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

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SUPPL EMENT
TO TILE EVENING STAR.

GV:ERAL WHITELOCKE'S TRIAL.

FIRST DAY.
t: URSCAY, JANUARY 28.
members who were to compote the Conti
previiodly afremhled in Cheifea Col-
-1 preceded to the Great Hall precifely at eleven
when, having taken their feats, the Jonas
;irk GtSFRAL read the Four Charges again(!
~al Whitelecke, to which he generally pleaded
Gado%
• following names of the Members were then
over, and they were !worn in the ufual form:
G,t,erd sir W. NtkAisov..s, Pr, fident:
Lo d CAI IiCART, Lt Gen-r%415 Si, J. Dun!,
CART". -•••-•••••--- HA Rill/.
hA R IN OTON,
- Lord LARS, MANNERS,
CLARRICRA R DE, I.I,ETUi
CUTLER,
G .1 It ill,
Gov& ill PUN MOORE, ST AYR ,
FOX, Sir C. ROSS.
Sir Greece NUGENT,
Lin Court was arranged in the following manner:
the left °fil great table for the Members of
Fps pie
Aallaced a (-mailer table, at which were
• HGenetal Wurrat.ocus and his friends. On
tS
riAt was another table,, which was occupied by
ie General- 1-10? s and CALVEIT, the Adjutant.
,se„l and Q2a!ter Mallet General of GleAt 136-
sew condOled the prufecu:ion, tx edo. At
fame table fat the julge Advocate's Clerk (Mr,
,PHAFI) and hi, Affidavit'.
'The JUDGE ADVOCATE Elitn addra (feel the Court
which he forbo.e Irons
ao animated fpeecli, in
ring upon tke detail of the expedition. This, he
w :iild best appear from the evidence ; brit he
.tiated with great enctgy ?nd ability upon the
lunde of the cbje& in the • ;ews of G 'vertr ent,
/fitting out the army under General Widtelficke.
Inc Military and Civil Commiffionq, appointing
as Comnianel-ir of the nice:, with a grant r f
,cl. per annum ; the private inarOlions given by
I. Win um to hhn and Brigadier General Craw•
!d; arr.l a difpatch of General eke to Mr.
ltdham, as et wained in the Gazette, were all pet
, and lead.
Upon the fuggeflirn of the JunGs ADVACATI, the
eat sweed Pa divide the ex minaii,,n of the wit.
into two branches. Tth. heft branch to relate
!he rp:rations of the army previ,us to the ruck
Ins Ayres on the sth r I July ; and the tarter
to &tail the operations during and after tha'

'Fiery cf Capitulation with the Spanifh
the Orders in Council, Afis of PArliameca,
,elnfed in Mr. Windtnan's private inftrations,
. then entered, as having been read.
liyir General Gowen called in and ermined.
Being reverted to sletail the operations of the army
Genet.' Whitelocke againfl B renos Ayres, his
tce was nearly as f Bowe :—" I wa- fit and in
AA in the expediti .n fitted tut againft South
erica, trd failed from Ent,land with General
Llocke and the at mv, of 4 „ids had Ore rin
ta In chief. I never ',deist,' airy r (pular re;ton
the f tees which faiied t m rue Video t.csoinfl
- Apes, fn that I cannot IpeAk accurately to
vita. At M me Video I embarked with tte.tr
tmiral Murray to gn to Colonia, by casters of
Whitelocke, for the pur pole of roper intend-
the enbathation of the troops for Buenos Ayres•
ta way we took the whole garrifret of Colonia
hoard. It confined of three companies of the
di regiment, and I think there were date:: compa
afo of the 38th And 4c•h, but I do nor recollte
exaa numb r. The ulcers I received were, to
irk .o ~nu..!diy as poffible, leg the fleet and
,Minn ntould receive Any damage in confequeece
the had at oiler feting in. General Whitelocke
'erne a d. c•etionnry power to leave a fmall force
i! neceffery ; but, from the deftertion of
'll.ribi•ar.•., and other circtrrnitances, I did not
it at all revilite. On the salt of June I Caw
fleet c mi• g 11;) the liver with the army on board,
nn the xfult I land;' at the .Enfenada. I re
:l orders to advance imme.drately to the heights
re Buenos Ayres, and cannot fay whether the
tle army U'a that (las landed or not. The num
the advar cell guard I cr n minded I cannot
r tell. I rec:i ed orders to •Ake up a polirism,
i I did, and next day I dirt the lame thing. On
To or ning of the sd of July I received orders to
I Pic dikovety of a pals acrofs the Chuello, to
!a lodgement in the of Buenos Ayres,
if I could, to open a cr mrroidcation mid; the
In execution of this order. I marched at

