The Sun.
London, England, 1815-02-03 00:00:00

Cross-e.zawined.

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Q. Were you ever present when the enemy was
attacked by the fire of •gtm-,lioats,near 'l-orre del
Bata, to see the effect k had upon-them I
never was. - • - • : , .

Q. Do you know that the enemy• were at Pe-
rillo on the I I th, or (lid you since, !earn • that ?
A. I qi.d not know it, nor do .1 ye.t know it ;
but I learn from the- public papers that lie was'
there on the I2th, since these proceedings .have
been going onc - .

General -PAGET—I think, for-good reasons,-the
latter part of the answer ought to- be taken down.
General S. F. WurritNcilt, MajOr-Getteral,
commanding a Spanish.division' in the'army'untkr
Sir John Murray—Witness eomitieted a branch of
the intelligence department regarding the French
army of Arragon, previous to Sir John Murray's
arriving in Catalonia ; iVitnesS"calcidatedfheErench
force in Arraghtriroathe hes., sources he cOuld.
obtain ; his information Wtis taken from persons
on whom be could From TortoSa to Tarra,
Bona, by the Col-de ilalaght?r,. the distan•ce is- 30
English miles. It might be•Mieched in about a
day and a half ; witness first unders,tood from Pe-
rillo, but from TM tOSa oVer the Col de Balaguer to
Tarrai;ona, the distance is. *abOut 48 miles, two
days march. The intelligence of raising • fhe.
siege could been conveyed by'` a Cata-
lan peasant, by the mountain road, from Tarra-
gona to Tor.tosa in' 'about twentv4ourhours.—
:11e.knew.-of several roads. irmo Villa Franca
to rariagona„ going, round by. Santa Cristitia ;
and thtre Is one be'side the Wain *road, but how

far practicaLle for srtillery= he lh not know.
There was nr, defensive position whatever on the
line of the Gaja to cover the _siege.; they might
he all turnek,w,ith- the, greatestease., The em—
barkation on the,l.2th..of June
.was, be thought,
conducted with -regularity.,-, and he saw no pail-
Gtneral De Uien had marebed by
Santa Cristina Reuss, and Suchet through the.
mountain road upon the same place, he conceived
they could have etferted their junction early"' on.
the morning of the-13th, 'and have' brought the
Allied Army then to - action, and_ any loss. must'
depend on • the •tirne -.it 'would .hare taken for the
embarkation. lie should not have thought it
advisable to have recommended the `;fighting an
action with the. French army under the walls of
Tarragona, which must have been the consequence
of deferring the embarkation to tire 13th.
- Cross-examinailoll.

Q. What, order,-. and by whom, and when de-
livered, did you receire.any order for the march of
_ _

your divisioil'on the 12th I received -the or-
der to be in. readiness to march, I think between.
eiglit and nine in the morning. It must- have been
• delivered by some of the 'Staff Officers. About
.twelve O'clock I thilik received an order to march
to the: beach, and when about.half the distance
I received a 'counter order to occupy the ground.
which- we. first -occupied- on the investment near'
the Oliva. • About• thsee•o'clock I received the:
final order-to march :down 'to the beach to be em-
barked.
Q: Did you on-the' 12th observe any thing• to
indicate .-the ap•proach Of' eitemy, except the
hurried movements 7. of- ,the Allied Army'?—A.-
received. no. information, after the • night of the
11 th of the movenieuts of-the enemy - . •
Q. Did you know that the enemy. had- 12;000
men at .Perillo on the-1 1 th,. or have you beard,that
since I was not acquainted with the arrival

of -the enemy at Perillo, but only of his arrival al
Tortosa ; 1 had an opportunity of aseertainingAt

since.

Q. Did you know any pass from Tortosa-,to.
Tarragona when SirJ..Murray was,at I.arrat.,crona,
excepting that by Fort. San Phillippe I was.
not acquaintedAvith -that part. of the:.cottntry-,4
bad heard of a,mountain .pass;:but,did not,know4
it from my own Observation..
Gi.,..D0.y0n think. the cncnly could have ,passed
a column along the, road f;'ornltcntlrili to Tztrra-
gona,, notwithstanding the .fire..Of gun-boats
A, A column must have sUfferieilsomploss;l36o
do not think suchlis' tO.Prevent.their advancing ;
and,
.4.t all events, they c9uld have adva,nceil'
the night.' - .
Q. Did Suchet. attempt.to attack our force
Balaguer, except by• skirtnisbing with our
patrols, even so late as Geu:
Mackenzie commanded the advanee, and. can thcre7
fore answer this better; 'We' had no skitinisbing
whatevel. where'l,was..
Q. Was the enetny.ever seen while.you_gas at
Balaguer ?—A. I did.no
Offit see them.
. .
Q. By stationing an ser at Villarranci and'
Arbos, might not correct intelligence_ lta.p' been
hourly received of the adVanc.of the enemy, on
the 12th of June on that • road ?—A. I shoUld.
think that mounted Officers bringing intelligence
must have gained some time on the march of an•
enemy, but on so good a road not exceeding two.
or, three, hours.

