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COURT I).' !Me! 111 T itiCHELSE4I.

VA/AM DAY.

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. r, .1:: (aix/mad/rm. the 3rist ejesiertlai.) -
The Along ADVOCATE read the questions proposild
by the Court, with the written answers given tothem,
'in the following order :
V. When did you receive orders to take the com.
mand of the troops at Cork ?—A. I received those orders
on the 12th of June. I had subsequently instructions
from the Secretary of State on the 30th, which reach-
ed me at Dublin on the Sd of ityly. in consequence
of these instructions, I set out on the sth, and arrived
ACC:irk the 6th of that month.
Q. When did you sail from Cork ? and what was
the number of troops you had at that time with you ?
—A. On the letb of July I sailed from Cork, with
about 9000 men, including 800 cavalry, of which 180
were mounted.
Q. What were the instructions under which you
sailed ?—A. The orders are before the Court, both
from the Commander-in-Chief and the Secretary of
State. I have copies of some of them, but others are
^ftnislaid. The ,principal object was to attack the
7French on the banks of the Tagus, but I was autho-
-Trize4 to- pursue other designs, at my own discretion,
if. Itthought a 'variation would be for' the 'benefit of
Spain and Portugal.
Q. What were the particulars of your progress qn-
til you arrived at Mondego Bay ?—The particulars
are in the dispatches of the 21st and 26th of July, and
of the Sln of August. What is deficient there is
supplied in the narrative.
9, What detenuined you to disembark in Wa-
des° Bay ? What led you to remain there until the
9th,' and then to proceed towards Lisbon ?—A. The
reasons are assigned in the dispatches in my letter to
Sit Harry Berrard, and in my narrative. The par-
ticular reason of my remaining until the 9th, and p_ro-
eeeding then to Lisbon, are in the dispatches of the
SOth July and Bth August, in the letters to Sir Harry
Barrard of the Bth and 10th August, and in my nar•
iye.

Q. When you had arrived, in Mondego Bay,
what reinforcements did you expect ? Did troops
join you there ? and in what number ?—A. I had a
letter from the Secretary of State of the 15th July,
V, .ch I knew that General Anstruther had been
d to sail, and that Sir Harry Burrard had sail-
.ed with 10,000 men.

Q. On the 19th of August, what knowledge had
jou of the reiriforcen.ent ?—A. I had nothing further
official.

Q. Why did you march on the 10th, before the
arrival of reinfdrcements ?—A. The objects are stated
in the dispatches and narrative. I had about 12,300
troops, rank and file, end the Portuguese corps con-
' sisted of 6000. Then there were 1500 Spaniards,
and an equal number of the levy of Oporto.
Q. What was your progress when in the neighbour-
hood of the enemy ?—A. I was with the army on the
10th at Lo.f.hina and on the 14th at Ahobaca, and
on the 15th at Caldas.

We shall here state in a more abridged form the
answers in writing to the subsequent question, be-
cause many of them were resumed in another form,
and answered more fully in the posterior-examination
under the direction of Lord Moira.

The written depositions of Sir Arthur farther said,
that the Bishop of Oporto-had promised tupplieskbut
that a separate contract was entered into in case
of deficiency. The detail repeated what was before
said, of the incompetency of the horses, and mention-
ed the artillery which was drawn by them. The sol-
diers had 60 rounds of powder, 90 mules were laden
with 2000 each, and 500,000 were in all the carts
-taken together. On the 20th, the army had consu-
Jima fourteen days bread, but the communication was
still open with she fleet. We had an accession of
:4000 men, and yet on the following day we had nine
days bread. The number of the cavalry of the enemy
was from twelve to fourteen hundred. The British
rind rortugucse cavalry consisted.of 210 of the one,
sod 260 of the other. -

Lord MOIRA said, that he had some questions to
pTe, which arose out of the proceedings, as far as
the had been hitherto conducted; yet nothing could
befarther from his intention than to put the honour-
able person to whom these questions would be pro-
posed in any other situation than that of ;respectable
Officer in his Majesty's service. Suliitantial justice
was the only thing there pursued, and it was a duty
they owed to their country and their Sovereign, to ac-
quit ; and for the discharge of that duty they were•
under a serious responsibility. It was under these
imqressions. that be should address to that officer the
Interrogatories the occasion demanded ; and if any of
them should be of a nature that required time for the
consideration of the answer, or if the Honourable Of-
ficer should think fit to decline to give any reply at
all, he begged that no unfavourable concluston Might
be drawn from his refusal. • The operations in Por-
tugal Sir Arthur Wellesley undertook, and said he
determined to give that direction to the force under
his command, after having held a conference with the
Junta of Gallicia.

