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COURT MARTIAL.
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P•it111011111, NOV D•lr, JULY J.
MYTH DAY.

(Lord Gstnbier's Defence, comae did from oar Papa of
" The actull 'thistle', of the French Beet at that time was
this—seven ut the antes were ow shore on the Pallas, too
had escaped towards the Charente, and t*u lay either at their
urigusal arithorege, or a very little removed /rum it. with
their broadsides Warn/ upon any thing that aught approach
W attack the Moipe no slitae.

" I ordered the lint to be unursuesid imeseiliote'y the
wind was at N. W. and the tide won thee warty at the last
quarter ebb, and much 1.4 for sprat eu admit 44 • force be.
dug sent in, so as to effeth airy thing, atilt the passihihty of
rei timing in came of dower, before the making of the flood,
shirk would effectually have lork.sl up our strips within
the eissom'a cosihned anchorage, during the whole of that
t de. Here they would have bees rimmed, end only to the
point blank shot from the lotteries, boll ohm to the broad-
sides of the abovroneutioved two ships HIPS hylogis Ain
loads, and which, eves • uhuu t mmistomeefrom the batteries,
mole entirely hero tempted army ono of mar sills in their ,
approach tiftrintgli so narrow a c Assume besides w irh, mow
of the gr ttttt Med ships were suificiei.tly upright, sad at situ.
aced to tualrle them to Ming Mow glans to heir upon ilw
entrance.
" t would here submit to the Corot, whether the ides
which appeals to hue been cure, milted by Lord Coebrans,
that • a force could hare been seat in, so as to have or-
I wed before low water in the inoroilig, aas not in itself pre-
posterous and impeactic.:Lle
Upon the folleat romulertition, that no pomade attempt
could he made sold the tide had dowril fur some time, un-
less a previous chasee of wind should tale place; all I had
to do was, to make entry Preparation firr the attack on the
eisemy's grounded ships ; accordintlt I matte the Menet for
the tient to wei:ch, and the Rear-Admiral and Captains bring
assembled on timid the Caledonia, I gave orders to the
Commander of the Moe, the only bomb present, to proceed
as imuit as the tide would permit that weasel to approach near
enough to bombard the enemy's ships: I, at the swine time,
ordered the Insolent, Conflict, and Growler, gas beige, to ac-
cosupsny her, mid ditected the Captsins of the Valise*, ea-
lona, and Revenge, with the frigates, to take m admitted as
souliorav as wee possible to the Boy art Shoal, to be In rea-
diness to proceed to the attack as soon us the water had suf-
Aeieutiy flowed to enable tittle to do so.
" At between q wad 10 em. shirk was mach before the
Rood was sufficiently made to commence elective operations,
the fleet Cagle in, and come lose anchor within about three
miles distance Com the enemy's fortress of Aix; the three
ships Isfore.melitioned, with the frigates, sockoed about a
mile neater to the Dorset; bet the bombast helps dad not

Mee ie.
"As the Rood title eerie, three of tile us air wail&
hod remitted on the Pallas Shoal, earl even the firtbsgs from
es, heists lightened, succeeded is war/log 914 sad mat for
the Chanel,.

