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seteriff, by : now," •
tevea Willielf: that he had replied,46, all the Charges '
13v the Honourable Geutleetan ; and in doing
ant'ohetite in- the- ' se
thinga, be 'deprecated any delay in the deeisit n of
neele•
;the' House on this' subjea.---" let us have it out
added the Honourahle Geniletfitutea.---e
h
My situation is not a' sinec ire, and I am t tlwile
stating
stutidr::l,e-ri,:ttits-o,ii'tnleddviounAldpiliiicgatuezip
ptirsmt of 'wl;ielt the. Board. of Admiralty were en- line that any of my time should be uselessly divert-
giged dieing the period in question.. What he Was ea from the public service. If, however, the Hon.
Gentleman is determined to tight another day, I
Vele to say he did not wish the Hoese to believe
was meant as• a justiticatioo of that departinZeat -of . am ready to meet him ; but I can assure -the
Government against the acensetiteis that ,had, been ex
&Louse, that from the first agitation of this bueineta,
preferred aeaitiet them. •In his conscience lie I !hare felt considerable tiliCiiilleSq ; not frotn the
thought that-they Had deserved well of their coup- slightest appreheosion as to the result,' bet because I
try ; that they had done all they could do ; - and that was aware that I should be- drawn off from that
their efforts-would have completely succeeded but Which is the immediate object of my anxiety an 4
fur the unparalleled violence of the seaion. He WAS i ambition."
ready to admit that it was detrimeptal to the public • .Sir CHARLES PAR declared, 'that thkwas et most
service, that by a concurrence of einforfueate.cir- import:int "esti,'" ; efie that,, in his opinion, the
curnstauces, which human foresieht could not Pere Rochefort Squat:iron had nut been. victualled. as it
ceive, nor burner) prudence tieert, the Rochetbrt ought to have been. •Sir R. St rechan had never been
Squzelron had been so left ; but while the,Board felt in-a situation to , follow the French Fleet, as this
this troth most eensiblhohey, tied the consolation of Country bad a right to expect orte Fleet to follow ano-
finding, that those Who were the most interested not ther. Nor did it appear that Lora Gardner had the
only acquitted them of all blame, but, expressed power•of ordering ships: to assist him, or bad ships;
their perfea SatisfaCtion at the activity that had been 'to send ; for, otherwise, wee it. credible -that an Oda. -.
evinced. Never should he forgothe sensations . cer of Such exalted charader should have contented -
which he.felt when Sir Bichard Strachan'a letter, oft himself with writing to the Admiralty on the sub-
the Ifith of January,
,eeitt
reached the Admiralty. it
.: ? Even had every pound of bread sent out by
relieved the painful anxiety under which he had the -Asttniralty'reached the Squadron, it woold have
laboured, because he. was sure, notwitlismoding the c been iteiefficient. The Mediator carried out but 1p
insineatiou of the 'Hon. Gentlemen, that Iles - letter t _ days breaa for the Line.of-battle Ships. If no other
was jocular and irimical; • that the
~gailant: ()Ricer supply could be sent on account of the w clatter, he
would never have written it, had not the expressiotie i would Alit this as an exCese; but it wee oisgrace-
, which .he used come from his heart end soul, So • fill to assert, that a supply had been Sent. The
well did he' know that gall wt (Meet, Chit he was House might divide three to one ; but the, seehborn
.convinced h w
e would. riot have gisette so:free a yoputo fade alledged could net -be done atieiy by eny
his gratitude, had lie not been Positive that be ‘vas r sophism or ingenuity oldie lTori. i3entlein tn. Could
merely repeating else seutimeets of the whuhs eitt i - any „,„„ „y that sir it. strachan • vi.
not
quit his
dron under his command. This gallant ollieer, 1 afiehorage in the Basque Roads to look out for the
who, according to the statement eef the Hon. Gen- viduallers ?, Or could any man say, that if, tie re-
denten, was the vittim. at the oegleat of the Admi- maieeeVin 'the' Risque Bolds, the Fielich. could
ratty, and .who, according. to that time eseezelemen, letvlt, 141 Rochetort ? He aid (pat !hose Roads„ and
also was ready to forget what wa, dee 10 • hitneelf, the eensequence was, that he can never get back.