In this stage of the observations of the NobJleitinrii
some remarks were made by the president; when,
Lord Moira suggested that the Court should be clear-
ed, if Sir David Dundas had any commein to make
on the course in which he *was proceeding. This pro-
position was not adopted, and the Judge Advocate
stated the questions to Sir Arthur Wellesley under
the direction of Lord Moira.

Q. Had Sir Arthur Wellesley any communication
with Santander, or any means of knowing what was
the disposition of the inhabitants of Biscay as to re-
ceiving the assistance of the British array ?—A. I was
at Coranna when I received a letter from Sir Thomas
Dyer, who was employed by his Majesty's Govern-
mtnt in communicating with the Junta of Oviedo, in
which lett* Sir Thomas Dyer ;nforMed me, that he
had held out hopes to the *Junta of Oviedo that the
troops under my command would land in Asturias ;
and he informed me that the communication had been
received with satisfaction by the Junta of Oviedo,
and he rather urged me to disembark at Santander, in
order that I Might attack a French corps which at
time had got possession of that city. I commit-
led upon this subject, among others, with the
of Gallicia, who I conceived were interested
ie position of the French corps at Santander;
was informed by them that such measures 'were
i as were likely to be effectual, to drive the FrenCh
Santander, which measures afterwards proved

to be successful. Lbad nn communication whatever
with the people of Biscay, which province, as I under-
stood at that time, was not in a state of insurrection.
Q. Had you any correspondence with the Spanish
Generals, and did you state in them the intpoi tauce
cif preventing the entrance of reinforcements of French
ttodps in Spam I bad no communication with
the sp'anish Generals:
' Q. bid you consider the army under your com-
mand adequate to-. the dispersion of Junot's force,
when you advised Sir Harry Burrard to march to
cut off the enemy's retreat I did consider the
force which marched under my command, to be suffi-
cient to drive the French from Lisbon, an i from the
forts upon the Tagus.
Q. What alteration, if any, did you make in that
opinion in consequence of the arrival of the division
of the French army ?—A. No alteration whatever,
in respect to the actual capacity of the army to ob-
tain a possession of Lisbon, and of the forts of the
Taus.
Q. You have stated that yon undertook to supply
the Portuguese troops. Is it true that the country
afforded a sufficiency of provisions for the wants of
the army, if due means had been applied to collect
deem ?—A. The country afforded us no provisions ex-
cepting beef and wine : and I believe, that from the
time I landed in Portugal, to the time I quitted the
army on the .sth September, the troops received only
the biscuit 1 have stated in my narrative, and a small
quantity of bread that was left by the French at twa
places ; and, besides these, after I had given up the
command, a small quantity of flour was obtained;
which had likewise been left behind by the French.
While I commanded the army, this bread supplied
the consumption of the Portuguese troops, 1650 in
number, who were without any ; and afterwards, I.
I believed, the Officers received some bread from the
Commissariat; but I am of opinion, upon the whole,
that no exertions would have drawn from the Portu-
guese a supply of bread sufficient for that army.
My opinion, stated in my letter, and in the explana-
tion to my letter, went to the arrangement and the
distribution of the supplies, as well as the collection
of them. •

Lord Moira made an interlocutory remark, after
which the Judge Advocate continued the 'interroga-
tories.

• Q. To what extent was the flour, wine, beef, Ind'
otter provisions supplied by the country L.A. Wine
was procured in alniost every village in sufficient
quantity for one, two, or three days consumption
probably; but I have seen wine exhausted in more
than one instance, when the army has halted more
than ohe or two days. in the same place; and I believe
that latterly the Commmissary General
.wat not able
to supply the troops with wine. As long as I coin-
man4ed the army, there was no want of fresh beef ;
and as there were carts of the country drawn by bul-
locks,. draught cattle might have been killed for the
use of the troops. But without resorting to this ex-
pedient, we very soon found that the supply of cattle
was not sufficient in Portugal for a large army ; and,
in point'of fact, before I quitted the army, a very
large proportion of the food (I think more than half)
was in salt provisions, and, I believe, the whole af.
terwards. The cattle on which the army under my
command was fed, were supplied under a contract
with a Mr. Archer, and another Gentleman ; and
excepting 10 or 12 head received at one place, and
the same number at Caldas, 7-do not recollect that
the country ever supplied any_
Sir Anytime iras then asked whether the different
Juntas of Spain were not, as far as he eiiuld fauna.
judgment, hostile to the co-operation of British troops
with their armies ?

