The Sun.
London, England, 1815-01-28 00:00:00

THIRD CHARGE.

General Murray rose to read the Third Charge.
Mr. L'arpent observed, that probably Admiral
Hollowell was not, led to expect that the Defence
on, the 'Laird Charge would be entered on, before
the evidence of the two other Charges had been
gone into.
Admiral Hallowell said•he was not.

General M. then proceeded.—lr was no wonder
that a feeling of discontent prevailed in the army
under him, respecting the manner in which the
siege had been raised. The Army of Catalonia
were.desirous of rivalling their brethren in arms
and.they felt' keenly the disappointment of the
expectation which they had been led to form,
however unwarranted such expectations might.
have been. But .was it -astonishing that the dis.
appointment should have become general, when
it was considered, that the Officer at the head of
the naval part of the expedition had told them
there was no cause for the precipitate. retreat
which had taken place, and that he had made an
offer which, if accepted, would have prevented
the loss of part of the equipment. Before, how-.
ever, he could admit the Admiral's responsibility
in this case, he had to consider how far it would
have been admitted by others. If the offer of
tanbarkation had not been then made, and since
persisted in till now, as possible, he could not have
believed that the idea ever would have been enter-
tained by an Officer of Adm. Hallowell's experi-
ence. With only two line-of-battle ships, he un-
dertook to have ail emhatked in the course of the
night. Admitting-that he could have so embarked,
every thing—how did Admiral Hallowell propose
to accomplish this ? He said, if the army had been
permuted to remain on shore till night, it might.
have been done ; .but this involved Gen. Murray
in the hazard which by his instructions he was to
avoid.. He knew very well that the guns might
thus have been saved ; but from all the intelligence
received, General. Murray was led to suppose that
the enemy would be in contact with him on the
13th ; and this proposal was neither more. nor less
titan to allow the army to remain on shore at the
hazard of its safety. Admiral Hallowell could not
have been responsible for this. Had any thing
been wrong in his 'own department, for that he
would of course have been responsible; but it would.
Itsve been no excuse for General Alurrav, with his
Majesty's Ministers, that he had failed in conse-
quence of his listening to the advice, and the,prof-
fere& responsibility of Admiral Hallowell, who-
might in some measure-be considered as an indif-
ferent spectator, .and whose- honour was no ways
implicated in'the issue. But Admiral Hallowell
erred front ignorance of the truth ; he knew only
of 5,000 men. of the enemy ; but had he been
aware that there were more than twenty thousand,
instead of five thousand, pressing forward to at-
tack the allied army ? This proposal of the Ad-
miral Mauled the minds of part of tlke army
against General Murray ; but this Court Would
see that he could not lis:en to it. I: appeared that
he was in this charge accused of making no pre-
parations previous to embarkation. He knew of
no preparations which the army wanted. If any
were necessary for the fleet, he_ could not be
blamed for any deficiency in that department,
for Admiral Hallowell knew as early as the
9th bow probable it was that the embarkation
was to take place, and on the .11th it was
determined on in so
,far as related to the
army. The transports Which brought .the
troops were still there, and All that bras necessary
was to order the boats to repair to
.the beach.—
What was the consequence of General Murray's
adhering to his own determination Why, the
artillery horses and cavalry were all brought on
board, and nothing was left on shore but such

things as were not immediately necessary. ror-
innately it was not necessary for biro to make any
great preparations, tot had any such preparations
been necessary, they would not have been made.
'the precipitation of which he was accused atone
from the determination of adhering to the last mo-
ment to the ol;ject entrusted to him, Which ne-
cessarily brought_ with it the loss of some artillery
and stores. This mea=sure as necessary to render
the operations of the" Duke del Paripte as complete
as possible. For want of judgment he might he.
condemned ; but of want of foresight he stood

