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TRIAL OF VICE-ADMIRAL SIR ROBERT

CALDER, BART.

THIRD DAY, PORTSMOUTH, DEC 25.

DEFENCE.
The Court opened at a quarter pall ten o'clock.—
Sir Robert Calder tequelled that his written defence
might be read by -- Gafelee, Efq. his Comilla ;
and the Court intimating their confent, the defence
was read accordingly, of which the following is a
correct copy :
" Mr. Prelident and Gentlemen of the Court,
" I appear before you in a fingular, I may almnfl
fay an unprecedented fituation having ferved my
King and Country not only without reproach, but 1
may add, with fume degree of reputation for up-
waTds of forty-fix years, during which I have been
more than once honoured with marks of approba-
tion from my Sovereign ; having for the lall ten
months been employed on a moft fevere and critical
fervice, without once being in port, and having in
the courfe of it, with a very inferior fleet, forced a
fuperior one of the enemy, who had the advantage
of wind and fituation, into anion, and obtained a
decifive viaory over them, 1 felt myfelf impelled to
folicit the prefent inquiry, for the purpofe of vindi-
cating my honour and my charafter from a variety
of injurious and unfounded afperfions which have
been call upon me, in confequence of not having
renewed the engagement during the two days that
the enemy afterwards remained in fight. The con-
feinufnefs of my having done my duty would, how-
ever, have induced me to treat thefe afperfions with
contempt, had they not become fo general, that I
was apprehenfime that filence on my part would be
conlirued into an acknowledgment of their truth,
and an admiffion of my own mircondult ; I found
therefore, under the neceffity of applyinkto
the Lords of the Admiralty, to order an inquiry
into my conduct, that I might be enabled to Rate pub-
licJy the reafons which eat:aced it throughout, and
to refute the illiberal and unfounded afrertions that
bad been made againft me. To this they have been
pleafed to affent—and although in a fubfequent letter
to that which accompanies the order for your affem-
bling, I requefled that the Court might be empower.
ed to inquire into the whole of my conduct, even pritoel
to my falling in with the enemy, while in their pram,
fence, and fubfequent thereto; they have thought
it right to confine it to the 23d of July, and my
luifegsiate mama and joroceediegs, until I finally IDA
fight of the enemy's thips, and to direft me to be
tried for not having done my utmoft to renew the
engagement, and to take or deffiroy every fhip of
the enemy, which the charge airerts it was my duty
to engage. I confider this, therefore, as a declara.l
tion by their Lordfhips, that this is the only part of
my conduit upon which any particle of doubt can,
by pnffibility, attach, or of which any explanation
can poffibly be requifite. At the fame time, howe-
ver, I cannot but lament that the inquiry is fo limit-
ed, as it prevents my giving evidence of the circum-
fiances of the adlion, which I have po doubt I
thould have proved to have been fuch as to add to
the reputation of the Britifh navy.
" As in defending myfelf againft this charge, I
truft, I fhall be able to tatisfy the Court and the pub.
lic, that the not renewing. the engagement, if it was
prafticable to have done it, was not duly juaifiable,
but the moft proper and prudent mode, under all
the eircumflances, to be adopted, and that the at-
tempting to force a renewal of the anion, might not
',only have endangered the fafe...y of my own fizet, but
'eventually that of the Country itfelf, I fhall requeft
.be indulgence of the Court, to be permitted to enter
Tully into all the circumfiances, and to laybefore them
he particular fituation in which I was placed. the
orders I had from time to time received, and the rea-
fdas which induced me not to attempt a renewal of
the aaion, confident that when 1 have done fo, all
the prejudices which have been hitherto entertained,
will be diflipated, and that by your judgment I [ball
be rebored to the gond opinion of my Country, that
Country for which I have bled, and for which I have
conquered.
66 Before, however, I enter into the particular
flatements, permit me to make an obfervation or two
on the fpecific charge, which is the principal objea '
of your inquiry. It does not range itfelf precifely
within any of the Articles of War, though it in
part adopts the language of one of them: It afrumes
as a principle, that it was my duty to renew the en•
gagement, and to endeavour to take or deftroy every
{hip of the enemy.
" I am ready to admit that it is fo much the duty
.of an Officer to engage the enemy wherever he meets
with them ; that it is incumbent on him to explain,
fatisfaacwily, why he does not; but in making that
explanation, it is nut neceffitry for him to prove the
frA.Veal impnflibility of doing fo. It may be poflible,
and yet there may be very many rearm, why hei
fhould not. •Indeed, the abfurdity of a contrary po.
noon is fuch, that it would be an idle wage of time
to trouble the Court with many obfervations upon it.
" They will, however, permit me to obferve that
mine is not the only inftanee where a Britifh fleet has
laid in fight of that of the enemy without renewing
an engagement.
6 In proot of this affertion, if it be necefrary, I
pees, only recal to your men,nry out ofmany others,
the example of two very great and gallant Officers,
ho, aftpr having obtained moll brilliant victories
can the enemy, did not think themtelves juftified in
,},tinging them a fecund time to af ian. although they
were in fight of them fully as long as I was. The
two meritotinus officers to whom I allude are, Earl
Howe. in the aaion of the ill of June, 1794; and
740 St. Vincent. in that of the 27th of February;
z797.—0f the latter lam competent to (peak from
my own knowledge, having had the honour to ferve
uncle, his Lordfltip as Captain of the Eleet in that en-