" The two line-of-battle ships, still at their anchorage, is
the 'Muttons before described, took at the same time advan-
tage of the Rood, and proceeded likeable towards the river ;
most, if not all of these five ships, now no aground at the
',moth of site Charautc, sod were sever 11114.11iW414.
" These movements of the money's ships were not, av
ninnit to the Court, to he prereated by an manna that I
could adopt, with the smallest clines sfutenes, nil with-
ma His Majesty's slept bring put to tipsiest teesersonstable
peril; and when, as Rear Admiral Station has, is his evi-
dent on the part lathe prosecution, most emphatically de-
, as " otos would haws been all the loss, and the eaemy's
aft the advantage."
4. The wind blew ao ted? in, so that in the event acme
nips bring crippled obits the *oud tide was runuing, which
appeared tanitable, it would have been impossible for them
to have worked oat, or to have retreated to au anchorage
out of the reach of the enemy's shut and shells • the 4411180.
weave of which could scarcely have bees less the their tan
destruction.
" These serious impediments Minced sae to delay the
attack until the litter part d the good, in corder to give say
ships which might be disalileJ, int their approach, a chases
of retuning by intone of lb, receding tide.
" Had the wind been favooreble for sailing both is mad
out, or eves the latter nide, there could have been no did*
that the sneer the enemy's ships teem attacked the better.
" I thin the Court will allow, that I am completely
horse out in whet I have stated, by the sentiments whistle, it
will he proved, were expressed to me by Lard Cochin%
when he came as beard th• Caledonia after the aga in.
that had 1 acne on his signal, sod seat is at tin time lair
the Beet, he calculated upon the kiss attune, Oder stab
Majesty's linef.hattle ships ; sail I have neftnined Red&
carve, that if, in defiance of the obibusties
004 enemy, 1 lied seat is a hove bean tbs Ibboltiiips bed
warped oil the Pallas Shoal, it is ssallanlbokfle R refold
mot have minuted to the attack ornate tine nips, is se-
sent of the shoal water.
" It appears by the log of the Imperiettne, that, at so ins.
past it. she weighed, with the Elea bomb and a gion-brig ;
-the fact as, that the Elsa passed the Imperiene, whilst
at saucier, about on • sod that she began the attack some
time before the Impe;iene arrived op. Half as boar after-
wards, the Impenesse std Beagle followed the Etas sad
gue•brits in to the attack, sad between in minutes before
sad 7 anon after 9, as will be sees by a referrer to the
lug-hooks opus the table, I ordered the Italchitigable, Vu.
ewes, A.gte and Esterakl frigates, with the Valiant and Re-
vent (sad the Pallas • few minutes later), to weigh, Capt.
illeth, the seine Officer, having some hours before received
my direction far his proceeding against the enemy.
•• The Imperieuse opened leer tins at shout to minutes
after r, the Agee at 3, and the oilier ships as soon after as
the ilowius tide permitted.
.4 In cossequence of strung N W. wins, the hood tide
continued mining until peat 3 in the afternow, which Lord
Cochran has sot noticed in his ebidenre.
4• In niy letter of the Milt May to the Admiralty, 1 mild
nut state these circutostaect• so minutely, as I am now eu-
abled to du, by a reference sine made to the log-books.
" At so es past 4 p .. the eueloy's ships Cakinta sad the
Ville de Vareovie, and the Aquila, nen as hour after, were
takes posnessitin of by the bests of the erivessed nositrus„
nil wet us lire as soon so the pruners were vereweed. A
short time after, I.e Tuourie was nest by no enemy this
ship is untitled, by the trident of lord Cochrane, to have
bon out of the rem h of use Gee ; and it is a aseorion firm,
that the thrrodecker, and the other two ships that gut
deaf, bed bees &trotted et some nines beyond the TIM-

acre.
" Ia this maser, the Court will had, that the four ship,
euptallia of being attacked at the tune the Aped tees gams (A
the Tossers way be so considered, ef whit\ I deobt) were
coairlettilyikatrtryest—the other three of the ones Mtso
shore, newer has nig, as I had a/resdy ;tab* bees to a sites-
two to be assailed.
" Aiwa I vesture most positively to tool, that the sleeker-
lon elbow Alps would nut have bassielleotod, if I had Sot
delayed the attack raid the hose 1 did.

t' At the eleae of the afterseape, I judged it stlvis .bis to
atteatitt to foam up out stases*, by an attack upuu the Iles
•Ispa that bed esesped to the mouth of the Cluirssite, sight!
1 tbroglit it *sight he posaihte to effect dorittes tie Smits. it
theestore seal Rise-Mistiest ntoribed. is tits. • it la Ate
Theseus, NMI saill braised Ohs amt. eitb/11r. -
greet'. vseboes, sett gen its Rear-Atistral asersaionst
coMes to pesessat r for se be amid joke peeper. sad Rae
his appl)nag time twee as its Meth think It, sad as eteers
stssess sitstaiti cream it espselastig.
besetely bee the Calm ailtarbsd Aug Resit befits eta