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JANUARY 28, 1815.

this Honourable_ Court, whether this has been
the casein the present instance, and whether t!ie.
viblence• of the attacks upon me has been the me:
-result of • popular „resentment, :sod the, -siope
consequence of honest, tho Ugh misgoidea, disap-
probation,
He intreated them to recall to their ,eaollection
-the succession of abusive paragraphs wits! whieta .
-the-public priots had teemed, in Which exaggera4
eel accounts of the -arnty under his connts-and, had
been ungenerously contrasted, with mutilated
statements of that of-the enemy and his positions,
and in which,
,motives had been assigned for his
conduct, with theasole "object of prejudging his
cause, arid influencing the worst passions of the Bri-
tish people against bird. This 'unmanly coarse was
pursued down to the Period when the hour of trial
was fixed ; and not satisfied with attacking his repu-
tation as anOfficer,his feelings as a in{n were wound-
ed-by ungenerous observations upon a departed' re-
lative. To these ungenerous attacks he never had
'condescended to give an answer ; and he noticed
them merely to shew the arts practised by his ene-
mies, to give strength to popular disappointment,
and prematurely to influence the decision of the
British public. But though he was silent towards
his anony.amons accusers, he etudd not pursue the
same. course with regard to the conduct of his
avowed accuser, Admiral Hallowell, because- to his
letter be owed not only all the illiberal abuse with
which he had been assailed, and his suspension
from Military command, but the necessity of jus-
tifyinghis meatuses- in, the face of a public tribu-
nal. Fie alluded to the public dispatch, address-
ed by Admiral Hallowell- to Sir Edward Pellew
copy of which was at the same-time forwarded to
his Majesty's -Government), containing a direct.
attack on his military reputation, and not only
condo-losing the past, but condemning also in ad-
vance every Military measure which he might al-
l' terwards• plan or execute. In this dispatch he
is was found guilty before being judged, and con-
I' deemed befOre being heard, and held up 'to his So-
,.
veyeign and country as having degraded the Bri-
tisb army. Of the contents of this letter he was
ignorant till some months after it was written,
. When it was too late to counteract its effects. He
- cools! not have suspected the transmission of such a
letter, for preitious to forwarding his own of the
same date (the 14th of June), 17e,yead it to Ad--
miral Fiallotrell, and distinctly asked him, if
there were any !admits in it incorrectly stated, or a
inavhich healiffered from him in opinion. Admiral
• Hallowell answered, that the only thing in which. •
THE DEFENCE.
. be differed •with him was, as to the possibility of
floweret,: oppressive, he said, the situation of bringing off the gnat, a differetace whiCh he
stn Offices osdisil on, after a long ceiree.r of service, (Gen: M.) had already distinctly stated. This
to #llStVe!' ‘l.os-Oi`O'nS :is painfol to his feeiines, cos-leers:aim) 'paSsed on ,imoaed tln Malta on the
ioo ea. renotation, tiorq:7:-- • morning. of the 14th of J one when they_ were-
tulated hiPeasif toost aineel-ely that he was at aiime ;• but this woulaThe an adaltional reason
length permitted to appear before the Court.-- with Admiral H. for recalling the circumstance
Amidst the clamour from popular disappohltment, to his recollection. it would be useless- to point
and every species of misrepresentation and abuSe out the difference between the two documents iii.
invented by private animosity, or originating ism i question ; nothing could be more opposite ; and
ignorance of facts, lie knew not what could haver yet when the ink was scarcely dry on his (Gen,
supported him, -but the prospect of at leneth.pre- M.'s) dispatch, did the Rear-Admiral declare that
seining himself' before the Court, and the Imow- he'perfectlV coincided with him as to facts, and
ledge that his cause ‘rOuld he heard by a tribunal only differed with him as to the consequences
of Officers, whose eaperience.would enable them which ought to have immediately followed. In
to judge, and whose honoueable.lives were a gua- - the temper of mind- in 'which the Admiral' then
ranter to the worlil. and to himself, that that judg- was, he did-not look for the frankness of former
ment would'be given which a conscientious dis- cordiality, but something should have whispered
charge of public duty should dictate. -It Was this, to his mind that a more candid line of conduct
and the consciousness of haring discharged his might not have. prejudiced his cause ; for. on the
duty to the -utmost of 'his ability in the -service-cif 22d of July, sounetaing like the communication
his comitis, that had supported hint aaaiust a title " was made by him (Gen. M.) to the Admiral, to,
