se-
Mt paint Woe to the Admiralty of Ilir gyth of duvet, and
;vs=the Committee ; it that letter it will appear, that I
an attack upon I Mowed Lielleashoeik, with avtew
ifflgelliat • field to (metier enterprise; file Wad the old)
melleareetion or, eirvespontleure I hail with hie Lordship Alp o%
etaat subject; I think that kiln ore dated the utith of Au.
glist
Did you mot write a lett. w to Lord Chatham on the o7th
of August ,--t do Oust regolleet wheat. r I 411 d of met; but if
the subject of the letter is stated, it nay bring it to my re-
entlealim.
Incase the preprisition of *Peeking Fort Lille lied been
meteesidel, do Ton think the fleet might here gone op so se
to have attacked Antwerp, Of ol what way, to have takes
erierssiou of the French fleet'—lf Lille end Lief kenshiwik
Ise ler, n takers, the fleet "meld certainly have gnat up, :,iat
lit the filmes and flotilla would, and preltably awn, U. ti:
ships of the Nee, and it would have rentatasti to he rinkover.
ed whether the works at Antwerp would revolt ose posing
Antwerp tbeltiCk the French Seat. 1 tUlik, la the hest of
tit reeolloothst, bii title time. tie Tema Sol um brought
Awn hiller Itatiserp i live sail af the Me had boa up Mime
if. When we ens shed on the propriety of attacks's/ Lille
•;o1 1 ler lieeelmeik, Sir Richard Keats was in company with
INA, d 1.4 meet sil stir l.li a1...del .C..-lir. Als of the army, 'es ept
teed Paget and Lord Huntley; I then stated that 1 thought
LIP° might he attacked with a large proportion of the as our, I
ow
that • frog propurtiou of it mitt be landed ow the
Deer side to attack Lief loreshoeik, and that I thought it ne-
arest" that the unay *Mudd ~crop, the dykes oil both sides
of the river. We lad a greet sisal tat conversation upon this
ashler t, and it was the opinion of the Offcers of the army
theta patent. that we should have little prospect of succeed-
ing In the ulterior objects of the Expeelitiou, ewes if we so,
Cadet' km taking Lillo and Liefkenshoeik, and that, earn-
dering the state of things, it would lie iojudicioas to male
the attempt ; but I had no dem:* of our having it iu um
peen to puss the frigates sad several ships of the line, in.
&nine should hart attempted to do it, up tiorards Autwerp,
if tills aid Liell.euebank hail beau taken.
Tea think there wee 110 impediment by the boom or chain
that wee said to have hen laid area 1--Yes ; the boom
and Aunt woe en impediment, 'bet it eight have been
'breed.
'ln the interview you had with Lott Halgrave, en the loth
el Jane, was soy chart rahibited 11l you, skewing the
diup sad the different courses of the navigation of the
'.--Yes, a very good chart, the last Freak safety,
lets we mime found to be very eetreet.
ilasm
As tattooed short'—Yes.
Was that chart, or a copy of it, delivered to you before
yea sidled ?—...t0 many of thus, elicits as could be col.
legged, were divided awes the differeut slops of war of the
lett-
Did you Sod that the soundings in your progress np the
Sc' eleit se far as Rath:, answered completely to those charts!
-••• Neatly so, stMwieg for the diderent time. of tide.
As welter the Easters Scheldt as the 11'estera Scheldt
—Tbu obagt we. • chart of the West Scheldt only. '
Wee there any chart or any drawing of the toweling* and
count a the East bAkekti!....We had a chart of the Last
liebelelt, hut out as. correct as that of the Went Scheldt, and
tler sonesliege very immaret, bat It was lie brit chart that '
*meld be procured , indeed, every paper that could he col-
lated to give es isforansinns ate sect to al by the Admiral-
ii.. amid the. gigaton plum too alum to proems pilots for
"tee Eepcdition..
Its say adios. chart; Wes the ford is the Berrgeemp.vioni
parisep described '—No ; it was sot.
Is your interview with Lord Mulgmee, were yni made ve-
gitaisted esti, the farts of tlicre bring a (rod there '--We had
say ateareatios tespectiog it, and 1 doubt if it was greasily
egLisestosil that these was a road there.
Were you avvate,orseib a cutelaillASOCll before you sailed !
roe, I was set.
Did Lord Clinlma• seed sou anY auswer to the letter vow
tame to his Lordship not the obth of August ?—I did receive
se anima (tom 1 ind Chath•ra , I think it was dated the
trill ; 0 is in the paper teeter the conoirotss
At the time you thoutlit the attack on eillo and Lief.
Iteashoeik prettitablenwaa the lived tatostrable !.—Nu, it was
Set.
Within that space of time, entrain' from the day yogi
ailed froui the vses do you think that iin,ono men resold
have bees leaded at isietvliet, reckoning for all circuits.
mantes of wend, weather, shoals, soil uppoedissue from the
enemy '—With tits Mod and •eatlies we had, and the imp,.
shwase that we met with, I doubt if it would hare twee
peasible to have made a proper lauding on Semi het till the
luth or i ilk of August, if so neon as that, became, ee found
• great difficulty in getting the traiumurts shirk had the
/witty adosoce of the army, sad preirisioiss, • and other
mores, through the Slough Piseage late the lgat acheidt„
main to their !seism obliged to pots through • Peak-way
ea the Calvet...Led, which wee soder the Ira of Flanking ;
it was sit till aftei the fail of liable( that eat here! mei-
nonce and ill the cavalry gel 111..encll, amt, 'twee-fore, if the
army did land at Sate tort, which it might ordeal, has
dune Won, it must have lode 1.11400 the how) artillery,
and many ewes necessary to a eters I beg km* to correct
myself is my answer, that 1 de out mean to ay we had
enosue Ws to WWI. because a greet purl of the army was
fuart•••4l is lover.luoc Flußholg. ; Menton' thew* was ant
that somber of toes to he landed, as well as I ear real.
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