a'cl..ck in tie morning, and grin f.:11 in with a
met r.f the enemy, which 1 drove hack. A large
of the enemy was teported to be en the heights,
I marched on the moaning of the Id ; and
igtdier General Crawford requefled permiftion to
liter them, which I granted. On the fame j
ling I received the above orders from General
tl•cke, in writing, I received a co;ty of a
to he fent to the Govern:r c.f Buenos
'es; and C, bnel Burke, the hearer of the& in-
wtri:e down the terms upon which a Ca-
.on would be granted. thee paper► I gave
the pofreffi‘tn et my Aid du Camp, who was
prifoner by the . eryy, but, as .1 was in-
he had prtviouily dellreyed

SECOND DAY. •
(General Gowsa's Examisszti •n Continued.)
).IVhst was the name of your Aid dit Camp who,
':en prifuner, as 4•.fite derctibed?
Captain Maxwell, of the 63.:. rec,innent.
Who brought the orders from General White- 1
to you? A. Lieutenant Colonel Burke.
Is the Court to undernand that ihe Terms of
tion were alluded to nri there orders? A. Cer-
: fo funs as I received them, and faw Briga-
tneral Lumley's btigade ready to m.ive, I
rdeth to do In, and went forward myfelf to
„Crawford, he having arrived at the junction
ro rnads which lead up to the Coral of Miler i•
tying halted the column previout to tale ttg up
potation, we dircovered the enemy's infantry and
'airy potted behind thick inclofures ; findi .;;