acquitted.
He had only to justify his retreat by proving
the:superior-force of the enemy against him.--7
When the. Duke of Wellington retreated to Torres
Vedras, was this measure condemned ? Vas the
retreat from Burgos ever considered degrading ?
And yet in those- cases much of the equipment
of the army was lost ; and it. was only neces-
sary for the General to say that be was not equal
to the .enemy in force, to stand acquitted. But
the General was happy in being alone ! He bad
no naval co-operation to impede and thwart
him. When Lord William .Bentinck afterwards
retreated fro►n before Tarragona, was it con-
sidered degrading ? The enemy was so superior,
that prudence forbade hint to. hesitate a moment
`.as to his course-. The superiority of an enemy
depended mote on its composition titan its num-
bers. What crime Lad he committed, that the
same credit was not to be given to his statements
which had been given to other Generals ; and that
his reports were not to he believed ? The cause
was evident. Fix had only to cast his eye to the
puree ‘vheticJiis,. accuser Admiral Hallowell was
sitting,'and, the. source oral( this was evident. To-
prove the superiority of the enemy was a difficult
matter, from the care %illicit they 'alwals took to
conceal their numbers, and their activity in detect-
ing and punishing spies. fie did not mention this
difficulty as an excuse for not establishing his case,
but in order to bespeak the indulgence of the
Court.

The gallant General now .proeeeded to:state,
that he would call the best evidence in •his power
of the strength. of the enemy. He would first call
General Donkin, from whose report, founded up-
on the. best authorities, it- would appear that the
army of Arragon amounted to 24,000 men.• From
subsequent accounts received, however, through
the m,. ilium of an intercepted letter of Suchet's, it
turned Out that the Jai' and 9th hussars: had been
added to Sachet's corps,and that the total amounted
to 27,900 men. The next person he would call
would be Gen.Whittingham, from whose infornia-.
Lion the Court would collect the army of Arragon to
have amounted to 31,260 men. 1 his Officer obtain-
ed his intelligence through a channel distinct from
that of General.Donkitfs, and had never seen the
report of the former till his cwn had been deliver- •
ed, so that it was clear a pretty fair calculation_
might be made. of the total army of Sachet in Va-
lencia: The next source by which this calcula-
tion would be- confirmed was a report of General
St. Cyr's found iu a port-folio of Joseph's, in
which it was stated; that Socket's army, indepen-
dent of sick, was 32,676. men. In taking the force
at '24,000 men, therefore, he (sit John Murray)
did riot think he shotild be accused of exaggeration.
In Catalonia the force under Gen.-De Caen, from
authority equally satisfactory, appeared to be
23,000, part of which was in garrison, but-13,000
men. of which were completely disposable.—
From- hence -it was clear that the united army
of Sachet and De. Caen-. formed a general total
of fifty-three thousand men. In corroboration of
this calculation, the gallant General read three
military memoirs of Spanish Generals, which,
added to his other .sources of intelligence, he pp.:-
prchended would be considered by the Court as a
fair foundation upon which to form. his judgment
of the force which he had to oppose. it was clear
too, that the army was, while at 'Tarragona, is the
very centre of the enemy. They were threatened
on the flank by the Catalonian army, and in the
front by the army of Arragon, withont mention-
ing the garrison of Tarragona itself-7a circum-
stance which, he truSted, would convince the
Court and the public that he was- not so culpable
as the charge of Admiral Hallowell had boldly
stated. .

