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To TimmAs -r'(‘‘,Loii.; Esti,
• , -No. g, New Bridge-Street, London,
Honoured Sir, • . ' Edinburgh, March 18, 1801.
•
IBEG _leave to inform „you, that ever since the
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'Q. Did it appear to your Lordship that-any mime-
cessery delay'occurred from daylight of the mm. leg
of the"42tfi '.t April, when yi,n ma le signals to-the
Commander in Chief that half the tie -,-
stroy the eremy's ships, that seven of them were
aground, &c. 3/e.
-A. Yes, when I expressed by signal to the Coe -
Inander in Chief, shortly after day-light,in the morn-
ing, that p of the British fleet was eeough to eff!et
the destruction of the enemy; there being eu only
two s-ril orthe enemy's ships capable in any degree
to resist the attack, -1 did expect that an endtayo,
would have been immediately made to dislodge these
two ships from the situation in whir h they remained,
by an attack, by two or three sail of the line,. which
were sufficient for that pui pose. The tide and wind
were, from eight o'ciockin them CIT Img i; t ,
both going the same way, and ships of the line hy,
passing were near to the Buoyart, and putting ilk ir
helm a.lee would have brought their heads, their
rote and main -topsails being to the mats. towards the
N. E. which,,would have enabled them (.it a distance
at which the shot of the enemy would hate had eo
effect) to bring their, guns to bear upon the enemy's
two ships which still remained' at anchor, w -
GI they approached them, or until so' tar to
lee-way that they would have been able by putting
their helms up,
.to run to leeward between then' and
the ships on shore, and thereby force them to ut
and run aground likewise, and then.eWett With tbcir
de,stru6tiOn and the destruction of the other vessels
which wele.son- shore, and which I hame aheady
stated might have been destroyed by the endeavo4s,
in my opinion, of tWo sail of the fine, "aided by the
frigates,eat any pet iod previous try half past elei en
o'ClOck of the April, and by the trigp9 aloite
before: one o'clock, When the French three-deckers
swung to 'her hawsers, and when the 'last of their
ships began, to float. speak of their line of battle
ships), for the two ships which had remained at
anchor, and cut on the'approach Of the British flee!,
had also grounded, thew not being even then at halt
tide (twelve o'clock) water enough for them to effect
their escape up the Middle of the channel leading to
the river Charante.

Q. (From the Court). Whit 'tyere_the circum-
staticeS that induced your Lordship to beheze t iat
from eleven' o'clock to one the frigates alo :e were
capable al de:itroying the enemy's ships ?
A: The helpless situation of the ene-,ny, they be-
ing .aground, and the same, cOnvithon that led me
afterwards to consider the risk iu attempting it ex-
ceedingly small.

O. if, in your Lordship's judgment, the frigates-
alone were sufficient to effect the destruction of the
enemy's _ships between half past eleven and one,
why might they not as well bare performedi hal sci-
viCe between any period of the morning and , half
past eleven ?

A. At eleven &clock the British fleet weighed and
stood towards the enemy, whereupon the,two ships,
whiCh continued still at anchor, cut and ran aground.
The British tleet :anchored about half past eleven
o'clock. I was ignorant what Lord Gambier's plans
might be ; and though I concluded that the fires for
cooking had long previously been out, yet I imagined
that this. might possibly have been to give the sea-
men something to eat, previous toping into action;
and'although •I regretted the time that appeared to
my' mind to have been already lost, as well as- what
We-wereevidently losing by even half all hour's de-
lay, in making some kind ()lan attack by a couple
sail of the fine, or: by the frigates, )4t I consoled
myself with the supposition that his Lordship inteod,
ed a grand blow on the Island and, on the ships at
once, although I thought this highly unnecessary in
order to etfect,their destradion, nor prudent to the
whole fleet Leonid not in any other way account
for a proceeding that thus enabled the helpless Freach
Ships to, endeavour their escapd, undisturbed, into
the liver. Charante. Twelve o'clock arried,. no sig-
nal was made to weigh. Half past twelve, still no
signal.