sagement.
" Of the propriety of the conduit of there Noble
Lords, in both inflances, no doubt has at any mo-
ment been entertained by any body. They certainly
e'ercifed a found dilcretiofle'ercifed upon the occafion ; but
it may lint be itripioper for me to remark, that al-
tiviiigh the advantages they had acquired were cer-
tainly ftiper int. to mine, that mine was a fituation in
whicn it was in every repel more necerrary to era.
Rife that difcretion, which, in every care, mull be in-
veiled the Commander of a rquadron, to judge of
the propriety or improptiity of offering battle to a
Inr.:00! flee;. In the ittlifPcci ;bow wiepOon.f,4 SRC

was no otber/nrce to contend with, no other quitter
from which an attack was to be apprehended than
the fleets which had been abeady engaged : In mine
it behnved me to be particularly on my guard againit
the Ferrol and Rochefort fquadronc, confining a
twenty-one fail of the line, b )th which, I had radon
to believe, were out, and one of which appears to
have been altually on the fes, and to which the fqua
dron oppofed to me might eafily have given notice
of their fituation,as will be hereafter morefully Rated.

" With thefe obfervations I than difmifs this part
of the cafe for the prefent ; and proceed to lay before
the Court a flatement of the Etas, to which I am to

requelt their ferious attention :
In the month of February I was difpatched by
Admiral Cornwallis from the Fleet off Wham, to
blockade the harbours of Ferrol and Corunna. Al-

