The National Register.
London, England, 1815-01-29 00:00:00

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corps, he could not have arrived at Tarragona before the 1..
(.early advisable to draw Suchet as far from .Ta. I
vi.CIR as p0%.•p....,
it was by cm:butting the siege to the lost torment th t Otos eh.lect rem,
be effected. He had also expected the cooper eion which took place
by Lord Exmouth arriving in the Boy of Rosas. If he had n i pen
aisted in the siege to the last, but embarked ie o ier, it sv• uld have beer
easy for Decaen to fall back upon any division of soldiers or marine-
landed b) his Lordship, and taken or destroyed them ; while, on the
other band, Suchet gas too good a Getiei al to advance n s'ep farther
than was necessary, if he should learn that the siege was raiser, and the
army re-embarked. Ile had another reason for continuing the siege to
the last moment. the promise of Lord W. Bentinck, be had re,-
eon to expect daily and !wetly the arrival of a rein'orcement from Si-
&ly, a 'emitting to 3 000 men. This reinforcement would at that ti.re
have been invaluable. Ir wiaild have given him such a dreided ,epe
tiority over.riiher of the armies of Suchet or Decaon, as prnhahlv to
evable !Mu to prevent their. juection. In tie course lie lied pursue I.
inir"t c. meted that be had acted up to the spirit and even according
to the letter of the instructions of the Duke of We'litipton.
As to the second charge, which accused him of positive dicobedience
of order'', this charge sh-eked and susprized him more than any charte
which A.,iitiral Hallowell had thought proper to bring He should feet
say, that there was no express orders given. to him, mid that, therefore,
there could be no express disobedience. The Duke of Wellineton
seated in his instruetiens,-the general ehjects which he had in view ;
but he had not taken from him all-discretionary power of altering his
conduct, io 'eonsequence of unforeseen local circumstances. By re-.
al-ruining in Ca•alonia as long as it was potsible for him to female, he'
tad attained the object of Lord Wellington; in -drawing Sortie, oust ef
Valencia", and probably seeing the. Duke -Parquet army ; "for it of.
terwards appeared alsat.this'army was sci little able to cope with that of
Sachet, that it could not even gain any irnpnretnt rdvantere over the
division of General Thuispe, after Suchet left Valencia. If a favottra-
bie opportunity had occurred for striking a blow in Catalonia, neain=t
either General Decaen tlr any divisiob of Suchet" arifte,.it could not
be within the Intoning of Lord Welliurnit's instructions that it ea. not
to tie doee. long, however, as lie had beers able In keep Marshal
Suchet on the loft bank of the Ebro, so long lie was acting up to the'
spirit arid meaning of Lard Wellingtoe's instructions The order foe
the immediate retorts of the army was not imperative, and the .13d pa-
ragraph of the instructions clearly gave him a discretionary power. As
to the wally instances of indecision which he had been charged with by
Admiral Hallowell, lie would shew that he had not ordered the raising
the si •ge, used by a letter received from General Coining, he had re-
c.ised intelligence of the advance of Dacaen. knowing at the same time
that Suchet was advancing from Turtosa. From the moment he gave--
, that order, the embutkation was regularly carried on ; and as to the re-
landing at Balaguer that was in consequence of fresh information of
Decaeir's basing fallen beck. He thought himself in a condition to
wand agailist either of the enemy's armies separately, but not if they
%sere milted. • Decaen, however, returned after. ards. and herd Win
Bentinck, who succeeded hint in the commaed saw clearly filet t e al.
bed army could nut stand b• fore the united force of Sachet and 'De-
caere mid therefore the many was re-embarked ham B darner.
He came now to she third charge, hrongh't against him by Admiral
Hallowell. The Admiral stated, that Ste bad promised to re-emba k
every thine in safety if be would stay another day. It was his dues,
however, to confider what means Admiral HalOwell lied for crrrvi. e
this prolosition into execution. It was he and oast the Admi• al shn
teas responsible for the safety of the army. A!! the infinmatio t w ica
he had received, stated the probability of the enemy coming into con-
tact with him on the 13111. With such information, how would he he
justified in relnnii.iieg; according to the Admiral" proposition, till the
night of the 112th., before lie attempted to re-ensbetk the army ?
Admiral had stet' d p' sitively the force of Decaen to be only 5,000,
and those to say nothing at al! about Suchet.
From this statement, it would appear as if he had only raised the
siege on secrt:it of the advance of those 3,000 men. He should. how-
ever, shew, boils from memoirs addressed to him by General Capons,
Col. Cabanes (the Chief of the Stair), and Cul. Moran, that the dis-
pr stable fume of the French its Catalonia was not less than thirteen
thousand men (after deducting ten thousand in garriotna); and Moat ten
thousand was the force thee they supposed the French ci,lttinn
tog from Barcelona would-consist of. lie would shew by the evidence
of'General that it did actually amount In about eight
thousand, and th t they had actually advanced beyond Villafranca. at
the time the peasant, on whose information Admiral Hallowell so much
relied (cod en ho was probably a spy of the enemy) st led them to be
in Villafraitca, and nut udvancieg or shewing aoy dopesition to advance.
He could' shew, from a variety of official &momenta, that the
imam of Artagoet, with which Marsha/ Stichet entered the province
was always estiteeted at front 28 to 30,000 tutu: and