Admiral YOUNG.---" This is very improper. This
is no answer to the question. It is only calculated
to make: an unfivourable impression against the pri.
Soper, and wholly imilevant to the question:'
Lori Cochrdne.—i am boiend-to tell the tro.th,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, ati&-with
submission to the Court, it I am not 0c;-otitted.
ro
sate the circumstances upon which my ooinion is
grounded, it is impo3sible I can giv:z-a tkall at s,,ver to
the question; and .until the Court 'shall hear 160
whole of my answer, it is not-possible they can form,
any correct judgment upon it; and must remain in
ignorance of the fad.

Adtriiral YoUgG—Lord Cochrane, 'you are bound'
to give a direct answer to the question, and not to
state that which the Court'are-decidedly of opinion
is wholly irrelevant.

The. 'PRESIDENT—I really think, since Lord
Cochrane has gone ho far, the Court should hear he
whole of his answer; we can then judge what part
of it should stand, or be expunged.
[Atter some further discussion, the Court was or-
dered to be cleared. Upon our re-admission, the
Presi.lent • informed Lord Cochrane, that he should
finish the present answer ; but he was in future to
coutin.• his answers directly and decidedly to the
question. His .Lordslip had also made rise of an
expression, ill the opinion of the Court, \higily inde-
corous, in applying the wOrd ignorance to the persouu
who had proposed the question.]

Lord Coehrane, in o(plaitation, replied,-,that be
had meant no clisrespea whatever tolike Court,,•but
thongta he h4d said, :Litt if be was mit alieWed

'. 'fir-~5~-

'die Colin 'would remain ia ignorance of
ne tact. .

The question was then repeated.
f.,7ord Cochrane coinitined.—l ordered' the cables
t ) be lowed tort up and down. The Etna bomb
.imssed ; I enquired, by hailing, if any attack was in-
tended to be made on the enemyeand was answered
by the Captain that he was directed to bombard the
eti env. I think there was a brig coming down after
him I desired him to go close, and ,hoved anchor'
too the bows. The impression on my . mind _Was,
f-aviog seen no signal made about that-time to indi-
cate an attack,'tbat no further attack, except that by
-throwing shells was intended. The Calcut ta,Varsbvie,
and most of the other ships'were pressing sail to force
them on towards the Charante,, and out. of our
reach. •Theirriperieuse, although_we did not com-
mence to fire On the enemy Until two 'o'Clock,. was.
then wholly in time, by firing on the Calcutta to cut
away, or to cause them to' break . (corn :the 'confusion
in; & which they were shrown„ The confusion 'of
she enemy forced the Varsovie ashore, 'and thereby
prevented, the escape of these two ships, whiCh were
:tile last, with the exception of the Aquilon, which
..es,-;e1, although near, was a little- further up, and r
they on board the Aquilon were in such confusion,
that it was upwards of an hour and a halt' be-fore they
Could get one single gun out of the stern ports of that
vessel. The whole of the enemy's shipS of war
Were, at two
,o'clock, in the position shewn in
Chart, No. 3, which I shall present to the Court;
and The British fleet are there put down as it ap-
'Feared from thy Impericese, from the anchorage.
'o.llteli she took up, and in which anchorage she con-
tittoed until one o'clock, close to Buoyart shoal, just
iethin. the longest drop of shells. , The Eagle, .al-
though nearest, did not fire at all (produces Atte
Charts). The reasons, if there are any, why the
-frigates might not, previous to the hour of half past
eleven o'clock, have attacked the'enerny, will be
found in the.preceding narration, wherein it appears
that two sail .of the line continued at:anchor
until half past' eleven, which two 'ships, it
pearect-to my mind, would haVe bece better to attack
. ,
.by opposing so them two or three sail of the. line,
instead of a great number of'fi tes, although it
was my opinion that the frigates themselves would
Lave been quite, eqnal, to the task. The enemy's
two ships. were -employed all the Morning attempt-
ing to get their topmasts up, whicho.in.the Course Of
six hours from daylight in the morning, I do not
thinly they had quite effected at the time that they
made sail on the approach of the British fleet, and
'-rap aground in the middle of the ehannel leading to
the Charante ;" I, think in aboUt_ half an hour after
the British fleet anchored. This gave rise to my
opinion that they were not in.a state to fight.
Q. it being statedin the log of the Imperieuse,
'that about four o'clock p m. on the 13th, the signal
was made to the inshore squadron to work out at the
-ebb tide, that a signal of rebel was also made to you,
va hick yod answered by a telegraphic communica-
tion, and it not appearing 14 the log of the Caledo-'.
nia that such signal was made, state whether such
signal was made for recalling, and
.whether the in-
snore squadron came out in consequence thereof,
-and what was 'the purport of the telegraphic signal
you made to the Commander in Chief ?