Sir Attu:loß WELLESLEY replied, that he did un-
derstand that the Junta of Gallicia was not desirous
of having the co-operation of tha British army with
their force tinder General Blake ; they had, however,
no objection to his landing in Spain, and even recom-
mended him to.land at Vigo, as being the only harbour'
on the Western peninsula capable of sheltering the
tramports between Corunna and the mouth of the
Tagus. He also understood that the Junta of Seville, I,
and the persons in authority in the province of Anda-
lusia, had no very great desire that the corps of Ge-'
neral Spencer should act in conjunction With the army
of General Castanos ; although
.they were desirous
that they should land at Port St. Mary, where they
might be able eventually to cover the retreat of Ge-
neral Castanos, in case he should be defeated by the
foe.. In explanation, he begged leave to say that his'
opinion was founded from his correspondence with
the Generals of Gallicia, who stated, that, as far as
related to them, it was their most anxious desire that
he -should carry on his operations in Portugal, and
drive the French from that country ; and after that
was done, they said the British army would form the
proper point of connexion between the Northern and
Southern armies of Spain.
He was then asked, whether he had similar advices
from the other Juntas? to which he replied in the ne
gative.
He was then asked whether, in his opinion, the
expulsion of the French from Portugal was an impor.!
tant advantage to the cause of Spain ?
Sir ARTHUR replied, that in his opinion it was an,
object of the greatest consequence to the Spanish na-
Lion. He had no doubt whatever but that if the ap-'
prehension,of the employment of the disposable force-I
of this country in Portugal had been removed from!
the minds of the French Generals, they would havel
removed a very large proportion of the French army',',
of Portugal into Spain. •
Captain MALcoi.m, of the Donegal! man •of war,'
was then examined, and asked, whether there were
any, and what difficulties to impede the landing of
troops, Ufsses, and artillery, on thecoast of Portugal,
during the time that he,had a command there ?
Captain MALCOLM answered, that during the
months of August'and September there was a great
difficulty in debarking troops, stores, and artillery,
on the inhospitable coast-between Oporto and the
mouth of the Tagus. During these pnontl4 there was'
almost always a swell, which occasioned a consider-
able surf on the beach. At Mondego there was a
river, but at the Mouth of it there was a bar, where
there was also a Considerable surf there were but
few country boats to be procured upon the coast;
but at Mondego they were able to get a pretty consi-1
de,:able supply of boats of the country, schooners, &c.
to facilitate. a landing. He knew no other place be-
tween. Oporto and the mouth of the !taps which
afforded so much facility for a debarkation. Some
boats, he believed, Opt also have been pi9cdrcd

.Maceira and. Peniche 1 an 4 perhop. Itiattdiairoiotht
have been effected at either of,those places, ugh
not With such facility, As to the Mondego country ,
boats, they could be anti. use in any other part, and
it was not possible to proceed williThem to the South-
ward. The whole coast was mach expwd to the
Western breeze, but the entrance into Mondego Bay
was tolerably safe. The wind in the month of Au-
gust changed, off that coast, from North to West
and Southwest.
Sir ARTHUR WELLISLEY asked the witness whe-
ther he recollected any night in the month of August, !
when be was obliged to put to sea in the Donegan,'
from Maceira, and give the signal to the transports to
weigh anchor ; and whether he did not also recollect
how many of the transports lost their anchors upon
that occasion ?
Captain MALCOLM answered, that on the 30th of
August, the wind changed to the South-west ; that
he weighed anchor himself, and gave the signal to
the fleet, consisting of about 240 transports, to do the
same. About one half of them succeeded in getting
under weigh, but the others were obliged to remain
at anchor till the next day. When he returned to
Maceila Roads, he found that about sixty of the con-
voy had lost their anchors in attempting to weigh ;
and he had no doubt, that if the fresh breeze had in-
creased to a common gale, many of them must have
been lost, as they were reduced to their last anchors,
and their bottoms were rotten. As to Sir John Moore's
:mops, he thought they were very badly found, and
-that the transports which conveyed them were by no
means equal to beating for a long time off a lee-shore.
As to the entrance into Mondego river, it was only
practicable for vessels that did not draw more than
eleven feet water. He knew the whole coast of Por-
. tugal from Oporto to Lisbon : there was tolerable
• shelter from the westerly breeze at Peniche, but the
• anchorage was by no means good. The Mondego
river would admit at one time of 25 vessels, drawing
not more than 11 feet water.
_ _

