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London, England, 1808-01-28 00:00:00

the report to the main body (an efcort being necef
fary, from the uncommon vigilance and a&ivity of
the enemy), and therefore the tranfmiffion of the
report would have occupied &knoll as much time as
the advance of the main body would have taken ;
at the fame time making allowa•ce for the longer
period required by a larger body to march a given
dillaece.

THITD DAY.
Gazers! G ow at' s examinat

Q Were tau ever informed that the Etyth Regi-
ment would not join you ? A. I never received any
information on that fubjed fubfequent to the delivery
of the order by Lieutenant Colonel Burke.
Q Having been informed by Colonel Burke that
General Whitelocke was to fuppert you with his
whole army, when and where did you receive infor-
mation that he wa. not following your line of march,
and could not fupport you ? A. I did not receive
any information that General Whitelocke was not
following my line of march ; but when I croffed the
Chuello with my divifion, I could, with a fprglafs,
dillinguith the principal divifion of the army on the
heights at a very cnnfiderable distance, and Co great
that I was convinced there did not remain fufficient
daylight to enable them to join my divifion.
Q Had you any knowledge whether there was or
was not a referve formed independent of the divilions
under you and General Whitelocke ? A. I had no
knowledge on that fohjeCt whatever.
Q. What was the general face of the country
through which you marched, was it open, inclofed,
woody, or m ,untainous ? A. From the pofitiont I
took upon the night of the t It, it was perfectly open,
v.ithout even a hedge of any fpecies. The ground '
had a very gentle accent from the Chuello to the
village of ReduCtion—thefe heights appeared to ex-
tend in a direCtion nearly parallel to the courfe of the
Chuello. During that part of the march we hid to
croft a very confiderable number of boggy places,
which rendered the paffage of carriages difficult.—
croffed the Chuello, the first two miles, or
thereabouts of the march, was through meadows.l
&ant of them were wet, but firm. We then afcended I
Come heights, and hum thence to the Coral the coun-
try
was particularly hong enclofed with thick banks
and very clote hedges.
Q.._ What was the dillance from the Chuello to the
Coral of Miferari ? A. I do not know by admea-
furement—it occupied me three hours to march it,
and I thonld think it between fix and feven mile,.

Can you tell about what diflance it is from
the bridge over the Chu:llo to the Chico paG ? A. 1
cannot.

Q Can you tell how many days provifion yrur
diviiron had when you commenced your march
from Enfenada to the fuburbs of Buenos Ayres ?
A. We had three days beef and bread, and one day's
fpirits when we landed.
Q Did you receive any fupplies of prnvifions
from the main body, or from the fleet, during your
march from Enfetiada to Buenos Ayres ? A. None,
except a very fmall quantity of fpirits, which a
fuhaltern officer, of the 36ih regimen►, brought up
for the use of his own corps ; the other regiments
received none.

Q.. Did you obtain any fupply of provilions from
the country during your march ? A. On the zBth
none ; on the z9th and 3oth, two peonies, (peafants,
of the country) who were in the fervice of Geu. Lum
ley, caught low:- few bullocks. On the 111 the men
had nothing till I came to my ration at night ; haw.
ing afterwards captured tome fheep, they were deli
acre(' to the troops. In driving the enemy from Re-
dodiun, I gat a ft:nail quantity of bread, but fo fmall
as hardly to be worth dividing On the zd I had no
provifions : the tefillt of my fuccefs on that night
was the capture of tome bollocks in the Coral, and
of about as much bread as would ferve two divilions
of the army two days, as was reported to me to be
the amount ; but it came into my poffeffion fo late
in the night, that none of it could be ferved till the
morning of the 33.
Q., Had you any information of the main body r f
the ipanifb army on the ad ? A. I have already
Mated that I taw large budies of infantry on the op
~,(ite hank of the Chuello ; whether they compofed
I,le main body of the Spann army or not, I do not
inow, having had no other infoimatien on the fubjcd.
When General Whitelocke came up to the
main body on the 3d, did you receive any informa-
tion from him refpeding the reserve? A. He or•
dered me to form the army in line, and then I dif-
covetA that the 4oth Regiment, and tyth Light
Dragoons, of Colonel Mahon's brigade, were abfent.
Qz_ Was you informed by General Whitelrcke
svliefe thole tegiment. were gone? A. Subfequently
at his own quarters he informed me that he had left
them in the village of Redudion, but for what pur-
pole I never clearly undo-flood.
Qz_. What did Colonel Mahon's brigade eonfill of
betides the ryth Light Dragoons, and the 4oth
Toot? A. I really am not fore whether the four dif•
mounted troops of Carabineers were with him or not
—it is right that I fitould add that this was the ar-
rangement the lafi time I had communication with
the main divilion. _

