The Sun.
London, England, 1810-03-05 00:00:00

What number of men dO you,. suppose-of the sick
in Wa/Cheren it would- haVe b.:en _desirable to em-.-
In ships of ',hat deseriptii.n, "if the
.ships had
been present to be so Occupied ?—The principal Me-
dical Officer wished to have tried th.- experiment,
and to ha-ve put as many men (convalescents) as he
conveniently could have managed on board different
ships ; that experiment was tried, and it failed.
y to the sailing of the. Expedition, did
-you undersiand the prevailing opinion of the Ge.'
neral• Officers -and other nrlitary Men consulted •
upon, that occasion to be in la% our LI. otherwise of the-
probability of success iii the attack- on Antwerp 7--
I never heard of those "pinions until after the sitting
ofthe Cornmittee of Inquiry. •
.What is Your own opinion upon that sulajeet ?—I
thought the probability of success was doubtful, and
the attempt hazardous.
. ,Were there any saamen and marines under the
denomination of the' marine brigade attached to the
army under your command i—There was a cori s of
seamen under the command of Captain Richardson
avached• to the army before Flushing, and I un-
derstood that a battalion of marines were landed at
Veer.

ZVcre the
,searuen employed in drawing up the
field pi, ces and ammunition belonging to the
of the army under your coMtAand.?—Thoy
wert.

Were the seamen afierwards'employeA in ere-3
ing any anicutir-b.ittery, or generally employed in
erecting the bitt,ries for the siege of Flushmg ?
The seamen were generally employed in (legging
Ihe gutty to the batteries, and at one par ocular
b ntery the seamen worked I believe one or two
nights.
When the batteries were opened before Flush,--
ings'w:is not-one of the batteries manned by sea-
men ?—Yes.

Do yOu.reculleEt anv instance of your making any-
application to Admiral Otway, or any Qiicer of the
navy, anti cedent to the cutinitencetl►etlt of tiring
upon Fhishing, which was nut immediately com-
plied with ?—The Officer who commaih:ed
men was- Captain • , tit the Royal Navy ;
With him alone, to the be,t of my recolletion, I had
communication, and he at all times gave toe every
possible assistance-in his power.
When the line-of-batae ships passed Flushing,
do you think that their fire had any particular-effect.
upon the town of Flushing i—•"l'heir tiredid a great
deal of mischief to tie town.

Did , the tire from the bombs and the flotilla an-
swer all the expettatiuos that y. 1.1 formed of it in
the etre.d it.pioduced upon the town of Ulusbing ?
—The si!ips and the tombs destroyed a great
many bOuses in the town, and did a great deal of
mischief.

Generally spc„kinir, do you think that the- fire
flow the ships and - Vessels -ac:eleratdd the tall of
Flushing line-ot-battle- ships, to the best of
my recolleCtion, did not Conic up- till the t4th, and
the. town capitulated,• I think, early on the morn-
ing of the 15th. .
. There was little or no sickness in the Navy
have been git.en to understand that the, sichneis in
the • Naty was confined to the then- who had been'
on shure.

. Do you conctive at the time you gave up the com-_
mand of Walcheien, that the town and defence; of
Rushing were mOre defensib!e than whorl the E g-
-lis.h artily and 4 your command attacked it ?7,-I'..e
defences had been repairing, and were uriainly in a
biter sate.

From the *preparations which the enemy. were
making, which you had an opportunity of witn,ss•
ing, do you conc:•ive, if they itad made an attack our
Wakherea at the time you gave up the command,.
the probability would have b..ien that the enemy
would have succeeded' in that atta: k ?—I never saw
any preparations making ; I only supposed prepaLa•
tio`ns were mzlkin, from the teports that were
made to me; it the ettemy had attacked the troopps.
in the is:and of Walcheryii, the probability is, that
the army was'so stay, that every misfortune must .
have been apprehended.
In a dispatch of your's, dated' the 2gth of:Sep-
,-tember, from Middleburg, it is stated •that there
was at that time ultfy 30olbs. of powder of balk in
store, andtlaat that wasf not mor;" than sufficient
to answer the consumption of tour or live, days;
how soon after the (tate of that letter did al.)), bark
arrive ?-1 never transmitted a letter touching the
situation of the sick,to the Secretary of State, with-
out having had a communication that day with the
~principal Officer of the Medical department; the
letter from-the principal, Officer of
partment I haVe to pro Ince , -and in consequence of
the aeceipt of that letter, I wrote my letter to the
Secretary of State of the 29th of September.,
How soon after the date of this letter was the ar-
rival of any bark reported to you ?—I cannot answer
from my own knowledge ; but the principal Medi:
cal Othicer informed me that 800 pounds of bark
arrived on the. 11th of .October ; more arrived on
the 17th, the 18th, the 26th, and the 27th.
_

Then it appears that 12 days after the clate of
your letter of the 29tti of September, in which it is
slated there is not more than four or five days con-
sumption of bark in store, namely, on the t lib of
06tober, 800 pounds of bark arrived ; do you know
how the garrison was supplied with bark in the
mean time ?—A great deal of bark was purchased
in the I:land by toy order ; I cannot state the. date
when the purchase was made, but as often as the
application was m ide to me by the principal Medical •
Officers, so often I direct, d thltrn to purchase bark
wherever it could be procured.
- Were any complaints tif want of medical com-
forts made to you ?—Porter and Port. wine, -and
comforts for the sick men, were bought by order;'
the appliCatiOns L have to shew to. the Commitie.: if
they wish it.
Were the sick well supplied with bedding and
blankets ?—I ordered two blanket: to be issued to
every soldier in the island ; they made use, of course,
in the Hospitals, of those blankets, and of as much
bedding as we could procure; all the bedding troth:
the Quarter-Master-General's department that I
could find, was also issued to the sick men.

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Was there a sufficiency of 'blankets and bedding
for the sick—l understoo,l in the first instance that
there was not ; but towa-di 4:ie latter part there
was a -sufficient number of blankLAs and bedding I
believe procured.
In visiting the hospitals, did you find that they
were sufficiently accommodate 1 tvith bedding and
blankets ?—The day after Lord phathaimietr, the