though at that time there were five French (hips of
the line, and three frigates, and five Spanifh (hips of
the line, and four frigates nearly ready for Sea, ha-
lides three Spani(h line of battle (hips which were
juR come out of the arfenal, and were getting ready
—(even fail of the line were all that could be fpared
me, which were afterwards increafed to nine ; and
though I repeatedly made application for two fri-
gates and two (mall valeta to plate at the entrance
of thefe harbours, I only obtained one of each. I do
not mention this by any means as complaining of the
commis of the Admiralty, or imputing to them any
inattention to my fituation, or to the public fervice.
I well know, that at that critical period they had
abundant means of employing all the force they
could celled : and 1 have no doubt but that they
(applied me with as many as they could, confiftently
with their attention to the other parts of the fervice.
I am defending myfelf, not imputing blame to
others ; and my foie objed in making this ftatement
is, that the Court may be aware of the very critical
&patio° in which I was plazed.
44 With my fmall force, however, I kept my Ra-
tion, and from time to time, reported to the Com-
mander of the fleet off Uthant, and to the Admiralty,
the information I received refpeding the tlste of the
enemy's fleet.
44 About the month of Apia the Toulon and Ca-
diz fleets joined ; and it being then uncertain what
would be their deftination, and the Brett fleet being
alfo on the move, my fituat;on became fo dangerous
that Lord Gardner gave me diredions, upon per.
ceiving the enemy's (hips to dire& their courts to the
northward, or on receiving intelligence that could be
depended upon, of their taking that route, to pro-
ceed to join his Lordthip either at the tendezvous off
Breft, or wherever elfe I might learn with, certainty
that he might be with the fquadron.
46 The combined fquadrons, however, went to the
Weft Indies ; and it being waled that they would
return and attempt to form a jundion with the fleet
at Ferrol, I was direded both by Lord Gardner, and
the Admiralty, to be on sly guard, in cafe of that
event.
46 In the mean time, the preparations at Ferrol
continued. On the sth July I received information
that there was a French Admiral expelled daily from
Paris or Brea, to fuperfede the Admiral then at
Ftrrol ; that :he Combined fquadrons, confiding of
13 fail of the line, befides frigates and corvettes, had
orders to leave Ferrol, and to be at Corunna by the
middle of the mouth.
•' A report made to me by Captain Prowfe a few
days before, that agreed with fo mach of this intern-
Knee as refpeited the number of (hips ready for (ea,
and added that three other lice of battle (hips were
getting ready. On the loth of July, I received a
farther report from him, that the (hips had adually
began to move. From fubfequent events, it appears
that thefe reports were accurate.
44 In addition to this, I had learned that the enemy
had ere&ed fignal pods from Cape Finifterre and
Cape Ortegal, to Ferrol, fo that the Combined feria-
dron, on their return from the Weft Indies, might,
by fending forward a frigate or corvette to one of the
fmall bays near Cape Finifterre, communicate by
land their :approach to the fq'iadron at Corinna or
Ferrol, and dired them to be ready to path out upon
the fignal polls announcing their being off the coati."
The Defence tben proceeds to Rate, that,
By an order (tom Admiral Cornwallis, Rear Ad-
miral Stirling was ordered to join Sir ,Robert, and
they were ordered to cruize 3o or 4o leagues to the
wettward for fix or eight days, and then to return..
The enemy's force was then Hated to be t 6 fail,with
whom, if the prifoner did not fall in, they were im-
mediately to repair to their refpedive Rations off
Ferrol and Rochfort. On the teth he was joined by
Rear Admiral Stirling. The fame wind, however,
which enabled Admiral Stirling to leave Rochefort,
enabled the fleet which he had been blockading there
to efcape, which it did, as appears from the evidence
of Admiral Stirling himfelf, on the tBtb, to Corun-
na, whence it could get out ahnoft at any time.—
The wind had continued nearly for two days to be
fair for their departure, and if the, had taken ad•
vantage of the night they might have joined the ene-
my. It was out of difpute, that on the 24th the wind
was at N. E. which was a favettrable wind for going
out : and it was known to all the Court, that partial
land winds occatirmally blew, which might even en-
able them to effoft a fimilar purpofe. At this time a
letter was received, written by I..c.rd Nelfon, then
bound to Europe, to Lord Gardner, and tranfinir•
ted to Sir Robert, Itrongly recommending a care-
ful watch to be kept on Ferrol, as a prat into which
the Combined Fleets might be fups.ofed to attempt
to enter. Accordingly, on the 2111, they came in
fight, much more numerous, however, than had
been (nppofed, not coofifting of (lateen fail of the
line, as Admiral Cornwallies'accounts led to ex.
ped, but of 20 fail of the line, 7 frigates, 2 brigs,
and a lugger: while to oppofe them, there were only
s fail of the line, 2 frigates, and a cutters Notwith-
(landing this fuperiority, and every difachrantage of
wind and weather, he effeded his objed of forcing the
enemy to battle ; and, amidli the numberlefs infinuat
tions which had unwarrantably been thrown oil.
againft his conduet, he had never yet heard any ob
jedion flatted as to the triode of his commencing the
adion that day, or to his condult in the comic of
it. By the valour of the Admiral, who was fe-
cund in command on that day, and by the bravery of
his fleet in general, he had heat enabled to achieve,
what he prefumed to think W:44, in filch circumftan•
ces, a great and important loamy; a vidory, than
' which, few intlances, and thofe of modern date, more
important, or more decifive in their nature, had peen
44NOmPlifile4 9O Path:* diffuritY or Ausags• At