of prejudice, he had almost said persecution suit- which he had called as a proof his candour in the
ilicieut to overwhelm the strongest mind, and had opening tits the third charge. ,•But this was thirty-
enabled him to appear before them -with firmness seven days after the dispatch was written, when
:sind confideoee: i he knew that long- before it must-have reached its
If any thing could add to the satisfactibn with destination, -and produced its desired effect; and
which he hailed the. long- wisheil-fq opportunity at' a mornent too when he was even intimating his
alienated him for exnianting his conduct, it was regret that General Murray should seem to raise
the contemplation of the honourable men by may personal feeling in a point where public dtity
whom he was to he tried, and the conviction that was alone concerned. Even this scanty and verbal
rank mid talemit and experience had been cool= communication was the effect of accident. Very
binedto admiuister justice, to speak peace to the unexpectedly he touched at Vimeros, where tiro '
feelings -of the British army, amid carry conviction , Admiral awl army then was,- on his passage to
to the minds of the lit itish people. For the selec- Sicily, and after he was actually in the boat to .
toil and formation Of this Court, most devotedly depart, and whon the Admiral saw that he had no.
did
Sovereign. he offer humble tribute of gratitude to longer the power of wa'iting home, 'we requested
lis With these feelings, he would ilia sto speak to him (General .Murray), and . merely
dwell on, the length of time whit h had elapsed told him that he had written to England, strongly,
since a public trial was determined on ; nor would very strongly indeed, respecting the -Tarragona,
he advert to the peculiar hardship of delay at a Expedition. Little was he led to conceive that
period when popular clamour gained fresh strength the Admiral had controverted facts which lie had'
every hoar, from the determinat iod.of his Majesty's
s. to subject his conduct-to public inquiry. of
'.-previously admitted, or- been the author of charges
Minister
such a heavy nature against him. lie was
Butt there were bard,liips that would naturally i even taught to believe, that however strongly the
occur to the Court, which though unavoidable, Admiral might have written, General Morray's
could not but be felt and lamented by the , i share of the censure would not he great ; tor the
dual who suffered from them. Buf was this all that i Admiral distinctly told him, that he was not the -
he had to complain of, -it would never give birth person whom lie blamed ; and that 'the mis 'crrt one,
to lasting uneasiness. Unfortunately, however, of the army could no further be attributed to •
it was combined with other circumstances which- him, than 'in listening. to the ade'ice of- those
.._
had affected him most. deeply, and on which, with who, by their counsel and information„,i'
n l
their permission, lie, would dwell more atlarge. sought-to mislead him. And yet GaosaaralMurray
He alluded to the cruel manner in which the poim was then almost the only paseson in that at-my
lie clamour had been raised, fomeined, and in- • ignorant of the aspersions against its Conunander s
creased by misrepresentations, founded on Anis- for a publicity was giveot to the whole proceeding
statements or inrliciduals, whose high rank and by a Naval- Officer !allying been dispatched with a
public situation had given- weight to their asset-. copy of this Letter to the Duke of Wellington and
tiosn, had carried premature convictiOn to the Pub-•' the Achdiralty,• as measuac unprecedented in the
lie mind. i annals of military operations. Every newspaper
The clamour, Sir, continued General Murray, • of the country was in possession of it, iumnie-
of a free people ardent for honour. and ImPatieut diately on its reaching Engiand a:anti it was com.
ordisappointnient, may he violent, but it, is not mewed on. with alt the asperity which naturally
lasting;. The British nation, more particdatly, arose from the countenance of such high autls-
has been {ler:l:sunned to unite "generosity With en- ritvgiven to the public disappointment.
thusiasm, and althongh the first burst of porlar it was not the boast of honest feeling, or the
feeling in cases of failure of militay eapeditions, , delusion of popular enthusiasm, of which he coma-
lots been always
,marked by the turnolt of diSao- plained, butt of the efforts which were used, both
probation, yet has time spirit of prejudice Usually ' io conversation and by-correspondence, to keep
subsided with the ferment of disappointment, and , alive the flame of public disappointwents.—•
yielded to thin moderated feelings of fair and im- fie was grateful, however, that 'the day had al.,
partial inquiry. I appeal to every Member of rived, which afforded him au opporteinity of iustia