Q.:. WAS any communication opened with that
reserve under Colonel Mahon between your juiltlion
with the main body on the 3d, and the period of the
attack ? A. None that I ever heard of.

Q._ What inforsnation relpeaing the enemy's
force and other arrangements did you obtain from
the prifoners taken on the ad ? A. I obtained myfelf
very little—l was ',relent at very few of their exa-
minations. The outline of the information I got,
was, that at mid dap of the ad the whole of the
enemy's attention and force was dire:led to the fea
line of Buenos Ayres, nr rather the line of the Plata
—that about that time it was reported they intended
moving their guns, and drawing the principal part'
of their force towards the cer.tre of the town, to de-
fend their Greets by moveable cnl.•amns• . _

() By whom were the prifoners examined ? A.
They were examined at General Whitclocke's quar-
ters. I believe generally by himfelf.
(.Was... there any examination of the prifoners
prtitous to General Whitelocke's arrival with the
main body ? A. No regular examination by myfell.
I (poke to feveral, but their infermatien fecund In
little litisfadory, from their own Qatement, that the
enemy were in the at of adoptingnew meafures when
they marched, that I did not give myfelf much
trouble.

Q, State whether any and what omens werel
taken between the jundit n of the main ho3y on the
3d, and the attack on the sth, in order to fecnre the I
(*occurs of the fubfequent operations of the army
againtt the town ? A. The queltion is fo general it
is utterly impoffible for me to anfwer it. I can know
nothing but that which pallid in my own mind.
tZ What meafures were taken by the General to
your knowledge ? A. General Whitelocke ordered
that all officers commanding brigades and regiments
timid attend at his quarters on the morning of the
4th ; when there, the orders were delivered to them,
which were to be put in execution on the next morn-
ing, and they were direlted togain every information
they could of the particular portion of the town which
would fall to their fh ire in the firft inUance during
the attack. All the tools which .could be c )Ileeted,
and applicable to forcing the doors were direlted to
be fearched for. The detail of that attack was pub.
tithed in General Whitelocke's letters, and I cannot
fufficienily recolleet the minute part of it to venture
to detail it from memory.
Q.:. Was the plan of that attack communicated by
General Whitelocke to any one, to your knowledge,
previous to this meeting on the 4th ? A, Certainly,
it was to myfelf, and I have reafon to believe, to
feveral others.

On what day ? was it the 3d or 4th ? A. On
the evening of the 3d to me, but generally on the
morning ct the 4th.
Q.. Did not the command of the army devolve on
you, had any thing happened to GeneralWhiteloeke?
Certainly, according to the cußom of the fervice,
bu t not in confequence of any dormant commitlion,
or any provilion for that purpore.
Qz_Had you foch confidential communication with
General Whitelocke of the intentions of Government
in fending out this expedition, and of GeneralWhite-
locke's plans and operations, as to have enabled you
to carry them into execution ? A. General White•
locke was pleafed to thew me the inftruefions under
which be was to aft at an catty period of the voyage
—they were voluminous, and I have a very indif.
tin& recolleklion of the matters they contained.. I
have plready Rated, that I have never heard of any
thong like a plan of operations in the River Plata.
Q,Were you ever formally appointed fecond in
command, or have yon a letter of fervice to that
effect ? A. I had no other letter of fervice than that
of Major General on the Staff : on my arrival with
General Whirelocke at Munte Video, in notifying
to the troops his appointment as Commander in
Chief, he defcribed me as Major General, and fecond
in command. In the latter part of the fervice I
commanded a Brigade.
[Here the infiruetionis of the 4th of July were
read,]
Qz_Can yon Rate to the Court why the attack was
not made on the 4th ? A. Not correetly.
Q. Did you receive any, and what information
from General Whitelocke on that point ? A. On
the 4th, when the ()triers were given our, it appeared
to be the general with of the Officers who corn
manded divitions to have the remainder of that day
to reconnoitre their pointb. and then it was I believe,
that General Whitelocke fixed the fubfequent morn-
ing far the attack. I have already Rated that he in-
formed me that he would fummon the town a fecond
time before he attacked it. He did fo on the morning
of the 4th.
Q._ Having Rated that General Whilelocke joined
you at two o'clock on the 3d ; can you tell why the
town was not fummoned that fame evening ? A. I
cannot. _ .

[We believe General Gower's examination on the
part of the profecution ended here.]
The Court was cleared in order to del;berate as
to the manner in which the witnefs was to be crofs
examined, and the Members remained in deliberation i
for half an hour. On our re admiffion General
Gower's c,ofs examination began.
Zuefiienr by General WH IT ELPC RH.
0., Did the information you received, or your
own knowledge of the difpufitions of the inhabitants,
induce you to think it was unfafe to leave any (mall
detachment at Colonic A. Colonia was neatly
deferted ; its inhabitants were therefore of no mo-
; the information I had alluded to confiderable
bodies of armed men, which had appeared in the
neighbourhood.

O What were the difpofitions of the inhabitants
towards us ; and was any readinefs 'hewn to afford
us either affillance or informatioß even fn the moll
private way ? A. More implacably hottile than I
did conceive it poffible, until I faw it ; except one
fmuggler, who was, I think, by birth a Portugnefe,
I do not believe there was one man really attached
to the B,itilh cattle in Spanilh America, fo far as my
information goes.
Q Were not the civil authorities, who had been
noticed as promoting the infurreetion againtl General
Beresford, particularly ? A. I certainly con-
fidered 1., and under flood that the Court of Audien•
cia had ufurped nearly the whole authority in that
country.

Q._ Did you not confider the Court nf Audiencia
as part of the Civil Authorities alluded to in the
furnmnns ? A. I did.

[Here General Whitelocke informed the Court,
that as he had form documents to produce in the
courfe of his defence, to which he fhould have occa•
Pion to call for General Gower's evidence once more,
he (horrid decline putting any more queltions at
prefent.
The Judge Advocate then informed the Court that
his examination of General Gown was concluded,
and that any Member of the Court was now at liberty
to put what quetlions he pleafed to the Witnefs.)
o.2ellions by General Sir Joan MOORS.
Q Did General Whitehxke inform you how your
Corps was to be fupplied with provifions, after the
provifions allowed were expended ? A. I had no
orders on the fubjea.
Q After your arrival with the Commander in
Chin at Monte Video, in what manner was the in-
terval employed ; and what meafures were adopted
in enable the army to proceed to the attack of Buenos
Apes-1 mean, what information was obtained as
to the country to be palled over ; what meafures
were adopted to procure bodes for the cavalry, ar•
riflery, and for the tranfport of provifions ? A. Ge•
neral Whitclocke arrived in the Plata on the gth of
May, on the s I th he took the command of the troops.
The force was then divided into two divifions ; the
one Rationed at Colonia under Lieutegant•Colonel
Pack, of the 7111 regiment, codified of a fault de-