Captain Malcolm was then asked as to the loss of
fiat.bottomed boats during the landing? He replied,
that there were about 20 lost, and seven or eight men
drowned. At the time he left Maceira Roads, he
could not find in the whole fleet more than '2O or 30
boats which were fit for service.
SIR HEW DALRYhIPLE'S NARRATIVE.

Sir HEW DALRYMPLE then proceeded to read the
paper given in to the Court as the narrative of his
proceedings front the time of his being appointed to
the chief command of the British army in Portugal:
This command bad been conferred on him, as ap.
peared from Lord Castlereagh's official letter, in con-
sequence of the high approbation which the zeal and
judgment displayed by him in forwarding the cause
of the SEaniards was held by the Government of this
country. The instructions which he received were
before the Court ; and although from Dupont having
in the mean time been beat, the views of his appoint-
ment must have undergone some change, he did not
feel himself entitled ever to throw out of his mind
that to cut off so lirge a body of French troops, and
to prevent them from retreating into Spain, there to
take part against the Spanish nation, was an object
never to be lost sight of by him. On the 13th he
embarked, and afterwards had a communication with
Lord Collingwood. Joseph Bonaparte, he knew, had
retreated from Madrid, 'but observing that this was a
voluntary retreat, it was by no means apparent that
it was not made for the purpose of offensive opera,
dons, and to take advantage of the disjointed state of
the Spanish army, in consequence of the defeat they
had experienced at Rio Seco.
On the 19th he arrived off the Tagus, and commu-
nicated with Sir Charles Cotton. Sir -Charles he
found made a very moderate estimate of the French
force. He seemed to think that nothing serious was
to be expected in Portugal. He (Sir Hew Dalrymple)
however, confessed, that he viewed the matter very
differently, and that he places', more reliance on the
information he had received from Lord Collingwood,
by whicl,; the French troops in Lisbon were estimated
at 20,000 men. From the moment he had left Lord
Collingwood he had reflected on the line of conduct he
ought to pursue, and the result of this deliberation had
been, not by any act of his to supersede Sir Arthur
Wellesley in a command for which he seemed to have
been specially selected. He saw no cause why he should
take on himself an unnecessary responsibility, by in.
terfering with the proceedings of an Officer purposely
and specially selected for the particular business in
hand, whom he knew to posses the confidence and
special directions of Government, and who was by his
military knowledge and experience highly qualified
for the command. Here he felt himself called on col
state an additional reason for his having come to this
determination. •He had received a letter (he did not
know if he could call it a private one) from Lord
Castlereagh, instructing him in a particular manner
to cultirate the confidence, and at all times to profit
'by the advice of Sir A. Wellesley. That he migle,
expect much assistance, equally from his prudence
and temper, as from his knowledge, courage, and
experience. He saw, therefore, the fairness as well
as expediency of leaving to him the completion of the
plan he had so gallantly and' so successfully com-
menced. On his landing he accordingly sent his aid-
du-camp to inform Sir Arthur, that he was on his
**ay to join the main body, but that though he should
wish to be informed of their proceedings, it was not
his intention to interfere in the management of the
operations which were going on. He must here state,
, that though Sir A. Wellesley had addressed to him
official accounts of his proceedings down to this period,
they had never come to hand, and he landed without
' any information whatever on that head. On joining
the main body on the 22d, he foundthem on thegronnd
they had occupied the day before. He saw the necessity
of removing from that spot ; but why the army did not
advance he knew not, nor did be feel any thing perso-
nal to himself on that subject. He found the state of
matters to be something similar to what he had expec-
ted, and after making every allowance for the great ad-
vantages which the Britith forces had gained over the
enemy in the battle of the preceding day, and the great
additional loss al' the enemy in killed, wounded, &c.
he could not forbear from seeing, that these advan-
tages were at least counterbalanced by the inferiority
of the British cayalry. In the evening General Kel-
lerman arrived. At this time he (Si; Hew Dalrym-
ple) knew nothing of the number and efficiency of the
enemy, or of out own troops ; and all the information
he acquired' on the subject was derived froni Sir Ar-
thur Wellesley in the obtervations made by him in
the cootie of thy the ardcla of the