COURT.MARTIAL,ON SI JOHN M URRA Y,

WINC.IIEiTER—SEVENTII DAY, FainAv, .TAN. 27.

The Court this day at ten O'clock, agree-
ably to the adjournment. "After the nlones of the
different Members had been Called over ; .•
Mr. LiUIPENT Wished' to state to the Court,
that as it hsd been agreed that AdmiraWalloweil
should be,,allow,rd to.make oath tti such parts of
his stateitient as came within his' own personal
knowltilge., lest any doubt shOidd remain as to
what parts of the.mtatement be had sworn, on his
sitgestion the Admiral had marked all such parts
with his own hand. The part marked had
been afterwatds shewn to Gen. Murray.
The President asked Admiral -Hallowell if the
Court were to understand, that he had made oath
to ever*); parapraph marked in the manner just.
),
mentionet

The At answered in the aflittnative.
General :MURRAY then rose and stated to the
'Court, tft4t as the papers, which he had drawn up
iii hi? defeuce.were of great length, he wished-the
Court wo,fld 'allow him to 'be assisted in reading
by some Ins friends.- • .
Mr. LARPL,N-r observed, that it was the usual
practice that the prisoner should--read his own de-
fence, that it should be read for him by the
Jude ."tivocare.
General Murrzy said he Would not have .etsitn-
ed this indulgence, were not the papers, of unusual
length.
Mr. LAP.PENT said, it had been laid dOwn in the
last ease;;•that of Colonel Quentin, that if the
prisoner aid not read Ilk own defence, it shonld
be read b' the Judge Advocate. He hoped, how-
ever, that the General would be able to read it
all himself.

General Linnets said lie reeollectM instances
when the Prisoner's friend 4 into been allowed to
assist hitn in reading. At Ge.tieral -Whitelocke's
trial two or three of his friends read forhim,
having first read as much as lie (Nil& himself.
The Pito:sine. NT, alter collecting the senthrrents
of the Court, stated it to he their 'un!!erstanding,
dig though it was not allowable for Counsel to
read the defence of a prisoner, he inight be assist-
ed in reading by his friemki. •
Major GUTLIFF, 011;e of the Gentlemen has
assit.ted (I.neral Mu ORAY throughout the trial,
then hegiin to'reai

higcharacter against the aspersions by which
it had. been assailed. He had said that it was to
Rear-Admiral Hallowell that he owed all the pre-
judict2 which had been excited against him, and
b.., felt warranted in making this observation, for

as far as his Majesty's Government was concern-
ed, he had it from the- Secretary of State himself,
his conduct was unimpeached. Lord Bathurst,
however, .thought. that be (Sir John• .ISlurrai)
would be most anxious to have the circumstances
adv-erted to by Admiral Hallowell, minutely- ex=
amitied, and hence did he encourage •the proceed,
ing which had taken place. The Judge Advocate,
in his statement, had distinctly confirmed this re-
mark, by the causes which he had assigned for the
delay of the trial, and the history of .the transac-
tion which he gave. The Court would recall to
their recollection, that in this statement, it appear-
ed that the first step taken by-the puke of Wel-
lington was to call for further informationf, hut
before this could be.obtainedi- he received the.

