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Admiral Calder asked whether it were the inten-
tion of the Court to proceed on Christmas Dly ?
Admiral Mont...Tue.—Yes, Ide cettainl) . I sln
not feel thAt the service will admit of any delny.

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At the meeting of the Court on Wednesday,
Sir ft Calder, addressing the Court, said, '• Mr.
President, and Gentlenten of the Court, I twit lea, er
to give itt this paper, as my defttnce, and to request,
that a friend of mine, conversant in the hand, may
be permitted to read it."

this the Court very readily attenteri.
Mr. Gaselee. as Sir R. Calder's friend, II el read
his deience; but, in so rapid a manner, ta viable
us to give merely an imperlia sketch ci; its cua-
tents.
The defence stated that he appeared in a sin-
gular, almost in an unprecedented, situatimi. lie
had served his country, not only without reproach.
but with honour. and the apptobation °this Sove-
reign, for 4G years.
Sir R. Calder— For 47 years.
After having been employed pn an arductus, dif-
ficult, and important service duti. g the last ten
months ; having, at the end of that perioi, cos-
penes' into action a greatly superior fleet of the ene-
my, who had, at the same time, the advantage of
the wind; and having, under there difficulti:s, gains
ed over this enemy, what he conceived, in the ctr-
cumstances of the case, a great and important vie-
, Wry, he found himself compelled to rcque.t atrial.
in consequence of hit not having renewed the en-
gagement during two days after, in which t ene-
my remained in sight. Surmises and inimemmansta-
lions of his condo d on this occasion had gone enisad.
to allow which to pass over in silence, would have
been constlued into a colas:Wu/mess of guilt. He

had accordingly felt hintself realized to apply for a
Cunt Martial, to enqinie i tan his eftniiict, con-
vinced that the result w. eild completely none the
charges with which he had been loaded. The Ad-
' indult), had been plaased to accede to his request ;
but though he had liege...l that it mieht be an in-
quiry iato every part at .is conduct; both prior and
enfooqiient, they Lad limited it to the days of the
twenty-third and tweety-fourth, on whialt days he
was charged with not having done the hest in his
power, and all taut could have been dune, to take
and destroy all the ships of the enemy, which, the
charge asserted, he ought to h eve enga.'ed. This,
therefore, was the °tile point fur the ci ninderation
the Court. ft lamented the investigation was not
oft broader and more unli cited nature. If it had
• been predicable for him to have entered into the
merits of the case, he should have been ai_;e to s'iew
that his conduet hid been not only justifiable, :out
praise-worthy. That he had not only saved his
own fleet, but heal been instrumental in the saving
of his country. He trusted, with confidence, that
the judgment of the Court, this day, would restere
him to the good opinion of that coonti so-of that
country, for which he had bled, and for which he
had conquered. The charge Against him was
not precisely wiihio any of the a: ticles of war,
although it assumed one of them as its founde-
tion. He admitted, that it was at all times the
shay of a British Commander to engage my ship
cf the enemy, when it might be in his power ; but
be denied that it was iocumbent on any such Com-
mander to prove the physical impossibility of his
se engaeing. Neither could he admit that aßi Irish
Commander, having once met an enemy, whom he
had eng.teed, was bound, so long as that ene-
my remained in sight, to do every thing in his
power to renew the contest. He had two iii-
stances of it contrary practice, observed reit two me-
memorable occasions, and by two of the greatest
Commanders whom the British Navy hint
.seer
produced. He meant • hat of Lord Hosen, on the
Ist of June, I;n4, and that under Eaeleti. Vincent,
on February 14. 1797, no both rifewhich °nominal+,
these eminent Officers rer2;enJ for some time in
sight of the enemy, whiort they had previously en-
gaged, without coor:efg a renewal oh the coatest.