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the line which we occupied was a littte.diagnnal to
that which the enemy tor k, I theoght I shout.; lee
fewer men by an imnrediete attack than by waiting
ter Brigadier Gen. Lumley's Brigade ; .I e!irened
Br:gadier Gen. Crawford to charge with the bayonet.
which fricceeded fo completely, that in a very few
minutes the enemy were completely routed, and ten
piece; of cannon were in out potiellion. By the time
the infantry WAS again formed, and a referve placed
over the captured cannon, General L.uorley's brigade
arrived, and he took up an excellent p..fition nn the
right of General Crawford's line. I determined to
remain in that Ration until joined by the main body,
and loon after daylight the next day, I fent the Itim•
mons to the Spanifh General, who returned for an.
fwer, that he wished to know what terms would he
granted, and I fent Captain Roche with a cotrea
copy of thefe terms.
Q._ Have you any doubt that the furrender of the
Civil authorities as prifoners of war was contained in
General Whitelocke's terms of capitulation fent to
you through Colonel Burke A. A. I have de doubt
whateber.
rThefe terms were then read, and the anfwer re-
teived from the Span& General was admitted as
having been read.]
The enemy attacked my pickets loon after day-
break, on the sd, and I continued the action until
1 the arrival of General Whitelocke with the main
body at two o'clock, when my command ceated.
I Q You trill be pleated to detail the proceeding..
I ofthe army, from the junBi rn of the main body up to
l
i the 4th of July. A. Not having had the command of
Ithat army, it is impoffible for me to give an account
!of general operations, or of more than the general
!orders I received from General Whitclocke, who had
!the chief command.
Q.... State the particular orders you received.
A. On the arrival of General Whitelocke's no.
limn, he directed that the whole fhould be formed
in the p, elongation of the line previoufly occupied
by the Brigades of Generals Lumley and Crawford.
As the preffore of the enemy was very great on the
picqtrets,thortly after he directed that the line fhould
withdraw for a (hart time behind the heights, and
that the picqucts fhould fall back, in order to entice
a confiderable body of the enemy into the open
ground. In.this we did not fucceed, as the enemy
would not quit their buildings ; and we were obliged
to reoccupy our original line, the General withing
Ito cover the men from the inclemency of the weather.
The fire continued on our picquets, by which we
fuffered contiderably. What orders were aired by
General Whitelocke fubfequent to the junaion of the
main body with my advanced guard are already de-
fctibed in the public difpatchesof GeneralWhitelocke
i previous to the sth of July. There was a general
I order Hilted, in which General Whitelocke was
pleated to approve of the conduct of my divition in
the aeli .n of the 2d. General Whitelneke informed
me on the morning of the 4th of July, that he inten-
ded once more to fummon the town, and that he
fhould refer them to the fame terms of capitula;i .n
offered on the 2d. I know of no other order, to the
bell of my recolleaien.
Q Previous to your leaving Monte Video, do you
kn. a what information General Whitelecke obtained
as to the feefon being favourable or unfavourable to
an expedition againtt Buenos Apes ? A. Ido not.
Q. Wa. General Whitelocke in the habits of con-
feirieg with you as fecund in command, on the plans
and operations of the army? A In very few instances:
in fame, but by no means on all occafions, he may
have aiked my opinion.
Q.. Did any communication take place between
you and General Whitelocke as to the fpecific time of
the attack of Buenos Ayres, before leaving Monte
Video ?
To this qneflion General Whitelocke objeBed. It
had a tenviency, he Paid, to impeach his conduct, in
a point which formed no charge ageinft him, name-
ly, as to the period of the year in which the attack
on Buenos Ayres was made.
Mr. Rune, the Judge Advocate, contended, that
as the fir It article of the charges contained an accu•
ration of general impropriety of condua throughout
the whole fervice. every thing from which an infer-
ence might be drawn of General Whitelocket mit-
cnnduel, mart be admitted.
Ihe Court was then cleared for about twenty
minutee, and upon our readmitlion, the Prefident
&fired the Clerk to put the quellion. 'the quedien
being repeated,
A. General Whitelocke informed me Tome time
after his arrival at Monte Video, that when 11; iga-
dier General Cranford arrived in the river Plate, he
would not tote one moment in attacking Buenos
Ayres, and Rated at the fame time as cne of the
reafons that induced him to take that women mea-
fore, that it weld.' he impartible to feed f 1 large a
body of men on the left bank of the river Plate dur-
ing the winter.
Q._ By the left bank of the river, do you mean the
Buenos Ayres or Monte Video fide ? A. When mill-
i tar y men defcribe a country, and when fpeaking with
i reference to a river, they are always guided by the
current of water. Looking down the dream, there-
! fore, it follows that the Monte Video fide is on the
left bank of the river.
Q..._ Was that which you have Rated the only
communication made by General Whitelocke to
you as to the time of the attack, and was them no
`ether ? A. I do not reeolleB any other politive cone.
mnnicatien. There may have been general conver-
faticns on the fubject when I was prefent, but I do
not rcealleB precifely any one of that defcription.
Q. Were you in habits of confidential cornmunica.
tine with General Whitelncke ? A. What degree of
cnnfident:. General Whiteloeke May have been
pleated to repofe in me, it is impotlible for me to
Rate. He employed me in many of the details
previous to the embarleition of the troops to go
againtt Buenos Ayres ; hut all the great leading ar-
rangements were made by himfelf.
Q. By the expreflion " confidential commimira-
tions," contained in the former cpredion, the C urt
meant that degree of confidence which your Ration.
as fccind in command, in an expedition of In much
importance, entitled yin to etpeet. Does this expla-
nation of what was rsally meant, makeany d7erence
in your anfwer to the lag queftion ? A. Conceiving
that a tecond in command is as much under the
orders of the Commander in Chief as the rungett
Subaltern, I executed every order entrulled to my
charge to the bell of my ability, and tint cnne
caving any power retied with me, while the Caw-