A. On the morning of the 13th April, the ships
of the line, one of them bearing the flag of Admiral t
Stopford, weighed and worked out of the inner an-
chorage by order, to the best of My belief, from
Admiral Stopford, whose ship shewed some lights;
• which I understood was a„signal for that purpose to
the line-of-battle ships. ,Most of ,these havincon-
tintied until low water in situations in which it' was
known by the chart that there was not water enough.
The signal of recal vas reported to me, about four.
or five o'clock in the'afternoon, to hive been made"
by the Caledonia, and LanSwered by _telegraphic sig-
nalithat the enemy could be deStroyed, and I'vvas
the further confirmed in this opinion, by an official
ietter, directed "oo service,!' Which I hold in my
hand, directed to me from his Lordship, ordering.
the Itnperieuse, together with the bomb, and dated
on the 13th, 'written, to the best of, my belief, in
his Lordship's own hand, acid which I beg may be
reed to the Court.

The setter was then read, in substance nearly
follows :--

" MY DEAR LORD

44 Caledmia, April 13

'You Wave done your part so admirably that.l
voll not Sutler you, to tarnish it by attempting impos-
sibilities. You must therefore join me, as soon as
youcan with the bomb; &c. as .I wish to have:some
illation from you beton I close my dispatches.

" I Am &c.

P.S. I have „Olered three brigs and two bombs
to' join you in the attempt; but I don't think it will
suLcetut
,You must come to me in the turn of the
tide, as want to send you to, England as soon as
possible."

To Ni•hiel) I refilled in the following letter also
dated the 13th, and with'which letter I sent a Com-
miasioned Officer :

" Irnperieuse, April 18.
" tity LORID,—I have just received your Lord-
ship's ',Ater :—we can destroy the enemy's ships on
shoe, of which I hope you approve. '
'I am, &c. ' ``•' COCHRANE:"
Q. It appears from the log-of the Imperieuse, that
at threep. m. the Etna, with brigs in company, was
bOmbarditig the enemy's ships in the Channel; when
•w ere they recalled, and by whose orders ? •
• A. I sent diem in to bombard the enemy: I be-
ht:i-e they came out•afier the Imperieuse' had weigh-
ed, and the Eagle had taken' her anchorage. I told
thern the day before to come out on the ebb tide,.
tot they did so a little slier high water.
Q. In your Lordship's letter to Mr. Pole, in
answer to his letter,, and- requesting you to state
-to the Lords of the Admiralty your grounds for ob-
• je';::ting to the Vote of Thanks, you referred generally
to the log.. You are requested to state: whether
"you meant to draw their Lordships'- attention- to
more than the documents now stated, on which yoU
have given your sentiMents?
A. Having been diredted 'by their Lordships to
exphain my reasons, I referred their,Lordships to the
• logs
.and signal: logs of the squadron,. considering'
tha't, under every circumstance, the best source from
whence their-Lordships could possibly derive infor-,
illation. It was Plot my desire, unless I had been
• presse-ii, to have 'drawn their Lordships' attention to
-pari-' of them, or any other documents. I con-
.; sidered the affair in Basque Roads in" every resPetVas
pissed, and, whatever my opinion might have been,