Of the latter, he could speak with more cirenfi,lence,
hevieg himsell been Earl A. Vincent's Captain on
that memo;il,le occasion. Of the phopriety Of this
condion., in the case of these Noble Commander,
no doubt bad ever been started, and tbey were al-
lewed to have exercised a sound d:scretion. I-1 he
tonteaded, was a case of-more n•-cessity that.
It was not the fleet wish which be had born e-T;, Jed,
that he had :then' co contend. He cad to
against an wick from the /toelifort and Ftn•ol
squadrons, iliaddition to that which was then. In sight.
In Feb icy he had been sent by Adm. Cornwallis to
blochede her. 01, with seven sail of the Lae. This
was all which could be spared him; ai. a, although he
"repeatedly applied for two fligates, only one coold
be spared him. It was not his meaning to relied'
on the Admiralty. He was well assured they had
enough to do to supply ships where they were mint
wane J. It was his objed, at present, to di fend him-
self; not to accuse others. In the same month, the
Toulon and Caaiz fleets joined, and it was ascer-
tained they had proceeded to the West Indies. ha
dangerous was his situation at this time, that Lord
Gardner dire fled him to leave Ferrol, and come to
his Lordship—thirteen sail of the line being thee
about to leave Ferrol and go to Comma. Oa the
10th of .fuly they had aduelly befoul to move, and
signal posts had been established between Cape Fi-
nisterre and Corunna, to Ferrol, to enable them to
judge when to corn: out. By an m •!er finm Ad.
miral Cornwallis, Rear-Admit al Sterling was oriel-
lid to join Sir Robert, and they were ordered to
cruise SO or 40 'caws to the westward for six or
sight days, and then to return. The enemy's force
was then stated to be 16 sail, with whom, if the
Prisoner did not fall in, they were immediately to
repair to their respective steams off Ferrol and infich-
fort. Ott the loth, he was joined by Rear-tadmirel
Stirling. The same wind, however, which enabled
Admiral Stirling to leave Rochtort, enabled the
fleet, which he had hem blockading there, to escane,
which it did, as appears (torn the evidence of Ad-
miral Stirling himself; on the lath, to Corunna,
whence it could get out almost at any time. Toe
wind had continued nearly for two days to be fair for
their departure, and if they had taken advantage of
the night, they might have jeiiied the enemy. It
was out of dispute, that on the each the wind seas at
N. E. which was a favottrable wind for going out ;
and it was known to all the Court, that perils' land
winds occasionally blew, which might even enable
them to effed a similar purpose. At this time a
letter was received, written by Lord Nelson, then
bound to Europe, to Lord Gardner, and transmit-
ted to Sir Robert, strongly
recommending a care-
ful watch to be kept on Ferrol, as a port into which
the Combined Fleets might be supposed to attempt
ro enter. Accordingly, oa the Xlst, they came in
sight, much more numerous, however, than had
been supposed, not consisting of sixteen tail of the
line, as Admiral Cornwallis 's accounts led to er-
ped, but of 2a) sail of the line, seven frigates, two
brigs, aid a lugger : while to oppose them, there
were only 15 sail of the line, two frigates, and two
cutters. Notwithstanding this superiority, and every
disadvantage of wind and weather, he effeded his oh-
jef of forcing the enemy to battle ; and, amidst the
numberless insinuations which had unwarrantably
been thrown ouriageinat his condud, he had never
yet heard any ilbjeftten started as to the mode of his
commencing the aCtion that day, or to his conduCt
id the course of it. By the valour of the Admiral,
who was second in command on that day, and by
the bravery of his fleet ih general, he had been en-
abled to achieve, what he presented to think was, in
such circumstances, a gloat and important vidory ;
a viftory, than which, few instances, and those of
modern date, ,more important, or more decisive its
their nature, had been accomplished with such a do-
time the firing ceased, the
'. The Vice-Admiral then
which was in a damaged
rare for edion. lie kept in
whole of the night, to pro-
_ same time, as clam as possi-
During the night, he was engaged
`the scleadmn had sustained;
f the extent of the damage,
his power to renew the en-
ly teat the Fr:.,( cutter, and
the mums of Use state of

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the diffetent ships. the -retefine ire. Who-
fore the Court, and it would be fur them to judge,
whether he would have beanererrented.laitietwiegemi
tier the di sa Arent:4m which he should flextime
to tleetn. and with his fleet so muds &owed, is aet!
