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London, England, 1809-01-16 00:00:00

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Leugmure, Arthur Stott, James Duff, William ItVintosh, Jas. SIR ARTHUR WELLESLErS NARRATIPIE
Smith, Johrs....kyfa, George Smith, Tames Slayton, Andrew , _
Morrison George Smith, sen. Andrew Longraore, Willisni
Gorden. Gents. (Continued from our Wt.)
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To be Ensigns-11am Cooper, Patric's Grant, I 11In Conn, Wil- No. 11.
llam Gov*, Alexander M'lntosh, Alexander Harper, William ORSXRVATIONS ON SIR HEW DA GRYMPLE'S NARRATII.;,E.
Robertson, John Stronach, Alexander Dun; and George Daw- GENERAL SIR DAVID DUNDAS)
son, Gents. AND
To be Quarter Masten.-.Thos. W' ' It and James Grant, Gents. -__ _ __ _

'right
To be Surgeons-James Smith and James Rennie, Gents.
Artillery Company.
Thomas Russel, Esq. to be Captain Conunandant.
George Forbes and George Wilson, Gents. to be Lieutenants.
Thomas Wilson, Gent. to be Second-I.ieuteaant.
Commissions in the Banffshire Local Militia, sig ,ed
by hid Majesty.
James Reid, Gent. to be Adjittant, with the rank of Captain,
Robert Falder, Gent, to be ditto, with the rank of Captain.
Commission in the Derbyshire Militia, signed by the
Lord Lieutenant.
John Emery, Gent. to be Ensign.' Dated Dec. 20, 1808
Commission in the Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia,
signed by the Lord Lieutenant.
George Henry Hearn, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated Dec.lo,lBoB.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.
The inconstant, and the African Corps, for the Island of Goree,
taken March 10, 1804, and the Diligence and Triton, will be paid
on Monday next, at N 0.14, Clemant's Inn, and there recalled on
Wednesdays and Thursdays.
The Santa Margarita, fur the Indefatigable, recaptured in
January, 1807, will be paid at No. 23, Norfolk-street, Strand, on
Friday next, and there recalled on Tuesdays and Fridays.
The Skylark, for le Ferret, captured April 21, 1808, will be
paid on board on Wednesday next, and recalled at No. 18, Cle-
ment's Inn, on Tuesdays and Friday*.
The Haerlem, for Genoa, and l'Albanaise, captured June 4,
1800, will•be paid on the 25th instant, at No. 9, New Broad-
street, and there recalled on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
March 4. William Dean, of Kenton-street, Russell-square, Mid-
dlesex, shopkeeper, dealer and chapman, at ten, at GuildhalL
January 19. George Remington and Akxander Remington, of
Oxford-street, Middlesex, cabinet-makers and upholsterers,
and copartners. at ten, at Guildhall.
BANKRUPTS.
Samuel Raistrick, of Idle, parish of Calverley, Yorkshire, clothier,
dealer and chapman, to surrender January 27, at five, January
28, and February 25, at eleven, at the Sun Inn, Bradford.-
Attornies, Mr. Evans, No. 97, Hatton-Garderi, London ; or
Mr. Crosley, Bradford.
William Sampson, of Liverpool, pour-dealer, dealer and chap-
man, February 2,3, and 25, at twelve, at the George Inn,
Dale-street, Liverpool. Attornies, Mr. Forrest, Liverpool;
or Messrs. Sher.ard and Adlington, Bedford-row, London.
Samuel Kinder, late of Ma:deiester, but now of Heaiield, Derby-
shire, clothier, dealer and chapman, January 3, 91, and Feb.2s,
at eleven, at the White Hart inn, Leicester. Attornies, Messrs.
Jackson and Judd, Stamford, Lincolnshire.
Henry Jefferys, of Melcomb-Reg!s, Dorsetshire, linen-draper,
dealer and chapman, January 2/, 21, and February 23, at ten,
at Guildhall, London. Attorney, Mr. Samuel Syddall, Alders-
gate-street, London.
John Birchall, of Liverpool, butcher, dealer and cbapraan Feb.