commands of Government to frame charges.
Here Sir John Murray read that part of the
Judge • Advocate's speech to • which he referred,
from which it • appeared that in consequence of
the publicity given.to Admiral Hallowell's com-
ments in England, a- Court Martial was consider •
ed as a more preferable course than a Court of
-Inquiry, or any other•prooceedirn which the Duke
of Wellington, from his view of the subject might
have thought proper. -It was alSo intimated, that
in -all -probability such a course would be most
congeoial to the feelings of -Sir John Murray.
After this he apprehended he would not be ac-
cused of using harsh terms, in ascribing his pre-
sent situation rather to the clamour excited by his
Prosecutor, than to may feeling of disapplobation
upon the part of his Majesty's Ministers.
The Duke of Wellington, upon receiving the
charges in question, in dischargeof his duty, cor-
rected them and sent them back to England; and
he (Sfr John) felt.Limself warranted in saying, in
discharge of his duty, for in a cdnimuoication from
his Grace, he distinctly stated that, hut for the Ad-
mirals letter and the orders of Govettnnent, be
simotild not have thought of makiug (Sit John's)
conduct the subject of puhtie inquiry.—lt was
smut then by his Majesty's Government—it was not
by the Duke of Wellington's orders, that he was
brought to trial for failure and. disobedience of
ossiersbut by Admiral Hallowell; ignorant of
the plans of the campaign, ignorant of the in-
structions under which he was acting, and, with all
respect fdr his character in his own profession, ill
calculated to form a sound judgment upon mili-
tary points. He had at all times mentioned the
name of Admiral Hallowell in his dispatches with
consideration, and even now, where he had oc-
casion to notice it, he would do so without ani-
mosity or resentment. He had only to lament
that Admiral Hallowell, both in his letter and
his subsequent proceedings, had not manifested a
similar moderation.
He was aware that, in point of fact, the mo-
tives by which his accuser was. actuated, would
neither, condemn nor acquit hint, }et he would ask
whether the dispatch of Admiral Hallowell was
written with coolness and without passion 1 Ifit
betrayed no symptom of personal animosity—it it
breathed on".' zeal in his country's service, antl.
was only a statement of facts for the guidance of
hiS Majesty's- Government at. home, it was natu-
rally entitled to every attention ; but when the
very eontfary was the case, the Court would no
dOubt view it with a jealous eye, and admit its as-
sertions with caution. " Deeming it," said Ad-
miral Hallowell, ". of time greutest iniportauce that
LordWellingtou should be made early and certainly
acquainted- with these, deplorable proceedings, I
have sent Captain Carroll' in the Hyacinth, to land
at Alienist, and make his way across the country
to his Lordship's head-quarters." Was it to make
his Lordship early 'acquainted that lie sent a Naval
Officer, when a courier would no doubt have )Cl'
formed the task someer ? Was it to give the Duke
of Wellington- early and certain intelligence that a
copy of this. dispatch was sent home without pass-
ing through the hands of Sir who was
the Rear-Admiral's commanding Officer.! No, it
was to Make the whole circumstances more pub-
lic, and to excite illiberally and irregularlya strong
Fejt:thee against him (Sir J. Murray). - lie would
ask who had constituted Admiral Hallowell a
judge .of the necessity of apprising time Duke of
Wellington of the situation of the army ? Was be
• the person that was to do so, admitting that the
reressity existed ? Could the Admiral take upon
himself to say, that the Duke of Wellington had
not foreseen the situation in which the army
might be placed, and had not given time reqoisite
makes to meet such an emergency ? The true mo-
tives of his conduct, however, were too evident
to be mistaken, and the Court, as well as the
public at large, would no doubt put upon them
the proper. construction. But if Admiral Hallo-
well had not • been, actuated by illiberal feelings,
why did he attempt to conceal the n hole from the
person whose interests and whose honour was so
deeply implicated
Tha di6patch of the Hyacinth, be (Sir John
Murray) was led to believe, was a sudden deter-
mination on the 'morniogs of the 14th bat he
would be enabled: to prove, by incontrovertible
evidence, that Admiral Hallowell'i ecsolution, not
only to send this ship to Alicaot,• but to send
)mcone to the Duke of Welliugton a copy of his
to Sir Edward Vellew„Was formed on the
evening of!4e. l2th. This he would prove by the
evidence of an. Oilieser who was informed of it by
the Admiral himself, ii terms such as would no
(Lnibt be considered by am Court conclusive as to
the spirit by which his proseentor was influenced.
It might peshapa be urged as an esseuse for Ad-
miral Hallowell, tbat every atosry feeling was in-.
fluenced by .a little circle he had long assembled'
abont.him, who looked up to him and his opi7
nions as the standard rules of military perfection.
They had long been accustomed to bow to his de7
ckions ; and on this occasion , they appeared to
Lave heightened his resentment.by. the re-echo of
oivn mis-statcuments, which the. blindness of
their ch or their ignorance of passing
• events, prevented them front being able to detect.-
Admiral Hallowell hall repeatediy put in his
clahn to tin admission of the candour and fairness
by which his proceedings on this occasion had
been characterized. Those, dhowever, who' Were
noivaaequainted with the studied concealment ex-
hint throughout the transaction, would

