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baked breed frote4beCluoutiosary ; but I mu of *pi-
glety spots the whole, that so exertion could have
doom from Portood a -supply of breed suffitivan •
for die 'loops. which had been et planted by my
Weer, and the expianatirilis of that letter, to the ar- .
taageoaeoß sad distributions of supplies, as west as
the coltechoss,
faitseetiottooto what attest were the snp,dies of
fast hoof sad wine ?
AReareploWine. was peoeured at almost every
'4=is statimit quantity ger oue or two days'
Wiest but i had melt In villages, where the
'Why had halted for more than one or two days,
!tgiros elthnusted in move than one instance. 1
ime latterly the Coutietwary was not always
motet
to aisapriythibee ittrratooyilthewreithwwiitsuiem. wAanstl.oluasr
SaIR iikere could be no actual want, for the carts
of the cou.itry..were drawn by budocks, and tile
draft cattle aught haFe bseu killed for food fiir the
troops; but without sesortiiig to that resource, it
was very *IOU tined that the simply of cattle for
slaughter was not watkient f,r a large army in
Porno! ; awl, its point of fact, before i quitted
the ar.iiy, a very large proportiou of the troops.
lira; half, war fed upon salt provisions, and I be-
lieve the whole since. The cattle with which
the army were fed, while und,4r my command,
were supplied under the contract of Mr. Archer
and Mr. Walsh, and they all came from the North
of Portugal, excepting about twenty received at
Ca:vas. do not recollect that the part of the
eoulitry which was the iinuattliate seat of oper-
Lotions ever Supplied any.
Questioa—bid you understand that the people
of Spain were averse from the co-operatiou of the
Britiali troops in Spain ?
Answer—l did understand that the Junta of
Andalusia was not desirous of having the co-upc-
ration of the British army with their own trops,
under the command of General Wake. But they
were nit AV tier from their landing in the country, as
they consented to my landing at Vigo, if I hound
it convenient, it heing the only port that could
afford protection to our transport:, on the west
coast of the Peninsula, except the Tagus. I also
.understood that the Junta of Seville had up gavot
desire that General Spencer's corps should
co-op e-
rate with General Castaltos', elthough they were
desirous they should laud at Fort St. Mary's, and
eventually cover the retreat of Castanos, its tame
he should hare been defeated by I)upotit.
This opinion was farmed from communications
which I had with the Junta of Andalusia.
Si tar as respects them, and in these com-
munications they expressed the ann.t anxiouc
desire that we should carry on sills openit; gggg s its
Portugal, med drive the Freocla nut; and th it af-
terwaids the British army should be os a Lout of
comic:ion betweeo the North awl South Armies
of Spain.
Quevitioo...".htl you receive any encouragement
from any of the ether Juntas in Spain ?
A use es—None.

British force had first Waled
so Spam. rosin it not have been able to have leo-
dried more scram in that country ?
An-wee-4 costitlerrd the driving the French out
of Poetess* the greatest object to the Spanish ela-
tion. Thom woe no doubt whatever, if the appre-
hension of the easpiapnent of the deipnisible force
of Greet w h iievergal had been removed
from the mind alba French General in Foremen,
but he tn.ght hove moved a large prop oruou of his
army juin ilipein.
The examination of Sir Arthnr Wellesley closed
hew.

Captain Ma%coke, of the Royal Navy, was then
called. and interrogated as follows :
Qnestion--Capt. Maleolm, were you not em-
ployed in assisting Sir Arthur Weliesley in the
Landing of nil force on the coast of Portugal ?
Answer —1 was, the whole of the time.
Question—What were the difficiilties in landing
the troops from the Tagus to Oporto ?
Answer—There was always a great difficulty in
laniling ma the coast in these months, owing to a
swell, which causes a oonsideridde sod upon the
beach. At Mosier' there is a river; at the niouth
of winch there is a bar which causes considerable
surf. Duriog the time I was at it, there were only
four or live days that common boats could pass
without danger ; but at 51e.vtlego they 4ot a sup-
ply of large boats and schoenen", particularly
adapted to that ceawt, which facilitated very
much the lundiag of the troops. There was no
other place where boats of the country could lie
tirsiesereil, except at hlareire. I never was there,
hot I understood they might he procured ; I believe
idiot there were boats to lie procureil Pt-oldie,
ant Chet the landing was pretty good ; I had seen
boats there in the pousesahon f the enemy. They
experienced great difficulties an I dancers during
the time they were employed at Mondcgo; many
of the boats were swamped.
tinirstiou--Could the hosts at Slondego have
been brought to the Saudi. so a 4 to be use ?
An:over—No ; they could not land upon un open
beach.

Question-.. Was there, hetweeii llood ego and the
Tagus, say port iu which tram ports could rule with
safety
Answeer-No. smettorage is bad, and tin/
*mild lie expos.4l to westerly win it ; the precut-
lent winds art nortberu ; 'Jot, at the end of Angina,
they are freirwmtly south-op.', a. a e experienced.
Qoe+tior►, pot by Sir A. Wellesley—l)o you re-
collect, that one night, in the month of August.
1,4 • fwreell Mara, from the roads of Mare►r.►. and
that h mode a sizr►al to the transports to get her
and fhrow me, and that many of their
auchocs were lost, and bow many ?
In-over-0o the 30th of August, wind sonth-
west, » weighted anchor, awl made sigma. to the
convoy, which consisted of about 240 tran.ports.
A'arit one half of them only succeeded is getting
under way, the others were obliged to rental's 411
uotthor. ►l'he next day the aim! sl►ifterl, a►►rl they
returned to Marries. I found that tin of the
traue,rirts had Inst their anchors. I had no doubt,
if the frc-li breeze had increased to is 1-olionon gale,
many of them would lucre been lo.t. They were
reduced to their lAA anchor ; the ancie.rome was
Lod, and the bottom rough. The transports h
lon 4i9..; to Sir John Monees 'reaps wet" very 'wily
fn.intl. “tia not calenlnted to beist,..if a Fee-,liorr ;
tie were en:neen, colliers. I believe, that. limier
.9271e2.-s.:, f.r.v ships might he authored, but it