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the time the firing ceafed, the enemy were to wind-
ward. The Vice-Admiral then balled the Windforl
Cattle, which was in a damaged dale, (hiking her
So prepare for action. He kept in the fame tack
during the whole of the night, to prim& her, keep-
ing. at the fame time, as clot: as poflible to the
.enemy. During the night, he was engaged in repair-
ing the damage the fquadrnn had fuffittned; and bang
then ignorant of the extent of the damage, he ex-
pe&ed it would he in his power to renew the engage-
ment. He accordingly fent the Frilk cutter, and the
Nile luggee. to colic& the returns of the date of
the different (hips. There returns would be laid be-
fore this Court, and it would be for them to judge,
whether he would have been warranted, labouting
under the difadvantages which he (hould have tar
prove to them, and with his fleet to much damaged,
to attempting tc renew the aftion ? It was not till
about eight in the morning of the 23J, that the Ad-
, miral law the Malta greatly to leeward. He then I
made fignal for her to quit the prizes, and for the
Egyptienne to take them in tow. The enemy were'
then teen at a diflance' about eight or nine miles to
windward, He found, that of 15 (hips of the line,
the Windfor Cattle only was declared incapable of
failing, and requiring to lie-to, yet that many of them
were very much crippled ; and, in his judgment, and 4
relying on the returns which had been made to him,
without a mail which could be relied on in a prefs of
fail. That this belief was cnrreft, no other evidence
fiemed occefrary, than the fad that the Repulfe fprung
her bowfprit, and the Malta her mainmad, on the
23tb, being the very fird prefs of fail they had made
fence the aiding. Capt. Inman, ton, of whole evidence
the Court were already in poffeffion, has afforded his
teffiniony, that he expected, when fent to chafe a fri-
gate of the enemy, on the day after the Ohm, that his
mall would have gone by the board. Another circum.
Rance. which mud have relished from a renewal of the
;dion, was the capture of the Vs'indlor Critic, of the
prizes and the frigates, three or four fail of the
line of the enemy's fleet, apparently in order, being
obferved watching on the weather beam, ready to cut
off the fcparated (hips. This it was the Vice Ad-
miral's duty to prevent, and to preferve the advan•
tage he had got. Another difadvantage under
which he laboured, in attempting to renew the ac-
tion, was the want of frigates, on which it was un-
neceffary for him to enlarge to that Court. It was
far from being his intention to attempt to adduce any
thing which might tend to diminiffi that fpii it which
induces Brides Commanders to contemn every
danger when their country's intereft was at Rake;
but he mull deprecate the idea that it was in-
cumbent on them, at all times. and in all cafes,
to combat with unequal numbers, to the utter-
molt, without regard to any circumßances which.
might elfin. Every cafe mutt be governed ,by
its own circtimftances, and mutt depend on the
judgment of the Commander, fubjed to !hat
refporifibility which always attaches to Inch fi-
tuations. it appeared to him, that the alma was
highly important, even if the capture of the two
prizes had been the only object attained. There
were, however, intern fail of the line at Ferrol,
which, if they were not already at lea, would, in
the event of his being unable to refume his limits's
off that port, be left at full liberty to purfue any
courfe they pleated, and even to etre& a landing in
Ireland. He really did not feel, in thefe cii cum-
dances, that be was juflified in running the rifle
which mull have attended a renewal of the action,
unlefs an opportunity prefented itfcif far more fa-
vourable than that which he declined to attempt, re-•
folved as he was to return in fearch of them, In loon
as he bad placed his crippled (hips in a place of
fafety. He certainly had not offered, but, at the
fame time, he had never avoided, a renewal of the
engagement ; and though the enemy, vauntingly, as
one gallant Commander had reprefented it, and
with a view to cover the moil leeward part of their
fleet, as it had been dtfcribed by another gallant
Officer, had borne on the Britifit fleet, he was con-
vinced, had they been ferious in coming to affirm,
they would have received a proper revenge. But,
during the whole of the z3d, the enemy. as appeared
from the evidence before the Court, had the wind,
And, of courfe, could not he forced into action. On
the zatb, at day-break, the enemy was feen only from
the mart head, there being fume light breezes. But,
even then, fuppufing it to have been poflible to
I bring the enemy to action, that could only be as
crimplithed by a feparation of the fquadron ; and cer-
tainly, even then, not in his opinion, without the con-
tent of the enemy. At fix o'clock of the evening of
the 24th, the enemy was entirely out of fight. fit.
Vice-Admiral accompanied the Windfor Cattle to a
?laic of fafety, refolved to return to his nation, and,
if poffible. to bring the enemy to action. In cafe
of not India; them in Ferrol, his refolution was
to repair to the rendezvous off Cape Finiflerre.
He accordingly returned to Ferrol, and there re
fumed the blockade; the Malta returned to England
to refit; and Admiral Stirling, agreeably to his ,
orders, to Rochefort. The Vice-Admiral had, :n the
propriety of his conduit in thefe different refpefts,
the approbation of the Commander-in-Chief, who
not only transmitted to him a letter of appro.
bation and thanks, after the action of the z3d.
but, as an additional proof of confidence, on the
(7th of Auguit, put under his command a fleet of
twenty fail of the line to blockade Fermi, and with
farther inaruftions, if they had failed. The enemy ,
bad failed from Ferrol; but the Vice-Admiral fur- '
tutiately arrived time enough at Cadiz to enable Ad-
'Ural Collingwond to fecure them there. Having
tilted to the bell of his judgment, in all thefe par-
Oculars, he little expected to have met the reception
which he found awaiting him in this country. The
Court were already in poffeflion of the tellimonial of
the gallant Admiral, who was fecond in command
on the sad of July, to the propriety of his (the Vice
Admiral's) conchs& A fimilar teflimonial he had
alio received from his Commander in Chief; and be
Slittered himfelf the country in general would agree,
on his return home, in heflowing the ulna% tokens of
approbation on his conduct, and that of his gallant af-
fociates. This, at lead, they deferved, however much
he himfelf might have merited a contrary treatment.
Judge then of his feelings, on findin himfelf accufed,
even by the mod'moderate of his affailants, of having
trifled with the feelings of the public. This, however,
proceeded not from any fault of his. hot from the
mode in which his difpatchcs were publifbed in The
krdoes Gazette. They were nat publillicd wholly and
entire i ; t &yet they were not publifhed as extract;