be heti able to judge how far that claim was

serving of attention.
. On the dispatch of Admiral Hallowell itself, it:
was scarce neeevary to state that it merited re-
probatioo: Nil paper, tinder 'the .naMe of -an
official doeimietit, was ever transmitted to G:o-.
.vernment,
,which was tikrre caleal;ted to deceise
his Al jt-stt's Ministers, and to influence the minds
Of the peOple. • The evidence which he would
submit,, however, would hest disprove the asser-,
tious of the Admiral. Ile, would not, therefore,
at this moment, attempt to.-_confitte. the, assertion
of Admiral Hallowell, that i here never was ground
to believe, that the enemy's columns, advancing
front Barcelona, exceeded five thotrsand men.--
In the third charge be would prove directly the
'reverse. He would now only content himself with
drawing the attention of the Court to the nature
of the renialk by which it was intended to be un-
derstood, .that neither Admiral •Hallowol, the
General in command, nor, any other Officer what-
ever, had any information that a colotuo of greater
strew:: h was approaching. It was of plll,Ntlellet.!
to Admiral Hallowell to establish. the weakness of
thk column, because he, endeavoured, throughout
the whole of his dispatch, to prove, that it was
to the approach ~tif this column alone, the pro-
Ceedings, which be described, were attributable.
It was true the Admiral had not rested this
mportant point on Ails, own assertion ; he pro-
cured a subsequent. • prOof of these numbers.
And what way the nature of this proof % ;" Capt.
Stoddart saw a peasant at Torre Deinbara, of
whose character he had no knowledge, whO told
hint two things—the one that the enemy's foree
consisted only of 5000 men and five gratis ; the
other, that he. had quitted the enemy's camp at
Villa -Franca, at half past seven o'clock on the
morning of the 13th, when they had no appear-
ance of advaneing.". The Admiral had said that
he had other proofs of this fact, bur what had he.
produced Captain Bowen, it was true, said he
had received the. tattle information; but it appear-
ed that it was derived 'from the, same source.--
There was no proof, however, that he had re-.
ported the c':rcuinstance to the Admiral, when the
dispatch in qnestion was written. A letter from
Col. Lander, had, indeed, been snbwitted, and, as
far as numbers went, this might be good ; but it
could form no ground for the Admiral's assertion,
as it had not reached him till the Hyacinth was
dispatched. He should have conceived tha the
good sense of Admiral Hallowell would have in-
, dated him to pause before he embodied so vague
a, report, in'the fo-nt of a public dispatch; but
when, in opposition to probability, as %well as to
communication absolutely made to him from Lead-
quarters, his conduct becOmes indeed unaccount-
able. The Rear-Admiral was not content with re-
porting once to the world that the British army
had fled to their ships from 5000 net, but report-
ed twice, and twice did he state, that the gariison
of Tarragona consisted of but from 12 to 15;000
men. lie (Sir John) would, however, call an
Officer before the Court, who would state, that
from those who quitted the town.after he had ap-
peared before it, intelligence was obtained, that
the garrison consisted of 2000 men--and who
would prove that ,Sir «Viiliam Clinton himself
I had declared, that the calculation ought not to
he founded. upon weaker numbers. The Admiral,
however, wished it to be believed that the garrison
was inSuffiently defended, and that, consequently,
it was in his (Sir J's) power ; whether the garri-
son was sufficient for a long and vigorous defence
or not, was a matter of •no importance. It was
certainly of sufficient strength to sustain an at-
tack of one day, for no longer were the batteries
open against the place. This, however, was a
point of little moment, and he would not have
noticed it but to spew the Admiral's perseverance
instating every thing which mi4ht tend to exas-
perate the public mind. Nothing had hen omit-
ted by hint which could attain this object, and in
his anxiety he could. not avoid an exaggeration of
our losses ; and as a proof. of his accuracy, even
• descended to describe the calibre of the guns. Tie
Admiral claimed merit for having corrected this
error, hut it was a just ground of complaint that
he had made such statements with cool and laud*-
able inquiry.
The principal feature of the Admiral's dispatch
was, that ,the Allied Army had embarked solely,
and had abandoned their artillery, solely on ac-
count of the distant approach of 5000 men. That
such was the impression Admiral Hallowell wished
to make on the Court, could no:: be, mistaken,
and tint the movements of Marshal Su...itet had
no share in deciding the re-embarkation. The
approach of that Officer was never hinted fit till
the scene of Tarragona was closed, and the ope-
ration at Col de Balaguer commenced. The
Marshal's name was never mentioned, and
throughout all calculations of his force was stu-
diously avoided. He (Sir John Murray) would
affirm in the Admiral's presence, however, that
he knew that it was the combined movements of the
two columns advancing an both flanks, (and not
the single and unsupported advance of General tie
Caen), which induced him to embark the Army.
AdMiral Hallowell knew that he had decided upon
attacking this latter column, which he stated at
5,000 men, and he knew, for he (Sir John) told
him so hims-elf on the night of the Iltb, when
,Jic first levued it, that the rapid approach of Mar-
shal Suchet .would not only prevent him from
carrying the plan into effect, but that it had de-
cided him to raise the siege, and to embark the
troops. Could any man, atteithis statement, call
the report which he 'made fair' and.ttl)rejLtutllitia
cnetril
If," said Sir John Murray, ~ the ‘
chose to report on the subject at all, he was
bOund, if not in- justice to me, at least in the faith-
ful eNecution of the duty he had! prescribed to
himself, to mention every cause : but, above all,
the real cause of the events upon 'which he thowtht
himself called upon to address his Majesty's ilk
nisters. The Admiral could not have forgotten,
on the morning of the 14th, the conversation I
had ,with him, to this very point, on the evening
of the 11th, and yet I can in no other way account
for the omission. But if he was ignorant of the
approach of Marshal Sachet, of what value, I
ask, is his advice or his opinion ?"'
Supposing an enemy only of 5000, men near the
BrhiSh forces, Admiral Hallowell might, if he
had been asked, recommend that the British
troops should not he embarked ; hut had lie
known that 20,500 teen, with smaller divisions in