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mend-er ;n Chief of she. Forces was prefent; s was
fully lathfied to he em; toyed on filch Ter vices' as he
might chore to Idea, .
Q.:. Were you .from time to time informed of the
general plan of operations by General Whitelooke ?I
A. I have not heard that any plasterer was tanned.
L was not acquainted with any.
Q. I the Court to underhand by your lafi anfwer,
that General Whitelogke.'s plans of operation were
not communicated to you before they were to be
carried into execution ? A. My answer related tat
a general plan. I have already dated, that I was
net aceptainted with the exigence of any 4 whatever
communications were made to tug were in the lhape
of orders.
Q._ Do the.arfwers you have now given; allude to
the period previous to the embarkation of the troops
to go againtt Ilttersos Ayres ? A. I have no diffi
culty in Rating that they apply to the whole period
of the fervice.
As there were horfes, artillery, and Bores left
behind, do yr,u know whofc duty it was to provide
traorporte during the expedition ? A. Never hay.
ing had the chief command rf troops, I do not know
what the orders of Government are upon that fubjeEt.
Q. Do you know-who did provide them ? A.
With the eacepti sn of one linen !Lop trader Ame-
rican colours, I do not know of any tranfports that
were not regularly hired by the Tranfport Board in
London, and which had been employed in she con-
veyance.of troops and times from the variourpoints
at which the army employed on the expedition--wat
collefted.
Q Did you know if there were tranfperts fve
conveying horfes at Colonia, when the troops em
barked ? A. There were none at Colonia—there
were eight hone (hips at Monte Video.
Q.:. If there were no tranfpnrts at Colonia to con-i
vey the horfes at the time of the embarkation, how
were they to be transferred to the oppofite fide of
the river. A. I never knew that any horfes had been
colle'led for that purpofe.
Q:. Did you take up your firfl polition without
any artillery ? A. Yes, without any.
Q._ When did you receive your proportion of
artillery, and how was it conveyed ? A. Two fix
pounders and two three pounders were ordered to
attach themfelves to us on the la of July in the ,
morning. There were knifes yoked to them, but of
in miferable a defcription, that I fruited mu:11 more
to the artillery foldiers, and to a detachment of
(eamen winch accompanied them, than to the holies
for their conveyarce.
Do you know what artillery belernoe,i to' the
main body, when it joined you on the soth of June ?
A. When the troops came up to my petition, there
was no artillery with them. I underhand that it
was in the morals below the heights, and I heard two
battalions (littered down to affitt in extricating them ;
the amount of this artillery I do not know.
Q Do you know whether any, and what meafures
were taken for colleting horfes after the landing of
the troops, for tranfporting the artillery ? A. Ido
not know, but in my opinion no meafures of this
defcription could have been of any avail, all the knifes
of that country are fo wild, that they can be of no
ore in hornet's.
Do you know whether the horfes left behind at
Colonia had, or had not, been trained for the fervice
of the artillery? A. There were a few reported to
me of that defcription, but they appeared to be vay
bad, and not calculated for notch hard labour.
Q. Will you defcribe the nature of the Around
between Enfenada and the heights where you took
up your politicsn on the 28th ? A. It was a morals
covered with a furface of water, varying in depth
from two feet upwards : filo/ deep it was in tome
places I cannot tell, not having had time to fotrid
it. In attempting to difcover a pafftge better for
the march of the troops than that pointed out as the
ufual road, I got into many fituations, from which
I with difficulty extricated the honk on which I rode
Q: As far as your judgment goes, was the depth
of the morals fo great as to make it impraCticable to
pats the artillery, if pr"perly provided with horfes ?
A. I cannot Raze what condition the road was in on
the 29th. The ground was fo tender when I paired
it, that the rear of my own fmall column had mach
more difficulty than the front. In going up the face
of the heights, in two, if not three fituations, there
were paffecl-o deep that my horfe fell three different
times, not being able to extticate himfelf.
Q.. Do you know whether General Whitelocke
had obtained any, and ':'tat information of the diffi
colties you defcribe in the march of the troops from
Enfenada, previ• us to landing at that place ? A. I
remember to have been prefent wizen Genera!
Whitelocke examined one of the inhabitants relpett•
irg the march, and relative to that road previous
to the embatkation at Monte Video. lie Rated it
Was bad, and at all times attended with difficulty.—
Ile particularly queßioned him as to the practicabi-
lity palling with a wheel carriage through the
morals ? The aufwer given was, that the Enfenada
was the c. moron glace of embarkation for people
going out of the river Plate from Buenos Ayres, and
that it was never at any time impraCticable to pars
that way in a coach : this was his own exprellion.
Q.:. Do yon Itrow whether he gained any other
infot nation ? A. Ido not ; I was not employed on
the fervice of reconnoitring ; Colonel Burke, the
Q2llalter Mailer General, was employed on Oat
ter-Vice.