Sir John Murray next laid before the Court the
intelligence which he had
,received at the impor-
tant crisis which formed the subject of inquiry.
Some papers, on which his -judgment had been
formed,,were lost, but. others he had preserved.
These consisted of dispatches from General Manso,
the Spanish General, and were. dated' at different'
hours °Nth e 11th 'of June, 1813. Their contents
went to state that the enemy were advancing to
Villa Franca, ten thdusand men strong, with ten
guns and two howitzers, to which information
were added reports which he had himself received,
of from two to three thousand men. And On the
12th he received a letter from the same Officer;
stating the enemy to have arrived at Villa Franca,
and on the back of the letter was a memorandum
front general Whittingham, announcing that they
had actually advanced to Vandrell.. With these
circumstances in his knowledge, it was for the
Court to say, whether he was not justified in the ff
measures he had taken. The gallant General now
adverted to the evidence produced by Admiral
Hallowell, in support of his statement, " that the
fire of the enemy consisted of but 5000 men)",
and asked, whether the vague information of
Spanish peasant, ill understood, and in all pro-
bability, a.
French spy, was to lie received
in preference to the judicious intelligence ob-
tained front General Manso, confirmed by sub-
sequent -occurrences: He then continned to
comment on the other evidence produced by
Admiral Hallowek'and contrasted it with such
facts and opinions as he ' intended to produce
hereafter in his defence. He also account-
ed for what was called a breach of promise
to Colonel Williatrison, by the receipt of intelli-
gence of the actual March of the enemy, and also
the fact of General Capons being willing to arrest
the progress of their advance. He then entered
into details to spew, 'that the calculations of Ad-
miral Hallowell as to the numbers of-lhe.enemy
were incorrect, and those of himself accurate.—
From facts he was authorised to assume, that the
force which Suchtft brought from Valencia was
fully 9000 men,. and subsequently this force was -
augmented to 12,000 infantry, and 1000 cavalry.
On the lltb and 12th that force approximated so

The Duke of I.VELLINGTON left Paris for
Vienna, on Tuesday morning (the 24th) at five

I o'clock.

French Papers to the 2‘itli reached us this
morning. They contain various new vcis►ons of
territorial arrangerrients, which, 'they say, haVe
been agreed . upon at Vienna ; but as they are•
substantially similar to those we copied from the
same anthot ities yesterday, we have not thought
it necessary to load our columns with their repe7

tit ion. The Parisian Funds have advanced to
77 , or above 5 per cent. since they commenced a
gradual progress upwards above three mouths
ago. Some of these Journals speculate upon the
actual signature of Preliminaries of Peace at
'Vienna.

It appeari that the friends of the legal Sovereign
of Naples-are acquiring strength and confidence
from the rumours afloat respecting the instability
of the. Murat dynasty—Success attend Lthem.—
The following are extracts from the French. Pa-

pers
NAVISf.;, Jas. 6.—Reports (the circulation of which our
Government have not been able to prevent) re•specting• the
uncertainty of the Congress upon the fate of Murat, have
revived the hopes of the partizans of our ancient Sovereign.
They are very active, and their zeal every day increases the
number of the partizans of Ferdinand. The improbability
of Mnrat's remaining on the Throne of Naples, induces a
great nanther of his partizans to abandon him. The army
will not go soon desert him, as he has taken great pains to
obtain the attachment of the soldiers. It is 'said, Lowe7er,
that many of the troops in the Ofanhes are dperting. The
health of the King and the uncertain :tate of thopublit, opi-
nion, mill not permit him to leave Naples, as he intended.
VIENNA, JAN. 14.—The Cotifercm,:ts are now frequent
amon; the Great Powers, and, it is generally thought that the
Conferences will terminate

17.—The Military Contributions of this
country to Au,tria and lhussiaa.re now paid, and ant Reve-
nues may be elnployed in fort.ifying our Frontiers and to
augtueut our kany,
ECNDS.

5 per Ofnts
Bank Actto,is

.... 771. 75c.
11651.