their rear, wcrc approachiorz, world his councils
have heel' the same ? Att+l yet, admitting that he
(lift not recollect the conversation on the Ilth, he
Icrie*on.:the evening of the 13th that our trooris
•=bacl teerLengaged with th&l,Marsbars
whole of that day in the plain of .Tarriigona,
what was still more.remarkAble, th 4 tune
was composing his imperfe'efrlispatch, under his.
very eye, the troops divinnbarked;• frorri his own
ship, during the-night, were engagell with-the-
advance of the'cinny. Of two things, then, one
must be true—either Admiral Hallowell was_
norant of the real situation of the. army., or he did
know it. If he rlid, his opinions .cOuld, be con-,

• , .
sidered of little value. •
The Admiral had seen from his deck 'the enemy
within 'gun-Shot, off the.. beach on "One side, and.
he. heard the artillery of Vort Phillipe, on the
other. Under these circumstances, of which Ad-
miral Hallowell could not plead generously, it
would have become him to have stated entirely,
and not partially, the gronnds upon which his
(Sir J. iThirray's) proceedings were founded.
In another part of Attniiral Hallowell's state-
ment, he asserted that' he had promised to embark
the whole of the guns, provide€l he Wt-iSaltowed
until night. Of this offer, I have no.knowledge
or recollection ; but; even if I had,, I should have
no hesitation in saying, bat it was utterly impos-
sible for him to have performed such a)) engage-,

Brent. •
[liere_a letter from Admiral Hallowell; to Sir
John Murray, was read upon the above subject.]
It contain:l,- hoWever, Only advice as to the
disposition of the, troops to cover the embarkation,
and did not contain any offer to carry off the guns.
The wildness 'of the advice contained in this let-
ter, he (Sir J.ilm-ray). said; he should prove in
his defence to the third. charge.