prelognerf-Treati, which iminediAl
[The narrative proceeds to enter
I
the preliminary Convention, win
vindicates in the ;articular
canton. The words « private
Kellerman pledged himself at
noderstood in their strict mcaninh
wo account be understood to erttnd
The endurance of the armistice

Hew DarTrnple's) object to el
f►sed for it, to give time for
Moore's division. As to the

net believe that General Kellerman
give it ups but the whole seamen di
6000. Had he (Sir Hew Dalrymple
in possession of the letter from the
this country; stating that the -
Portugal by the French army,
perty foundin the Tagus, might
capture by the British army'
have agreed to the article in
authorising the French to carry away their pit...•
property, he knew had been viewed with the gsZ -
abhorrence. He presumed, however, that ei hi;
considered and compared with other Con
the words in which the article was conceived wfmil
found by no means unprecedented, pe
the broad construction they had received,tl"
words would be found, in similar circumstance;
m
the Convention of Alexandria. If these a
however, had not been agreed to, the Btu
must have maintained its position till the
have advanced with not more than 16111
In either case the advantages must have been me,
as the horrors of famine might have been su '
to those of war. Being once embarked in so clang&
roue a service, active movement was *only*.
for the British forces. The artillery horses, holey;
were not sufficient for this purpose. Many oftill;
were old, many of them lame and blind, and ewe*
remainder were not altogether-fit for such a let*.
In addition to this, if it hid been resolved on touts,*
the enemy, the British army must have been con*
to a positton bordering on the sea, to ensure the*
tion of Sir John Moore. Early on the 28cl nwe
visited by a Portuguese officer, whose strove*
jection was to the 6th article. The obvious...*
however, was that the Portuguese Goverment*
then no where to found. The Portuguese Col
however, was asked to state hisubservations to tri4
but this he failed to do. On the 24th, Colonel)*
returned from the Admiral with the article stir
to the Reniart fleet, and was afterwards sem nil
to the French General, with a letter, seen mho
proved of by Sir Harry )3urrard _and Sir Mkt
Wellesley. He (Sir Hew Dalrymple) seeing then
pearance of guile in the cendpiet of the French Ge*
ral-inClaief, sent for Generals Burrard and Welke*
to consult them tit the subject, and Sir Adult&
!coley had the goodness to frame a letter of Wee
instructions to Colonel Murray on the subject. OS
the 29th, Captain Dalrymple returned with the
terms of the Convention. Of some of the oracles le