3,4, and 25, at one, at the globe Tavern, John -area, I.iver-
pool. Attornies, Mr. Woad:, Liverpool ;or Mr. Blackatoci,
St. Mildred's-court, POtil! ry , J.ondon.
William German, of Bristol, tiler, plaisterer and builder, dealer
and chapman, January '2.7, 2's, and February 25, at eleven, at
the Bush Tavern, in Bristol. Attornies, Mr. James, No. 12,
Gray's Irn-square, London ; er Mr. Cooke, Bristol.
Henry Budden, of I.it tie Chapel-street, Westminster, Middlesex,
carpenter, dealer and chapman, January 21, 28, and February
25, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Latkow, Wardrobe
Place, Doctor's-Commons. •
Thomas Fraser, of Well-street, parish of St. Mary-la-Bonne,
Middlesex coach-spring-manufacturer, dealer and chapman,
January 17, 28, and February 25 at ten, at GuUdhall. Attor-
ney, Mr. Pinero, Charles-street, Cavendish-square.
Edward Glazier, of Lea Bridge, Middlesex, publican and whar-
finger, January 21, 28, and Feb. 25, at twelve, at Guildhall.-
Attornies, Messrs. Tebbutt and Shuttleworth, Gray's-Inn-
square, London.

DIVIDENDS.
fan. 2S. John Fenner, of Lawrence-lane, London, linen-draper,
at twelve at Guildhall.
lan. 24. William Watson, of Great Cambridge-street, Hackney-
Road, Middlesex, builder, attune, at Guildhall.
Jan. 24. John Kennion the elder and John Kennion the younger,
of Nicholas-line, London, brokers, at one, at Guildhall.
January 25. Wm. Morris, of Manchester, leather-seller, at two,
at the Royal Oak Inn, Manchester.
Jan. 24. John Greenwood and Wm. Grimaldi, of No. 16, Old
Bond-street, Middlesex, auctioneers, at one, at Guildhall.
Jan. 28. Joanna Anderton, of Dean-street, Soho, Middlesex,
piano-forte maker, at twelve, at Guildhall.
Jan. 2.4. Wm. Varndell, of Hanley-row, near Hartford-bridge,
Hants coach-maker, at one, at Guildhall, London.
Jar.. 24. 'Wm. Frederick Ogilvy, of the Minories London, drug•
gist, at twelve, at Guildhall.
Jan. 24. Wm. Charles Thomas, of Nicholas-lane, London, mer-
chant, at one, at Guildhall.
Jan. 26. John Kelly, Manchester, manufacturer, at three, at the
Commercial Inn, Manchester.
Jan. 20. Joseph Stevens and John Carttsr, of Bread-street,Cheap-
aid:, London, warehousemen, at twelve, at Guiklhall.

, A meant'e of a curious nature is about to take
place between Richman the black' and a bear; the for-
mer is to be armed with a quarter.staff, and the latter,
who has been for some time in training, to make him
as savage as possible, is to meet his antagonist unmaz-
zled, and quite ad libitum. Three keepers are to be at
hand in case Bruin should hug too closely. The
match is for Five Hundred Guineas ! and considerable
bets are already laid. The brown brute is the favourite
of the Paw !
mi Dr+ LIS EX Sessiorrs.--Saturday, Andresar the swindler was
brought up by a writ of halwai, to receive judgment.—Mr. Main-
waring told him, that having undergone confinement for twelve
inontks, the Court was inclined to deal leniently. He should there-
fore only sentence him to be imprisoned in Newgate for the pe-
riod Of two months.
MAP. LBOROUGH-STIMIT.---.... Trinsler, shopman to Mr.
Cowen, in Sidney's-alley, Leicester-square, was, on Friday,
brought to this Office, for robbleig his master of jewellery to the
amountof £3OO. Mr. Cowen had previously engaged to drop
the prosecution, on condition that his property was restored, and
the • oung man sent on board the Tender, which conditions being
fulfilled, the culprit was conveyed to his destination.
Bow-s-rairr.—Saturday, John Thornby was charged or. suspi-
cion of being ioncerned in breaking open the house of Mr. Read,-
in high-street,Portsmouth,'"on the night of the 27th of last month,
and stealing jewels, watches, and plate, to the amount of about
£looo.—Friday night, Limbrick went to a public-house in Bed-
fordbury, and saw the prisoner, who said to his companicns he
was going, but Limbrick told him he wanted to speak to him.
