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tIiTH DAY.

PORTIK•ntaI. net *AY, JOLT 31.
Upon the l'resideat's dishing-the witnesses to
withdraw, as usual, Lord COCHRAN C submitted to
the Court, that it was not thecuatouiof Courts-
Martial to "titrude the wiineases from the Court
during the defence.
The PkalltHENT--" Lord Cochrane, it is the
wish of the Court, in the present instauce, that the
witnesses should be excluded."
Lord COCHRINE—" The trial of Admiral Har-
vey is a case in Fond, where the witnesses were al-
lowed to remain imi Court during the reading of the
defence."
Tire PeestoeNT—" My Lord, the Court has
discuseed the measure, in the present instance, and
it is its wish that you shotild withdraw."
Lord COCHRANE bowed, uud withdrew.
Lord airman was then called upon for his de-
.• • truce, which the Jt.uoa ARYOCATIt was periuitted
to read for him, as follows:
" Mr. PRIALHENT—I thank you, Sir, and the rest
off be 'Members of this flouourahle Court, for. hat-
tug complied with my request. that a short toter-
vat in.ght be allowed sue before I entered on my
defend. I have also to express thy satisfaction,
that the whole of my conduct and proceedings in
Basque Roads is uow under your consideration, in
eousequesiae of my having applied for this Court
The necessity of this mitt be evident ;
either 1 had to adopt this Measure. •re by a tacit ac-
quiescence in the insionations thrown out agatsist
His! by LorJ Cochrane, have compromised Ind only
ray own honor. bat also that oldie brave officers
. and mull under my command. The proceedings of
- the Court swim, thew, whether ally miticonduct- has
mrsisted in the execution of the service under cons:-
efeyation ; if any has ehistrii, of which I sun per-
3ectly. unconscious, It is rigid that the nation aliorild
Lome et ; not as resting ou the unsupported '4:wi-
llows of .et individual, hut en the .uoprsjildiced
judgrneurt oftbis tsibiutal.. I was prepared, when
!Ind a one before you. with what appeared to toe
complete justification of my conduct mid pro-
eeodings as Commander-in-Chief of the Channel
leet, Misplayed in Basque ;Roiids, betwscu the
1711, of March and the 2;M April last, to which
your inquiryis directed; but i con id not be aware
al the oral testimony that was to are firovight for-
ward in support of the charge which their Lord-
whips hate, at the instance of Lord Cochrane, been
iitilticed to snake against me; namely, that On the
11th of .April, the eisemy's ships being then on
shore, sad the signal having been [wide that they
could be destroyed, i dill for a tooeiderable 'rate
ottr(troleyititgier dremra.y taking
lw effret
was
vuta to
ol
admit,
ttea fur
ha ile
that,
fren;
time time of my otrsersiog, ou the morning of the
12th, the matronsu df the enemy, Conittlouicated to
use also by signal fro.o the ineperieisse, some time
clod elipse &lore the enemy's ships item attacked ;
but I was prepared to prove most ineootroverttbly,
that nu neglect or unnecessary delay took place tin
effecting the tirstrtiction of those ships ; wail I have
How the satisfaction to and, that nut of all the Olk-
lE. of ilia fleet who are atitnnunietl ou thin trial, the
charge rests on the unsupported, red, ja4ay say, oh.
ready refitted, teitanimy of the enirtai9 gf tile ha-
rerievet. I believe there plXCrdrat to be
found is the avid auualr of Great Britain, of an
11.)Ricer of the rank I have the honour tri-hold, core-
tassuiling a fleet which has Aierformed so important
• sere lee ai Mist riceimiplished
aproved Mit Service 140.0 p yeit by the Board
bard considered by Ili. Majesty's
tsoversiment as arse ileeerving% the posies of
fools Hossein of Parliktneut ; helot obliged, (nun
a sense Of rigid is due to 11:1 111•11 ZIIIINCifr NUJ ho-
pour, as .it'iert ei•irt the piofessiuti to which he be-
longs, to appeal to a wive{ triliotiaLogaiost the loose
alai indirect accdsiitiOns of an Wilkey so much his
inferior in oink'. I mit warranted iiiiiirytog,tinitthe
execution' of this ss r. tt a was itiiproverlLiy the Daunt
sit A auilroty ; Itecouie in a letter from their Lord-
ships' Secretary, dated Aped aclitiowleilging the
C trip! of my public i;..pateliev en the occasion, he
says, he is commanded by their Lormiihips in con-
gratu:ite int on the brilliant success of the hires
under my coinmand. in the attack of the enienty•s
ships int the Ise d'Ai'c Bolds, by four vessels, and
aubatouently by iliouchtuents from my fleet, which
ttlfittinatert in the ceps':rearmd destruction of tour of
eiteitly's ships ; mid to signify their Lordships'
directions to We. to express their approbiition of the
great exertions of inter-Admiral Stopford,Slr Harry
Neale, and the serer:ll other officers Mentioned by
loaf, as litvin liven most actively einployed,
and hewn% particularly distingtsieheil tloqnseli-es
;upon this impottant service. Lord Cochrane.
however, Warned the Notil4 Lord at the head of the
Admiralty, that if this measure were attempted. he
should, if stapcliug alone, oppose it, ao far us re-
girded the Commander-in-Chief ; thus, without
specifically objecting to the thanks being giveu for
the service performed, directing hie hortilivi peren-
nial,- at Me, and making his Attack as pultitelY,
though tint so fairly, to if he had at once exhibited
former charges. Lord Cochrane, as a Member of
laarliainient, MeV stippoft or oppose public
aura', as lie shall thit.k proper. In the present pro-
essifingo, however. he stands in the situatiou
sikcer, serit.mg under my command, as appears by
the following letter to we from the First Lord of time
Admiralty:
" Admiralty, May 29, ;Only
" Mr Lorto—llaving ill conversation informed Captain
Lord deeloraue, that it ass the intention yf Lisa /livery's
lioverousent to move the thauks of both Houses of Perlis-
moot to your Lordship, and to the Offte. is, seaman, and ma-
tises,iiervime under your commend in liawiue Roads, Lord
Cochrane, declared to sue, that, in the event of hatch a
sure heihe proposed in Parliatuiut, he should feel lihnscif
bound, by he public duty, to object to the thanks, as far as
they shonld apply to the Commander-in-Chief. coder
these eikuinstioces, it has been deemed expialient to sup.
paid thv motion for the fete of Thanks, aad to call upon
Lord Cochrane to state she ground on which he has iutimat-
ed to the First Lind wf da Admiralty his iuteution to oppose
OrThaahn;,ss far as respects your Lordship, that
the Bond of Admiralty may thereby be enabled to judge bow
Ibe grounds to hemmed by Lard Cochrane may be of a
nature to 'lmpend the motion its Parhaincist, or to call for
apy further inersligaitoo by the Board, or is any other way.
I have felt it due tuyuar Lordship Waive yine Hot earliest in-
of this, state earthiest, sad to antitank you, that •
*Me sill this day be wastes to Ceptain Lord Cochrane, in
roollonoity to the above mialatfan of the Booed of Admi-
ralty. &espy ofwhich, together with the swear of Lord
Cothran*, will he without doloyeummuslicaled to your Lord-
ship. I bars, he. (Limed) " 31ULGII AV E"
[We are obliged to defer the conclusion of L'.4
Gliglibicell &demos till to-morrow.]