The Sun.
London, England, 1815-02-01 00:00:00

Cross-Esanzined

Q. Was the dispatch which you copied the one
of the 141:h of June, now on the table, addressed
to• Lord Wellington ?-=!-.A.. It "was. •
Q. Was the copy of it at any tirie completed ?
A. I do not recollect that it was.
Q. Did you take any minute of the conversa-
tion between Colonel Mansol and General Murray,
--()r. do you. trust to your Memory ?—A. I. did.not
make any minute ; but 1 recollect the circum.-
stance perfectly. .well. •

' Re-examination.
Q. Did yciu,not interpret that conversation for
mo ?—A. I did.
After this witness had withdrawn, Admiral Hal-
lowell .stated, that on inspecting his log last
-night, he found the signal- for the anchoring
.of
the Bristol, entered in it ; and that he would af-
terwards explain that matter to the Court.
Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Kenna!), AsSistant Adjutant-Ge-
neral to Sir Job) Murray in Catalonia, and in charite of

that Department.
Q. Were any orders :Made. for .our landing in
.`
the
.Bay of Tarragoba on the 2d of, June, and
were the orderS afterwards countermanded'?--A.
Ar.-angements were made for our landing Col.
Adam's corps, and the troops were in the boats
for that purpo-Se ; but the embarkation did'.not
take place, and-the orders were countermanded.
Q. Do you know why the orders were coun-
mailed !—A. I understood.if was because the"
surf Won't' not permit the liinding.
Q. Were dispositions. made 'and -orders: given
for the assault of the Puerto Reale on the,even:-
ing of the 11 th of June .i—A..Yes.
Q. \'hen and.by whom were these diipOsitionS
made and the orders given ?—A. dispo?;itionS
.Tiera made on the early part. dt the (19y by.Lient.-
General Clinton. The orders were given to..
General Clinton by General Murray, early in the
morning previous to his leaving bead-quarters.
Q.' Do yolk know whether those orders were
countermanded, and if so, when, and by whom
A. The orders Were
_countermanded by Sir J.
Murray between nine and ten o'clock, ou the
night of the llth.
Q. Were you dispatched on the night of the
11th With any orders relative to the raising of the
siege I was dispatched by Sir J. Murray
"about eleven o'clock in tire evening, to the Ad-
miral. and the Commanding
.Officer of *Artillery,
to communicate the intention of raising the siege,
"and that 'Sir John wished to see them at bead-
quarters.
Q. Did you find the Admiral and Commanding
Otircer of ,Artillery, and at what. time ? —A. 1
thitik I found the Adriiiral on the -beach in a tent
he had, in aboutn.quarter of an hour after eleven ;
don',t recollect whether or not I saw the Com-
inandinp-, (Ace:. of Artillery then. , ' * - •
Q. When you were sent with the order, bad
Sir J. Murray any Staff °facers with hiM?--;A: I .
do not recollect that be had - indeed,- I aim-al-
most .certain that he had not..
Do you remember AdmiralllartOwell and
'Colonel .-dank coming so my quarters on the morn-
ing of the 12th .?—A. Yes, .1 do recollect seeing
-them there..
Q. Did I give you any orders then ?—A. Sir J.
Murray told we that there was some mistake
.re-
specting orders which had been given to General
Clinton respecting the spiking of the guns, and
desired me to go to General Clinton with orders.
that the gUns 4hould not he spiked till further or-
ders should be given him to that effect; and I went
in cobSequente to. General. Clinton, and de-li:,:tred.
the order. On my return shortly afterward's I met
General Smith, and while in conversation with

him, we otscrvcd the Officer and ar!illerytnen run-
ning front the Oliva Eatte4y. We went to the
Officer to ascertain -the -reason for his leaving' the
battery': he informed us it was in consequence of
a signal made to hint by General Clinton, prey
vioudy agreed on betwvo.them.
,Were the orders given and the ernbarkation
conducted with regularity on the 12th of June
A. Yes.

Q. Did)roit observe any confusion which could
be on the construction Of. beirw. discreditable Or
disgraceful to the service ?—A.'. None whatever.
The embarkation was conducted with perfect re-
gularity :is far as came Within. My oliscrvation.
Q. At what time were the orders given for. the
-embarkation- of the army on the lith ?-=-A. In
thu early part'of the day, as far as I can reCollect.