tempting to renew the actin,[ ? It was not till about
eight in the morning of the fed. that the Admiral
saw the Wm greatly to leeward. He thee made
signal for her to quit the prizes. and ler the Egrn
Pent e to take them in tow. The cutesy were then
set n at a distance, about eight or nine miles to wind-
ward. lie found, this of 15 ships of the line, the
lVindccr C.sfte only .ins declared incapable of sail-
ing, and requiring to lie-to. yet that. nieny of them
were very much crippled ; and, is his judgment,
and relying on the returns which had been made
to him. without 4 mast which could be relied on
in a press of sail. That this belief was correct, no
other evidence seemed necessary, than the fact that
the Rept,:ve sprites her bowsprit, and the Malta her
mainmast, on the 125th, being the very first press of
sail they had made since the action. Capt. Inman,
ton, of whose evidence the Court were already in
possession, has afforded his testimony, that he ex-
pected, when sent to chase a frigate of the enemy,
on the day after the H, (ion, that his mast would
have gone by the hoard. Another circumstence,
which must have resulted from a renewal of the ac.
Lion, was the capture of the Windaor Cater, of the
primes and the irigetes, three or four sail of the
line of the enemy's fleet, appetently in order, hskg ob
served wetcheig on the weather-beanoshady to cut
oil' the sepereted ships. 'Phis it was the Vice•Ad-
mirars duty to prevent, and to preserve the admin.
Lige he had got. Ane.'etr disadvantage under
smiich he lehonred,leeettempting to renew the adien,
war the waist ree- frigates, on whidi it w 4; uncessary
fur hum to enlarge to that Court. it was far from
ty..titer his intention to attempt to adduce any tliirg
which might tend to diminish that spirit which
induces British Commanders to cc:interim every
danger when their country's interest eias at stake ;
but he must deprecate the idea ',Let it was in-
cumbent on them, at all times, and in all cases,
• to combat with unequal members, to the utter-
mest, without regard to fitly circumstances which
migie exist.—Every ease must be governed I,y
its own circumst.uttes, and must depend on the
judgment of Cr.: Commander, subjed to that
respensieility which always attaches to such si•
Auetions. it appeared to him, that the action was
highly insportent, even if the capture of the two
ntites had ;nn, the only obje& attained. There
were, here ve sixteen sail of the line at Ferrol,
which, i they were net already at sea, would, in
the event of his ei lug tenable to resume Isis station
el teat port, be !eft et full liberty to pursue any
ei.e• se they pleas:'!, .n I even to eta a landing io
Ire. He really nest feel, in diese circurn-
seiecee that lie was justified in running the risk
wei -II must ti eve enc. Jed a renewal of the anion,
.in opoerteuity presented itself far more fa-
n welt!! than teat which he addled-2o attemet, te-
• selt.d as lee was to return in stares of Clem, so soon
as he had plued ht. crime! d ships in a place of
safety. lie certainly had not offered, but, at the
use. time, lie had never eveiditd, a renewal of the
emag,eatent ; end though the enemy, v.:cunt:ugly, as
one ell- .r. Commanew had represented it, and
with a sea to twee the most leeweri part of their
fiett, if it %.!4 been described bv another gallant
Other, had boric en the 1-litise fleet, he was eon-
vested, had they been serious in coming to adion,
they woil.l have received a proper revenge. But,
during the whole of the ?ad, the enemy, as appeared
from :he evidence before the Coen, had the wins!,
and, of comic. comd not be forced into aeries. On
the tAth, at day-ierek. the enemy was SOLI only from
she mast head, there being some light breezes. But.