The prisoner answered, he should go • and Limbrick, observing
him put his hand into his breeches pocket, suspected he was feel-
ing for pistols, seized him, and called out to one of the patrole to
strike him, which he did in his mouth. A desperate battle en-
sued, when, from the great loss of blood, he said lie had had
t.nough, and yielded. In the scuffle, the Officers got out of his
pocket a pistol, loaded with ball, and after securing him, they
found in his coat-pocket another pistol also loaded. He was com-
mitted for further examination.
Mary Mayhew was fully compitted for robbing a house in
King-street, Golden-square, of a watch, six silver spoons, a table
cloth, anti other articles. The prisoner gained admittance on the
4th instant, into the house, under pretence of knowing the family
who lodged in the second floor, and finding a little boy, about
eight years of age, in care of the premises, prevailed on him to
go for some porter ; and, while he was gone, she madout e off with
the property. Last Thursday, when the boy was with his
father, he recognized the woman in the street, on which she was
secured, and pawnbrokers duplicates found upon her for the
property.
Jawth Brown, late a porter at the Bell Savage inn, Ludgate-,
hill, was charged with 'feeling a box of worked muslin, value be-
tween two and three hundred pounds, from the Southampton
coach, which had just arrived at the above inn. He was conunit-
ted for re •ezainination.

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MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
The Colin will permit me, I hope, to begin the ad-
dress with which I have to trouble them with some few
observations upon that part of Lieutensant General Sir
Hew Dalrytnple's narrative which refers to the ope-
rations of the army, while under my command in Por-
Itugal, in which, of course, I feel much interested.
it appears that the General had at a very early pe.
riod, conceived an opinion, that I had undertaken an
operation of extreme difficulty and hazard ; and yet
he entertained the intention of leaving me to conclude
-it as I could, and of joining at the Mondego, the re-
inforcements expected from England. Indeed, he
states, that he acted upon this intention, and that he
communicated it to me by his Aid-de-Camp --but
I can assure the Court, that yesterday was de first
time I heard of it.
I do not mean now to extenuate the difficulty and
the hazard of the enteiprize which I undertook when I
commenced my march from the Mondego ; I am ad-
dressing myself to persons too well acquainted with
the operations of war not to appreciate them ; but I
contend for it, notw'd s andiag the opinion, as at pi e-
sent stated, of an Officer of so much more experience
than myself, that the means which I had in my
power, those which I expected, and the measures
which adopted and recommended, were more than
adequate to overcome the difficulties and remove the
risks of the operation which I conducted, excepting
those inseparable from all military operations.
The Court have already before them, in my dis-
patches to the Secretary of State, to Sir Harry Bur.
rard, and in my narrative, the reasons which induced
me to land, and to march without waiting for further
reinforcements, upon which I would wish to rely.—
But whet has fallen from Sir Hew Dalrymple renders
it necessary for me to trouble them with something
further upon this part of the subject.
' The questions, as arising out of his statement, are,
whether I was, in the first instance, sufficiently strong
to get the better of the enemy in the field ; and if
was, whether I adopted the best means of getting
the better of him?
,In respect to my strength, in comparison with the
army of the enemy, I do not desire to be judged by
the result of the campaign, as far as it was conducted
by me, but by the commencement, at which time the
measures were adopted from which, as it was truly
stated, it would not have been easy, and I certainly
had no inclination, to withdraw.
