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ashore, sometimes in the Yemenisle ; the Venerable was in
theltoompot, about twelve or fourteen miles frets ma.

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Why clod not the squadron under your Lordship's torn-
nand join Commodore Owen's stpae.ron in die Wcilio !--I
never was ordered to join Commodore Owen.

Is the Committee to so:lei-stand Irvin your Lordship, that
you sever actually received any eider to join Commodore
Owen in the Weilin, our that any pilots came on board to
conduct you into the Weilin !--I never received sny orders
to join Commodore Oweu in the %%Vain, nor did any ptiuts
arrive to take my ships into the Welton.

What answer did your Lordship send to Commodore
Owen, it eonsrgsenee of his requisition for the boats of yusr
squadron ---"lfhis letter is dated Blake, iu the mouth of the
Ducrlorr;-August sd. _

(Lettrr read"

If all the boats whirl. you could have seat from your
squadron had bees sent to join Commodore Owen, what
cumber of troops could they have put 011 shore suppose
the whole of the boats of the squadron I had the tumour to
command, might have carried fruits four to live hundred men;
that is my opialoo.

Was your Lordship's squadron provided with any hosts
beyond the 'Lumber which a squadron of that description
wagtail, ranter to sea understood some time after this
period, that the Centaur bad Vire tat-honoured Lints on
hoard, rpou my basin: received directions to send her to
eruize off the Trani, hot at the tilt I received the requi-
sition from Commodore Owen, uo report had been made to
me of those boats ; the utile! ships of the squadron bad only
tbe 111141.11 number of bouts.

Does your Lordship know the reason why the two gat-
bottomed boats were put Sri board the Ceutaur Cen-
taur was equipped at Portsmouth originally to carry troops,
but being wasted to reinforce the squadron under my com-
mand, she sailed is so great's hurry as nut to have time to
laud the two flat-bottomed boats, winch wu hitended.
It wee intended to have landed the two flat-bottomed boats
from the Couleur 1--Yes. at Portsmouth. •
Has your Lordship reason now to know that it was the in.
teutiun, if there bad been time, to have equipped your squad-
rim with any number of hams beyond that usually carried by
ships of that dsscription eatinot state whit was intes4.
ed ; I 'appose them intended to be effective ships of the litre,
to act against the squadron 'AUK enemy, and sot to catty

Yon do not know that there was any part of the intended
signupatent of your squadron defective, in cousequeitee of the
haste with which it sailed :—Nu.

Your Lordship slates' that you did not I-eerier. Sir Richard
@traction's letter of the oith of July at the time did your
Lordship receive that letter at any sule.eimesit time
No, I wer saw that letter until it appeared in the public
era7your Lordship any other papers you wish to produce,
hayr various papers respsiting Cadsa,id, wle,ch I do not
think it material to produce ; COrrellptllKiellre between the
Cuinneauder-imChief and neise,f, :awl Commodore Owes mad
myself, till I was ordered to soother station. •
What is the g I objei t sod teudeuey of that cartes-
por.elence k—Resoreting the landing at Cadsaad; that it was
Not thomen necessary to laird, Sc.
Was it alter the lauding at Cailsand was gives up?—lt
was stated to me, that it was mot thought necessary to land
at Cadsand.

Stale the date of the first letter of that eorrespoodease '—
It Is a letter of August 2d.

When did your Lordship's squadron move from the sites-
tith it occupied twelve miles from Commodore Owen, and
twelve tildes trum Su• Richard Stracnau —lt was moved to
the such. age of bykshook the 'ironical I received orders to
de an, and the prints wool,' take charge of the several ship*.
°tithe letla of august we weighed to thorad wits tie Was.
the Harlots, Ind osigg to little 'muds were amino
to anchor. On the t I th, the squadron again weighed,
Nil pasteeded to the midrange of Dykshouk until the itth,
when they passed tote the Scheldt, sod were engaged with
the enemy's batteries.
Has your Lordship copies of any correspondence relating
to the transactions of your squadron with the Commander-
toil other Officers, up to that period have
the whole of the cortespoedeuce, mita the Consioaudor-in-
Chit f joined, and took the command of the tretuadruu
Will your Lordship have the gooduess to deliver in that
correspondeace
[His Lordship delivered it in.]
Have the goodness to stale to the C•mmittos your Lord-
ship's opinion, whether it would nave been possible, con-
sidering the state attic wind and weather, to have stationed
troops, or any p:rt of the Aeolis that was out otherwise em-
ployed, In sneh a way, between Cailsaud and Fleabag, pre-
viously to the sib of August, as to have prevented reinforce-
ments being thrown from Cadsand to Flashiest ?—I believe
every part of the diddle was employed, and that every ma.
tion was made by Commodore Owen, with the means he had
io his power, to produce that effect ; the wind sod the wee.
Our were particularly marrow able at that moment, arid the
vessels were otherwise employed.
[His Lordship withdrew.
[The Chairman was directed to report progress, and ask have
to sit again.]

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The areauseat Lavin arrived at the point,, from whence
blether arraarriwnita arc I. be made fLw carrying into vtlect
the ulterior object of the Expedition; and various important
cunsiileratiims combining to call fur an immediate dttcrmiusa-
lion—how far that object can be obtaieed with the means in
our power, it becomes necessary to detail these means, and
to advert to circumstances which have elapsed from the com-
mencement alike dudes taking.

And first, it may b.. rewired, that, according to the ori
ginal plan of operatonei, it was intended that a division of
the army should be leaded ins Cadsiusrl, and by that means
secure to oar Peet an entrance into the West Stitt lilt, awl
p►event maccours being thrown into Flushing ; thus Me-
atball, blockading the fortress by sea, while the army which
dieellsheeked on the worth side of Walcheree completed the
lavestment oa the land side. The landing on Cadsand be-
came impracticable, f the tempestuous stale of the wea-
ther, the force of the cur my, anal from a deficiency in means
to debark, at once, a body of troops capable of contending
with the unakiers, there was every fc:631.11$ to ouppose, would
Le 'hemmed to &termite a laudite,t. These circumstances,
winch it woe oot proasilde to control, gave the veiny the op-
poet ssss ity .r largely augmenting hie garrison of Flualring,
which, together with the astute of the greeted on whirls the
attack was to he carried ion, rendered still more difficult from
the extrusive powers of nrtuulatwa in the enemy's hands,
protracted the reduction of the place to fifteen .leys front the
period of our appearing before it ; riot witbetaadiug the ware-
entitle* reel thesis of the navy and troops engaged is the open-
shoo. Walt these uocontrol•hk otertaelee to ireetead with,
the prospect soon vaunheil, of being able, by a rapid and
stroultatormis effort, to Gerry the obi, ct of the Expedition to
its altimate exteut, awl which coedit tarmac maitre the com-
plete success of the enterprise. The runny having for stone
days eido)c.l an intialerrepted communication with Carhiarel,
and haring, to this moos, more than doubled lain for7e, kit
to thr urcrnsity of arldiug to the besieging corps, • large
portion of the I MCC sit stoical to proceed by the West ficheldt,
to tl.. mine iludatit paint■ °fetlock ; and resolersd that force
us.arailable fur that utricet, soda we became poss.:seed of
Clashing.
farm; than stated tlaz actual ctrcutuutaucts saltier attic\

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1810.