Hamburgh and Frankfort Papers, have also
reached us this morning, but 'contain nothing of
importance. There is an angry remonstrance
frotn Copenhagen, becatoe a German Newspaper,
in speaking of his Confirmation, called the Son

of GUSTAVUS 1V.." Prince of SwEDEN'!".th

our opinion, , BERNADOTTE might. have let that
circumstance pass. The King of WIRTENBERG,
1 is represepted, as so entirely Austrian in,his po-
litics, as to have lett a Carte Blanche with the
Emperor FRANCIS, to sign any' Treaty in his
name: 'rhe principal Extracts follow :
FlnNovca, JAN. 12.—The fifteen battalions of the Land-
wthr which arc still in this Kingdom have received sudden
orders to make their numbers complete. The young men
bound to military service will draw lots,un the 16th to com-
plete the battalion in gam ison here. This battalion, it is said,
I. will immediately march to Brabant, and be replaced here by
the-battalion of Uetzen. The Officers of the Duke of Cunt,
berlaud's Hussars have likewise received • orders to procure
themselves the number of horses necessary for that service'.
VIENNA, J.N. 14.—One Court Gazette contains an firfitAC

relative to Tunis and its late Bey Sidi linitida. Pacha. It
stares that Tanis can army in case of need, 40,000 men) but_
the marine consists of only nine chebecs, and tifteezi.'gtin-
boats, ill armed and equipped.
The folloiving anecdote circulates here :—When,the Kin;

of Wirtemberg paid his farewell visit to the Emperor, the
latter expressed his regret that the King- would fact stop till
the end of the Congress. The King pleaded
.the necessity of
his presence at home, and promised to leave. a plenipoten-
tiary with whom the Emperor would certainly be satisfied.—
BeinKasked who it was, his Majesty laid on the table a blank..
sheet of .paper, which he signed with hi name, whic.a he pre,
sented to the Emperor saying, nis Majesty ❑eed only write
on this paper what he pleased, as the King agreed before him.
to every thing.

CorESHAGE‘N, JAN. 7.—Four hundred and thirty-five ships
passed the Sound in December; Elsineur Roads arc now clear
of ships, and the navigation seems to be over for this season.

Having inserted the Charges againsi. Sir Jon.
Mujui at length in Tag St/I', we were in
„ins,-

tice hotted to devote cur columns impartially to
his 'Defence, which we trust will be an ap,,h,gy
for this day omitting so mapy, of our customary
articles, to make room for the-Report from Win-
chester:

A Dinner Meeting of the Southwark Reformists
took place yesterday, on a project for getting" the
Brother of the Piccadilly Baronet to stand for the
Borough. Both Sir. FRANCIS and Mr. JONES
BURDETT were present, and the redoubted- Major
CA RTWE GDT was 'also theie. They all made
long speeches in answer to some of their fol-
lowers who drank their healths, intimated how
prond'aud happy a thiiig it would be for Southend:
to be represented something like Westminster, and
hinted -that Mr. JONES BURDETT was the veil
man for their purpose. This budding Patriot,
however, affected coyness,—he thought his merits
entitled him to be returned free of expence,—he
dreamt- of Committees of Management, and Sub-
and bamboozling High Bailiffs &c.
out of the ,expence of Hustings, and he modestly
stated that if the populous .Borough of Southwark
deemed him deserving of being made first puppet
in such au exhibition, he would endeavour to sus-
tain the unmatched glories of his family name. Sir
FRANCIS pledged himself to the same effect, and as
he did not as in Miss SCOTTS'.CaSC, give his bond
for the performance of the undertaking, it is not
improbable but he might have redeemed his ,
pledge. Even
.this Meeting, however, did not
relish the plan, -and so the bubble burst ; and
. :lONES.BYRDETT and Mr. BROUGHAM, are fit to,
read the fable of the Sour Grapes to each other.

SMITH, one of his .Majesty's Messengers,
sailed yesterday morning for Calais, charged ttial
dispatches for Vienna.