even then, supposiag it to have been possible to
bring the enemy to a&ion, that could only be ac-
complished by .4 separation of the squadron s and car.
taidly, errs then, not in Ms opinion, without the con-
sent of the enemy. At six o'clock of the evening of
the '2 i•th, the enemy was entirely Olt of sight. The
Vise-Admiral accompanied the Waki,or Coale to a
piece of safety. resolved to return to his station, and,
it possible, to bring the. enemy to adinn. In case
of not fiettine diem is )Ferrol, his resolution was
to tepeir to the rendezvous off Cape finisterre.
He accordingly returned to Ferro! and there re-
sealed the blockade; the efehe returned to England
to refit; and Admiral Stirling, agreeebly to his
orders. to Rochfort. Ilse Vice-Admiral had, to the
propriety of his conduß in these different reipedse I
the Approbation of the Commander-in-Chief, who
not only transmitted to him a letter of .eepro-
/tenon and thanks, after the action of the 22d,
as an additional proof of confidence, on the
17th of August, put under his command a filet of
twenty sail of the line to blockade Ferrol, and with
farther instrudions, if they had sailed. The enemy
had wiled from Ferrol ; but the Vice-Admiral for-
tunately arrived time mouth at Cadiz to enable Ad-
miral Collingwood to secure them three Having
add to-the best of his judgment, in all these par.
titulars, he hole expeded to hare met the reception
which he found awaiting him in this country. The
Court were already in pos.ession of the testimonial
of the gallant Adini•4l, who was second in mn-
Mend, on the 2.21 of July, to the propriety of his
(the Vice-Admiral':) condud. A simil it testimonial
he :,ad also received from his Com:milder-in-Chief ;
and he &meted himself the country in general would
agree, on his return home, in bestowing the usu.'
tokens of aeprobation on liis cueded, and that of
Iris gallant associates. this, at least, t/try d, se-ved,
however much he himself might hires merited a
contrary tee :meet. Judge then of his feelings, on
finding himself accused, even by the most mode-
rate of his Assailants, of hewing trifled with the feel..
ings of the pubic. This, nuwever, proceeded not
from any fault of his, but from the m in which
his dipatdies were published in r-,e tendon Garotte.
They were not published wheal,' and ...tire; and yet
they were not published as extras from, but .as

copies of, his letters. lie disclaiawd al: id eof
regefling on the Admiralty in t'sis pantie oar. They
pro.b.ibly meant to cunvey gratifyir.g intelligence
the public, without b-ing aw-re of the interpre-
tation which might be put on it, or that it would
militate to his disadvartage. c,mld not
mean so. was apparent from the area I-ss with
which they had allavicd him to state the substance
of that pant which was omitted. In doing so, how-
ever, he should cake care to pvepidicethe
but rather himself in suffer Any Wien which miga.
Amor from want or explanation. lit then read an ad-

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140ithich lie.stiys. " Al *maim doe &willolo,
AIN to be on asy guard, on amnia oof the w ..
a; Newel, and the two captured ship. I hairs sent
them sod the Windt*, Cattle away." this had i
hem stated, the public could sot have expecteti ft •
iamb. They would rather have camrompamedwith ,
satisfaction what had been done. His letter of the
2tith July too, in which he corrected the unfortarl
nate omission relative to Admire( Stirling. breathed
similar language, and slimed that a renewal of the
er.gagetnete. for the time, was at an end. As to the
veport circulated by Lieutenant Nicholson, that the
Vice-Admiral had aspired him and authorised him
to &clue to the Commanding Officer, that I
had it in my power, ar..l was determined to force,
the Combined Fleets to renew the anion—why
Was not Lieut. Nicholson called on to pewee the
fiat. He could not. The Vice-Admirpl declared.
on his honour, that he never did send such a mss-
sage.