incapable of all remedy. Had it been a matter in
which--the future interests of my country were ins
volveti, I she old not have hesitated one moment- in
pointing/that out to thekLoidships, and calling their
attention to every pari.oftliesedocumentsbor any Othe.-s
I might be possessed of, -I have now also to call the
'attention of the Court, that. had the frigates on the
morning, instead olleaxiag the inner aucnorage, and
accompanying the ships of the line, remained, there,
full opportunitieS offered that day to deStroy several
sail of the enemy, which-were not out of reactrat the
vesselsharoperly placed,at proper timeS of the tide,or of
smaller vessels during every part of the tide, and I
see no cause to alter my opinion.---4 The remainder of
this answer is notimportant.. )•
.Q. When did your Lordship first discover in the
inner road of Aix, that there was anchorage suffi-
ciently capacio6i to contain six sail of the line to
ride,without being in range of shot or shell ?
A. I have been in possession of the French Charts,
which I have riot tumid defective -in any material
pdin ts, for -a‘ -period of /years ;
.and from -these Charts
I have at• all tines drawn conclusions with respect to
the depth of the water and' other circumstances
xirhiCh relate to navigation Upton theenemr,S coast;
and on them, in this case, as. in all others, I placed my•
dependance. • I went in ; On many occasions I found
them'corred. I knew by the Chart, when in pur-
suit of the Calcuttai I was to find a bank. We found
it, and this I did, knowing what I was abont..-.Upon
ruy traa, close by the 'Ruyan Lfound it carried ; and,
in fad, I- had' confidence in the Chars, by- which tt
has long appeared to.me that -this anchorage might,
if
,any object was in view,.be 'taken.
Q. In. the chart your Lordshp consulted 'on this
occasion, are the soundings so marked in has to at-
ford a space- sufficient for six sail, not within range
of shot and shell

• A. That convidion was- upon my -mind ; but on
referring to the chart, which' is exactly the same as
others which have been in my possession, I find-that ,
no soundings are wanted; but the Court can, by re-
ferring thereto, decide the question.
Q. When yoU fotincl, by expel ience, on going in-
to Aix Roads, by The soundings you found in the
charts yon made use of were correctly set clown, and
from theoce you drew a conclusion that there was
;safe anchorage for-six sail of the line did you intake
any communication of that important fact to the
Commander in Chief ? • -
A. The Commthder in Chief harthe same
chart's, I believe, as I was in possession of upon
which, as I have already stated, I formed my condo-
sions with respect to the anchorage above alluded to.
He had also French pilots on board, in whose re-
ports, from previous experience, I knew the Qum-
mander in Chief to rely above _all other authority.
On reconnoitring the fleet the first day, we were
so near as to induce 'the enemy to open his fire from
almost his whole line. I reported to the Coalman-
-der in Chief the ruinous state of Aix, its fortifications
being completely blown up and desttoyed, which I
might easily ascertain from the deck with pet feet pre-
cision, not only as to the side towards us, but also as
to the opposite, from the main-top,ot the Ship." There
were only 13 guns mounted upon that side on which I
had I had formerlyseen, to the best of my recoiled ion,
about 50. In making these observations to,h is Lordship.
for his in tO-7,-iat ion, he stated hisperfect reliance upon
the c.:1;,,11 of the Pilots, and assure& me that
was exceedingly strong, and that I think
it had three -tier of guns 'Mounted towaids the i.
.shipping. I then observed to his Lordship that the
circumstances which.l then related were within my
own observation, which did nut alter hi Lordship's
opinion. The remainder of this answer is not material
to the question. " \ •
'Q. Can the ships of the line arrive at that an-
chorage at all times of the tide ?
A. By following the track which I judged best in
taking_ in the Iniperieuie, that being furthest off
from the fire of the enemy, I do believe'that ships
of the line may pass in at any time of the. tide. I
sat on the netting attending to 'the, leads, during-the,
time we were going in, it was then high wafer ;
and having marked that the rise and fall of the tide''
was stated at to ft. the impression upon tnyiminct
was that I'should not With a'ship of the line hesitate
to go ,in. I think my impression at the 'sairie time
was that atlow water it would not be proper to take
one of the heaviest ships in, which was -riot neces-
sary. I don't think we had less than a 40 gun ship.
We passed so close to the ,Buoprt I could. have
thrown a penny piece on it.
_ Q. All the intormation your Lordship has of the
rising and falling of the water was obtained from
the charts only, and without any other intortuati,,ti

A. I had remarked, when before on that coast,
the rise and fa)! of the tide at a pl,Lce not tar distant
to be about 10 or 12 feet at the Jughest tide; and I
thought after Wards, when the French ships lay
aground, that they stood about '! 12 feet. The
Aquilon bad sunk abbot 10 feet, and it must have
been at thd dead of low water when I went on board
of her.