My strength then consisted of nearly 13,000 Bri-
tish troops, and I had the assistance of 6000 Portu-
guese troops, from whose co-operation I expected to
derive advantages, in which expectation I admit I
Was subsequently disappointed.. But I will ask this'
Court, what would have been said, and deservedly
,said, and felt of me throughput the army and the
country, and by the government by which I was
' entrusted, if, with such a force, I had hesitated to
advance upon the enemy ? I have already told'
the Court in my narrative, that I did not be-_
lieve his force was more than from 16 to 18,000
men, only 14,000 of which number could be dispo►
sable in the field. The largest account we received,
whirls was deemed an exaggerated oae,of the strength
of the enemy, made them 20,500 ; and even admit-
ting those numbers to be correct, the troops disposa-
ble for the field could not have equalled' in number
those which I had under my command and co-ope-
rating with me-
It appears that I was not mistaken upon this sub-
ject, for, in pohlt of fact, the largest number, at which
I have ever heard the French force estimated in the
battle of the 21st August, was 16,000 men ; and I,
who saw them, did not think they had more than
14,000, every man of which, excepting the cavalry,
who remained untouched, were actually engaged, and
particularly General Kellermann's reserve.
Now if all this be true, I may fairly conclude, that
if the enterprize was hazardous and difficult, I was
not without means of bringing it to a fortunate con-
clusion.
The next question is, whether, having adequate
means in my power, I adopted proper measures to ef-I
fect my object ? Sir Hew Dalrymple says, that by
the line of march I adopted, all the strong positions
were in the hands of the enemy ; but I can assure
him, that he will find it very difficult to adopt any
line of march in Portugal, which will not afford
strong positions to an enemy acting on the defensive.
But there n as one advantage attending the line which
I adopted, which was, that it rendered the enemy's
superior cavalry useless, in the way in which he ought
to, and would have, employed it, if I had adopted any
other line.
If I had adopted the line by the high road from
Lisbon to the north, by Santarem, I must have kept
up my communication with the Mondego ;—which
would have weakened my force for operations in the
field ; and, afterl all, the enemy with his cavalry,
must have broken in upon it. By adopting the line
by the sea coast, and depending, for my supplies,
upon the shipping, my communication was so shoat,
that it ilefended itself, I. was enabled to keep my
force collected in one body, and I bad my arsenals
ands magazines • close to me whenever I required to
communicate with them.
Having taken this line myself, I proposed that by
I Santarem to Sir Harry Burrard, for Sir John Moore's
corps, by which itmight have been adopted with safety,
as I Was upon the sea line. = •
The Lieutenant General has stated that, byehe line
I adopted, I left all the stmngpositionsinthe enemy's;
hands. I do not know what positions were in the
enemy's hands, of which I could have deprived him,
or he could have been deprived, by the adoption-of
any other line of march.
If the march had been made as I had ordered it on
the 21st of August, in the morning, the position ofi
Torres Vedras would have been turned ; and there
was no position, in the enemy's possession, excepting
that in our front at Cabeea de MOntach'que and
those in the rear cf it ; and I must observe to the
Court, that if Sir John Moore's corps had gone to.
Santarem, as proposed, as soon as it disembarked in the
Mondego, there would have been no great safety in
these positions, if it was, as it turned out to be, in one
power to beat the French in the field.
I will not follow the example of Sir Hew Dab

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rymple is entering into a discussion on the probable
effects of the battle c the 21st of August, if a certain
line of action _bad been adopted, because an officer
supposed to be concerned in that ques ore-
sent, and I dare say ..that opportunities will not be
wanting of entering into that part of the stibject.
It has been my misfortune to have been 'accused of
emberity and imprudence, as well as o! excess of cau-
tion in the late transactions in Portuga , but w,i bout
'appealing to the result of what happened a: the mo •
-
ment I gave over the command of the arm,. I may •
safely assert,that.whatever might be the diiiculty of
the operations I had undertaken, means existed to
bring it to a fortunate conclusion ; that there was no
ground for the apprehension for my safety, which Sir
Hew Dalrymple seems to have entertained ; and that
under the instructions which I had received, I should
have been blamed, deservedly, if Ih td not cornmen- •
ced my operations as soon as I thought I had a suf-
ficient flame.
The next point to which I shall take the liberty of
drawing the attention of the Court, is the share eh; h
lam suppos_d to have had in the negotiation 0; e
armisticeAmd the convention. -In that part of ~e
question which I have disCusse.d hitherto, I am wildly
and -solely responsible. Li that part which follows I.
am held responsible for the advice I am sitipposed to
have given, in character at least, if not in person, and
in my profession.
It is important for me therefore to shew whit d-
vice I really did give, in what view' I gave it, and
what would have been the result, if the measures-,
which I recommended, had been pursued.
