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of the description to 'Which I have'alluded. T wast•
earnestly entreat the attention of the .Court to,
observations; and that they will bear them in mini)
As itpplicable to. many of the oOservatioes I • shall
haVe,:pa make upon the evidence in detail : and
,arly cetera that when the :peculiar situation in
which, .::stand here is considered, the Court and
:Judge-Advocate will believe, that it is With ex- .
luelaoce, and under a strong sense of the import-
,:anee of this. part of the case to myself, and to fu- • .
tare Militarypnrisprudence, that I have allowed my-
self to make a single comment upon the subjeCt.. I
shall now proceed to the subject of your inquiry.
You are called upon to investigate the causes of the
'disappointment of the public hopes ' • to ascertain who-:
titer they are to be fouud in an unskilful and impro+
dent use of the means placed in my hands for obtain
ing the objeCt in .view, or, in the false expectations
which, from various caUses, had bin raised upon thin
subject, and in the false views entertained and aided
upon in retaliation to 'it. That iiilse expectations
have been raised, and such view: s entertained, I will
prove to. the Court, from the evidence which has been
given, and by arguments draw n ti any that evidence,:
SO conclusive. as to force contiCton upirn the minds
of the most prejudiced. That false information, aris-
ing from various interested motives, had " been given
to the government of this country, my situation has
afforded meatnple means of knowing; that it bas been
'acted upon will appear trona ntl instruCtions. To a
felll expianarkon upon this subje6t, which it is my
duty to give to the Court, I must request your Fred.
ens stud earnest attention ; without it, no judgment
can be formed as to the propriety of my conduel, or
w:ietber I exercised alsound discretion in the inea-
' shies which I adopted. It is, in the first place, neces..
sary for my. defence ; tor, unless the situation in
which I was aetually placed, wit reference to the pos-
sibility of obtaining any cotinnercial advantages unless
the Min), and consequent disappointment of the •
hopes entertained, in relation to our intercourse
with South America,, has given rise to the
greater part of exasperated feeling, which has
been exerted by those who;e, hopes have been thus
the. political situation of that country, the disposi..
tions of the inhabitants towards us, ..their views in
relation to us, either as to what had passed, or future
intercourse, are fully understood, no correaljndgment
can he formed upon my condua, I shall,therefore, en.
ter upon this explanation, before I proceed to consider
,either the charges or the occurences whichpreceded et
gave rise to them. And I am more particularly anx-
ious to impress this subje&upon your minds, becau 0
checked,' a free and unrestrained trade with South
'America has long been eagerly sought and looked to,
as opening one of the widest fields for mercantile spem
culation, Many circumstances combined to produce
this impression not merely on the public 'mind, but
upon the minds also of many great and eminent
statesmen, whose opinions have justly been entitled.
to the highest :respell."

The General having concluded his statement, the
Court adjourned to the following day,. when Gene•
ral Artirrp. was called, who bore honourable testi-
mony t0.44e abilities and chnratier of Gen. WHITE-
LOCKE : after which, the case on the part of the Pro-
secution and Defence being closed,, the Court ad-
journed to this morning, when dui met ibr the
purpose of taking the Evitieuee into consideration.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCU 16, 1.808.

bast night Dutch Papers to the tith o°n-
t,c,tjning intelligence from Paris to the gth; 'reached
town,. ,it the length of General WaTaLockes
Trial and the I;)arliftmentary Debates, prevent us
from giving ^nY extraas from, them. The .01Y kn.'
portant faEt they contain is an. account of a bedfor,
10,000 French troops under General AltOt.t.ts hay.
ing taken possession of Rome. Thu Deposition (11:
the Pon; was of coarse 'the Consequence.

The admirers of erOipent talents) yigorously
successfully employed in the service of Great:B ri •
tain, will rejoice in the result of the Debate last
night in the House of Cbmmons,. when so large 3
majority appeared in favour of the 'Marquis WEL,-
I.Est.r,y) upon that charge on which his ativersaricl
chiefly relied to being a parlitunentary censure on
condua.

• re insert this day the Declaration from the Ern/
peror of AUSTRIA, since the return of Prince 110%
STAIiItEMISERG to his Court. It is such a poor corn_
Position in point if faEt and argument, that we e3l}'
only lament the degraded situation of the Power
which is forced to publish so wretched an attack
upon its old Ally and best Friend.

Yesterday her MAJESTY, 'Princesses AUG"urr
MARY, and SOPHIA, honoured Lady C.. FINCII' watt
a visit, at her apartmvnts in St...James's Palrice:
Yesterday the Dukes of YoKK, ComanatANDP
and CAMBRIDGE, ViSitEd Ili/MAJESTY.
In the evening their MAJESTIES had a seleit
'party to tea and cards. ,
Oh Monday the Clomp.: and pa tNcits• EvzA•
stria spent the day at ltrogmore.
Ir. DoWNE, the pedestrian, finished iiivits,6l"l"
iug peaormance of 35 trnles a day, for twenty SO'
A:et-Alva days, on' Sundayevening, at ten o.ctPcl('
within fOur miles of Huntingdon,