Can you Rate what motives induced General
Whi:elocke to land at Enfenada ? A. It is imp, ffible '
for me to nate what motive induced General Whi:e•
locke to prefer the latter,
Q._ What proportion of commifftiiat (ores were
landed at the time of the dilerulSalkation at Enfe-
nada ? A. Having been detached even before all
the troops were landed, I have nu knowledge what-
ever on that fobjeet.
Q._ Do you know whether it was pranicable to
communicate at all times between the fea and Re.
duftion ? A. Public difpatches (late...that there were
continually commvnications between the army and
navy. I have naknowledge of tins fad myfelf,
ing been detached in advance.
o Having Hated that you received .orders from
General Whitelocke, to march on the ad of July,
what was the amount ot the troops and artillery
under ycur command, when you began your march
in coy f:ontece of thefe orders ? A. I cannot ex telly
tell; I (hould that's General et awtord's divifion
femethinA tinder 930 ot4n of the 36'h and 88th Re-
giments—lo many men were ot advancing

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SUPPLEMENT
It TO THE EVENING S'l'A It •
IV II I TELOC KE'S TRIAL.
GV:ERAL
FIRST DAY.
t: wescAt, JANUARY 28.
,e Members who were to Mr pole the Contt
previinifly afremhled in Cheifea Col-
, preceded to the Great Hall precifely at eleven
when, having taken their feats, the Junott
vicars GENERAL read the Four Charges againil
,a 1 Whitelccke, to which he generally pleaded
,e following names of the Members were then
r a over, and they were I%' or nin tire ufual form:
Gt.„,.rdsir W. MIADO•orS, Pr,fident:
eats 1.0 d cal nC.iST, ' Lt Gem.r.4ls Si, J. DUFF,
AIGAR 111. ....•••••••••••• HARRIS,
▪ _—Hoar or, hARRINOTON,
Lord LAKIt, •••••••••••• MANNERS,
CLASRICEARDE, I.I,ETVi
Wecroaci,
▪ weals Jo N ii•LOR E,••••••••• STAN IL LT
Sir C. Ross.
FOX,
Sir es GI NUGENT,
, .
▪ The Court was arrangeu m tne loflowing manner
11, the left °film great table for the Members of
cvri was placed a (-mailer table, at which were
to e
aits f,lCeenetal Winurnincas and Iris friends. On
ie ri.fht was another table, which was occupied by
e General- 1-10? s and CALVEIT, the Adjutant.
and Qa!ter tslalter General of Great Bri.
sew conoufled the prufecu:inn, tx edo.
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lime table fat the juige /tdvocate's Clerk (lAIr,
pram) and hi, Affidavit.
re.
The JUDGE ADVOCATE Ilitn addrared the Conn
al en animated fpeech, in Which he forbo'e Iron
ink ,eting upon tke detail of the expedition. This, h,
w oild best appear from the evidence ; but
h.
'ated with great energy ?nd ability upon th
se
wt. rude of the obje& in the • ;;:ws of G ,vertr eni
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,fitting our the army under General Wilitelneke.
ra• Ire Military and Civil Commiffiow, appointim
as Corr-imamLir of the nice:, with a grant r
.ci. per annum ; the private inarthlinns given b
,Win?, im.to !inn and Brigadier General Craw
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