on i
*.
traC
Per'
san

disapproved, and assembled all the Majortvenerals;
could for their advice on the occasion. The Anis
tice expired the next mornings so that he must titbit
have ratified it, or recommenced hostilities. With
the approbation of Sir Harry Burrard, Sir Atin
Wellesley, Sir John Moore, General Hope, in
did ratify the Convention, and the terms we:teat
ditately communicated to the Portuguese Conk.
--The narrative then goes on to point out thedi
ficulties which must have been felt in providing
bread and other necessaries to the army, had it bees
encreased even by the addition of Sir John Moore';
corps, in consequence of which, and of the dangerof the min; it had been determined that these troops
should be landed gradually, and that each division
should bring along with it provisions sufficient fat
its own use. The determination of Sir Hew Dal•
rymple not.to supersede Sir Arthur Wellesley in the
command, after the victory which he had gained, hi
communicated to the other Major-Generals who wog
senior to him, mid they received it in a manna
which did them honour. An application had bee
made by Admiral Siniivin to him (Sir Hew Di
rymple), to know if the Port of Lisbon was to he
considered as neutral in repect to the Russian Ike!
but to this he had stated that he could give no an.
ewer. If hostilities had been to recommence, the
different castles and strong holds in possession %
the French must have been regularly besieged,
after the other 5...-Fort Saint Julien could not hart
been taken without battering cannon :—A$ 101 at
they remained in possession of the strong possits
of Almeida, no ship of ours could approach the
town :—A battle must have been fought almost %
the city of Lisbon itself, and the view of the can
paign which he had originally formed, woeld st the
last have been found to be the just one. The cseiP
ration of the British, torte with the Spanistieeah
was, and had always been, the main and
object ; the other was only preliminary to it. Ma
it was.of the utmost moment to afford to the Sc.
niards the earliest possible proof of the serious skid
we entertained of co-operating with them in the tegi
effectual manner. Without entering into a c-akulatio
of the time which might have been occupied in redo'
cing the forts on the 1 agus, it was enough to say•tbs
the heavy rains were approaching, when no =rail
into Spain could take place. He again wished that
the Convention might be compared with othei Cie}
ventions, and in particular with that concluded et
Egypt, which it would be found to resemble, notooll
in its terms, but in its nature and qualities in others
spects, particularly in the dangers of the service, and
in the state of the army. He submitted, therefam
that the Convention might be vindicated. The
were parts of it which he did not willingly agree to;
but these were on points of secondary and minor its.
portance ; and he did not think himself warranted,
when the main object was to be gained, to reject ite
because other points, comparatively trifling, could not
also be obtained. It must be kept in view, either tilt
-be must have agreed to the Convention as it stood;
or that the nest morning hostilities.must have Ws
resumed, under the disadvantages he had mentioned'
and others which might have presented themseles
The Convention, as expressly understood by lbs
Prench General, did not authorize the removal (fall
other btit_ the private property of the French them.
selves. This *as a right of which it could hardly"
supposed the Portuguese could have expected to ae•
prive them ; nor yet could they be warranted in
pectin* that British valour, however great, and hoe.
ever successful, should hare been able to Tenon do

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• the full diets of eight mesths'ef hen&
. Without laying stress on the threat of Ge-
l:4lld gagman, that if the Convention was rejected
'Aeon should be destroyed, it could hardly be sup.
,a that the fate of that city should be indifferent
r -
its own inhabitants or to the Portuguese natiodin
=tWhat might have been its situation ilhos.
ad been renewed, it was difficult to say,. The
,senses had at least been the means of ridding it of
of its invaders. The Address of Thanks to
tege.peigymple, which had been read to the Court,
,heatief Magistrate of Lisbon, in his own name,
from
,sd that of the inhabitants, proved that, notwithstand.
7,f. the protest formerly taken by him against certain
'l7ti'cles in the Convention, he had on reflection come
to see things in a different and more favourable
light, and to estimate more truly the mercies which,
Stough means of the British army, they enjoyed.
That he had resolved that nothing but private pro-
y belonging to the French should be carried off,
ws made apparent when General Kellerman called
ri him (Sir Hew Dalrymple) on this subject, and
gretted,
that a person over whom he •had no con-
,
troul was resolved to carry off some valuable public
property. Sir Hew's answer then was, that if any
person from the General in Chief downwards pre-
sumed to attempt to carry off what was not strictly
edrate proeertYs he should esteem them to have vio-
lated the Treaty, and as such should order them to
be detained as prisoners of war. The Addresses
from the Bishop of Oporto, and other bodies, also
red, that they did net view the Convention in the
light in which it had been treated by many persons
in this country. A letter from General Castanos
also skewed the necessity of a speedy co-operation in
spin, which from his instructions he (Sir Hew Dal-
rymple) was led to suppose one of the chief, or ra-
ther main object of his command ; and a letter from
Lord William Bentinck, who had since that period
ken in Madrid, chewed, that the Convention 'was
thought adviseable, because it had rendered the army
in Portugal disposable for this purpose.
Sir Hew Dautvreez.z having concluded his narra-
tive, and delivered in the manuscript to the Court,
Sir Arruun WELLESLEY rose, and expressed his
hope that the Court would indulge him, on a subse-
quent day, to offer some observations, in writing,
upon the narrative just concluded by General Dal.
ample, and which he should prepare without delay.
To this the Court assented.
The JUDGE ADVOCATE then read one of the docu-
ments alluded to in the narrative of Sir Hew Dal-
rymple. It was a letter from Lord William Bentinck
to the General, approving generally the proceedings
he had adopted in respect to the Convention of Cintra,
as highly conducive to the object ot the expedition,
and the good of the common cause, but expressing
disapprobation of some of the terms, which, however,
it did not particularize.—After some consultation, the
President, at half past three, adjourned the Court until
ten to-morrow morning.

