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No. 16,63 L LONDON, MONDAY EVENING SUN, DECEMBER 8, 1845.

COLOSSEUM, REGENT'S PARK.—Visited j
X.O RN WA L L and DEVON CENTRAL
and Patronised by her Majesty and his Royal Highness RAILWAY.
Prince Albert.—This magnified t Establishment (comprising The Committee have much pleasure in informing their Share-
Six Exhibitions in One), eulogised by the press as a holders that the Plans, Sections, and Beoks of Reference, have been
fairy pala-e of enchantment, has recently added to iss deposited with the Clerks of the Peace and the Board of Trade for
numerous attractions a GRA:A I) ORCHESTRAL ORGAN, on the whole of the main line, as well as for the Plymouth and Bodmin
which the most admired overtures, &c., are played daily from Two branches, the St. Austell branch, the Falmouth branch, and the
till Four, and in the evening from Eight till Half-past, Ten.—LONDON Ilayle and Lelant branches.
by NIGH F. Additional atmospheric effects (to the most extraordi- i The Shareholders are already aware that the capital of 3,000,000/.
nary Panorama in the world) will be represented at Eight, Nine, and Is secured, and the Parliamentary deposit received.
Ten o'clock. MONT BLANC and Alpine Torrent represented by i By order of the Committee,
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Tickets fur four persons and upwards, 4s. each. May be had at the
principal Libraries avid Music-sellers, and at the Colosseum, from Ten
till Four. The whole projected and designed by Mr. W. Bradwell.

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EXETER GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no Applicatiol for Shares in this
Company can be received ofter the 15th inst.
Great Western Railway Station, Paddington,
Dec. 5, 1845.

EAST A;' D WEST JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPA NY.
The Committee of the above line have great pleasure in informing
the Subscribers that all the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference
of this line have been duly deposited at the offices of the isoard of
Trade, and of the several Clerks of the Peace, in compliance with the
standing orders •f the Houses of Parliament.
By order,
0. D. MATHIAS, Secretary.
38, Moorgate-street, Dec. 3, MIS.

TRE THAMES EMBANKMENT AND
RAILWAY JUNCTION COMPANY.
Chairman—The Earl of DEVON.
The Provisional Directors have the satisfaction to announce to
the Shareholders that all the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference
for the lin., of this Company, have been deposited in conformity
with the standing orders of Parliament, with a view to the applica-
tion, which will be made during the ensuing session, in the event of a
favourable decision of her Majesty's Commissioners for Metropolitan
Improvements, to whom the Plans have been referred.
By order of the Board,
32, Charing-cross, Dec. 6, 1845. E. W. WILLIAMS.

HUNTINGDON, ST. IVES, WISBEACH,
and SUTTON UNION RAILWAY,
Being an amalgamation of the Isle of Ely, Wishech, arid Lin-
. ;,•eolushire, and the wisbeach and Huntingdon Junction Railway.
.'1 he Committee of Management have the pleasure of announcing
that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference have been duly de-
posited with the Board of Trade and the several Clerks of the
Peace, in accordance with the standing orders of Parliament.
By order,
WILLIAM WILDE, Secretary.
26, Gresham-street, Dec. 5, 1845.

SAINT IVES, WISBECH, AND CAM-
BRIDGE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Four per cent. and half the profits to be secured by lease to the

Eastern Counties Company.)
The Shareholders are respectfully informed that the Plans,
Sections, and Books of Reference relating to this line of Railway,
from Wisbech to Saint Ives, with a branch, forming a junction with
the Cambridge and Huntingdon line, have been all deposited at the
office of the Board of Trade, and at the offices of the several Clerks
of the Peace for the respective counties through which the line will
pass. The shareholders are also respectfully informed that the depo-
sits are paid, and the money ready to b deposited with the Court of
Chancery, in accordance with the standing orders.
JOHN FRYER, Chairman of the Managing Committee.
CROWDER and MAYNARD,/ Solicitors.
GEO. GAME DAY,
Dec. 4, 1845.

OXFORD, THAME, HIGH WYCOMBE,
AND UXBRIDGE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have the satisfaction of stating
that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference have been duly
deposited at the office of the Board of Trade, and with the Clerks of
the Peace of the counties of Oxford, Bucks, and Middlesex, as re-
quired by the standing orders of Parliament.
HUBERT DE BURGH, Chairman.

R. 3iORTON CALEY, Secretary,
43, 3foorgate-street, London, Dec. 4, 1845.
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OXFORD, THAME, HIGH WYCOMBE,
AND UXBRIDGE JUNCTION RAILWAT.
Offices, 43, Moorgate-street.
THE MANAGIMGCOMMITTIE.
Hubert de Burgh, Esq., Chairman.
Viscount Curzon, Deputy-Chairman.
Lord Albert Conyngham Deane Join Hoare, Esq.
Lieut.-Col. Lothian Dickson John Lane, Esq.
Charles Collins, Esq. Malcolm Maclean, Esq.
Thomas Edwards, Esq. Richard Christopher Preston,Esq.
Frederick Wm. Etheridge, Esq. Richard Twiss, Esq.
A. W. Hillary, Esq.
The Committee of Management have deferred closing their Share
Lists until they were assured that the standing orders of Parliament
had been complied with. The Plans and Sections having been duly
deposited with the Board of Trade and the several Clerks of the
Peace of the counties through which the line passes, they now give
notice that no application for Shares will be received after the 27th
instant, and until that period they will continue to be received at the
Offices of the Company, 43, Moorgate-street ; of the Solicitor, F. T.
Cell, Esq., Carlton-chambers, 8, Regent-street; and of the following
Brokers :—R. 11. Wilkins, Esq., 4, Bank-chambers, London; Henry
Brenchly, Esq., Cushion-court, Old Broad-street, London.
R. MORTON CALET, Secretary.