from, but as copies (4,114 letters. lie difclaim'ed all
idea of refleaing on the Admiralty in this particular.
They probably meant to convey gt4tifyieg intelli-
gence to the public, without being aware of the in-
terpretation which might be put on it, or that it
would militate to his &advantage. That they could
not mean fo, was apparent (ton the readinefs with
which they had allowed him to Hate the abilince
of that part which was omitted. In doing fa, how-
ever, he fhonld take care not ti prejudice the ptiblic,
but rather himfelf to tOffer any odium which might
arife from want of explanation. He then read an ad.
ditional paragraph in his letter to the Commander is
Chief, giving an account of the athon of the axti, is
which he Pays, " at the fame time it will behove me
to be on my guard. on account of the fquadrfln at
Ferrol, and the two captured thips. I have fent them
and the Windfnr Callle away." If this had been
slated, the public could not have expefied 14 much.
They would rather have contemplated with fati,lar.
tion what had been done. His letter of the a6tb July
too, in which he canceled the unfortunate omnon
relative to Admiral Stirling, breathed fim;lar laa.
gnage, and [hewed that a renewal of the engagement,
tor the time, was at an end: As to the report circa.
t hated by Lieutenant Nicholfon, that the Vice Admi.
ral had aifured him and authorifed him to declare to