FIFTH *DAY.'

As soon as the Court assembled, the Jus ADVO-
CATE began to read over the statement made by Sir
Hinv DALRYMPLE yesterday.

The perusal of this 'document occupied nearly two
hours, when the Court proceeded to put several ques-
tions so Sir Hen► DaonvmpLE, for the purpose of
obtaining information on several points.

The Dukes of CUMBERLAND and CAMBRIDGE were
again present, but the assemblage of company was by
no means so great as that of any former day.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22.
TRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE. O'CLOCK.
Cor.sois for money 641—for account 661—Comnium 1 I dis.
4 per Cent. 81; 82—S per Cents. 99j to par.

PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
8 per Cent Red. 66,1 India Bonds, 6s. 7s. pr.
3 per C. Ccos. 66lia Ex. Bills 7s. 10s. pre.
4 per Cent. 811 82 State Lottery Tickets, 211. 152.
3 pet Cam. Nan' nil Cons. for acc. 66!
Lon, Ana. li 1-16

Yesterday his Majesty's ship STANDARD, of 64
guns, TRONAS HARVZY, Esq. Captain, arrived at
Portsmouth from Malta and Gibraltar, with a convoy
of about forty sail ; she left Malta on the 26th of Sep-
tember, and Gibraltar on the 26th of October.

Our Readers will remember that this was one of the
ships which composed the squadron Under the com-
mand of Sir JOHN THOMAS DUCKWORTH, in forcing
the hitherto deemed impregnable castles of the Dar-
danelles. She was attached to the rear division
commanded by the gallant Sir SIDNEY SMITH, and
was nobly led into the midst of the enemy's ships
(at anchor under their own formidable batteries), by
Captain HARVEY, who had the honour of striking
the Pacha's flag.
This is the ship which in re-passing the Castles,
Ins struck by a stone shot of 7721b5. weight, which
killed and wounded 54 men.—She also fell in with,
wad reconnoitred the Rochefort and Toulon squib.
drogkin March last off Corfu ; and had it not been
for her superior sailing, must have been inevitably
taken, as she was chased by them several times.

The accounts received yesterday from Spain-are
very contradictory. That an action took place on the
4th and sth, in which General BLAKE gained a signal
advantage, we can hardly doubt, from the accounts
that we yesterday laid before our Readers ; and they
are corroborated by a letter from an Officer in Buzz's
Array to the Mayor of Santander, dated the 9th inst.
given below. But, a Gentleman who arrived in
town yesterday from Santander, which place he left
on the 13th instant, states—" that the contending
zanies had been engaged for several days, with va-
rious success, and that the Spaniards were at length
defeated, and thrown into the utmost confusion.
R"ANA, who had reached St. Andero, having re-
ceived an account of the disasters which haEbefallen
General BLAKE, marched precipitately on the 12th

from theme with %OM dismounted cavalry, with a
view of assisting to prevent the immediate approach
of the enemy to St. Andeto, notwithstanding which
the people of that place, calculating on the well known
discomfiture of the Spanish army, were in the utmost
confusion, and the French were expected daily at St.
Andero."

It is possible that the above account, though the
Gentleman left Spain so recently, may only relate to
the affair of the 31st, but we cannot help expressing
our fears, that no vet y great advantage was gained on
the 4th, for Ministers have agents both at Gijon and
Santander, and we cannot help thinking that, had
they received accounts of such a nature as private
letters have communicated, they would have suffered
them to transpire.

