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0, The Ileer-lbiketwal, pmetelebelk thsl widen caned he
Alerted bp the Komobibellte ships. 41 efehlelvind Items&
ed, (as hod ebb mem er the ftel*,. wed thee imp ley is
immineut Omeev, Awl eatiellet Oh* if eery ebbs ferttiei
could be hum& the demoelled ft aim, it
could eel, be troftlKater remote • hr 'llhwellem gm, Jodi-
elsefse on the lil sigh, eirelk himself of a
tai MKS oft which euellled Wm. when the
rt=ttle dips flouted, te eater theme beim fhet den-
pr, sad to return to Bangs Reseda.
"Captain high, of the Valises, dm me ab retssa re-
ported to me that it wan formal Improdkakk b ibtsilmy the
themsdatited ship, sod odes. whirls emeelpie. at the es-
trum of the Charente, es the brew (wfddt glow the sow
ewe), wee protected by three lian of hostaliasatiks drew,
bees her. Is oddities' to the Meeseestibb Frei already
%Piloted of the imprarticabdity of offeetiwg say fender de-
'fraction of the essay',Brat,will advert to the high pro-
fessiosel charaetot of Item-Ades. it opined, sod Ceylon.* ler-
maned, bligh, ass Kerr, whammed for on mutest he sup-
posed likely to omit soy tircammilmine that tuna effect the
diem fee which 0
ey were sent by as Mee Aix Roads, soil
I am aurally eerealw, that they deg seep wiibeeir dew ship*
Meld it IMP *Wig MipsoeireehMft ekeds eletienher;
or emit le doomed debeem rilsriribit the eselliar
their ors ships word' hs the certaiu emosemenee, is Am
Lade.
" lewd Cochrane monied is the road of Ais risen the
grill 14th, accompanied by the Pallas frigid, the stoops
ad
penalines, n Etwi bomb; but nothing was attempted
bp the frigaus lot. imp the 131 h. the Rum was deployed
throwitig shells, the Whiting 'chooser in fermi reckves,
sad the oilier small women is bring os the enemy's ships
on shore, when the tide permitted than to t:pprosels. laps
Ida teh, having by anent' directed the Impersesse to join
tot, 1 ordered Camels Wolfe of the Aisle, to take the COSI-
"ISE el the stand vessels **reseed. The Eta.. cestisord
Rebores the emeny's ships, at the mummer of the Marmite,
oppertssity ()tiered, Miring the remainder of the day, but
without amt.
" Os the utb. 1 dispatched Sir HAM Neale to their
Lordships is the Imprecate, with my lee lc letter of the
talk of April, as acerast of the armee which had
bad
" Ee:thel3th to the 24th, the attack no the
dips en shore, at der mouth of the Charente, was cootioUet
by the bombs (the Thunder having arrived on the 1911.:, as
slated by the mean vesicle, as wired sad weather permitted
bet the enemy bad, by throwing overboard their guns sin
stores, got in high up, that eves the gun beep, sad oth.•
reach of light draught, firrimeatly grossed is thew el,
deserters to approach, and *ever coned get sullicinstly ors
to produce say effect.
" The odes of the Leeds Commissioners of UM Ada:
rally es me, ea the toth of April, to detach tee sirmaresis
of floor ships of the his. each, to asnee he jibe peepers o
istarcepting the Frond Myr whtels bee melded from
L'Orient is February. Weis& with tiw etbm swim whit]
I received from their Lardetnps, betimes lye 17th of Maori
and 29th of April, bees read epos spewing the Coed, I tisk
receded to observe, that 1 bad astwipated the seders 1,
their Lordship* is this respect ; and the deter in the op
rations of the led, without the loss of say of the Kish
ships, haring esabled rue to do so, 1 had previously appoint
ed two agaadems for that service, oeme of which had setuall
sailed before 1 received the ;des of their Larebb.l
devespos.
" From the ssth te the opik of April, seeding mater;
emerred sod herring eyeetved the Admiralty letter of td
tied of April, sigsllyrlsgldal their Lordships, comiderhig tl
state of the esimers , is ossersemenee of Iles Millis,
mimeos etas heel seder my command, so mod gadsted
to iisseise lay fkardtor peewee emetemeryt. rkatacbal wit
repair to fipitiorad la the Caladdia; I ateordiredly roe
plated the arrangsameite of the Reel, and posoradad is it
Caledonia to Ragland ea the 59th April.