The gallant,ccifel:al went on to -state atiextra-
ordinary instance:of hiterferenee upon the. part or
Admiral Hallowell, in the arras events of the
army. It consisted- in-the Admiral, instead of, as
he was bound to do, facilitating the junction of
the Quarter;.Master-General,. .with the General
Comnianding in Chief,
.having actually, by signal
repeated %vith a gun; ordered the Bristol to anchor
.
at a great. distance from the landing-plac& at the
Col, de Balaguer, With no .other view, asi.he (Sir
John Murray). was expressly informed ; and; as he.
could prove, from his own acknowledgment, than.
to prevent the Quarter-Master-General repairing
to head-quarters. " Well, indeed," said Sir J.
Murray, " predict misfortune, if he proposed by
this exertion of his authority, to deprive the army
of the services Of one, of its most active and intel-
ligent officers-, and to cripple the most important
of the departments by the absence of its chief.—
The fact is notorious, and I call iipon AdMiral
to assign any other reason for ordering
the Bristol to anchor On the 14th of June"--than
that of keeping 'General Donkin, at a distance
from head-quarters.''
Sir John MUrray next remarked, that the in-
fluence cultic) was ascribed to General
.Doultin,'
over *his councils, • by Admiral Hallowell, had
never. existed. He bad no hesitation in saying,
that in no one leading operation of the army under
his orders, had General Donkin been consulted,
till after his decision was formed ; and that in
many instances, and .particularly in the transae•.,
Lions which were under consideration, be pro-
ceeded in direct opposition to his opinion. He
stood alone on this occasion, and by his own re-
sponsibility was he content to stand-or fall. With
respect to the general character of 'indecision with
,which the Admiral had thought proper to accuse
him, he Should he silent. Thosetwho best knew;
him, would be best able to appreciate the value of
such a charge. •
He did give orders to suspend the embarkation
of the troops till the receipt of additional infor-
niation ;, and after directing that the stores and
ordnance should continue to be embarked, he rode
out towards the Col de Balaguer, on which road
he was aware that it was possihle the army might
he in motion. On his way back he receive4%,a
letter from General Copous, stating the enemy to
be in motion directly in, his front, on the road
from Villa Franca, and confirming the continued
advance in that direction. Not a moment was now
to be lost in embarking the troops, which lzecame au
act of paramount necessity. It was singular that the
suspension of
.his first intentions; in compliinent to
the Admiral himself, should.now be a groundof ac-
cusation against him. It was natural to yieldsome-
ehing to , the Admiral on an occasion where, his
hopes of bringing off the guns corresponded soca-
tirely with his(Gen.M.'s) own earnest wishes ; and
th:s consent was a proof of his desire to co-ope-
rate, as far as possible, with the Admiral, while
ids subsequent conduct on tl-t advance of the
French, was a proof of the military principles on
which be acted. This, however, forn-n4l no part
of the charges before the Court ; hut if he had
gone oat of his way in observing upon it, it was
to slim that he Cad no feeling on the subject
hich he was d'esirous of concealing. He be 7
lieved that he could easily answer the principal
contradictions charged against him ; and if he
could not, at this distance of time, answer some
others of trifling nature, he hoped lie would not
on that account be condemned. If the object lie
pursued was uniform, and the result corresponded
with it, any apparent-ineonSistency in the details,
must necessarily have arisen out of events beyond
his contrOul. The critical position of the armies
•under his command, and the nature of his instruc-
tions, wholly- occupied his mind. To receive and
understand reports, to distinguish between troth
and falsehood; to act on new contingencies every
hour in presence of a superior enemy,, and to
watch over the safety as well as the honour Uf the
army, was his,particidar province. lint wbat.was
Admiral Hallowell's,? Was it to make minutes
of the minutest parts of his proceedings. (tor this
diary was not a log), without knowing the events
which gave them birth, when he was little more
than a spectator of events, in which" his own ho-
nour was no way committed ? If the spirit which
influenced Admiral Hallowell- was not evi:lent
on the very face of • this proceedint,,,,,-, and if
his letter to Lord - Bathurst was not an ad,
ditional proof 'of the- feeling which directed
it, then every deduction from came 'to effect
was. , an end. But it was not because the
Admiral hiniself conceived. - that lie (General
M.) %vas indecisive, that this accusation had
been brought .forward, but because his own coun-

sel wai rejected, and tbat of 2blai•)r-General Don-
kin's, as he thought, acted on in preference to
it. That this. was the eriw.e in the eyes of Ad-
miral Hallowell, be himself had almost told the
Court, when he mentioned that the guns were
spiked, and the carriages burned, notwithstand-
ing his opinion and advice to wait till night.
Pence, the violence exhibited by the Admiral:.
This was particularly galling to him, because he
• believed that Gen. Murray acted on the opinion of
the Quarter-iVaster-General, between whom and,
hiliiself there Was no great cordiality. 'ThiS circum-
stance gave rise to great inconvenience; but he
not have mentioned it, if it did not shrew the
difficulty 'of a Commander's situation, constantly
obliged to conciliate private feelings, and to
struggle with the misunderstandings of indivi-
duals, whose .cordial co-operation was
.so essential
to the interests'of -the service. Had AdMiral Hal-

lowell reflected one moment, he must have per!..
ceived that the intelligence of the enemy's ap-
proach, given to General Murray on the forenoon
of the 12th by General Donkin, su far from -
weighing with him on that occasion, would have
led him to pursue quite difierent measures.—
Having said thus much; he had no hesitation in
admitting, that he did not pretend to be of so
positive a disposition that his opinions or his
plans were never to be changed by any Coun-
sel, however -good. Admiral Hallowell waii
not, perhaps, aware, that the operations of an
army must depend on -the Movements of the ene-
my, and' the intelligence received ; and miserably
would it be conducted, were a blind, adherence to

