The Sun.
London, England, 1810-03-19 00:00:00

SCHELDT E-tPEDITIOY.

The minutes of Evidence of. Tuesday last, contain
the explanatory examination of Lord VisECOUTI Clfi-
tlereagh, Rear-Admiral Sir R., J. Strachan;., Bart.
Lieutenant-Cieneral Don). and Captajn P.liget,, and
the examination of Major-Generat. Macleod,. and
Colonel Fyers. .Lord C.istlereagh'S conception with
repect to naval. co-pperatioji was, that.the naval force
directed to 1-oter the West Scheldt and take a.position
to the S..E: of 'Flushing, was for the double purpose
of culling off the communication between Cadsand
and Fhi,hing, gild of being prepared to co-operate
the troops in an attack on Flushing. The
egqipment: of the army were framed upon the're-
4isitiOn of the person in the chief command. His
Lordship `conceived : the
,probability of success
against Antdrerp nt-t to depend so much upon. regu-
lar operatidn's as upon a rapid Movement. He re-
lied 'upon the 41f-on-nation ieceivedat 'or about the
tune of the sailing of 'the Ikpeditioil of the weak
state of AtktWerp.,
Sir R. c •
.TRA dH A N examined. - •

Were you called upon by the Admiralty for a
narrative of yotir proceedings, on your return from
the Sa-eldt ? No I never was called upon offi-
cially. for any narrative ; but it Was suggested to me
that I might as well have one ready, in otse it
shou:d be required ; 'at the same time it was signi.
fied toMe. that that *as not at official' desire. I . was
. .
preparing aNarrative, and expressed a wi,ll to know
what The nature of the -Narratitie was- that. Lord
Chadian.' .was preparing, 'whether it :contained
Charges against me or not. I neier'coukl get in-,'
formation upon this subject, and of course, as I -was
not officially,ordered 'to prepare my Narrafia 6, I was.
in no hurry to finish it.' I went over to Walcheren,
and upon my return, the Narrative still reran icing
unfinished, and indeed quite in an imperfect slate,
:I was told that now. it would not be expected
from me,Or it ;might not be required. I never con,
sidered it-at all as an 'official thing.
Is it in :your recolleCtion when you were advised
,prepare a Narrative'? Early in ,October it was
suggested.to me that such a thing might be required
from me'; I was not advised to prepare one. I.
cannot recollect the precise words of the conversa-
tion 'that passed: lam afraid of asserting- any thing'
positively, le4t I should rnalt.e a, inis'•stotelnent, but
that was the substance.,

Wito suggested to you the expediency of prepar.
ing a Narrative of tli,it 'sort ? Lord Mulgrave,, but
not Lord Mulgrave by himself; I think Mr. Pole
Was, present at the time.
.Did you eversheW the Narrative in the unfinished
state you represent it to have been ?—Never to any
person except my Secretary, who I am sure Would
not co.nruttnicate the contents to any one, and only
to him since my return to England ; nor did I au-
thorize it to be shown, and I 'do not believe any per-
son has ever seen it, except the persons whti assiSt-
ed in writing it; none of his Majesty's Ministers
have ever seen it.

Flow Faire yoU to know, that Lord Chatbarn was
preparing' a narrative ?-1 read it in the newspaper ;
Innderstood that Lord Chatham had given it to the
King, from what I read in the newspaper ; indeed it
was in every body's month at that;time when I
came howe ;. and my friends, not at all conneded
with 'the Autinis' ration, advised Me to be . vet),
caution's iii wording my narrative becattie it'was sup-
'PC Seri Lord Chatham's contained charges against me.
Who gave you that advice was no person at
all conne6ted with the Administration, or in any
public situation at this moment.
• Did you not strew your statement to Sir Hattie
Popham —Yes, because Sir Home Popham, who
had taken so atliVe a part in the Expedition', was,
assisting me with his notes in preparing this Narra-
tive, but did not at. all intertere with regard to the
matters contained in it ; that is, I mean he did not
influence me as to any thing I meant to assert in it,
except correaing,the dates, and •Tutting it in that
'form fit to he ptesented to his Majesty, as I expect-
ed it would have been ; but it never was finished ;
and I do not consider that I have any Narrative: at
the same time, 'if the Committee think a narrative'
can give' them any fuller information, I shall be
verr'ready to prepare one, if they please. to give me
time. I am.sure that I do-not wish to withold any
information whatever from the Committee.