Q. Ifol Sir E. Pellev's fleet, with Lord Wm.
lientiock on board, then appeaZed in- sight ?
A. No.

Q. Was the embarkation previously ordered bye
me carried , into effect by Lord W.- Bentinck
A. Lord W. Bentincji. arrived in the afternoott of
the 17th, .and the embarkation took place on the,
morning of the 18th.
The Judge Advocate informed the Court, that
the.next qUestion prOposea to be put by Gene.rl
Mtirray,,was 'to' eStablish what signal was
,made
,on the arrival of Lord Wm. lleutinek. 'lt was for
the Court to
,determine whether they would allow
this subject, which did not come under the charges
to be gone into. -

-The President stated, that it was the wish of
the Court, and their dctermination, that nothin!,
personal should be allowed on either Side; and
they, therefore, could not allow this question to
be put. • -
The'Mthiral left it to the Court, whether a
signal made on, the 17th--of June .had any thing
to do with the 12th.ofJune
The President,—Clearly not.
Adthiral Hallowell, on being asked if he had
•any question to put to the witness, said, he did
not mean to impeach Colonel Kennah's veracity;
but as tie had pot s,ditt-positivOy that he sqw him
Oh the beach oft the night of the 11 th, probably
tant recollection'he would express him Self-differen-

On day iii 4uestion, from nine to. twelve
o'clock at night, he was not on the beach, but at
tiwbattoics. • , •

Cross-examination.

Q. Do you mean. to say positively that yon
found me on the beach on the night of the I lth,
at •eleven o'clock ?—A. I cannot
,he quite positive :
I think I lately gave an answer that I was not
quite certain, but that it was after eleven when I
saw the Admiral.

Q. As you were in, the Adjutant-General's.
Office during the
.Catalonian expedition., was it
not lily constant practke to send when \any ship
was going
-to sail, that ,there !night be.titue for
sending, off dispatches .? A. That generally
,was
the case.

Q. Were we not in the midst of the embarka-
tion on the 17th, when the fleet appeared ?. A. I
do believe the embarkatione was going on—there
was an embarkation of horses, I think.

Captain Wolter :Ticks, 20th Light Dragoons, who commanded
- the Foreign Hussars, with tile advance of the Army muter
Coluncl Adam. -
Q. Where was you-stationed on the morning of
the 12th of June A. At Valls.
Q. Did you receive any orders, and at what
hour that morning received an order to
prepare for marching•abciut half--past two o'clock
in the morning.
Q. 'Relate what occurred then . within your
knowletigei—A. O.n the 12th of June the advance
marched from Valls at about half past three or
ttiur o'clock in the morning, and reached Tarra-
-gotta, I think, about ten o'clock. We halted in
the vat) of Tarragona till the arternoo'n, we then
Marched to.Salan, Where we were,, to embark.—
'The infantry were embarked, and I received an
order from Colonel Adam to proceed to Balaguer
inimediately, and to take-in charge four guns. On
my • march to Balaguer, rnet ian orderly of the
Brunswick Hussars. He asked me if I could di•
rect hini where to find the Lieutenant,General
who, commanded, as he had dispatches from Co-
lond,rrevost at Balaguer. Ito l d him.most pro-
bably (Si)" "the beach, where the troops were eni-
barking.. I. enquired' of hiM if he had.beard any
thing- of the enemy in that direction. He said,
before he left Balaper the enemy were marching
.round the nimintains, and'had turned the fort:—
Shortly after 1 perceiVed several fires on the heights
on the. right,leading to I.3alaguer and frOrn some
-Spanish.Sohliers WhOralmet marching, I _was in-
. funned it Was the fires" of the -enemy:. I 'arri'ved-
at Hospitalette at about one in the morning of the
13th. I reported myse,lf to Colonel lientinck,
who commanded the cavalry,, and was clesirecl by
hint to remain there.l-.
What infantry dO you mean..were embark-•
The infantry of the advance.
Q. Were itot'the fires 'on the mountains near
the pass of Bandellos, and considerably on the
right of the-road from Balaguer ?.—A. They were
considerably on the right of the road, and.' should
think iir that direction.
Q. Do you know of any part of the cavalry of
the Allied Army being engaged with the enemy on
the morning of the 13th A serjeanes, pa-
trolc was sent nut on the, morning of the 13th on
"the road towards the mountains, in- the rear of
-rlospitalette. Oil his return, he said lie had had
an engagement with the enemy, who had fired on
him, and killed one man. A subaltern's picquet,
on tither the 13th or 14th, stationed-in the neigh-
bourhood of Bandillos, was also attacked by the
' enemy's ca‘'alry, and some men were wounded on
•lioth sides. ,