LYNN, WISBEACH, AND PETER-
BOROUGH, MIDL IND COUNTIES, AND RIRMINGEIAM
JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
ORIGINAL LINE.
The Committee of Management have the gratifloation to announce
that the Notices of the intended application to Parliament to autho-
rise the construction of this line of railway have been given, and that
the Plans, Seetions, and Books of Reference have been deposited
with the respective Clerks of the Peace for the counties affected by
the line, and with the Board of Trade, in compliance with the stand •
ing orders of Parliament

HENRY EDWARDS, Secretary
41, Moorgate-street, London, Dec. 1, 1845.
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WARWICKSHIRE and LONDON RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
The Shareholders of this Company are informed that the Plans and
Documents of this Company, required by the standing orders of Par-
liament to be deposited on the 30th November, were duly lodged.
By order of the Provisional Committee of Management,
WYNDIL4M lIARDING, Secretary.
Euston Railway Station, December 4, 1845.

THE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY.
Cucramas—Thonlas DOWSIIISSe, Esq.
ENGINIER-IN-CHlEF—Samuel Charles Drees, Xsq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street.
SECEITAIIY—Z. Hubbersty, Esq.
The Committee of Management have the satisfaction to announce
that the proper Notices have been published in the " London Ga-
zette" and Provincial Newspapers, and that the Plans, Sections, and
Books of Reference, have bees deposited in the Parliamentary Offices
and with the Clerks of the Peace for the several Ceuuties through
which the Lino is proposed to pass. The Committee are further
desirous to state that Testimonials in favour of the Line have been
most numerously signed by the landowners, tradesmen, farmers, and
inhabitants of every town throughout the country proposed to be
traversed ; and that the Engineer of the Company assures them that
the construction of the intended railway will be completed at very
much lees expense than he originally contemplated.
By order of the Beard,
Z. lII7BBERSTT, IkeretAry.
Moorgate Chambers, Moorgate-street, Dee. 1, 1845

MIDLAND UNION and BURTON-UPON-
TRENT, ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH, and LEICESTER
RAILWAY, with a diverging Line to Trent Valley Railway at
Atheretone.
(Provisionally Registered, 16th May, 1848.)
The Committee of Management have the pleasure of announcing
to the Shareholders in this important undertaking, that the Plans,
Sections, and Books of Reference have been duly deposited with the
several Clerks of the Peace, and at the Board of Trade, in compli-
ance with the standing orders of Parliament.
By order, WILLIAM KNIGHT, Secretary.
18, Abingdon-street, Westminster, Dec. 1, 1845.

. _
BOSTON, STANIFORD, and BIRMING-
HAM RAILWAY (Loicooter, by Stamford, to Boston and

Wisboach).
(Provisionally Registered, 17th April, 1845.)
The Committee of Management have the pleasure of announcing t•
the Shareholders iR this important undertaking, that the plans, sec-
tions, and books of reference have bean duly deposited witk the seve-
ral Clerks of the Peace, and at the Board of Trade, in compliance
with the standing orders of Parliament.
By order, EDWARD DANIEL, Secretary.
18, Abingdon-street, Westminster, Dee. 1, 1845.

LEICESTER and BIRMINGHAM RAIL WAY
(BAITER'S LINE).
(Provisionally Registered, 10th April, 1845.)
The Committee of Management have the pleasure of announcing
to the Shareholders in this important undertaking, that the Plans,
Sections, and Books of Reference have been duly deposited with the
several Clerks of the Peace, and at the Board of Trade, hi compliance
with the standing orders of Parliament.
EDWARD DANIEL, Secretary.
By order,
11, Abingdon-street, Westminster, Dee. 1. 1645.

HULL AND BARNSLEY JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have the satisfaction of informing
the Shareholders that the whole of the Plan., Sections, and Books
°` Reference for the Main Line, and also for the Extension to Driffield,
were duly deposited with the Beard of Trade and with the Clerks of
the Peace for the East and West Ridings of the county of York, in
compliance with the standing orders of Parliament, on Saturday
last. They have also the pleasure of stating that the arrangements
entered into with the Board of Directors of the Sheffield, Ashton-
under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway Company, were unanimously
confirmed at a Special General Meeting of the Shareholders in that
Company, hold at the Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, this day. This unani-
mity, together with the great stake held in the Hull and Barnsley by
filo Sheffield and Manchester Company, ensures to this undertaking
the cordial co-operation and support of that influential Company.
It will be satisfactory to the Shareholders to be informed that the
whole of the deposits have been duly rad.
WM. LOWT HROP, Chairman.
JOHN MOOR, Secretary.

