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that I should regulate my sailing by yours, aed
that I 'should al vrays tetp heewben lost and knit ettto • !
sly, for your pi oteCion ?—Yes.
Did I do so ?—Yes.
Did you Nee the whole, br only part of our squad-
ron, on the morning of OM. 2Sd at day-break ?-1
saw only part.
What distaoNT were you from thosit you did see?
suppow about four or five intles
Could you hart, ude ^ * l'hoa •
Ton, if I had not
from the state the
How far were ti.
(rem you, on the nt!
nearly betwtea our
1 res., and prises.
Could i bave fort
23,1?—N0t taking
not h-swe bees tal

towed.
When did I part
Did you receive
your cantina when I should pan company with
you ?--Yes.
Have y'osi mysluter ?---I have not.
Can you telt what hes becume of it:---I gave it to
the Commender•in-Cisief.
The fetter wolfs Court, and read. and Captain
Boyle said it was perfealy correa.
Considering the crippled state, and the relative
situation of the two Berta, could the 114 afar Code
have been towed up to the enemy, so as to have
renewed the anion, either on the 2Nd or 24th?
—On the 23J, taking the day from day-light
to evening, the Wieder Cuttlr could have set but
very little sail. While fishing the lower yards,
bending a new fore-sail, fishing the main-top-sail
yard, and knotting the whole of her stays, she
could have matte but little sail; therefore, the
powers of a 74. ailing upon a body like the Wirdor
Ca.cile, this Court will judge how far it was possible
co carry her up to an enemy direfkly to winstwArd.
\ Court--As to the 24th ?---The Wintiroe Cattle
ellas able to make more mil. We got up a pity
tbeenop gallant must, for a fore-top mast. We
were then in a better state ; might have been taken
in wow, and might hive kept our station in the line, j
ht 4 could not b- carried. I fear, to windward, fast
itneeeli to fetch as enemy that was inclined to
/mid an Atlieu.
Court—Whet impediment was there against the
get ng up a proper tore-top mast, on the 24tb ?
l'h fern-top snit it was shot away between the cap
artthe teased-trees ; this took the cap with it, car-
ried ewe/ all the tat board side of the top and cross-
tree}, ttsetefore, when a spare cap was Wlt up, to go
otwfithe in;I:,!-,eid, there was not a sufficient tine
to fit a top and Koss trees .41 the larboard side, so as
to support a proper fore-top mast. Besides, the
fors-maw was venonded in such a way, that we could
not, without taking much tini'e, haw fi shed it to
early peeper top-sails, lied we been able to gig the
jury cross tre 5, which we,had not.
Capt. William Lechniere, of the Titutufercr, ere-
strisi,d.
Is that the report you made to me of din damages
your ship sustained nn the 224 of July I—lt is.
The report was :hen read.
Did the enemy evt r chase, or attempt to bring
she to Aninii on the 21if nr 24th of July ?—Nu.
Could I have tossed the enemy to anion on the
23J of July, if they had chosah to avoid it ?—Nu.
Did the enemy Appear to you to have sustained
any considerable damages in their masts nr yards ?
—None in their masts. They shifted a top-sail
yard or two, and that, I believe, was the utmost.
Was the Ileitieh fleet always kept between the
enemy and Ferrol, as long as the enemy remained
in sight t-- fill the afternoon of the 24tn, we were
.always nearer Ferrel than the enemy was.
Could they, then, have fetched Ferrol in-No ;it
was impossible. The eirind was at N.N.E.
Captain Willisurrifrown, of the Ajax, exAmined.
Court—Are the questions the Vice-Admiral its
to put to this witness, the same as those immedi-teey
preceding ?-.-Sir R. Calder. They are.
Court.-=There seems no necessity to exAm;ne
Cape. Brown, or any other witnesses on those gene-
?Al questions. Without fresh matter, they may be
spared. '
Sir R. Calder.- I Jo not wish to waste the tme
of the Court, and I have no de'ire to examine fur-
ther witnesses on these general questions. Bin Ido
se:sh Captain Brown to verify his report of damages.
This *is anordsney Jinx, and the Rent reed.
Capt. John Hervey, ;lithe if..-Jourrou,a, examine.%
Are those your Reports of your damages ?
Th -1 are
The Reports were then read.
-Ceptain Wiliiern Cuafieg, of the Prince of :rates,
examined.
Ac you we-e near my person during the whole
time ef the :Idiots cf the 2e-1, was any part of my
son Ilia to he attribute .1 to fear, or a want of ',sal
for His Majesty's service ?—Mose certainly not.
enurt---Captain Cumin, what number cf the
British slues appeared to you, on the mottling of
she 24th, in;apable of satltng is line of battle, or
order of ceiling ?—I imagine the rebel', except the
itruiree Coast, might have been formed iielsne of
battle.
It the icmdser Caine had been taken in tow,
considering the relative situations of the twos fleets,
could the British iglus:lron have renewed the action
on the J-kh, the enemy declining to do so?--Core
teinly not.
Did the Vice-Admiral decline the adieu either
en the T'Ll or 24th, the enemy not being inclined to
scnew it ?—=He did not.
Capt. Edward Griffiths, of the Dritgen,
examined.
Do you know of signal posts being erected be-
tween s'ape Ortegal and Cape Finisterre, and to
Ferrol ?-- Yes.
Did you reconnoitre the port of Ferrol about the
29th of .luly ?---t did.
Had tie Coulhised Squadrons then arrived
there ? --No.
D.l you remember our being blown of that pert,
abort the to. of August. by a S. \V. wind ?—lt
blear a gale of wind from the S. W. on the let of
Angest, and drove us, not off the coast, but along
shot,. ,t. the N E.
Whys JiJ we return ?—I cannot say precisely, I
have not my log-trookrnnr any risintres. I should
think we fried', the land two days atecrivArds. We
were never turfy-eight Lours witnout sewing the

anrde a junclion with the ,quad-
' t
+ed down ?-1t was itupcusible,.
ewt twat in. •
he Ate • and frigates to leeward
morning a. the 23d ?—I was pretty
tr ►q.tadron td the Maira. Mee-
arced theenemy tw aaint, on the
g the wh.hle cyuadt•M : we could
taken into aaten. wit. 3t beiag
rt with you ?-0n the 25th.
e any orders from me to regolt