and to commit his hodllacbesk ebai'ai;tere by, 4- -After- all, 340 tons of water was the only supply that
scending to the disguisai of his- opinions, expressed he received, until this Superb emd Colossus join-
in toisitieleterel, Lime •tl ltint ; when certainly his provis:os were,
sensible e
entsirel'les theltle"wuals"."urf°c promptite and. liberel assiist- somewhat increased, bet never to the reteut that
ance that he had received," all his anxieties were w6eht haee justified Inns in _pursuing the Freuch
removed except one. -It had been said ie another, Fleet, letefother 'circumstance.; etiablea hire to do so..
place, that that pliant Officer had. been- tamest 'The Honourable' Baronet commented at some
driven to capitulate' with the enemy for wiint of pro- length on the etate. of the sr-pall-ou, i tetrlng
W sishees. 'hat did Sir Richard -Strachan himself occasionally. to the Papers, and eonteoded that if
say ?--," The
,enemy havb a Ship of the Line pre- Sir Richard bad seen the Rochefort •squadron from
haring tor s..a, which gives use hopes, theft as SOOH as, l. his-tnast -head, his could not have foilowtel. lie
she it ready, we may, have something .to do with t particularly condemned the system of keeping vessels
them." - Was this the desponding bangslege of a for a king period at sea, and imputed a considerable
capitulator ?• ,He had hithei to ahetainett frets) taro - share of the inconvenience felt in the' serviCe to that •
tionteg any of ells other objeds that had engaged system which was not exclusively chargeable upon
tee attention 'of etiit A:heiratty ;duriug the period a the present Board of Admiralty. He regretted that
: wider ihicto,6,oll: (te.,rups its he was that the qties- this question had been brought -ferwerd, but as it
tam before the House might be decided upon by had-been submitted to the consideration of the
its °Wm enCritseand not by referePee to any other House, he implored' the House to lobk at it with
• cotteiderZoOs. In whet he was going to say, there- proper attention. As to the,oew system mention-
! tte'e, he repeetel, tire he disclaimed all idea of ex- ; ed by the Honourable Gentleman,' he should, only
tete:icing tile cc'mdus.:Cuf tile Aamiraity with :resped : observe with r
ins
to it, that one of the ships
I. to. the Itoehethrt S:luatirott, beieg conscious that . rnentiOned in the Papers (the Defienee) had been out
i• their condo& reqoired. -me such. detence. But'it so eleven months, and when at' length she came into
: beppAted that teem Nove 1(3, tette, to the time port, she was not suffered to remain as many days
I when 'lh- R :supplies to the ochefort Squadron quit- ' there, before she was sent again to sea. He con-
i - •
i ted England, there had been a most extraordinary • tended that 01 ;groper mode of regulating the block-
pressure on. the Board of-Admiralty. The first oc- tiding 49,111(4U:is %,%ts by sending out fresh ships to
1 cutrence was the return OD the 15th of Nov. of 22 relieve those longest out in 'regular succession, He
Sail of the Lint: frum CopenlygeriJ bonging with could not join its a vote of censure on the Board of
i them id Danish Sail of the Line arid in Frigates.— Aamirelly, beeeuse he did not consider it desirable
I These {'razes were chiefly manned.from the British to pass censure upon apublic Board, upon which the
i' Ships, and it was necessary to get them into harbour. i public safety depended,' without' examining evidence
ias socioas-poeeible on account of the very tempeste- Sat-the Bar, and upon documents moved for on one side
ous weather. At that very moment the Admiralty ; only. it was clear, however, horn the contents of

were required to send twelve Sail of the Line to St. 1, these documents, that the Squadron of Sir Aichard
Helen's to INittch a Rmsiau Vleet which was sup- Strachan had not been properly' attended re: