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warded. I seat kby an placer who was capable of
giving teeny explatgatian their Lordships might eat-
quire on the suluesit. That letter, Sir, was never tent.
by me tathe Date of Welliegtou ; his Grace could
ave no knowledge of that letteruntil he had received,
copy of it from Lord Bathurst. Its publicity, of
which Sir John Murry complains (if it did exist),,
did not originate witlOw, and I do not believe it hitt
ever appeared in any public paper, therefore it can-
not be by the publicity of this letter that he has suf-
fered any inconvenience, but snore,likely by the pub-
licity of ?it -conduct which caused the necessity cif
my writing it. Sir John Murray wishes to establish
an impression that I sent this letter away in great
secrecy, and that I had determined on sending it as
early as the 12th. That I did determine to send a
letter to my Commander-in-Chief, as soon as I could
after the embarkation of the troops, is natural enough.
1 shoulA; have neglected my duty if I had not done
so. Captain Carrol I alto wrote a letter to the
Duke of Wellington. On my arrival at Balaguer,
on the afternoon of the 13th of June, I found Sir John
Murray on shore ; in the evening he went on board
the Malta, and I soon followed him. I asked him if
he meant to write to the Duke of Wellington. His
answer appeared to me doubtful. I replied, I should
write if he did not ; and I wrote a letter that evening,
stating to his Grace the precipitate manner in which
we had retreated from Tarragona, but without stating
the offer I had made to take off the guns.
On the morning of the 14th I spoke to Sir John
Murray again about writing, as I thought our opera-
tions were so combined with the Duke of Welling-1
ton's movements, that every moment's delay was
toll
his importance. This,was my .reason for writing
his Grace. How far it was sent away in secrecy, the
Court will be able to judge—but I do not think much
secrecy could be attached to an event which was pub-
lished by general signal to the whole fleet. Captain
Carrol was superseded in the command of his ship
to go with it.
Sir 3. Murray was informed of his intended jour-
ney, and he was the bearer of Sir John Murray's
dispatch to the Duke of Wellington.
The charge of having sent the Hyacinth away in
a harry, has been clearly disproied bygre evidence
already before the Court. The meastmeaaken upon
my letter were unknown to me until .1 received no.,
lice thereof from the Admiralty ; and my being
placed in the situation of a prosecutor was unknown
to me until after Christmas last—the letter of the
Secretary of State leading me to suppose that I was
only to be examined as a witness. He (Sir John
Murray) has charged me again with illiberal conduct
in writing this letter to Sir E. Pellew, after my having'
perused his dispatch to the Duke of Wellington ; and
that I did not give him notice of my having wnttln,
this letter until S 7 days after it was dispatched, when
I knew that long before it must have reached its desti-
nation, and produced its desired effect on the cha-
racter of the man for whom I was even then profess.
ing a personal regard. As he (Sir John Murray)
has stated that I saw the letter, I will not flatly deny
his assertion : but I do most solemnly declare, that
I have not the slightest recollection of such a cir.
cutnstance having taken place.
Colonel D'Aguilar, who is now before the Court.
was some months ago at Tarragona, collecting do-
cuments for this trial; he then asked me if I had
seen the letter of Sir John Murray, before it was sent
away ? I told him I had aot. He expressed his as.
tonishment, and said he understood the letter had
been shewn to me b?fore it was sent away. I again
denied my having seen it, and told him, that if I
had perused it, my opinion of Sir John Murray
would not have been altered by it.
The anxiety which many of the officers of the
Malta have witnessed on my part, to see the letter
alluded to, and the astonishment I expressed on ready
ing the first line in it, which states, 4, Admiral Hal-
lowell has just informed me, that the Hyacinth is
just going to Alicant," will strengthen the belief that
I had no knowledge of its contents, until it appeared
in the public Papers. His letter, detailing the pro-
ceedings before Balaguer, under Captain Adam and
Lieutenant-Colonel Prevost, I saw, and probably
Sir John Murray may have mistaken this letter for
the other ; with the permission of the Court, I will
here read it.

" His Majesty's Ship Malta, June 14, IEI4.

re Ssa—After the fall of Fort St. Philippe, some days elapsed
before 1 got the official report of the siege, and the pressure of
the business in whisk we have b th been engaged since, has
prevented rue from sooner expressing to you the high sense of
obligation I -feel for the very ample and important assistance the
army received on that occasion, from the naval force sent there
by your orders.
66 The whole army is sensible of their obligations to you on
this, and, indeed, on every other occasion, and no person in It,
I assure you, more than myself.
• the proper channel of communication, I hope you will
excuse my requesting of you to communicate to Captain Adam
and the officers and seamen under his immediate command, how
ninth 1 feel indebtedlor their meritorious services on that occa-
sion. Captain Adam's exertions were unwearied, and the ar-
rageosent he made and saw executed, moo: materially coutrk
bated to the success of the undertaking.
• Captain Carrot, of the 'Volcaut., took a most active part.
during the siege, and to bins was entrusted the placing the guns
on du: breaching battery. within SSO yards of the place, which
he had by his activity and gallantry nearly effected, when he
was disAbled front further exertions, by the explosion of a shelL
Captain Stoddart succeeded him, and most -ably &tidied what
Captain Carroll bad left undone.
" The services of Lieutenant Corbyn, of the Invincible, have
been particularly noticed by Lieutituant-Colonel Prevost, and in
the management of a battery entrusted to his charge, he was
particularly distinguished. I shall esteem it a favour, If you will
draw the attention of the Commander-in-Chief le the Mekliter-

rauean, to his services on tbis occasion.
" I Dave the honour to be, Sir,
" Admiral Hallowell, &c. " MURRAY."

The public letter to the Duke of -Wellington, de-
tailing these proceedings, must have been the one
shewn to me, if any one was shewn.
Unwilling as I am to make any thing like-what
concerns myself the subject of this reply, yet the
very peculiar situation in which I stand, compels
me, in justice to myself, to trespass a few minutes
upon the time of the Court. It was not till I ar—
rived in London, a few days after Christmas day,
that I knew I was to be the prosecutor, and not till
the day before I left London, to proceed to this place,
which was the day on which the Judge Advocate
left London, that I first heard, that in contrasficaion
to the orders from the Secretary of State, that I
should substantiate the statements made in my tette*
to. Wt. E Pellew, that I found myself confined, by
the Leans of the third charge to. the tunsactious up
to the 12th instant inclusive, and that I was not to,
gointo the full detail of my letter.
This, with the very different mode of carrying oft