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t Wagner. Cr. that morning a serjeant was seal
et with a patro eof cavalry, and reported s?satlint
enemy had fired at him, and that he had I'4Bo
wounded. The enemy was in the direction of Van-
dillos. On the morning of the 14th, a stalsat pinket,
was obliged to fill back, and the cavatry bsgicte
and some infantry were ordered np so their support.
The enemy were in possession of the defile, and had
some men on the plains.. ht' this altali'there was
some men killed and wounded on hash aides. On the'
• morning of the 14th, Fe: received orders-fitim Lord
W. Bentinek, to find out the enemy.: lie began his
march at day-break, and As hii troops advanced, the
enemy fell back, until he discovered their main
body, at Vandillos. Witness then sent an orderly to
acquaint Lord V. Bentinek with the circumstance.
He recollected seeing Sir J. Ms tray that daytoming
up as the enemy ablandoned the last village they had
possession of. Sit 3. Mairay requested-Witness to go
forward and reconnoitre the enemy,. which .he did
close in to Vandillos, and returned with the informa-
tion that they consisted of 3,000 men. • He was de-
sired to go forward a second time. On his return he
stated, that the peasant whom he had questioned at
a village near Vandillos, Wormed him, that the
enemy had, the preceding evening, occupied all their
villages, and the road towards the plain, to the num-
ber of 9,000 men. One of his informants described
himself to be the Alcalde. Witness believed Gen.
Mackenzie was present when he made his second re-
port to Sir John Murray. On his advance to Van-
dillos lie saw sufficient marks of bivouacs to sbew that
the enemy had passed the night on that ground. He
recollected that at some titneeither in the month of
.bily or August, the enemy passed the road bet Ween
Venthill and Altafulla, notwithstanding the fire from
our gun boats and other vessels. It tank place after
Tarragona was again invested by Lord W. Bentinck.
The enemy was suti.equeruly driven back to Torre
del Biota. There were several toads by the hills,
which he conceived were out uf the reach of the fire
hem gun.boats.
Cross-examined by Admiral HALLOWELL.
Q. Do you mean to say that there was more than
cue day on which the vessels fired at the enemy dur-
ing the siege 'of Tarragona by Lord W. Dentiuck
A. No, I spoke only to one day.
Q. Do you mean to say that your picquets stop-
red the advance of the enemy's column on that day,
without any assistaive from the boats and the Vol-
cano bomb?--'A. It did not appear to me that they
had any intention of advancing further on that day,
as they did not drive in our outposts.
Q. Do not yon ip point of fact know that this same
column of the enemy was afterwards obliged to go
'by another road to Tarragona ? A. I believe it must,
•or else it marched on the main road, after our ad-
irance had fallen back.
Q. Are you not able to say positively that the '
'_enemy did proceed by another road, when you knew
that the Malta and Royal George line of battle ships
'had anchored dose in shore, so as to cover the road,
and protect the advance, which had halted ?
Here some time elapsed before an answer surfi-
ciantly precise to satisfy the Culla was returned by
the witness.
A. I think they might have passed by the main
road, but I did 130 L see them.
Q. As the advance halted by the Vgh.road, was
it possible-for them to pass without your seeing them?
Admiral. Hallowell observed, that he was desirous
:of cautioning the witness to be on his guard. He
altOuld be sorry to lead him into error.
A. We fell back next day ; but so we did every
evening, and resumed our pests the next morning.
Q. Do you not know that ships of war can lie so
near the shore as to cover the read for a great &s-
-tance ?—A. On one part of the beach they can, but
Cie part of the road to which i allude is elevated on
arches. I cannot speak much, however, as I am- n6t
'acquainted with the subject of anchirrages or naval
Affairs.
Q. Is not a great part of the road within musket
shot from the beach ?—A. I should think not.
Q. WAS the advance commanded If .Colonel
Adam ever *Wicked in Altafulla ?—A. Not in the'
town, but very neat it. The enemy *five hi ()Ur ca-
valry piecemes, and passed between theth endear in-
fantry stationed on the heights.
Captain.Acwatpaa ShlaRP, R.l. examined.
'Witness .stated,' that he was'. Captive of bas Ma-
jesty's ship Hpaciatlis and that. lie was stationed off
.the coast of Valencia in. the Month of Jung, 11113.--
He recollected. recerving informatiOa. on tlfe 9th, that.
Ae enemy was siv.tflcing toiv*di 441134 a. O
We 111101 he cisaanitinicated, yids i>r titcipper, ova board
ot which were several pearanti, o[ ohs of !born he
lad some previous knowledge, and final whom he
learned that the Stench force coniisied:4 from 9to
.10,000.1ne with about 1000 or 1100 cavalry; that
their 'last dreiaion, amounting to woo foot, and 3 or
400 him u, liailleft Castiglione de la Plana at two
o'clock off the Bth, and that Jllariiial Stichet in per.
son backatnitted the same place at 'ten o'clock on the
night of thatilay. The intelligence which he receiv-
..erlon. the 9th be trantrsiued to Admiial HsUoaell
by a Gibraltar sriniggler, and that of the 10ili be
dispatched the Buzzard to convey to Alicant and,
immediately set off himself for Tarragona. Ile be-
lieved Admiral latelloWell received his commuuica-
%ion, as the AdAliral subsequently acknowledged ii ;
' but he mild not name the particular day of his so
dping. He was weliAennamted with the beach of
Tarragona, and with .the kind of weather which le,
.nerally prevailed, on. the eastern coil& SPain. Did',
. not think it. was alwayi 'to be depended on for the;
embarkation of an army,
Cross-examined.
Remembered the hour it. which. he sailed in the
Hyacinth, with Captain Ca/m.l/on board Ba-
laguer, on the 14th t about, one gelisek P. from: Ile
wen& hinuelf on board at fOur O'clock, and
made
Lieutenant D-
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made sail.
Lieutenant Piz; R. N. swote sod examined.
1-4sd been.iu hictdilesty'S saivice 'l6 years, and an
agent for tienperte deriog the laic, four or sre.lires
stow upon half-pey.was employed in the Bay of
, Tarragona inithe month, of Tune, 1814. sad, 1401,ifie
. kiil affernitp.datica of the Beath tit/4_llla day,
geac
:figspia* sth to the TO, When'.Cattitinitliera be.
% .: , le eimridiretthlit, duty, au at lip end..
. ~ ... i :al;iii, he-alit duty under. the direction
•Ari, ''.: ithert, .0; of 44" well.
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tig to-titorioiv ithii don at tei o'doik. • ,