Q. Do you know of any other picquet having
been- attacked_on the morning of the 14th,•,-and
having been oblictlto retreat ?—A. On the moru-
ipg of the 14th, a picipletbf cavalry vas obliged
by the-enemy to fail back into the plain of
' •

Q.. What was :the consequence ?—A. The ca-
valry brigade turned out to support-it, and come
infantry were ordered up to the •heights of.whieh
the enemy had possession. The enemyhad also
possession of thedefrle, and had some men in the
plain skirMishing with the picquels.
• Q. Did you command the cayalry.picquet on the
night oftlie I.;lth-l—A. I commando d tile, cavalry
outline-picquet on the night of the 14th.- •
Q. Did you receive any orders Om the night of
the 14th, and from wittna I received orders

front Lod Frederick Beu:iltek, in the eariy i.art

of the tiight, to march at day-break in themo- rn7
ing, and to. find ont the enemy; he said .a light
company was sent to cover tyy flanks through the
inclosed .cotintry..
Q. What occurred in consequence ?—A. I
marched. at. day 71?reali,,an &after proceeding about
three quarters of a mile on the plain, I discovered
a picquct of the-enetnY's infantry,:and shortly an.;
other of cavalry.; they fell back on ottr approach,
we drove in their p;rquets from two small
villages : we came in sight of the bivouac of the
main body, in frimt of •
Q. Did you give icily intelligence. of this, and
to whom ?—A. I sent-an orderly to Lord F. Ben-

thick,
_to say, that we had fallen in 'with the

enemy's picquetv -
' .Q. Do you remember secintt'Cletveral Mnrrny
that morningl--:-:A. I remeti,ber Sir John Murray
coming up as th,e.enemy's picquet-was going out
from the last village which they had possession of.
'Q.:What passed. then' A. Sir John Murrayre-
que-sted me to go forward to reconnoitre the 'ene-
my ; I went close up to B-andillos, and returned
to'llitri and told thought the enemy about
3000 men. He desired met° go forward a second
time and gain some. information. On my return
1 told, him 1 thought they were what I hid before
Stated, and that from the peasants whom I had
questioned at a village near Bandilios, I received
information, that the
_preceding evening the ene-
my'had occupied all the villages, and the road to-
wards the plain, • with 9000 men. One of these
men stated himself to be the Atcalde of the vil-
lage ; and General Mackenzie, `I think, was pre-
sent when I reported this last information to Sir
John, hut I am not certain.

•
Q. On your advancing through the pass to
Bandillos, did you observe any considerable bi-
vouacs, where it-appeared the enemy had passed
the night *i—A. Yes.
Q. Had you any. reason to know the F.rencb
enemy, in the month of July, passed •and repassed
the road between Vendrils and Altafulla, not;
withstanding the gun-Jmats 'stationed .near the
shore i—A. In the month of July, I think
fah, a column of the enemy, consisting of. cavalry,
and infantry, passed alcing that road, and attack-
ed our advance ; on recollection, I think it must
have been in August, When wc: were covering the
Barcelona road, after Tarragona was invested by-
Lord William Bentinck. There were ships;of war
then lying off Torre del Barre.
Q. Did the ships and gun-hoata fire on the ene-
my during their march %—A, No. •
Q. Have you any reason to believe, the fire.of
gun-boats 'stopt the whole French army 43 the
same postition at any other time Before
Lord W. Bentiock broke up the blockade of Tar-
ragona, a column of the enemy marched by that
way. The ships of war and gun-boats fired at
them, they directed their fire chiefly at. a house .
on the beach where Sachet was, who some time
afterwards left it. The enemy made no- at-'
tempt to push beyond. our videttes, which were
considerably in advance on ourpiequets • and from.
what I could perceive, the gun-boats had not done
them any harm. They bivouacked. at a village
near Crescels, and remained there the whole of
the afternoon..
Q. Have you not been frequently employed-in
the advance on the roads from Villafi:anca _Tar,
ragona in posting picquets to cover
the roads.
• Q. Could not the enemy avoid the fire of gun-
boats in the road between Vendrils and Torre del
Barre by a short detour There -are .several
roads round by• the hills, I thiiik two or three-;
out of the fire of gun-boats.