Sir R. Calder—" That Ido most solemnly." „I
Every letter :hewed kis intention not to renevrAte.
asion, till he had conveyed the Minton Casei'to a
place of safety. These, he hoped, semen justify
him in wishing to have an opportunifer to vindicate
his character and conduct. 'l hg question divided
itetlf into two heads :-.-Firs• Weld he renew the ac-
tion. if be had inclined ?---Sekeend, whether it would
have been prudent so ta•fu ? and whether he did not
act wisely, and exe)cise a sound judgment in declin-
ing to renew it ? it Was evident, that on the 231 he
could not rene.v the action ; and that, on the 24th,
though the wi 'LI was favourable, he could not renew
it, %Nohow separating the squadron, and even thee it
weadoeleful with what success. "Fhisheshould wove ;
and that it was impessible to take the prisoner; out
of th- captured ships, had it been found necessary
to destroy them. He lamented the absence of
Captain Prouse, as he would have been a material
witness to prove the facts in the caw. The signal
which he made for a return of the damages weich
the different s .ips had sustained, did not impan his
determination to renew the 'Rion. His only objea
was. to form a line of battle, if the enemy
had chosen to advance. It was pleats th it Cap-
tain Inman made the same distinlion that he
did for, thongh crippled, he gave a negative to
the signal to lie-by, well kniwing the difference be-
tween the ability to lie-by fir art enemy, and that of
cirryitig a press of sail for the purpose of teaewing
the anion. He could sufficiently admire that spi-
rit of heroism, by which a British Officer was
withheld from making signal of inability or•
distress ; but lie contended that it would have ill
become him, and that he would have ill discharged
his duty to the public, if, to such feelings, how-
ever neenanimetis in themselves. he ha 4 sacri-
ficed other more imaortent considerations. As to
whilt Captain Durham said, he declared that
he had eleeadv formed his plan, which was not to
separate the ; and to have ordered Captain
Durham to keep sight of the enemy, Could
only have had the elFea of separating him from the
remainder of our squadron. Ile declared, indeed,
that he was surprised at Captain D.'s having made
the signal tie did. Had Be (the Vice-Admiral)
required it. he would have male a signal for it.
In fest, the signal made to Capt. Durham, was 77,
the signal to bring-to, and not t 5, the signal to re-
connoitre.
A variety of leuers and other documents yaws
then put in, and read . • and, amongst the rest, the
first dispatch of Sir R. Calder to the Admiralty,
after the anion. as it originally stood, without their
curtailment. The following paragraph from a pri-
vate letter to Sir R. Calder, from Admiral Corn-
wallis, dated July 29, was then read : " But it was
not believed that they (the enemy) had so many
line of battle ships ; sixteen being all we heard of,
from a sloop which spoke them. as they said, on
board, :titer they left the %Vest Indies."
Question, to the Hon. Capt. Gardner, of the
Here--lt this your report of the damages sustained
by the Nen ?--Yes, it is.
The report was then read.
Did the enemy ever chase, or make any attempt
to force me to adieu, on the 23d of July last ?-e-
No.
Could I have forced them to come to anion on
that day ?---Not if they chnse to avoid it.
If I had gone towards the enemy on the 24th,
with intention to renew the Aaiun, could I have
compelled them to do se, if they had chosen to
avoid it, Withellt approaching so near the shots as
to have enabled them to communicate by signals
with Ferrol ?---1 am not acquainted with the rela-
tive sailing of the two leers but lam of opinion,
thee could have communicated with the -hole, bee_
fore they could have been brought to alios, had
they wished to do so.
WAS the British fleet always kept by me between
that of the enemy and the port of Ferrol, while the
enemy kept in sight?--The British squadron was
always nearer to the port of Ferrol than that of the
enemy.
Were you most in danger, by carrying sail, when
sent ley me to Admiral Cornwallis, on our return to
shant ?—ln carrying sail to accomplish that duty.
which was only performed on Sir R. Calder's ap-
pearing in sight of Admiral Cornwallis's fleet, the
foremast of the Here was in danger of going over
the side.