Hull, Dec. 3, 1845.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
CALL FOR ELEVENTII INSTALMENT OF 51. PER
SHARE ON 100/. ••II
the GAR reES, MAKING 851. PAID
hay.
e Directors of at Western Railwayhaving resolved, at
a meeting held this clay, to call, under the provision" of the Acts of
Parliament, for an instalment of 51. per Share on 1001. Shares,
Notice is hereby given, that the Proprietors are requested to pay on
or before the 6th day of JaNuAair next, to any of the undermen-
tioned bankers the said sum of 51. on each of their respective 1001.
Shares, viz.:—
Lel:Won—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., attke Great Western
Railway Office, 29, Gresham-street, City.
Bristol—Messes. Miles, Harford, and Co. ; Messrs. Barthe, Imes,
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Liverpool—The Bank of Liverpool.
Cheltenham—The County of Gloucester Bank.
Reading—Messrs. I. and C. Simonds and Co.
By order of the Board of Directors,
CHARLES A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
London Terminus, Paddington, Dec. 4, 1845.

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ASSAULT AND CAPTURE OF

CIUDAD RODRIGO IN 1812.

COLONEL GURWOOD AND THE L ATE MAJOR

MACKIE.
(From the. United Service Magazine.)
Mr. Editor,—ln the number of the United Service
Magazine for August, 1843, you did me the favour to
insert some observations, and also various letters corro-
borative of the narrative of my late brother Major
Mackie, relative to his services at tho assault and cap-
ture of Ciudad Rodrigo in 1812, which was inserted by
jor-General Napier in the Appendix to the sixth
volume of the " History of the Peninsular War," and
the accuracy of which had been impugned by Colonel
Gurwood in the pages of your journal. The substance
of thatinarrative may be stated thus: " That having en-
tere
he
passed i
en-
tered breach,the main
the
the
tstorming party of which he
headed,
and
party a portion of' the enemy retreating from
withmthew hisalls,
first gained the citadel, the gates of which the enemy in
their haste had neglected to fasten, then reached the
tower or keep where the Governor and his officers had
taken refuge."

not until then that Major Mackie saw it necessary to in-
terfere. Then it was, that he expressed to myself and
other friends, his determination to give to the public a
statement of facts as they actually took place, clearly to
prove that this claim of Colonel Gurwood was incon-
sistent with the truth. Of this determination I need
not say that I most cordially approved ; and I will still
maintain, that to have acted otherwise in this respect,
would have been, on his part, a most uncalled-for, as
well as pusillanimous, abandonment of what was justly
due, not to himself alone, but also to the gallant men
who supported him so nobly upon this memorable
occasion.

On reaching this tower he solemnly asF arts that he
found the door of it shut, that he summoned those
within to surrender, that the door was then opened and
a sword delivered up to him in token of submission. In
his narrative he further solemnly declares, that he no
sooner got this sword into his hand, than two French
officers laid hold of him for protection, one by each arm,
ard being thereby prevented stepping forward at the
moment, clearly, however, after the surrender of the
tower, Colonel, then Lieutenant, Gurwood came up, and
passing him hastily while thus encumbered, got to the
Governor and received his sword; but, as these facts
most clearly prove, not until the Governor and all
within were prisoners of war to Major Mackie and his
party. Among the letters whieh I allude to as corrobo-
rative of this narrative of facts, is one from Sergeant
Brazil, who was of the party on the occasion, and who
saw the door opened, and the sword received in token of
surrender, and who expressed his willingness to verify
on oath the evidence he gives. The character of Ser-
geant Brazil fer ability and integrity, and therefore his
perfect credibility as a witness, is in the very strongest
terms vouched for by the officers of his former corps.
Expressing, as you did, a wish that the controversy as
to the respective claims of Colonel Gurwood and Major
Mackie should be considered at a clos,, so far as the
pages of your journal were concerned, I learned with re-
gret, a few months after that you had inser ed another
article, further to impugn the justice of my brother's
claim, and that from a correspondent who withheld his
name. As being anonymous, and no way entitled to
weigh against the evidence of witnesses that gave their
names, and whose credibility could not possibly be im-
peached, I willingly yielded to the opinion of those
friends who considered that lucubration as unworthy of
notice. The case, however, is entirely changed, finding,
as I do, that the article in question has been reprinted
with the writer's name, in a pamphlet, now in the course
of private circulation by Colonel Gurwood, among his
military and other friends, giving it thereby an import-
ance to which, when anonymous, it was not entitled.
That Lieutenant Thornton, the writer of this letter,
formerly of the 94th R giment, is a man of honour, as
being a British officer, I am not permitted to express a
doubt. That he is a man of sense and judgment, I most
pointedly deny, vouching, as of his own knowledge, for
what took place at the assault and capture of a city, at
which assault. I am credibly informed, he was not even
present. This information I have the stronger reason
for believing to be true, that in Hart's " Army List,"
his being present at the capture of Ciudad Rodrigo is
not among the services to which he can lay claim. Wil-
ling as I am, to make every apology, if he was actually
there, and moreover in a position to enable him to con-
tradict the testimony of those whe were, Lieut. Thorn-
ton must feel the more my debtor for the opportunity I
have given him of vindicating himself; that while con-
cealing his name most carefully from the public, he was
at the very time disclosing it in secret to the individual
in whose behalf he volunteered; making a merit of the
evidence he had given.
Lieutenant Thornton, in the simplicity of his heart,
may have concluded he was thereby taking the most na-
tural method to satisfy Colonel Gurwood of the purity of
his motives. I tell him he has stumbled on the very
means which give him most the appearance of being
actuated by those of a very opposite description. This
appearance he mar do away by making known his means
of information. Until he does so, Colonel Gurwood is
welcome to all the support his testimony can give him.
" Valeat quantum."
_ _ _

A portion of his narrative which, as not appearing at
the time to bear upon his claim, was omitted by General
Napier, agreeably to the intention which he had in-
timated to my brother, will, I apprehend, obviate the
inference which Colonel Gurwood would seem to draw
in favour of himself from the time and circumstances at,
and under which, he met Lieutenant Uniack on the day of
the assault.