Gen. AucuNtwiy said, this was not an_answgr,
to the question..

The. Fitness added--.4lie time gained by relays
must have depended-.on their number ; the whole,
distance isninehours,_and.the whole time gained.
or _such a,distance could not be inure than the
half, that is, four hout's and a•half.
Q. The question is, Whether . hourly intelli-
gence might 'hate been ,reeeived ?—A. No
doubt you, might have received hourly intelligence.
BY THE CothtT.-z-Q, .From the intelligence you
'received, at svht.hour, and on :what.. dayLdid
chef reach
"Tortola,., and in what, force ? A.
From the intelligence I.riecOvett,, which was not
such as I. had been accustomed tO....receiVe 'in the
kingdom oeV3lencia. I,!.4arshal uchet's mrvanced
.guard entered YOrtosa, on the V 1),:,, and. Arar.:
sbal on the aith their force. was_stated to me to
be 900;49.
. • • •
Q have siatedc.that Sufp6sing Stichetand '
Dc Cacn to' be the one at Peril o, and the Other at
Villafraneaoti the llth and 12th, and by joining at
Reuss they might have attacked: the .Allied army
pct the 13th in the; morning ?—A. General De
Caen, had to march About 36 guiles and Suchet
about 32, to fOrni,tfien; junction,at.RensS.
Q. You hamstated,that iti.wOuld have required •
-3.6 hours to-march from Perillo to. Tat ra:gOita-, and'
nine hours froinVillatranea ; :how do you accountfor the difference" the distance from the one place
being .36 miles, and,from thepthe.r 32.nailes ?—.
A. I. take Tarragooa from Vilk-
franca, a day's march ; is 36 miles, I have.
stated, that it.•would be .a day and a half's march,
because. it could not be done.. in one daY, I have
stated the - fraction
.af ball a day. By
,the nine
hours Which. :I mentioned befOre as the 'distance
from Villatranca Tarragona, I meant the hours
of Alic country, orleagues. , 1 did; not Mean to say
that an army, could march 'nin,q.hours
,Q.. kkow, long would it take to march from Vil-
Jafrairea to heals,, by Santa Cristina, and from
tosa to that ?—A. Front Villafranca to
Reuss is 3G miles, and frOm.TortoSa,to lictigs, by
.-Oandillos, I should, jud„ge to fie about 44 titles.
. These
,are'merely the absolute distianceS, without
reference.-

. Q., IlpW far is it fromaeuss to.Tarragona ?
_,..About
Q,Do you think it would have "beeti. iiindent
for the enemy to attack the artily. at Tarragona,
,early in the morning of the 13th,• after a march
of 42 miles,:from the night of the -11th.or. the
morning of the.] 2th do not -think that it
would have been necessary for, Marshal Sachet to
have attacked immediately the allied force ; his
army being....in.,„_ptesence.. of the allied arMy,
cvonld, I should :conceive, have prevented them
from embarking then, and have reduced us to the
;necessity of fighting. •
flow long would it take for an army of
9000 men to march frOui Tortosa to Reuss, by
1.3011(010K HA. I should think they might march
it its 42 hours, coming without any kind of bag-
gage.
Q. And Cow long froM Villafranca, by Santa
Cristina, to Reuss ?---A. I should think they might