any particular line of conduct to fortis the princi-
pal f-attire of the Commander's character. It
would be useleSS to bring- further proofs of the
Admiral's.dispbsition. Without advierting to the
.general tenor (Allis. conversation to every rank
that would listen to him, enough had been said
to prove how little reason there was to expect a
fair consideration' or impartial representation of
the cases from Admiral Hallowell on this oecasion.
The Adneir.al would wish the Court to .be per-
suaded that his dispatch was penned with all the
deliberation and impartiality which so grave a Sub-
ject required ; that, his mind was divested of
every personal feeling, and that he was merely
ankious to give an accurate and consistent
history of the events which then occurred. Why
then, be would ask, was there so much violence,
he - might say so much virulence in his dis-
-patch ) Why• was so dangerous a precedent, de-
structive of all harmony bet Ween the two services,
introduced—the sending to General Murray's •
Commanding Officer the copy of a eliminating dis-
patch, nominally addressed to his own Commander?
Why was all this done without General Murray's
knOwledge, and, -might almost say, published
to the officers under his (General Murray's) im-
mediate command ? H.c would admit the pro-
priety of reporting to Sir Edward Pellew the is-
sue of the expedition, and the share born by the
naval force in the service, and that it was like-
wise equally insaunbent on Admiral Hallowell,
from a regard to his own character, if he con-
ceived there was criminal neglect or misconduct
on the part of General Murray, to have preferred
charges against hint throUgh his Comthand-
iug -Officer,
.Sir Edward Pellew. This would ,
nave been at once regular and judicious, cote
,siStent with the rules of the service, and suffl
eient for all the ends of national justice. Hatt
he acted thus, he (General Murray) might have
lamented the blindness with which he had un-
taken the accusation, the preference which he bad
given to the weakest sources of information, and
the ignorance of the true purposes of the expedi--
tion which had led him. so far out of his depth ;
but he would have had to acknowledge that his.
conduct had been candid, and consistent with the
usages of theservice ; and however much these pro-
ceedings might have lessened the Admiral's claitU
to the character of a wise and prudent Comma..
der, yet he. (General M.) has been the first to ar .
piaud the fair and honourable manner of his pro'
ceeding. • In discussing this extraordinary doeu-s
went he requested the Court to observe, hoof
widely time Admiral had travelled frorn the exercise
or his duty in his representation. Other proofs.
'of personal hostility were not wanting. He should :
content himself with laying before the Court the
last act of the Admiral's hostility. • A very short
time after he had rejected the Admirals proffered
counsel of continuing the operations:at the. Col do .
Balaguer, time commencement of Which he' had so
earnestly deplored. He alluded to the signal
twade from the Malta by hiS orders, when Los.V.,
William Beotinck's vessel appeared in the offing-,,.
After inquiring whether his Lordship was co,
hoard, in the face of the fleet, in the presence of
the army still under General Murray's commands
time signal was made—" We are all delighted."-'
As an Admiral he was at liberty to make what
signals he might choose, but he left it to the
Court if this instance was not an unbecbthing:abuEo
of his authority,' and if it had not a strong ten-
dency to countenance discontent and clamour ill'
the army still under his command, and in which',
after the arrival of Lord Win. Bemitinck, he AP
continued to hold the second place.
FIRST CHARGE.
He now, came to the consideration of time
Charges. Two Proseent'ors bad appeared agaills
t
contending on principles in direct opP°;
sition to each other. The Judge Advacate 119'
felt this difficulty ; and had adduced no proofs:
except the documents nrigin'ally furnished to hips'
In his observations 'upon this evident inconsisii
teney, he Very truly stated that Atiniiral Hallowes,
might so conduct case as to make the charget
correspond with each other ; and that Genera.
Murray was open to animadversion for basin„
continued the siege too long, as well- as for tb •
precipitate manner of its abandonment.. This
lnl
consistency did not seem to be worthy of Adrilir"4
Hallowell's notice; for he had made no observationt
on the subject, and instead of co-operating %.vitif
the Judge Advocate, lie had contented hirnse,;,
with arm attempt to prove that no enemy was
In the first charge, he began to sin no the
—his crime was of course increasedam theiStoti}ii
to have continued on shore on the 9th, 1,
and 11th, must naturally have augmented t'st
sum of his offences, as the advance of the cue
rendered the danger more-pressing ; and yet, ch
the 12th, the reverse-of the picture was displAY,.e:,
and the Court were informed that the embriros,
tion was theirnot only precipitate, but uonece