JAN. 99.

ast 1t,.500 men did march with Sachet towards
the disposable force of the tvt o French emir a of
irragon a, .were , united, their tot:.l force waif so consi-
derable, that on the 14th day of August following, tl.e Allied Army
before Tarragona being then 33,c00 strong, found it necetaary to
fall back at their approach. In all his calculations of the force. of
11w French, he had.made every allowance for t xaggeration. and bad
Taken the lowest accounts that he had received The Duke of
Willington, however, bad obferved, that iu a 1 the erg ge nests he
bad had with the French, their numbers were always greater than
he kid been led by precedent account to suppose them. When the
official returns had beer given from a great variety of quartets of
the actual disposable force of the French armies of Arragon and
Catalonia. would the Admiral himself suppose that MArshal Sachet
is as so deficient in judgment as a General, as to fry e a great part
of this force idle and unemployed?
He bud u right to believe that Marshal 'Suchet ♦would bring the
iremer pail or his disposable force against him ; and the fact was th..t
lie did so. He was the more surprised at Admiral Ws not
saying a word obi ut the advance of Socket's troops, as the Admiral
lutist from his ship h ive seen and heard the fire of our troops engaged
with them en the 1-Ith,
The General was proceeding t..) state the other positions of the French
feirce, hill the Judge Advoc.ate announced that the hour of three 1.4
arrived, and that the Court was adjourned till ton o'clock to morrow.
Slajor Coda, in reading the defence, was oceitsionally relieved .by
Sir John Murray himself, amid by Col. D'Aguilon.

In addition to vessels from the ontports clearing for Halifax,
Bermuda.•Src. with cargoes (to proceed immediately to the
United States whenever that event has taken place), several
ships have been chartered within the last week to sail foe
different ports for cargoes of tobacco, co!ton, Ste. Large or-
ders have lately been given for the American market. One
Bookseller's house in London has received an order fur
20,0001. woi th of b oks.

The late Nabob of nude has left 17-1 millions sterling of
specie in his Treasury. It was his particular wish that his
second son should succeed him, to the exclusion of his eldest,
and he was in negociation with the East India Company on
the subject. These two sons ate now rivals for the Throne.
Lord Moira, in great state, is gone up the country to settle
the dispute. It is suggested that the money will be offered to
the Company, whose dchts it mould almost pay off. -
Thursday, the Redoubtable, a new ship, of 74 guns, was
launched at the King's Dock yard, Woolwich. In spite of
the cold, the Yard was crowded and the opposite shot e lined
with shiveting spectators. The vessel was decked out in all
her colours, which were affixed to jury masts, and was
crowded with spectators This beautiful vessel is built after
a new construction, and is rendered more roomy and conve-
nient to her crew thau any of the old built ships. She went
off at 40 minutes past one, in 6ae style.
Thursday, a well-known Cyprian presented for Change, at
the Cash office of the Bank of England, a note for 1,0001.! I
Wer person and character naturally excited suspicion, but
the -matter was satisfactorily explained, and the lady was
immediately accommodated: What rendered the circumn
stance not a little remarkable was, that of a request, made by
the lady, to have 000 cult pound notes given her as part of
the change.
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and tasting the LARGEST STOCK of the FINEST WINES in
the kingdom; in Snowhill and Oxford Street, Samples
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:and Pfices, see the Advertisement, last Pate.
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THE N ITI,I(1NAI. Ti Efl ST ER R.
before the 16dt. It was I that of this force at least
'alvt‘cin po..ible, and Tarragona. IVlten the
nt th t tins t.hject Arragon and Catalonia