In adverting further to Colonel Gurwood's pamphlet,
I beg to call attention to the difficulty he has experienced
in rebutting the evidence adduced again,t him, as shown
by the futility of the arguments he employs. Thus, in
speaking of the narrative of my brother, and endeavour-
ing to elude its force, in regard to the manner in which
the latter states he got from the rampart down into the
town, Colonel Gurwood is pleased to make the following
remark: " Sixteen feet in depth, at the foot of which had
been ranged a variety of impediments, such as crows'
feet, chevaux de frise, iron spikes, &c.; the whole being
encircled with the means of maintaining a barrier of
burning combustibles."
Does Colonel Gurwood mean seriously to assert it is
his own belief, or that he would have others to believe,
that any individual who had the slightest regard to his
character as a man of veracity and honour, that any one
not altogether stultified and void of common judgment,
and moreover, one who had a perfect knowledge of the
city and its defences, could have wilfully destroyed the
whole credibility of his subsequent narrative by asserting
as a fact what he knew to be untrue, and if untrue, what
he must have known could be so easily disproved? What-
ever the height of the wall, or the means defence might
elsewhere be, it must be the conviction of every candid
mind, that at the spot referred to by Major Mackie, im
pediments to his descent did not exist to the extent
which Colonel Gurwood would represent them to have
been. The height, according to my brother's statement,
carrying with it the greater weight as beine, given in the
course of his narrative, and not to obviate objection, was
from ten to twelve feet only. As such it presented no
very great, certainly no insuperable obstacle, to a young
man of great personal activity, and as nearly as might
be, six feet high.

But, whatever the obstacles might be, or however over-
come, as doubtless, had ho now been spared to answer
for himself, he could most easily have explained, no can-
did and unprejudiced mind could for a moment entertain
a doubt, on the perusal of his statement, but that he
effected a descent at the place and in the manner he
describes.

The extract I allude to is to the following purport:—
" The manner in which the great breach was cut off by
trenches cut across the rampart, and the depth from the
rampart into the town, caused, as I hare stated, consider-
able difficulty, and some delay in consequence, after the
breach had been carried. I can assert, however, that this
was done, and every obstacle overcome, without any flank
attack on the enemy defending it, by the light division,
and without any assistance rendered by them or any
other, short of that which must take place in every
similar instance, where more than one breach has been
effected, necessarily dividing the attention of the enemy
for the defence of each. Lieut. Uniack and others of the
light division being killed by the same explosion which
killed General Mackinnon is in no way inconsistent
with, but, on the contrary, corroborates this assertion.
The magazine, by the explosion of which General Mac-
kinnon, as also Lieutenant Beresford, of the 88th Regi-
ment, as well as others of the 3d, were killed, was
situated upon the ramparts, some way to the left of the
breach, and the mangled remains of the former were
found some distance from the rampart, in the open
space between it and the houses. This was after the
enemy had abandoned the defence, and I had myself,
with the advance of the storming party, advanced con-
siderably along the street, leading from the breach into
the town, when I beard the explosion, while, by the
time it took place, the troops of the 3d division were
established both to the right and left of the breach.
From the whole of this it follows, first, that Lieutenant
Uniack was not killed at the breach or close upon it ;
and, secondly, that there was ample time for that
officer, and those of the light division with him, to reach
the spot where he was killed, after the great breach was
carried, as was in fact the case."

Now, Sir, I believe I am justified in maintaining, that
not the presumption merely, but as far as it can now be
given, the proof of priority of advance towards the
citadel, will, on comparing the two accounts together,
be found decidedly in favour of my brother. From the
point which he had gained when he heard the explo-
sion by which Lieutenant Uniack lost his life, it would
manifestly appear, that he had that advantage, as to
priority of advance over his opponent, which, meeting
afterwards with no serious obstacle, gave him the op-
portunity of stating in his own emphatic language,
copied from his narrative now before me in his own hand-
writing:—" In bare justice to the right brigade of the
3d division, and as a member of it, to myself, I feel
myself called on to declare, that though I do not claim
for that brigade, exclusively, the credit of forcing the
defences of the main breach, the left brigade having
joined in it, contrary to the intention of Lord Welling•
ton, under the circumstances stated, yet Ido declare, on
the word of a man of honour, that 1 was the first indi-
vidual who effected the descent from the main breach into
the streets of the town ; that I preceded the advance into
the body of the place; that I was the first who entered the
citadel, and that the enemy there assembled had surrendered
to myself and party before Lieutenant Gurwood came up."
The words in italics were underlined by himself.
The inference Colonel Gurwood is inclined to draw
from what he represents as the lateness of Major
Mackie's claim, as compared with his own, is entirely
without foundation. The latter dates itself from a letter
written to his friends after the first assault, while the
claim of my brother dates likewise from the first, but
under very different circumstances indeed. The affair
is no sooner over, than it is stated openly to all the
officers then present with the regiment, who see the
sword received by him, with a detail of the circum-
stances which alone prevented his receiving that of the
Governor along with the one denoting the surrender,
while these officers have ample opportunity of question-
ing the soldiers present on the occasion, and from whom
they did receive a full corroboration of the whole of his
account.