Do you recoiled at what time you shewed the
narrative in question to Sir Home Popharnl--;-Soon
after my return from Walcheren ; early in the
month of October I cOrnrnunicated to- Sir Home
,Popham my wish to prepare a narrative, and: :is he
was exceedingly coriedt with his dates and his notes,
and having been in my confidence-from the begin-
ning of the Expedition till our return to. England, I
requeited of him to give me his assistance in pre
paring thiS narrative, and he accordingly assisted me
in the preparation of it ; but, from circumstances, I
afterwards did not find it necessary to finish it, and
Sir Horne Popham returned the paper into my hands :
I have answered.this more fully than might be other-7.
wise proper, that the Committee may be in full pos-:.
se-sion of the circumstances from the. beginning to
the end. .

Do you recolle& at what time you received the'
intimation that you need not proceed to finish your
narrative ?—I never received any intimation to that
effeEt, but *upon my mentioning something about the'
narrative wtien I returned from Walcheren in De-
cember last,' I was told tharit was not likely to be
required now.
Who told you that it was not likely to be re!-,
quired now ?l---Lord
.Mulgrave ; I cannot answer
for the precise, words ; but .I undergtood the mean-
ing, that it had been so long delayed, or something
to. that effeel,, that at thiS late time . it was not.
wanted. • ,
Lieutenant-General Don, saw persons, who in-.
formed him, that if the army had arrived during the
first week in August at Santvlier, and had pushed
on to Lillo and Antwerp, and the, fleet with a part
of the army had fureed a pass.age between Lillo and
I iefkenshocik and attacked
,tt!e town, on the River
side,itsWas thought the expedition would have been
successful.

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Captain Puget umierstood, that if the armament
had been enabled to puili on at Once to Santvliet,
there would have been every probability of success.

Major-Gene-al Macleod, commanding officer of
the artillery on the expedition, thought that if the
b6Mbardtnent of Antwerp could hare been com-
menced on the 9th or 10th of August the town
might Wye bceu destroyed if it did not surrender.

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•
17yers,. Catef Engineer on the o;pe.dition
was of opinion, that if the aFtny lad been landed
succeSsi/df-in divisiotis On the tst, 2d, and 3d. of
August, the batteries-. before Anwetp would have
been .ready.on the 9th.. lle diV not land on Wal.
cheren till's be 30th of July ; he expe6ed that he wa.;
to have proceeded with the Commarider in Chief to-
. wards Ant werp ; and went on board -51,4) ae tin ; he
afterwards found that Lord Chatham had establiiheci
'his head=quarters at Aliddleburgh, and wept thther.
It was not till the Bth that Lord Chatham put it in
orders that he might take the•diretlion - • e
of Flnshing. After that period the operations of the
siege advanced as far as, the weather and other ci-
, cumstances" would allow.

. The Excellent, .of 74 guns, Captain GarFFITH,
which arrived at Portsmouth,. on Wednesday,' in
twenty,-six,days horn Minorca, was. released from
quarantine, on Friday. Lord Cot LING WOOD was
cruizing off•Bareelona. His L6rdship, we are sorry
to state, had been dangerously ill, but he was get-
ting better. The Excellent does hat bring any
later accounts, front Cadiz, than those ,Which ,we
inserted on Monday last. Admiral Sir CUARLES
COTTON, Bart. is appointed' to skicceed Lord Con-
LINGWOOD, as Commander-it)-Chief in the Medi-
terranean. _His Loidship has been at sea nearly
six years, and his persevering zeal and anxiety to
.meet the enemy have solmpaired his health, as to
make his return 'to England absolutely necessary.
General BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS has, in general
Orders,' commanded that' every foreigner who has
beer; in the Tyriil since February, tBO-5, shall he
tajcen into custody for examination ; that every tra-
veller without' a pass'shall. be arrested; that every
one beyond the'age:of 'l6 shall „provide themselves
with a card of safety; that both bunting and.shoot-
ing at a mark shall be prohibited ; and the sale of
gunpowder orfiielarms'be punished with death.
Yepterday the 'Earl of •LrvertiooL, the CHANT
CELLOR of the ExcnvinEtt,i Sir RUPERT GEORGE,
Sir SIDNEY Smriu, and Sir'HokE. Pornam,• had tr
long conference of Lord Min.ORAVE, at. the Ad-
miralty. • •• • • •

Our letterss from, Sicily mention, that the Mere.
ditary Princess, sister to the 011fOrtUrlate FERDINAND
VII. had been thliVered of a :-.on and heir to the
diminished Throne of Sicily. The joy on this occa-
sion was further heightened by the recovery of the
King from an alarming illnes, which had for.sorne
previous confined, him to his room. Our ,Corres-'
pondent speaks in' confidant terms of the security of
the Island, ancrobserves that the
,utmost harmony
subsists between ourlroops and the natives.
• Vice-Admiral' Sir JtiFIN THOMAS Doc &WORTH,
K. B. is appointed tommander.:in-Chief at sew-
foundlani.