Q. You said that/ ships of the line might have
brought to, with.their heads to the N.. E-near the
Buoyart Shoaly and might have engaged the two
French ships that rdoisined at anchor, without dan-
ger From shot or shell from the Isle of Aix; would
they have been nearer to the Isle of Aix than they
would to those ships ?
'A. •I should not have thought of bringing any
ships broadside to an enemy when at a distance so
great as from the Isle d'AiX. to the Buoyart, but
should have continued on the same course that ships
would do in going to the inner anchorage; until -the
enemy's shot began to tell, and then I should have
brooght• the, broadside of the ships to bear in the
manner before described, having their heads towards
the N. and E. or if their shot did not tell, so as ma-
terially to injure, I should probably have proceeded
to bring the larboard guns to bear. by passing on the
side opposite to Isle d'Aix, till I placed my ship, .or
ships, in such a situation as not only to capture or
destroy these; but 'those also which were laying as in
chart No.. 2. The distance was such that I might
lie there for a week and not be hit twice.

Q.. You said, that after a time they might put
their helms up, and run under the stern of the ships
at anchor, and'engage both these ships and the ships
that were on shore; was that a situation in which
any of our ships were at any time placed ?
A. I have said, that provided I found it more ex.-.
pedient, I would have done so; the Valiant and
ships that joined thd' Inmerieuse about three 0.410 ck
p. m. on the 12th of zwril, placed themselves, or
rather passed the oaition alluded to, at4i went' on

toviards the end of the stwal, which in the case stated.
in the question'weuld not have been -necessary. •
Q. Your Lordship having stated, that if two or
three sail of the line, it coming in, had borne close
on the Buoyari;
.had laid their main and foretop-sails
aback, and taken the tide under their lee, so as to
enable them to bear round and go up to the enemy's
two line of battle-ships, then afloat, was there space
enough foreither one, two, or three sail of the line
to have taken 1.-1) an anchorages with even part of
their broadsides to bear-on those two ships, without
taking the ground.; •
A. I did not consider the tide under.the lee as a:
point essential w the bearing up. There wassutli7
cient room. I can speak with positive certainty,
for we in the Imperieuse, when working
,out from
the position which we. occupied, as .shewn by chart, .
No. 3, tacked repeatedly, and traversed all the space
between the shoal' of the Buoiart and the buoys of
the 'enemy's ships, where they had been anchored
in line, and from which they had , cut. - 1 should
not have stood so far Edwards these buoys had it not
"been that the enemy seemed little inclined to disturb
us, which I not only attributed to the ruinous state
of their works, but, concluded that they were. in
want of powder or other military stores. I should
not. have chosen;
,however, any distant station, but
should probably have bronght Op alongside of them,
and on that side direCtly opposite to Aix. The 3-
decker, and oth-er ships on :there, 'two of which
after appeared to have their masts" locked together,
could .have given no material disturbance:in 'such a
position, and these-three
,might have been destroy-
ed by one 74, had she been sent to attack them; or
even by a frigate or two, while the two French line
of battle ship's were Occupied at their anchors, as is
above supposed. When I arrived' at' the outern
anchorage, I mentioned to Lord Gambier that as
'there could be no jealousy with resped to Admiral
Stopford, that it would be a matter essential to the
service to send the Admiral in with the frigates aid
other vessels, which ever his Lordship thought best,
as his zeal for the sere ice would accomplish W.hat I
consider yet more, creditable than any thing that bad
`been-;done; I apologized for the freedom which I
used with his Lordship, and stated that I took that
liberty as a friend, for it
.would be-impossible, things
reinanting as they were, to prevent a noise being ,
made about it in England. I said, "My Lord, you
&sired me to speak candidly .to you, and'l haje
used ilia: freedom.; I have no wish or desire but
for the service of our country." To vt hich his
'Lordship replied; that if threw/ blaMe, it' would
appear as arrogantly claiming all the merit to my-
self. I assured his Lordship I had no such inten-
tion, and mentioned at the same time that it was
not my design to carry dispatches, or to go.to Lon-
don with Sir H.irry Neale, 'upon the occasion. .His
Lordship. imrn. d lately after delivered to me an eider
directing the above. Whet, I weighed, 1, had the
satisfaction of hearing that the signal had been made
for Admiral Stoil:ini, but whether- to execute the
,above parpose by the frigates, or other means,..l do
•not know.