With regard to the evidence, now for the first time
brought before the public, I would willingly express
myself with all the delicacy which a regard to substan-
tial justice may permit, in defending the memory of a
brother no longer here to speak in his own defence.
But let me state the ease as borne out by facts.
Not until two years after my brother's narrative ap-
peared in the Appendix to General Napier's work, a
work, as he was well aware, circulating not only among
military men, but throughout the whole of the reading
portion of the public, whose opinion is of any value,
does Colonel Gurwood set about a refutation of the
statement it contains. Ineffectual for the purpose it was
meant to serve, in counterbalancing evidence directly con-
tradictory of the fact it was adduced to prove, the letter
I have referred to was at the time the mainstay of his
case. Is it not then matter of surprise, that two years
after the publication of this letter, with the meagre
array of evidence and argument with which it was sup-
ported, and no less than five years subsequent to the
statement it was intended to refute, a detail of circum-
stances is at length brought forward, so exceedingly
minute that it is difficult, if not impossible, to account
for their escaping his memory, at the time he was mus-
tering evidence on his side ?
The testimony of the witnesses Colonel Gurwood now
brings forward, labours under a similar disadvantage, if
intended as a counterpoise to that of Sergeant Brazil,
coming as it does so late into court, two years after
Brazil's clear and distinct account was laid before the
public.
Of the circumstances referred to I may remark, that
with those that attended his getting possession of the
sword of the Governor, everything indeed that passed
within the tower, including all that Colonel Husson
speaks to as coming under his own observation, I have
nothing whatsoever to do. The only object that can be
gained by the detail of these, is to confuse the careless
reader, and turn his attention from the real point at
issue. This, bo it remembered, is not what passed after
Colonel Gurwood got within the tower, but what had
previously passed without. In other words, was the
door of the tower, where the Governor and his officers
had taken refuge, opened to the summons of Colonel
Gurwood, after the very considerable delay that must
have been required to allow time for all the incidents he
states to have taken place, after he reached it, and before
he entered ? or, when he came up, did he find that door
presenting no obstacle whatever Co his entrance, having
been already opened to the summons of Major Mackie,
and the place surrendered ? as the latter solemnly avers,
and Sergeant Brazil has expressed his readiness to cer-
tify on oath. _ _ _

" To mount under the fire of the defenders was the
work of a moment, but when there, difficulties of a for-
midable nature presented themselves. On each flank a
deep trench was cut across the ramparts, isolating the
breach, which was enfiladed with cannon and musketry,
while in front, from the ramparts into the streets of the
town, was a perpendicular fall of ten or twelve feet;
the whole preventing the soldiers from making that bold
and rapid onset so effectual in facilitating, the success of
such an enterprise. The great body of defence being
from the houses, and from an open space in front of the
breach, in the first impulse of the moment I dropt from
the rampart into the town. Finding myself here quite
alone, and no one following, I discovered that the trench
on the right of the breach was cut across the whole
breadth of the rampart, thereby opening a free access to
our troops, and rendering what was intended by the
enemy as a defence completely the reverse. By this
opening I again ascended to the top of the breach, and
led the men down into the town."
The same remark, as to the weakness of the arguments
to which he trusts, applies to Colonel Gurwood's ob-
servations on Major' Mackie's ignorance of the French
language, as being inconsistent with the fact of his sum-
moning the enemy as he solemnly assorts. Here he
greatly exaggerates, and only weakens his cause by over-
anxiety to bolster it up. My brother, I can positively
assert, had, for a short time at least, studied French in
his youth; but granting that he neither spoke it nor had
kept up-the reading of it, to give Colonel Gurwood the
full advantage of his argument, we shall suppose that the
other had not picked up the very few words necessary
for the purpose, in the course of the service in which he
was then engaged. Summoning then, as he solemnly
asserts he did, of what consequence could it be, whether
this were done in English or in French, since the enemy
were only awaiting the appearance of a British officer to
be assured of safety to surrender, as was proved, when
his pointing to his epaulettes being sufficient to convince
them that my brother was such, the door was opened to
him, and the sword
given
up in token of submission ?
The same nervous anxiety to g.rasp at every shadow
of an argument for support, applies to the attempt of
Colonel Gurwood to throw doubt upon this fact, on the
was present on the occasion.
plea that no aide-de-camp
A sword being received under the circumstances stated,
what difference can it make upon the merits of the case,
whether that of an aide-de-camp, or in what other ca-
pacity the officer had served, by whom it was delivered?
What Colonel Gurwood states relative to his making
application to the late Sir Henry Torrens in my brother's
behalf, is altogether new to me,
and to the best of my
belief was unknown to the subject of it, while, as an al-
gument, it goes for nothing.
Equally irrelevant to the matter in dispute, is the im-
portance he attaches to his being in garrison at Ports-
mouth with my brother, without the latter laying claim
to the sword of the Governor.
However just he knew it to have been, in what way
was Major Mackie to enforce his claim? Was he to
wrest this sword from the hand of its possessor? Was
it a case that could have been cart
into a court of law,
or was he to ask for a concourtof military inquiry to decide
to which of them it ought in justice to belong? Co,,si •
dered as an argument, his observations on the subject
are altogether futile. My brother had been deprived
of the substantial advantages that ought to have
accrued to him from the capture he had made.
Like a man of prudence, he submitted to the privation of
the symbol of his triumph, lost by an accident that could
not then be remedied, so far as to the getting possession
of the sword itself, though on all fitting occasions he had
never ceased to claim it as his right. It was not, until
Colonel Gurwood, taking undue. advantage of the con-
spicuous position in which, as editor of the " Wellington
Dispatches," he happened to be A
p•aceo, not mere?), to
parade himself before the army and the public as the
fortunate possessor of the sword in question, with the
honours and emoluments its possession had secured him.
but also expressly arrogating to himself the credit of
' having made its former owner prisoner of war it was