" Previous to my leaving laestoe Meade, use of 11
enemy's frigates wan art as ire by themselves at the esteem
if the Cho:mete : smother was obrerved to be wrerikoi fe
the, up that river. The number of ships that earned eritl
out injury did soil, felon the heat ealbraistores, eared ere
or two line of battle ship. mid Iwo frig-ati s ; whet may he
been the fate of the remaisder, 1 leave to be collided'
the Members of this Hououtable Coors, who are well yam
'Med to judge of the 000tlitios of ships which had been i
lose and so repeatedly ognmed.
" By the foregoing narrative, es well as by the log SI
signal-log of the Caledonia, to which, a• aloe to every ce
reel log of the Acet, 1 am as desirous to refer as Lord Coe
rape caw be, it will. as I casiceire, ha sees, that 1 fat
mere the charge which has bees brought opium me , a.
if the impression *rinse oat of ti.. immire Aosta pro
less favourable to Lord Cochrane thus that which may ha
bees produced by my letter to the Loeb COMBlllielliollal
the Admiralty of the 14th April, his Lordship mod be et
Bible that, as the Smallish* of this Roam Ilkethd, lw
himself have bees the cause aline chew of met imeat..
1 have been willing to past so his Lorain', the folk,
credit for his peremal bravery, mid flor his joilicious as,
set of appreechiug the enemy is the Issperiesise, to whir
pests the eissemmodatioa ropromed is way Fetter of the Jai
April related.
" Far, is fact, the semis of lap Arm part of the entr
prise, as I have before observed, arose from the terror re
eited by the sppeaewoce of the are-dips. •• they failed
the priscipal e act they were intended to modem; and t I
blast of the explasios.verarls nadir his Lordship's immedie
dietetics, did sot take plate by soy swam so oar to II
ernmey's ships as his Lordship had projected : the gene,
molt however, of the attack, war so successful, that, it,
der that impeolnee. 1 did sot hesitate to impress is u
peblie tether lap degree of ape, obatios which is there'
marked, paseing over elrf%lollll4lll out altogether Sall.
factory to me, sad sot at all rat. ...miry to he ought ii.
public seine.
" The Court is sow is pooseesion of all the faces sad c.
eumattucts os which I rem my justiAcatios ; and it r
moms to be considered how far they are elected by the ei
desire produced cos the part of the promoting.
" I have first to refer to the evidence of the second
command, sad to that of the Csmalns of the two (viva
einpkiyed is the attack, vie. the Rear-Admiral Xtopford a
Captains Redd and Waif
" These Officers, far from supporting any port of t
charge made against me, have distinctly deseed there bay.
beer any 'reelect, delay, or deficiency in say part of my et
Meet is Barque Roads; and 1 am pensaded, that, had
Prosecute( called all thorium, wigwams summosiod tapes I
trial, a emereposidiag testimosy would have bees gives
sad of them.
" 1 have seat to refer to the mideste of the log sad sir
beet* eif the beet, ea which the charge purports to
fassiloil; and I mum bereheg to call your attention to
very dossal circumstance of there being already oa
table two leg books of the same ship, (namely, the I.
rieme), and eastselesily Martin them each other on
theta produced by the Mader, as the asthentie &women
that ship, to tha accuracy of which he has deposed
the other presented by Lord Corehrase, mod admitted hv
to be • roaspilatios he biased is Leaden, 0
sot produce' to the Cowl Is addstioa I. 11
eircoarsemers, I have to lay spoil your idle a third pat
purporting to he dm a hoplinek of the hapermase,
dill/emit flora the two already before you : this paper
delivered to me by Lord Coobraae, es ditherer to .•
of the stab May Mat, " to honed use • miry of
bads of logs .ad seaside of lira Majesty's ship Imperil
aide lois emessessel, frees nth top title aped int loene
to the hopliesh the C• 11,1 will bird dill ha Latest
oiresfete.
The Court itself \aria' so attentively isopecosd