Lord Gambier declined asking Lord Cochrane any
questions at present.

:rldMil a/ STOPFORD sworn and examined.

0,71-TaviWg l card ihe order from the Admiralty
to tord Gazubier to attack ithelieet it-1 Basque Roads,
state to the_ Court • any \neglect you !chow in the
attack of the enemy's ships, tor any detect or unne-
cessary delay on the part at nis Lordship, between
the I Oth March and 17iji Apia, and whether he
used every means in his power to' carry ioto effect
the abiive mentioned orders •

A. Under aathe circumstances of the case, viewed
in.'eveiy point in Which. I am capable, and giving 'to
the Commander in Chief the exercise of that dis-
cretion, which everyC,ornmandet in Chief, in the exe-
cution of measures for which he alone is responsible,
I do not think there, was any delay or defic►ency on
the part of the C ,Minander in Chief, in executing
the service entrusted to his Lordship's care.
Q, (By tt,e Court) Was the fleet in .Basque Roads
unmoored on the day previous to the going in of the
frigates ?
A. Yes ; the' shills were unmoored on the lith.

(4. Do you know why they were untnoored ?

A. From a conversation I had ‘vith the Corn-
nian.ter in Chief before utimooring, I ,unAerstood• it
was for the purpose of being
,ready to take advantage
of any favourable circtiMstance. L must alsO
there was some conversation which bad tin practical
effe'A, respetiing the fleet making a spew of getting.
under weigh to deceive the enemy, for the purpose
of prevent) 'g the enemy's boats coming ow to in-
tercept the tire ships.
Q. Was the fleet moored again in the course of
that day ?
. .4, Tce signal was made, and the fleet moored
again aboUt sunset, except the Cxsar.
•Q. Do you know what induced the Commander
in Cniertn order the fleet to !nor again, or if you
do not knoW his teasoni, did you see or know any
sufficient cause for its being. done ?,

• A.-The Commander in Chief did,not at the.titne
COMMOllicat6 to nie his reason for mooring ; but
from the close order in which.sonie part of the fleet
was originally moored, and considering the strength
of the tide, I think there might have been , some
risk of the ships- nearest to each o\\her getting on
board of each other, had they) Continued so close.
Q. The morning after the fire-ships went in,.
some signals and telegraphic commuhications were
made from the Imperieuse to the:Commander in
Chief: Do you recoiled what they were ?
A. I confess,l must speak more from recolletStion,
than from' any thing I saw myself. 1 can speak to
those which were officially reported to me by the
.Captain Of the Caesar. The first signal reported to
me to be made by the Imperieuse, was that of
." -seven sai' of the enemy's ships on shore---pthefleet
can •destroy them." Soon after signal repeated,
that half the flee( could destroy them." Between
half past six aod eight o'clock, I do not reâollet
any other-signal made•byt he Imperieuse till between
half past twelve and one o'clock, same day, and
standing in towards the enemy. The Imperieuie
made stgnal that the enemy's ships were superior to
thechasing ships, but interior to the fleet united ;
also that the Imperieuse was in distress, and wanted
assistance.

• Q. Dicl you see, or I.va3 it officially reported to
you in the course of that day, that the Itnperteuse
had infornaed the Commander in Chief by telegraph,
that two Sail of the line would be sufficient to de-
,
grny the enemy ?

'A. No such signal was repotted to me ever to
have been made.

Q. Was any official information given to you of
.the Commander in -Chief having recalled the Irn-
Verieuse on the morning of the Igth ?
No such comrpunication was ever made to jne.
Q. The-Revenge,'Theseui, Valiant, and Cseqar,
are stated eo ltase been sent into the Road of Aix.
Did they go in ? •

,A. The} went in at different times of night—the
Caesar some hours after the Valiant. -

.Q. Were they recalled by signal or otherwise,-by
the Corndiander in Chief ?