-Most reluctantly, to for my part, I have been forced
into this controversy again, let me express a hope that
it is now brought to a close. The claims of both the
parties are before the public, though under circumstances
by no means equal. The one, having been deprived of
the whole of the advantages that should have attended
his success on this occasion, no longer lives to vindicate
the justice of his claim—a loss which my own imperfect
acquaintance with military affairs permits me so inade-
quately to supply; the other, happily for himself and for
his friends, still lives to enjoy the honours and emolu-
ments that have devolved upon him out of the circum-
stances that led to the dispute. As editor of the " Wel-
lington Dispatches," he occupies, moreover, a conspicuous
position, giving him a personal acquaintance with the
leading members of his own profession, and personal in-
terest with many others. These means of influence ho
has not hesitated to use in circulating ex parte state-
ments of the case, apparently in the hope that those by
whom be is opposed, being kept in ignorance of his
moving in it, he may as it were get judgment by default.
With all the disadvantages under which I labour in
advocating the cause, which a conscientious conviction of
its justice, no less than fraternal feeling, leads me to sup-
port, I leave most willingly the army at large, and, so
far as it can have any interest in the subject, an impar-
tial public, to decide between them.

. .
CHARLES MACKIE.
Quarley, Hants, August 16, 1845.

PRICE SD.

Gurwood was not satisfactory, whereas that gallant in-
dividual has stated publicly in a letter to yourself, that
this was a subject on which he had not answered Col.
G urwood at all, leaving the defence of my brother's
claim to me.
As might indeed be expected, from the specimens
given, the only tendency of this letter of Captain Hill
is to obscure the case which he professes to make clear;
as if the only point to he determined was whether or
not Colonel Gurwool got the sword of the Governor,
a fact that never was disputed by my brother and his
friends. It is his haring captured the owner of that
sword that has been, and is, most positively denied.
Giving the decision, however, which, in his letter,
he has pronounced, I beg to ask Captain Hill at what
time he came to be of that opinion, which has enabled
him to do so? Did he ever, let me ask him, during
the three-and-thirty years that have elapsed since the
event which it refers to, hint to one of their fellow-
comrades that he had, himself, a suspicion of its being
otherwise than as my brother represents? Has he,
since the writing of it, ventured to broach the subject
with any of those officers that were present at the assault,
in support of the view which he professes to entertain?
If he answer in the negative, as I know he must, I need
not further ask if, during his lifetime, he ever hinted to
my brother, that he was claiming to himself the credit
of an exploit which he, Captain Hill, believed to be
another's,—a charge he has not hesitated to bring against
his memory, now that he cannot answer for himself, pro-
fessing, while he does so, that he writes, not as an indif-
ferent spectator of the contest, but as one that was his in-
timate and chosen friend.

Consequent upon some private communication with
Count D'Orsay on the subject, as Captain Hill admits,
couched, as it is, in terms studiously calculated to give
support to Colonel Gurwood, at the same time intended
to convey an impression that the bias of his feelings is
on the other side, the writing of that letter must, I am
persuaded, be oven to himself a source of deep regret.
Not, I am aware, from any injury he has thereby done
to the memory of my brother, for that remains intact,
but the injury, which, in seeking to inflict on it, he has
unhappily brought down upon himself.
August 15. C. M.
In revising the preceding observations, after perusing
the paper of Colonel Gurwood, which appears in the
October number of this journal, I see little requiring to
be added to them.

Litera scripta manet, lilera impressa is still more in-
delible; I am therefore entitled to the full force of my
argument, founded on the intention of Colonel Gurwood
to restrict his pamphlet to private circulation, as is ex-
pressed in his preface, and followed up by him, as well
in other respects, as in leaving it without a publisher's
name upon the title-page. This I may remark, notwith-
standing his giving the substance of it in your pages,
subsequent to the time my observations were written, as
shown by the date they bear.
Of Capt. Hill and his evidence, bearing in no way on
the point at issue, were it not rendered even more utterly
valueless for Colonel Gurwood's purpose by the nature of
the circumstances under which he gives it, I had hoped
most sincerely to have taken final leave. lam forced,
however, to allude to them again, Colonel Gurwood
attaching so much importance to the alliance of that
gentleman, as again to quote his testimony to the effect,
that" neither Capt. Hill nor Dr. Arthur, intimate with
Major Mackie at the time, ever heard him say that he
had got the sword."
Now, Sir, I am bound to believe that the statement
here attributed to Capt. Hill was actually made by him;
moreover that it was so made, without any actual violation
of the truth. How then, may the truth be shown to be
consistent with this apparent contradiction ?
There is ono way, and but ono way only, that this can
be done.

Independent of the others who were present at the
assault, the testimony of Mr. Grattan is to this effect:—
" I pressed forward with the crowd towards the citadel,
and I met Mackie returning from it, with the captured
sword in one hand, and his own sword in the other. I
asked him if all was right, for there was still an odd shot
here and there. He replied, 'All is not only right, but
over. Look at this,' said he, as he held up the sword,
' I was the first man at the citadel ; and the Governor
has been sent off to Lord Wellington.' "
Colonel Oates, in his letter, says, " Not being present
myself at the assault of Ciudad Rodrigo, but joining
very soon after, the general conversation among -the
officers of the regiment was the very intrepid and
gallant conduct of Lieut. Mackie, in volunteering the
forlorn hope of the great breach, and being the first
officer at the citadel ; receiving, as he thought, the
Governor's sword in token of surrender, but which
sword proved afterwards to belong to an officer of the
Governor's staff."