At Corunna we understand things to hate been
rather gloomy. It was known there that the Mar-
quis de ROMANA was appointed Commander of the
Northern Army in the room of General BLAKE, but
they knew of no action by that Army subsequent to
the battle of Sornosa. If one actually took place,
the circumstance of its not been known at Corunna

on the 15th, is rather inauspicious.—They had there
received news of a battle in another quarter. Let-
ters received there from Madrid, mentioned an en-
gagement to have taken place in Navarre on the
29th ult. in which General CASTANOS had been de-
feated and wounded. The particulars of the action
were not known, but the French were stated to have
repassed the Ebro.
It is certainly possible that the operations of the
ellemy in Biscay may have no other object but to favour
a more important attack in another quarter. The
defeat of the army of CASTANOS and PALAJOX is of far
greater consequence to BONAPARTE than that of Ge-
neral BLAKE. The latter could certainly annoy him
considerably, by threatening to interrupt his commu-
nication with France ; but until the former be dis-
posed of, he can. neither advance to Madrid nor open
the way to Catalonia. We are, therefore, more anxi-
ous about this army than that of BLAKE ; for it is pro-
bably against it that his first and most vigorous efforts
will be exerted. The new position it has taken is well
adapted to defence.

The letters received from Lisbon yesterday all
agree respecting the extreme discontent that prevails
there, and the little authority possessed by the Re-
gency. The following is an extract from one of
these, dated the 9th inst.:

" Every body here is complaining. They say there
is little harmony among the Lords of the Regency
themselves, and not much between them and our
officers. At Oporto there has been some disturb-
ances, and troops have been sent from hence to quell
them, and to keep the people quiet. The Bishop has
been called to the capital as one of the Regents, but
evades the request. What all this means, I know not.
There is much dissatisfaction, and every where po-
verty and distress."

His MAiksTy has been graciously pleased to direct
an augmentation of honour to the family Arms and
Crest of the late Captain HARDINGE, in consequence
of his gallantry and of his glorious death off Ceylon,
upon the Bth of March last.
The LORD MAYOR received a Requisition on Sa-
turday, signed by a considerable number of Livery-
men, to convene a Common Hall for the purpose of
taking into consideration the Convention of Cintra,
and adopting such Resolutions as may be deemed ad
viseable, in consequence of the Answer of his Ma-
jesty's Ministers to the late Address of the City of

London. -
The SPEAKER of the House of Commons has is-
sued his warrant to the Clerk of the. Crown to make
out a new writ for electing a Burgess to serve in Par-
liament for the borough of Itossinef, in Cornwall, in
the room of the deceased Lord RENDLESHAM, late
Member for the above borough.
Miss Hawangs, a most beautiful young Lady, with
a fortune of ,f 35,000) has been a constant visitor of
the Court of Inquiry, since its commencement at
Chelsea. She accompanies Lady NUCIENT6
Captain FREEMANTLE and Captain BAYNTUN, who
were deputed to see the Monument erected on Ports-
down Hill, to the memory of Lord Nat.sou, properly
executed, inspected it last week, and are satisfied that
the wishes of the fleet have been complied with. They
have given directions for the following inscription to
be put on it :
Consecrated to the Memory of Lord Viscount Nrtsow, by
the zealous Attachment of all those who fought at Trafalgar—to
perpetuate his Triunlph and their Revd.-1805."
And on the opposite side the following :
" The British Fleet consisted of 27 ships of the Tine—of France
and Spain there were 33•-•-19 of which were taken or destroyed."
Yesterday se'nnight, as the Earl of ILCIIESTER WaS
hunting near his country seat at Melbury, Somerset,
his horse, in leaping over a brook, fell with him, by
which accident his Lordship's thigh was broken ; but
we are happy to hear he is in a fair way of recovery.
Thursday a large quantity of pike and other fish,
which nearly filled a cart, were put into the Canal in
St. James's Park, by order of Lord SYDNEY, the Park-

keeper.
The South-west gales have been felt in a very seri-
ous way at Brighton. The sea has washed down a
large part of the Cliff on the Marine Parade, and
narrowed the coach-road, which was before too nar-
row. It is now obvious that the whole of that Cliff
will speedily give way, unless a most expensive work
shall be undertaken to prevent it.
A match was made a fortnight since, for 100 gui-
neas, play or pay, for a small mare, the property of
Mr. &TWILL, of Charlotte-street, to perform 56 miles

in four hours, with half an hour's stoppage allowed
for feeding. The match was undertaken yesterday
from a spot near Shillingford, Berks, to Hounslow;
and the mare did her task in seven minutes less than
the given time. She performed chiefly at the trot,
and baited, after going half the distance in three mi-
nutes less than half the time. The odds were consi.
derably against the performance.