A. They were recalled by no order from the
Commander in Chief ; but part of theni, the Caesar,
'Theseus, and Valiant, came out by orders from, me.
Q. What were your reasons for calling those
ships from the service on which they were ordered
Without direaions from the Commander in Chief ?

A. The imminent and inevitable danger-the ships
were exposed to by continuing that station, also
the certainty that they could not ,be employed with
in the further. destruetion of the enemy's
• ,
ships..

Q., Did you consider. the danger to which they,
would be -exposed from the enemy's batteries, or
badness of roads, `or.both-?-

:A.. Froth both. The evening preceding it, when
the Caesar. was going in, she gat onshore for three
,hours, in range of the enemy's shot, and this con-
trary to illy, expectations, being told by the pilot
there was sufficient .water. The Captains "of the
'Theseus and Valiant also informed me. that their
ships had been aground.

• Q. On what shoal was the Cmar aground
•A. A continuation of the Booiart, or "a . separate
bank, in the same line with the Buoyart. At the
time-the Cwsar got ashore, it was nearly dark, awl
the enemy did not'perceive her situation. It it.had
been day-light, I should have despaired of getting
her off.

Q. Did you know, that within the Wad of Aix,
there was an anchorage capable:of containing. siX
sail of the line, perfectly out of the reach of shut • and
'shells, from any of the enemy's batteries ?
A. Previous to our frigates going in; I certainly
did not know it, although some Pilop were of .opi-
nion, that there was, others, that there was' not.
With resped td the number, I understoOd t.it nevef
contained more than four ships• in five fathom; -with.7
out range of shells. Had. I known of that anchor-
age before I went in, I should have expected to de-
rive little good tiom any ships going there, as if was
quite out of the line of annoying any of the enemy's
ships that were on shore. .
_ _ _

Q. One of the reasons you have given for with.'
drawing the ships two, the road at Aix was, that
they could not annoy the enemy's ships. .Wert,
you, before it was dark, in a situation from which
you could see the enemy's ships so as to feel quite
.
satisfied, ships of the line could do them no more
mischief ?

A. Befdre I went in, and in going in, I observed
the enemy's ships close under the batteries, and
was so little acquainted With that anchorage, that'
I was of both with -respea •tcv the naviga,.
lion as well as the exposure to the batteri2s, strips
could not be employed without imminently _ risking
their.sately._

Q. yoL have commanded a squadron for a con
siderable time in Basque-roads; have you been able
ro nseerrain --how high the tide rises and falls At
spring tides ?

A. Generally from 18 to 21 feet, according to the
set of the wind; the. N. W. Wind makes a higher
tide.

Q.. When the Imperieuse made the signal that the
enemy's ships wete on shore, and the, IL:et might
destroy them, ‘vould you, with the experience you
have as a Flag-Officer, have thought it prudent or
proper to send or lead in the fleet to destroy them ?
A: In my opinion the dislodgment from the ao'
chorage of the enehly's ships by fire-ships, remov4
ed but,a small part of the obstacles. This is not
'only my Opinion, birt that of others who preceded
in the command. The'difficulties of the navigatiop,
and an imiierk6t acquaintance with the anchorages
would, think, have made me unworthy of a corn'
viand, where the enemy had all the adirantage, and
ours Would have had all the loss.

Q. When the signal was made by the Lnpe'
rieuse that Waif of the fleet could have destroyed
the enemy, would you have conuualed half_the flea
for that purpose, with ttio wind and weather as it
then was ?

A. 'ln this and ale for Mer answer I must take the
state of the wind only, IA ith the willd as it then
was, ,ind the broadside of their ships stilt bammand•
t bepassage, we should- 'have been so crippled
going in and iu workiitt out, a passage a little rtior.
than a mile, I think 1 Should, not .hare
risked the
ships' had they been under my command.

Q. The itnperieuse made the signal of being in
distress, 'and wanting immediate assistance—;wero
any ships irntnedidtety sent to assist her ?
A. I will not pretend to say whether the frigates
were ordeted in betore_ or afterwards, by the Coin'
rriantfer in Chief, but there were several ships nor
at, the time. I do' not teculled any signal being,
made irnniediately i 0 answer to the sigma trotn tkS
Imperieuse.
Adjourned until to-morrow.