Court--From the manner in which you have de-
scribed the state of the foremast of the Nero, at the
time you joined Admiral Cornwallis. what do you
suppose would have been the consequence, had the
Vice- Admiral found it necessary to carry sail in
pursuit of the enemy ?—I think the foremast, par.
ticuierly on the 24th. when there was a considerable
swell, bad we carried sail. must have gone by the
board. from its putting on so bad an appearance.
after we had fished it to the extent of our means.
Wnat masts of the Hers were found necessary to
be, and were takes out, when the Hero was repaired
in port ?. I he foremast and mainmast were both
taken on., and replaced by new ones.
By the Celt r—,>, s 'i.e British Beet was skivers sewer
to tic .tior•• 'ban we enemy's, while in sight, in what
way could they approach the shore, to communicate
with it, before some part of the British fleet, not dis-
abled, could nave closed with that part of the ene-
my which was disabled ?--By shore, I meat any
pert of it between Cape Finisterre and Ferrol, where-
by their wishes might be communicated to Ferrol.
At what distance were you from the shore while
the enemy was in sight eau refer to my book,

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4 then PrN:E.
4h-re WA* whether Yho kl not sends 7t.
Ift of your damagps by the fiek Atid 4114, n 2 the
orhht between the havd cud 2 1--Yes ri d ' yet-
belly, by Lirstarnant honnethst the Y.'• er -y what
is before the Court. , •
-Doh yha lay :. ht stapes en tit- cof ..,,e 'Wirer
rJaSti ?•—Ne. I hid they se. :td:hhavc todhl.
As you have said yon are thr acchteirhe ' hhh the
relative :ailing of-the flee; s, on *kit ground do yon
conclude the -.twiny oottid ea the shore before
the British thist could have .etched them ? -Front '
ais
their being fifteeo or stet a v !stiles distant from us it
the time, and the enehe'h line of bat? !e ships being
formed generally th, hail as well as ours. I Say ge-
e
i htly. e
Did Thhitylve any information from the Vice-
Admiral, .er the action, that it was his intention
to renter ;he action h.-Lieutenant Fennel, eh the
Nileehaid me he was tent on 'shard tc know tne dz-
. "Kies sustain 'd, and that tlitrAd.oiral meant to re-
new the action in the mcmittg.
When did you teceive able info ratatien ?..--Bea
tween two and three o'clock in the morning a the
ad. .
The following paper was :tow put in by Sir R.
Calder :--
" I anmit they in the tight of the tht. 1 aid hope to remit -
the acoon -
Court—You will please to &switch. Captain
Gardner as soon as possible, because betis ordered
on immediate service.
Sir R. Cattito--For that express reason I celled •
Capt. Gard* first.
Did the er.eihy appear to pod kola,* entered
much ?—No. I only olverhed one mai:top-mit yard
g ~oe in the whole squadron. We weft too tar to
judge of their sails.
The Hon. Captain Legg, oftheßepedaehmatnined.
h that the report you made to me of the do,
rages sustained by your sLip h-Yest that Is UM •
seeond report I seat in.
The report wet then read.
Did you make a similar report on the thihtbit et;
the 224 h-No. I did ant .'.en know that the Imre
sprit had beta wnu.sded. I merely specified, chip
• the riggioh and sails had been cut ; as the Olcct
o' the Frisk came or tyrant s . soon ater th- h.oh,
I lhing the nest ship to the Admiral, I bad tin •
rehh; made at the tone of the &hush. , scy .i ht -
Rep trt was, I believe, transmitted to th A.ltnu 4.:y. '
Sir R. Calder—All the first, or rases reports,
were sent to the Admiralty.
