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Matter's log, I seed see psiet oat the alterations evidently
mvi.e thereto; and it Cam...a fail to observe the ratiaCon.
In the other too lo;r.s: I must, 1111AVI er, rtmnrk, that among
the deviations in these purrs from the ship's original lug,
the s fll,ll immediately in ryoration, which la I ccorcted in the
later to have been for " half the rut," stands ut 15,411 t.let.
COUipililtiVUS as bovine been made psi ,-f the nria only,"
au of the tan liege a reeireii lean Lord Cialliasie. that only
produced in Court by himself records the clieniiiiitanct of
his having hailed the Itidefatieable, and pruposvil to her a
help
attack upon the entniy's ship OCta4A and carnet
elp here reminding the Court of the appl: eatimi snide by
the Master of the Impericuse for act ess to the lade fall:ibis's
lug.
" I beg leave to submit, •listher documents (mated some
time after thy events they record plmm, anal so tips.
triry to the practice of the navy, cau I.e d,emed authentic,
or might to lie referred to as, or in support of, evidence la.:.
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fare tbis Court.
" I have no Mudd the signal m ub In Lord Civbraiie, no
the moroing oldie Lila of April, which 3 toot or the
era mars against me, a ill, combated with other subsiament
I. appear to the Court uniweeedented nod uupnrper
Ilf
ilr.a his Lordship wrests aware, f' tire ni riu "loch
I e .ins expressed himself its his crikoee; and, tb it tin rc
rtr.ry Ire nu doubt of the accuracy of the siptal ing-butik
of
the fir:edoni.., 1 mod again call before yi it the Signal Offi-
cer, to mina that the signal of recall, oa the 1311% u:: April,
said to have been ohaerveil by the Itoperietima was nut made
by the Caledonia; and also that the signal of the !Mb, re-
carded in the Caledonia's log, na made by the I inperieuse,
that " if permitted to termini', ran dent roy the enemj,' is de•
isi^d by Lord Cochrane ever to liner hems 'node.
" I have yet to call the nllruhnn cM the (*.mit to the plan
drawn by Lord Coi.liraiw, of the timidly:l of Ibr enemy's
as they ran &ground in the ulorintig of the lath of April,
and to that pos‘tinis marked upon the chart, 'veined by 11r.
Stokes the homer drawn from mirertaiii ,rein, the latter
bolo angles ineasitreil, and other Ith.....vatto:t. made iiimn the
spoon ; the ilitfeeener Miami tae Iwo in to-. apparent toes..
cape Ilse noti e of the Court, nal it,• ii,iiertive merits of
their charts will nut, I think, admit of a comparistai.
" The iteraracy attr'huted by Lord Cochrane to tie
French charts will, 1 doubt not, semis very eatroirainary,
after it than be Amen in evidence that Iris Lorthliip Wive-
?rested army apposite opinion.
"1 It now only reaming fir me to examine in what man ter
Lord Corbrave boa attempted, by his nimiiiiportvil opiinoo,
to maiiitsin the charge. This is to be euderted from the
lung nor, alive evidence given by his Lntdshlp. It cannot,
ant sure, be deemed necessary roe me tot f. ...lila him thrimgh
the whole of ibis evidence.
" There are, however, some parts of it that require parti-
cular suimadvervina.
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"In the cower of his PVOI,2ICP. 1.0,1 (•olira in allus;iin
to the danger a Inch would atter.' hs g without wicou- '
rigentent to the attack of the ships st mouth of the
Charente, says. speaking of bins., If, " l lira• y a ri ey henry
resporbibilitv would lie aeon toy •houflers, in ease of
dis-
aster;ln military opi iatinas, rte Foust:times nits.
•airlaide. If I had my ,alde ,`lOl 111 V fty, for ilr4illoeV, I rnii.ht
have hero sunk Yet whil.l, oo the one hand, ins lord-
ship seems to hate 'iced as tomtit-de of the weight of Icsisur7
sibility imposed upon laims,lf by the contiorimi of ft Clyde
and a few saiall ; hi, .I;,,wars, 04 the other hand, to
have been unmindful of the far Iteneev decrie of responsibi-
lity stterbed to tuy ruturtxn.l, donna sit complicated sot un-
dertaking: in rdluiitig to the ot. hit+, I toast take
this opMeyit) to mentisti fire ftlr.illery for Instiaz slot,
which ICockra,.e reportCil to els to have himself diva
covered, when he went in to rteonitoitre, previous to the at-
tack.
' Lord Cueltrane states, that 74-gim skips way go into 114
auchorspe between the 1i0,a.l Stoat and the
• return of the Isle. He as...e,a, oleo, tiist the tide rises ouly
fres, to to II ft et. By the French rinirt he produced to
comes has deptiaitimi, it appears that there i. a batik to 1141M1
over before ships can get Iwo that anchorage with front is
to 3u feet at Inc water but he the darts of the %luster of
the fleet, and Master of the (7aletuoia, who sounded upon
the bank, it appears that there are only front tato 19 feeds and
the hank full of kuollis. (hole- these vircutnsta,ms, if Lord
C.otbraut's opinion be correct, relative to the rise amid fall of
tie tide, no 111.01 in his 11P4Ct 1.10111.1 veatear a 74 over it,
even ta the sumsditest ater' at lies than I hice.foui tlintioudi
sod, theiefure, els to the refuge that ihia minor a..t towage
w. old afford a crippled slop, how I,ttft would the proh.thili-
ty be, (bat the oi.portuaite of both tide and wind a1iu..1.1
offer for a crippled at the rot at sloth it was ia..st
wanted, to pus over t •.e hunk, u... 1 get out of the ri:ltch of the
batteries; but if I Lad Lieu previously known es moth of this
minor anchura;:e u I now do, I would no', as the wind was
at that time, base door otherwise than 1 did and if Lord
Cochrane traily knew what he hvs OWN professed to here
known, TLCII lie ass iu Aix it was aduty imperiously
tiieumbent upon lanai t.. have ci.so nuaicated that automat.
on the attt roman of the I tt., It/ tier Captains of the lite
ofihattle ships which hr is so perilous a situation,
si-groliiid within singe of the batteries.
" Lord Cochrane bits • pi etwed s i opintou, that two or
three ships of toe line *rot in sei tte iiitarJacg of the loth,
ru 111 l ing spun the st ry.,e of the Hoyert
hare passed to leeward of the two re. reit ships remsining at
This I sir. :MT to hat, he en absolutely insprnettem
blc, as well from the rikirir„ tire of the two ships stissitousd
the upright stew GM short oit our anproucli, sad tie hr. of
the hat wive, as t oat the shunt water damn wader their too.
The testiotony tiCaet. Rudd, the only witness ei.ausiord on
tlin post: on the part or Ike prosacut,un, ciirrahurated twy
• -- Which I have ito [hued wittlse farthir 'imported by