-
Does Captain Hill, then, mean to assert by the state-
ment quoted by Colonel Gurwood in your journal, that
he, undoubtedly present at the assault, and of all the
officers of the regiment, even by his own showing, my
brother's most intimate and bosom friend, was the only
one of these who was left in total ignorance of the cir-
cumstances detailed by Major Mackie in his published
narrative, and so amply borne out by the unexception
( able witnesses that were upon the spot ? Though not
I the first to hear of it, as is shown by Mr. Grattan, is it
poisible to suppose that tho matter could remain a sub-
ject of conversation among the officers of the regiment
for any length of time, and, to the best of my remem-
brance and belief, it was not till six weeks after the
assault that they were joined by Colonel Oates, without
the subject having reached the ears of Captain Hill, and
without his curiosity being so far awakened as to lead
him to inquire particulars of his brother officer—that
brother officer his most intimate and bosom friend ?

In other words, for this is the impression which the
publication of this statement is intended to convey, will
he solemnly declare that the fact of a sword being re-
ceived by Majcr Mackie under the circumstances de-
tailed therein, were by him, Captain Hill, unheard of
and unknown until my brother's narrative appeared ?
This is a declaration which, I am confident, he never
made ; what is more, one that he will never venture upon
making. It follows, therefore, that when Captain Hill
assures Colonel Gurwood he never heard Major Mackie
say that he had got the sword, there is soma mental re-
servation ; and the loophole of retreat whereby ho
escapes collision with the truth is, and can be only, that
he never heard him say that he had got the sword of the
Governor. It is, in fact, a mere following up of the
attempt at mystification pursued by Colonel Gurwood,
and fully exemplified by Captain Hill in his letter to
Count D'Orsay, whereby it is sought to keep out of
view the sword delivered up to Major Mackie in token
of surrender, and to make it appear that the only point
at issue is whether or not Colonel Gurwood got posses-
sion of the sword of the Governor. This sword, Captain
Hill may with a safe conscience aver, ho never heard
Major Mackie say that he had got, the gist of whose
complaint, as I have again and again bad occasion to re-
peat, was this—that Colonel Gurwood did get possession
of the sword of the Governor of Ciudad Rodrigo, but not
till the Governor and those that were with him were
prisoners of war to Major Mackie and his party.
Dr. Arthur and his evidence I may dismiss in very
few words. I may safely assert that with that gentle-
man my late brother was never at any time on intimate
terms. That he was at head-quarters of the regiment at
the time of the assault I believe to be more than doubtful.
If he was there present, against his negative evidence
I place the positive testimony of so many others, and I
offer him, moreover, a share of the salvo which must be
found so useful in the case of Captain Hill.
Quarley, Hants, 18th Oct., 1845. C. MACKIE.
In alluding to the conjoint testimony of Captain Hill
and Dr. Arthur, as given by Colonel Gurwood, I regret
to find that, inadvertently, I have fallen into an error as
to the terms in which it is expressed, though one that in
no way affects its substance, or the force of the argument
I have rested on it. C. MACRIE.

;- ~ ~

CORNISH LINES.
(From the West Briton and Co,nwall Adve,fse,.)
Wo have now carefully- examined the plans of the
various projected railways lodged in the office of the
Clerk of the Pe,.ce fur this county, with the view of
°ruling an opinion for ourselves as to the comparative
merits of the various lines, and selecting the one which,
as journalists labouring for the advantage of the public,
we can fairly and honestly say is the most deserving of
general support. In arriving at our opinion, we
have kept out of sight all the preceding disputes
between rival companies : with these we have
nothing whatever to do, our only object being to
endeavour to find out which of the present com-
peting lines it would be most to the advantage of the
county to possess. We now, therefore, feel bound to
say, that we consider the Cornwall and Devon Centrai
to be that line which is best adapted to meet the wants
of the public, and, consequently, most deserving of pub-
do support. We have arrived at this conclusion because
it is shorter in distance—because its gradients are
much superior—and because its curves are less nume-
rous and of greater radius than those of the Cornwall
line. The engineering difficulties are not of any extra-
ordinary character ; and the direction the line takes is
one that affords accommodation to the greater portion of
the county. We think it, besides, superior to its great
competitor, the Cornwall line, in having a direct trunk
communication with Exeter. _