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Cross-examination.
•
Q. DO you mean to say, there were two days
when the enemy passed the road to l'orre
Barre in. sight of the gun-hoat4 Lwas only
present one day.
Q. Did your cavalry and infantry picquets s,top
.•
the enemy without the assistance of our gun-
boats ?—A. I -do not think the'enemy had an in-
tention of passing that day, as they:.di.d not dri've

in our out-posts.
,
Q. Do you not knoW tuat that same column was
obliged ,to go round by another road before
pit
could get to Tarrogana It must have gone
by another road, or it must have marched on the
maiu road after the adVance fell back on the fol-
lowing day.
Q. Cannot you speak positively that the enemy
did
.not go by the.main road, knowing that the
Malta • and Royal George anchored close to the
road, to cover it, and that the advance halted by
the bridge, to the Eastward Of. Tarragona ?
A. I do not know that they did go by the high
:road, as I did not see them,' but I think the ene-
my could have passed by the high road.
. [This answer was given,afterfrequent miscon-
ceptions of the question, and after a number of
other answers had been returned].
Q. As to the advance halted on the high road,
,could. the enemy pass. along the high road with-
out your seeing them ?—A. I fell back the follow-
ing day.
Admiral, Hallowell wished to caution the wit-
ness how he answered the question : he had be-
fore said he fell back the same day : he did nut
wish him to commit
The PRESIDENT Said • the Admiral did right hi
so cautioning, the witness.
The witness then said, we fell back every even-
ing, we fell back on the evening of the firing,
and advanced to Altafulla next day.
Admiral Hallowell.Certainly not.
Q. Do, you know that ships can lie Within
musket;shot of the roadfrOm Vendrels to Torre
del Baia %—A. There is one part of the road
where ships can anchor
.close to it. The road
there, passes over arches. I am not acquainted
with naval mattm, and cannot answer exactly.
Q. Is not great part of the road you have men-
tioned, within musket-shot of the beach ?—A. I
Should think it was not.
Q. Was the advance tinder Colonel Adam ever
attacked in Altafulla ?--r-A...Yes; that is not in the
town, but within 200 yards of it--the enemy never
got into ,the.town.
Captain ALEXANDER SHARP, of the Hyacinth.
I was, stationed off Valentia,, in June, 1813. 'I
bad information of the enemy on the 9th, that the
enemy were moving towards Catalonia. 'On the
.10th
,counnunicated with a schooner at Mar-
viedro, on board of Maid' weie five or six Spa-

nhli peasaots, and from thenec I learned that the
French force consisted of nine or 10,000 infantrY) -
and 1000 or 1100 cavalry ; that the last division ,
Of the French army had .quitted Castillon de la
Plana lit two o'clock of the'Bth; 'consisting of
about 2000 infantry, and two or 300 cavalry ; that
Marshal Sachet had quitted Castillon la Plana:
at 10 o'clock on the night of the Bth. With one
~
of the peasants I was previously acquainted, being
a Guerilla belonging to Nieport, and had inter-
course with him when employed in landing arms
and ammunition. I communicated the informa.-!
tion received on the evening of the 9th to Sir
Benjamin Hallowell by a Gibraltar sinnggler.'
The information 'of the 10th was dispatched-by'''.
the Buzzard, to be for Warded to Alicant, Ind I.
proceeded myself to Tarragona". On my arrival.
at Tarragona, Sir B. Hallowell informed me that
he had received my letter. .1 arrived at Tarragona
on the evening of the 12th, about seven o'cloch•
I cannot recollect whether it was on the:l2th that
Sir B. Hallowell told me that he bad rieeived my
letter. I am well acquainted with the beach of
Tarragona, and the mate of the weather on that
coast ; they cannot 'be depended on-at all tittles
for the embarkation of an army. • •

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