marsh it in rafter loss tine---aliout 34 hours ; the
`ails being much better, though the distance is
rather longer. .
• Q. The evidenee has stated, without baggage,
the march to Renss to be '42 hours. Does be
mean with artillery ?—A. Certainly not.
Major-General Smith was' Brigadier-General,
and in command of 'a brigade in the division of
General 'Clinton, under Sir John Murray ; and
subsequently commanded a division,
Baying hl5
head-quarters in Tarragona. It would have re"
qiiired not less than -- men for the blockade of
Tarragona. in the event of the army marching to
attack the enemy. Whilst. the troops . were be-
fore Tarragona, he occasionally rode to the beach:
and.he did think that the 'state of the weather acid
surf was' such, at tithes, as• to have made ail
barkation; particularly of the guns and' ant-
coals, if practicable, certainly extremely difficult
and slow progress. Troops embarking, lir
' the 'face of an enemy under the protection of-ships,
and 'gun-boats, could not have'effected their ern"
barktition 7‘f it hinit considerable loss. The eln;
harkatinn on the 12th was perfectly regular;
in nowise-disgraceful c,r discreditable to his'Afa-
jesty'S service. Gan-boats' stationed near TorF6
del Barre; though part of the road is within 06
reach of fire front the, gun-boats, could not have
prevented the advinice of the enemy, during the
night` or day. He should apprehend .very little
mi`sehieffrom'such fire during the day, and none:
whatever at night. General Copons, ivith between
5 and '6OOO men, could decidedly not have arrested
the-progress of Dc Caen, with 8000 men.- it
would have been; very unadviseable to have lea
400--Inen on shore durinsg the-nighl-of the I.e?th.
if De Caen had not-arrived on the morning
of the:l3th; tie giirrison of Tarragona might very
much have annoyed the 'guard of 4000 men, co'
vering the-enkbarkation: 'He had what wotdd,
have :kept' it iWeheck'till the arrival of the enernr
Under the circumstances Of-the enemy being at
Perak -and Villafranca, in the evening of IV
11th, or morning of the 126;/the army could
have einbarkedwithout some sacrifices. He should
have conceived the Leahy ordnance in the hatterie
ofllie least ieonserittence., He would not, under
such eit'curristanae's, have 'deferred the embarlia4
tion to- the r3th Of ‘June. -

Cross-L4.- *amination.
Q. State the orders given-you on the ieth?--A I received
my orders from General Clinton ; he directed me to march nit
troops down. to the plain, and occupy such ground as should
he pointed out to me; as he intended to remain behind, t°
see the ord'erroperly -xecutetl.. I do not recollect the hour;
I believe I received the 'orders about eleven o'clock.
Q. At what hour did yoir more from the ground occupiedr
byTont-7ott.the lithi• for embarkation P—A. I believe . 40'
eleven at night.
;. t-i; 'At-What lime did you embark ?—A.:r think betwetP
421.e)..en ,mud twelve.,
Q. You have 'Said- that no miichiei Was to be apprehendel
gnu-boats at Tarragona : do you know that the:f/i,
is within tile reach ofVrape P—A.. I do not think it is with';
the reach of grape from. the ships, and ships could nothat."
prevented the adtance of au enemy.
Q. Is not part of, the road,:near the bridges, little more
than a• stone throw from the shore—the fishermen havvi'll:
the, sera there, may bring this to your recollection ?—A. I
not think it to be sa near. •
-Q. Did On, on the 11th of June, know that the enemy
12.000 men at Pericilo;* or have you since had reason to 40"
this froM good intelligence ?—A. I did not know it the!:,:,'
but I have since learned it, though not from any
authority: • : • .
ate
Q. From what authority have you learned it ?—A. I `'„
I
heard_it while 1 was at .Tarragona from respectable PC"'
living there. ', • -
Q. Do ,yort recollect the advance of Suchet's army on that
14th of AugnstlBl3, and its being checked by the Volcan"
;bomb and the gnn-boats P—A. I do not.
Q. DO you recollect Suchet appearing at that time befts
'moiredel Biwa, while the advance under 'Colonel Adam
copied Altalnlia?—A. I du remember it; hut I do not -se-
innther his ;force being checked by the homb and gun-brigs
Mi;
My answer 'before 'alluded entirely to the file from the gory
boats.'.: - •
' The. Court then adjourned till ten o'clock ne%t

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OU Tuesday last, in Upper Bedford-place the Lady 0
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Ou Saturday week, Campbell, of Possil, Seotlaudf
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On the 16th ult. at Tain, John Sim, Esq of Edinbur't or'
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On Monday se'nnight, at .Pleasi JOnce, near Dumfries" a 601
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the 19th ult. at his house, Dudhope, Scotland,
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The same day, at Aberdeen, Mr:Thomas Duncan)3."°.
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Dr. William Henderson, Surgeon to the Forces. soot -
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