team nt of artillery, a few dragnents inmate& three
compaoies of the 95th regiment, the light companies
4f the 38th, 4oth, 47th, and 87th regiments, and
four or five companies of the 4oth, belies their
light company. The other divifion of the army oc-
cupied Monte Video, with its fuburbs and lonic de-
tached polls. On the ioth of May, General White-
locke ordered me to communicate to Rear Admiral
Stirling, then the Senior Officer of the Navy in the
Plata, that he wifhed an arrangement of tranfports
to be made, for the reception of 10,000 men on their
paffage towards Buenos Ayres, for tonnage for 18
pieces of light artillery, with their propoctiln of
ammunition, for two batteries of heavy artillery,
and, I believe, for provilions for 21 days, for the
10,000 men. The climates from the Officers at the
heads of each branch of the fervice were callefted,
both for dead weight and flowage, and delivered to
Rear Admiral Stirling. All the bodes that could
be obtained on the left bank of the Plata, between
Colonia and Monte Video, were procured. The
enemy's patties had driven that country with loch
fuccefs, that very few of a tolerable defcription re-
mained ;and even thofe which were procured, never
having been acculomed to eat either dry forage or
corn, were extremely ill calculated for embarkation.
Eight tranfports were cleared for the reception of
fuch horfes as could be procured ; and General
Whitelocke called upon all the Britifh fubjals pre-
fent, whether officers or civilians, to give up all the
horfes that could platy be (pared, fir the public
fervice. What numbers were proctored in this way
I do not know ; they did not pals through my hands;
nor do I know to which of the fervices, in at tillery,
cavalry, or commiffatiat, thole horfea were diflribu-
ted. On the 24th of May there was a report of a
force •of the enemy, eflimated at 4000 men, having
croffed from Buenos Ayte., and it was Rated that
the merchants had loft all power of tranfmiiting
their merchaollize into the country, in confequence
of its being ct nflantly plundered by there Teo*.
On the t zth of June Lieutenant Colonel Packhonfe,
who commanded the out polls at Camels, retreated
on Monte Video, from the number r f the enemy
that appeared in that neighbourhood. During the
whole of this period, the Garrifon of Monte Video
was employed in embarking the vat ions fibres, and
in furnifhing the large working parties that were
commanded for the repaiting and adding to the de-
fences of the place. I was prefent at General White-
locke's quarters at various periods during that time,
when he examined three or four men, who profeffed
that they knew the country between the Enfenacir
and Buenos Ayres, and all the variou. points on
which it was polible to land. On the arrival of the
Fly Hoop of war, Lieutenant Colonel Burke was Pent
up the river to reconnoitre the banks ; he returned
on the 28th of May, and reported from his ohferva
tions, that the Enfenado Barragon appeared to be the
moil advantageous place for laniling, and that the
enemy did not at that time appear to be at all jealous
of us.

Q Were any meafrires taken to family the army
with provificros beyond the three days a llwance car-
ried by the men ? A. None that Ikn w of.
Q. Was it communicated in orders, ot in any other
manner to you, what was the movement of the rell
of the army, when you were ordered to advance, on
the 29th and 3oth ? A On the 2Th I was ordered
not to move till the main divition of the army came
up to my point ; on the gosh the fame thing. General
Whitelocke then afked me if I could reach Reduction
that night ; I (aid it was impotale for me to tell,
but I would try. He then informed me he would
remain with the main divifion at the point from
which I was then going to march. When I had
marched about four miles, I found the battalions of
General Lumley's brigade fo totally exhaulled, that
if I had advanced farther, I (liquid have left the
greater proportion of the men behind. I reported
that circumstance to General Whitelocke, he appro
ved of what I did in !laying there, and ordered me
to remain till he joined me next morning. General
Whitelocke joined me between nine and ten on the
IR of July, and the two divifions marched together
fur a lhort &lance it was evident that the column
would have been very late, when it pared Reduction.
The men, particularly of General Lumley's brigade,
were very much exhaufled a ndGeneral Whitelocke,in
order to give them a chance of getting on with to
lerable rapidity, ordered all the blankets of the army
to be thrown down, and that with the men thus
lightened, I Should attempt to pt towards the
Chuello beyond of ReduCtion, leaving the village to
be occupied by liimfelf with the main divilion.