Of the Cornwall Railway, the trunk, or main line, is
from Falmouth to Torpoint Ferry, running into the
water apparently at that place, for the plans suggest no
mode of crossing the Ilamoaze. From New Passage, on
the opposite side of the Hamoaze, it proceeds to Eldad.
There is also an alternative line in the plans, going
through St. Germans to Saltash, crossing the Tamar
there by a bridge, and so on to Eldad. This latter line,
however, is extremely difficult, from the immense via-
ducts necessary to cross the St. Germans and Lynher
rivers—in the space of four miles there being no
fewer than four viaducts on arches of sixty feet
span, varying from thirty to sixty feet in height,
to say nothing of the bridge across the Tamar. This,
let it be observed, is a main line. The means for arriv-
ing at the great desideratum of the county—a direct and
central communication with the metropolis—are, first,
by a branch from Double Bois to Launceston, where it
falls into the proposed North Devon line, by which it is
taken along the margin of Dartmoor until it arrives at
a point in the parish of Exhourne, where a branch line
is thrown out to Crediton, joining the line thence to
Exeter—the North Devon line going on by way of
Bideford and Barnstaple to Hilifarance, in Somerset-
shire, where it joins the Bristol and Exeter line.
We beg particularly to direct our readers' attention
to this mode of forming the communication with Exeter
—first, by a branch from the Cornwall line to Launces-
ton, and then by another branch from the North Devon
line to Creditou. The important fact connected with
these branches is, that after the Bill has been obtained
for the main line, including these branches, the parties
may, if they think fit, abandon the branches altogether.
The public have, therefore, no seeerity that the central
and direct communication with the metropolis will be
made. This seams to us so very important, that if in
other particulars the Cornwall line had been equal, or
even superior, to the Cornwall and Devon Central, we
should have been inclined to give our support to the
latter line on this ground alone.
In order that we may put the public in possession of the
route pursued by these two lines, we may state that
they both start from nearly the same point at Falmouth
—the Green Bank Quay—and pursue nearly the same
direction towards Truro, another portion of the trunk
of the central line from Penzance joining the Falmouth
portion about Penwethers. Near Bosvigo, in Kenwyn,
the two lines diverge—the Cornwall line going through
Castle Hill, Truro, into St. Clement, Probus, Ladock,
St. Stephens, St. Mewan, St. Austell, St. Blazey, Par,
Tywardreath, Lanlivery, Lostwithiel—runing through
the lower part of the town, and crossing the river just
above the bridge—on through St. Winnow and Lanhy-
drock to Glynn Bridge, whence a branch leads into &A-
min, intended to communicate with the Bodmin and
Wadebridge Railway, now in the possession of the Cen-
tral Company, and to go thence to Padstow. From Wynn
Bridge it follows on the line of the present turnpike-
road, through the valley to Thiubleboys, or Dubwalls, as
it is more commonly called, where the branch to Laun-
ceston is thrown off ; then getting down into the valley
of the Looe, it forms a junction with the Liskeard
and Caradon Railway under Moorawater. „Passing
about half a mile south of Liskeard, it then goes
through Menheniot and St. Germans ; and a little after
it has entered the latter parish is the point where the
line branches off to Saltash. But, pursuing the main
trunk to Torpoint, it runs along the north side of Pol-
bathick creek, crosses Polscove creek, and into the Lyn-
her river, running along the bank thereof, crossing
Sheviock creek, and coming up to the back of Antony
village, after which it crosses part of St. John's Lake
and goes thence into Torpoint. The principal deviation
from the direction of the former Cornwall line, it will
be seen, is from Falmouth to Truro, and a little beyond;
but the loudly and deservedly condemned route by Par
and the valley of the Fowey is still preserved.
The Cornwall and Devon Central line has two starting
points—the Green Bank at Falmouth, and the New
Quay, Penzance. These two routes unite, as we have
already stated, at Penewethers, in the parish of Kea,
from thence running through part of Ilendra, near
Truro, and passing under Kenwyn Vicarage, on through
the parishes of Kenwyn, St., Allen, St. Erme, New-
I 5 n, St. Enoder, through Summercourt—keeping
little to the north of the turnpike-road—St. Columb
Major, Roche. Crossing to the south of the road, a
branch to St. Austell is thrown out near the spot
where the old and new turnpike-roads divide.
The main line then goes through a part of Withiel,
Lanivet, Lanhydrock, to near Carminow cross,
where it will be intersected by the proposed ex-
tension of the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway, which
will be continued to Padstow in one direction, and to
Plymouth in the other, having a station in the town of
Bodmin. It then passes on through Cardinham, Blis-
land, and St. Breward, to Poundsconce, by Hawkes
Torr, and Bray Down, to St. Cleather, Laneast, Trewen,
Egloskerry, St. Stephens, and St. Thomas, into New-
port ; then crossing the Tamar into Werrington, it
takes a pretty direct line to Hatherleigh, Bow, Creditors,
Newtown St. Cyres, and Cowley, forming a junction
with the Yeovil and Dorchester Railway at their termi-
nus in Exeter.

This description may serve to give as accurate an
idea of the direction taken by these two lines of railway
as can be done without the help of a map. By it, it will
be seen, that the Cornwall and Devon Central Railway
forms, what we have always contended for—the most
speedy, direct, and central communication with the me-
tropolis ; and that it does so, taking care to provide
proper accommodation for every important place lying
near the direction of the line. These conditions are not
fulfilled by any other of the competing lines ; and,
therefore, we consider the Cornwall and Devon Central
line to be that which is best entitled to general support.
The following is a list of the projected lines, the plans
and sections of which have been lodged at the office of
the Clerk of the Peace for this county:—
Truro and St. Agnes Railway.
West Cornwall.
Plymouth and North Cornwall.
Launceston and South Devon.
North Devon.
Cornwall and Devon Central.
Direct Western.
Cornwall.
Great Western and Falmouth Junction.
Falmouth, Helston, and Penzance.
Delabole and Rock.
The first two of these plans were deposited on Saturday,
and the remaining nine on Sunday, the bearer of one of
them having arrived at St. Austell only five minutes be-
fore twelve on Sunday night, after performing the dis-
tance from London in less than thirteen hours.