General Foxleftiown on Saturday to assume tile
government of Ponsmonth.

Sir R., STRACITAN: iS,. We understnin.l; appo?n'ed to
succeed. Admiral Dun in 1 InV command oil
India station, and that the Gcsar is again prefaTing
to 'ri,ceiv'e his flag.
Sir A. Q6C"nitA. 2,7 has solicited, and' is likely to
obtain the (ioVernmeit of Giladaloupe. •
Some weekS since Mr. Tooley, of liorncastle, re-
ceived an 'anonymous letter, c.iutionina him to take
care of hirnself, as an attempt
.would be made to :Is-
sassinate him : he considered the letter as only in-
tended io tilarni him, and did not pay any particular
attention to it : some nights since, however, as he
was going to bed, a pistol was discharged at him
through the window, and a slug passed just above
his head, and lodged in the ceiling. Mr. Tooley im-
mediately threw up. the window, and leaped into the
street, but the assassin escaped. The slug .was made
of a letter used to mark linen, and appears to have
been an 0, but has been defaced in an endeavour to
beat it round.

KING'S I)IFATRE.—II• Fanatico per la Musica,
was the.entertaitithent at this place on Saturday, and
CATAL'ANi was finely in voice. NALDI was in high
spirits, and all:was well received by a crowded au-
dience with.the warmest applause.
We are happy to hear that the new Army- Medi-
cal. Board has shewn every wish to correa the many
abuses which have, unhappily for the service, too
long existed in that department. Their 'first public
a& has-been to nominate an experienced Army Phy-
sician to 2*O out to' Cadiz to take the direetion of the
inedical arrangenients which it may be necessary to
make- in that gatriE.-m. We understand that Dr.
FEt LOW ER, who has-been appointed .to 'this import-
ant duty, is at the bend bf the Staff Physicians, anJ
is well acquainted with the diseases of Spain, having
resided in that Country, and served in the campaigns
of Flander*,ancf Holland,. in the Expeditions to the
West Indies, to the Helder, and Portugal: and
when the fatal yellow fever prevailed at Gitiraltar in
1804, he was ordered there, and lately to superip-
tend the military hospitals of the Waleheren sick at
Colchester. By thus employing men of professional
experience, united to Other indispensable qualifica-
tions, the ,medical department of the army cannot
fail to become respeOtable, and of the first import-
ance to the service.

SMITHFIELD MARKET,' MARCH T 9,

This day's Market was well supplied with prime
Beasts, and the show of Cattle in other.respe6ts wag
tolerably good ; Veal and Pork are cheapej than our
last report ; Beef and Mutton are dearer ; and the
trade in general was pretty brisk.---The sales in the
Hay Market were rather lively; Hay, Straw, and
Clover, sold at last. prices.—We annex an accurate
statement of the prices and numbers :

To sink the Offal per stone of 81b.
Beet' 4s. 64. to,6s, 6d.. Mutton 4s. 6d. to 6s. 6d: V6l IS.
od. to 7s. od. Pork ss. od. to Gs. Bd. . .
' Beasts 2100.---:Sheep 14,5°0•—Cal/eS 221°.—Pigs 340,
, S.MITHFIELD HAYMARKET.
Hay 41. kis'. od.' to 61. ►os. od. Straw 21 os'. od. to ji. ;s.
ad. Clover 61; rosw od. to 71. tos. od.

CORN EXCHANGE, MARCH O.—The supply al
Wheat coastwise this day is short ; bat li, cue
reign arrival's which has the effea of genetal-
at rather less price ;" Bar:ey and Mali neatly 6,ipport
last prices;, White Peas likewise; Beans.of the tivo.
kinds vary but, little; there are conSiderable re-
maining supplies of Oats ; and second, with ordi-
nary, are named cheaper; Flour at Lite, pricr!;.

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Wheat -82 s a 96s a ic6s Tick Beaps (i.:ld) aii, a 52s
Fine ditto .. . Has a tt4s Oats . . a2s a 24.; A 30$
Rye -- - 485 a 54s Poland ditto . 32S ajp ~(1
Barley . - -35 s a 4gs Potatue ditto pit a—s GA
Malt - . . 72$ a tos (tape Seed . . 46La 521
White Pease -66 s a 74$ Fine Flour . tis a gas
Grey ditto - - 4Ss aso Seconds - . Yea .a itis
klei;iss (old) . 566 a 62s

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