•Weiz you employed in fishing and securing your
mast and bowsprit all the t3..1 at July ?—Nio. it,
bowsprit was sot . onsidered an badly wounded as tit
be fished, :ill after it sprung on thetveidog oft. •
itikh. ihe peehly. were occasionally employed. oar
the 23.1. in knotting and splicing the rigghig, oats rev
pairing the sails.
Did you make the signal to me,on the tsthod the
bowsprit b ing sprung ?.-.Yes.
Was not that the first lime we had carried rushb
sail daring the anion ?--I don't think that we cad
carried Any sad to slimily, before that. The Re.'6.
?she was then under her three top-sails, Ad I forts .
sail.
Did you, ahem the same time, Me the Make
make the signal 4 having spronh her tore-yard h--
Yes • and I think her lowerlahl.
Wit the squadron brought-to on the occasion? -
Yes: on the k 'she h.stkust, hgnel '
How long was it before the &peter said Melts
made the signal they were heady co proceed o 1 ser-
vice ?—tho /bile made the former signal at seven
o'clock in the evening of the thith. when we were
obliged to let every thing fly to save the masts. I
made the signal, that we were ready to make sail
agaie, as soon as It was day-tight on the £6th.
Did the enemy ever chase, or mate any attempt
to bring the Ili itish fleet to anion on the 234 of
July?-.-Never ; but always kept hull down to winds
ward.
Could I have forced them to anion on that day?
I think not.
' Did the enemy appear to you to lyre sustained
any considerable damage in their 'masts and yards?
—"No. I could only distirigbis'i woe ship, with. I
think, her maintop-mil.yard down. Some mhos
might have sails clued up to mine.
II I bad appmachea the enemy. could I have
fetched them, had they avoided me, before they
would have been able to cohmanichte with the
shore 1--I shoidd think not, :1 they chose to avoid
an anion.
Was the British fleet kept between the enemi and
Ferrol, while the eisitny were in sight ?--I think
they were till the 2fth. But not whet, during the
latter part of the time, we lest saw them. They
then stood to the south wtrd. •
IV en we parted with them, could they have
fetched Fermi ?---As well as I recoil. ft, I should
think nut.
Court--You hive stated, that you dirt not dh-
cover your bowlat it tore shin ig ,BI the 25th. is
you apprehend, if you bad beta 0.,14 ... to tarty
sail upon the Repulse, in persist of the enemy. yeti
hr %esprit would hare borne it !..-•rh, Tr ON prit was
not sprung till the evening of the 2Stn, sad, as it
then went under reefed top-sails, end t e --, I
should suppose it was not equei to car• - an) all, at
any time ofter the anion.
Was there not much sea on the 24th ? A .hrtf
sea, and almost calm ; toe ships rolling very tan:`,.
Was it so all the day ?...ht..he mor rig, attar
the breeze sprang up, about ten o'clock, the ships
did not roll so much.
Sir R Ca:der being asked, whether he had any
questions to pot to this witness ? sh:J, he hit.l not.
Charles B.ylt, of the WI 41sor C. h..., ezonsided.
Is this your report of the damages of year ship in
the anion h -Yes.
Did I hail yos myself, soon after the anion,
when you were passing to windward of the Prime
of If', Pt ? -Certainly.
What did Imy ?—You as'Ked me, whether my
foromproat could he got up very soca, or without
lon of time ?
' What was your airivret ?---That every exertion
should be made.
What was my reply ?—That you did_oot doubt
it
Was Toth. ship in a condition to Work he wi a-
ward. either in line of battlh or order of esti:tog. so
as to force the enemy to anion, on the had or 24th
of July?---No.
pad you receive any communication from Mt

parity of !umbers. At the i
enemy were to windward.
hailed Or Ifrendser Castle,
atAce, desiring her to. preps
tke.aale tack during the n
tea ber, keeping, at the rat
We n the'enemy. During t
in repairing the damage the
and being then ignorant of
he expeled it would he in
gagement. lie Accordingly
the Nile lugger, en culled