The Amerian Papers, contain a, report of Mr.
DALL:,,s, the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer
to a totter from a Committee of the House of
Representatives, requesting his opinion as -to the
effect which a comiderable _issue of Tleasurf
Notes, with the quality of being receivable in sub-
scriptions to a National Bank, would have upon the
credit of th!. Government ; and particularly qua
the :prospect of a Loan for. 1815, and as to.the
practicability of getting forty-four millions 'of'
Treasury Notes (forming, with six, millions of
specie, the capital for a National. Bank), into' eir- ,
dilation without depreciation. In reply, after
detailing the entbarrased state of. the Treasury,
he states himself to be 'of opinion, that a roust-
derable issue of•Treasiwy Notes, with the. quality
of 'being receivable in subscriptions to a iNiti'imiza
Bank, would ;have an:injurious effect upon the
credit of the Government? and also upon the.pros" ;
!sects of a Loan for 1815 ; because it would col'',
fer, gratutitonsly, an advantage upon a" class
new creflitais, over the present creditors of tiyr
ioverfinient, stranding on a I,,o',ipg of at 10',
equal merit. Because. it•sVould -excite gent,r..1,1,15
!Satisfaction among the present.holders of the pub" •
,
lie debt, and 'geliCrill distrust among the capita'
lists, who ivere accustomed to advance the moueY
to the. Government Because :a quality ofsubsci•ih-
ing the National Batik attached 0) 'freasury Note!,
exclusively, would tend to depreciate the value err
all public debt not possessing that quality ; 'ans
whatever depreciates the vaine of the
.public
in this way, lutist necessarily impair the poblic
credit. tie then.goes on to express his Opinias
that would he extremely difficidt, if-not iinpi•ac-
ticable, to get forty-fonr millions of Treasury
Notes into circulation, either with or '...ithout
preciat'ion.
Mi.. :STEPHEN KEMIII.F., took a final leave of-tlie
Newcastle Theatre on the--20th instant, in the cll.
racier of Sir "balmy Absolute, in 'the e:miedY 0
The Rivals.
•

We are happy to learn, that the 'inhuman mole
ster; who"murdered the poor old cvoman at tit°
toll*-bar-house, near Tideswell, has been appfe4
headed and committed to Derby gaol. 'the fellO's''
it is said,'has confessed the Mirrid deed.
Fine.,--An alarming fire broke out about Pit'
o'clock this murning at the. house of Lady i";
STIWTHER, in Conduit-street, which burnt
such furious rapiditNy that in less tinAr an hat'
the whole of the premises were destroyed/
The furniture was very valuable.' The early ho°r '
at which the fire was discovered threate.ned deg
struction to part of family, if not the %vhL)l,e;
as they were all in a .state of repose, and as tly,
flames were so rapid in their course. The fe,oo'
servints for some time were in such a state of o°cl'
sternation that. they seemed to he stunned
fear,. and could hardly be- induced to move 10:1;
the spot. We haveliowever the pleasure to a‘l%;
that no .lives were lost, nor do we hear that
person suffered any material is jury.
JANUARY 27, 1815.—N0 261, drawn this (14
a Prize of- Twenty Thousand PoundS, and as to
First Drawn Prize. above 251. farther entitleare
-Twenty Thousand Pounds more, makiint- alto'o.s
then a Prize of, Thousand Founds.! ‘``l,l
sold .in one Half, one Quarter, one Eighth,
two Sixteeuths, by MARTIN arid Co. No. 8, C''rte
at which truly lucky OThee • the fortutl,9e
hOlders-Inay receive their PI ire-money on "fie.
maid. • This is the most extraordinary circoto
stantein the annals of 'Lotteries, there beiog
other instance ..of a Twenty Thousand fatlinb
to a fixed capital of the same amonh_s/

,
BIRTH.
On Thursday evening last, at Gaddesden-place, MO.
icy, of a son and beii. .

. . .
• ' ED.
-On Sunday morning last,Dl William Leigh, Esq. of Of
Hall, near Liverpool, in the Gist year of his age. pee
_ .On Thursday last, It his house in diarlesrstrect,Grosgef pli
square, Sir William SkeffingtOn, Bart. is
,the 73d year ° '
10
age. ' . . •
The saint; morning, at bis house, Wandsworth, Surrel'
the 40th year of-his age, Thomas Barwis, Esq. _. '
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