•I did recommend and concur in the measure of al-
, lowing the French to evacuate Portugal with their
arms andbaggage ; and here I must observe that it was
particularly understood in the negoti-tion of the ar-
mistice, that in the words ,c property of all descrip-
tions," was to be included only military baggege and
equipment ; that this understanding was carried into
execution by a separate article of the convention, and
that the commissioners for executing the convention
acted upon this principle.
When the measure of allowilig the French to eva-
cuate Portugal was to be taken into consideration,
viz. on the evening of the 22d August, it was neces-
sary to review the situation, the means, and the rc-
, sources of the two armies, and our own objects.
The enemy had collected their forces after the de-
feat of the 21st, and were about to resume the position
of Cabeca de Montashique, from whence their re-
treat was open to other positions in front of Lisbon,
and from thence across the Tagus into Alenteio.—
They had all the facilities in their power to make
these movements, and when they would have reach-
ed Lisbon, the possession of that river by the forts
and by the Russian fleet, and the great number of
boats ofwhich they would havehadthe use, would have
enabled them to cross, in one body, covered by the
citadel and the high grounds, and they would scarce- •
ly have lost their rear guard. In Alentejo they had
provided ample supplies.
As I have stated in my narrative of my proceed-
ings from the 12th July, to the 20th August, bison
had re-established the French authority in that pro-
vince, during his expedition towards Elves in the
month of July ' • and Ole grain which it had produced •
was purchasedfer the use of the French army. ' I '
know this circumstance not only from the reports of
the country, bat from intercepted letters, written to-
Loison, by the French agents in Alentejo, which
were shewn to me.
On their arrival in that province, the French
would have had to march, unmolested, ill the finest
road in Portugal, to Elvis, which is a fortress, at
least of the second order among the fortresses of
Europe ; where they would have placed a part of
their corps in garrison, and they would have sent the
remainder across the upper Tagus to Almeida. This
place was already provisioned in some degree; and
that part of their force which the French would have
detached to Alnieida, would have experienced no dif-
ficulty in relieving the distant blockade kept up by
the Portuguese peasantry, and in throwing in such
quantities of provisions as they would have required.
Sir John Moore's corps had been ordered, on the
evening of the 20th, to join the army, for which
corps, a disposition had been proposed for the pur-
pose of preventing the French force from carrying
into execution the plan of operations which I have
supposed, and which it is certain they would have
adopted after their defeat in the field. Sir doha
Moore's corps could have supported itself at Santa-
rem, as proposed, only by keeping up its communi-
cation with the Mondego, because the victuallers and
transports could lie in safety in that river only ; and
the country on the banks of the Mondego, and under
the authority of the government of Oporto, could
alone furnish the means of keeping up that commu-
nication to any efficient purpose. When Sir John
Moore's corps, therefore, was called down to join the
army, it could operate only, as it was intended by
Sir Harry Burrard that it should operate, in imme-
diate aid and communication with that under my
command, depending for 'its subsistence upon the
means which had been provided for the army, and the
whole bearing upon the enemy's front.
Our operations, when 'we should have joined,
would have been those of a superior army pressing
upon an inferior on its retreat ; but nothing which
we could have done, would have cut off their re-
,treat; the enemy must have been in Lisbon before
us ; the Tagus would have been the enezny's to thb
last moment of their passage ; and after they would
have crossed, the necessity of possessing ourselves of
the forts on the river, and the Russian fleet, in the
first instance, "and the want of boats, which the ene-
my would have carried off, would have given them
ample time to make all their ;arrangements in Alen-
tejo before our troops could reach them.
But in carrying on these operations,-we should
have been involved in many difficulties and dis-
tresses, which might have again placed, in a state of
risk, all the objects of the campaign.
The communication with the shipping on the coast
of Portugal, is at all times precarious, and bee 'Ries
more so towards the end of August, and is at length
quite impracticable. In fact, many boats were
swamped in the last week in August, vessels lost
their anchors, and more than once
obliged to go to sea in danger. On the
there, were eleven days bread in camp,
nal force which marched from' Lavaos 4
10th of August ; the troops which had
20th, had brought four days bread for
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