the Commanding Officer, that be had it in hit power;
and was determined to force the combined fleets to
renew the affirm—Why wss not Lieutenant Nicholfon
called on to prove the fait ? He could not. The Vice
Admiral declared, on his honour, that he never did
fend loch a meffage.
Sir R. Calder—" That I do molt folemnly."
Every letter (hewed his intention not to renew the
aaion, till he had conveyed the Windfor Cattle to a
place of fafety. There, he hoped, would junify him
in wi(hing to have an opportunity to vindicate his
character and condua. The queltion divided Wilt
into two heads t—Firll, Could he renew the aajon,
if he had inclined ?—Second, whether it would-have
been prudent fo to do ? and whether he did not ad
wifely, and exeraife a found judgment in declining
to renew it ? It was evident, that on the 23d he could
not renew the aaion ; and that, cn the aeth, Omagh
the wind was favourable, he could not renew it,
without feparating the fquadron, and evep then it was
doubtful with what (heed's. This he fhould prove;
and that it was impoffible to take the ptiforiers out
of the captured (hips, had it been fohnd Tieceffary
to deltroy them. He lamented the abfence of
Captain Pronfe, as he would have been a material
-wieners to prove the faits in the cafe. The fignal
which he made for a return of the damages which
the different (hips had fuftained, did not impair his
determie,ation to renew the aElion. His only objea
was to form a line of battle, if the enemy had
chofen to advance. It was plain that Captain
Inman made the fame dininetion that he did; for,
though crippled, he gave a negative to the figisal to
lie-by, well knowing the difference between the W.
lky to lie-by for an enemy, and that of carrying a
prefs of fail for the purpofe of renewing the action.
He could fulfieiently admire that fpirit of beroifm by
which a Britifli Officer was withheld from making
fignal of inability, or dillies; but he contendedthat
it would have ill'become him, and that he would-have
ill difcharged his duty to the public, if, to Inch feel-
ings however magnanimous in themfelves, he had
facrificed other more important conliderations. As
to what-Captain Durham fail, he declared that he
had already formed his plah, which was not to cepa-
rate the fleet; and to have ordered Captain Durham
to keep fight of the enemy, could orly have had
the effect of feparating him from the remainder of
our fquadron. He declared, indeed, that, het was
furprifed at Captain D.'s havin.?, made the signal he
did. Had he (the Vice Admiral) required it, he
would have made a fignal for it. In fad, the fignal
made to Capt. Durham, was 77, the Cigna! to bring
to, and not 19, the fignal to reconnoitre.
A variety of letters and other dnchments were
then put in and read ; and among the reitohe firft
difpatch of Sir R. Calder to the hdmiralty, after the
aflion, as it originally Rood, without their curtailment,
The fallowing paragraph from a private letter to Sir
it Calder, from Admiral Cornwallis, dated July 29,
was then read : /3tit it was not behaved that they
(the enemy) had In many line of battle (tips ; lateen
being all we heard of, from a floop-which fpoke
them, as they laid, on board, after they left the Welt
Indies."
Queltion, to the Hon. Capt. GARDI4 Eft, of the Hero.
—ls this your report of the damages Whined by the
Hero ?—Yes, it is.
The Report was then read.
Did the enemy ever chafe, or make any attempt
to force me to aeinn on the 23d of July lag ?—No.
Could I haee forced them ta come to attion on
that day?—Not if they chofe to avoid it.
If I had gone towards the enemy on the :4th,
with intention to renew the aEtion, could I have
compelled them to do fo, if they had chofen to
avoid it, without approaching fo neat- the time as
to have enabled them to communicate ley fignals
with Ferrol ?—I am not acquainted with the rela-
tive fairing of the two fleets; butt I am of opinion,
they could have communicated with the flume, be-
fore they could have been brought to anion, had
they withed to do fit.
Was the Britifli fleet always kept by me between
that of the enemy and the port of Ferrol, while the
enemy kept, in fight ?—The Britith lytadion wit
always nearer to the port of Ferrel titan that of di:
enemy.
Were you mon in danger, fty carrying fail, when
fent by me to Admiral Cornwallis, on our r-turn to
Uthant ? In carrying fail to accnmpli(h that ditty,
which was only performed on Sir R. Calder', appear-
ing in fight of Admiral Calder's fleet, the foremait of
the Hero was in danger of going over the. fide.
Court—From the manner in which you have (ll-
fcribed the Rate of the foremalt of the Hero, at the
time you joined Admiral Cornwallis, what do you
fuppofe would have been the contequence, had the
Vice Admiral found it neceffary to carry fail in pur-
fuit of the enemy;?—l think the linetnall, particularly
on the 2.ath, when there was a conliderable fw:11, had
we tallied fail, mull have gone by the board, front
its putting on In bad an appearance, alter we had
flllted it to the extent of our meat's.
What malls of the Hero were found neceffary fit
be, and were taken out, when the Hero was repair:a
in port ?—The foreman and mainman were booa
taken out, and replaced by new ones.
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nearer to the (hart than the enemy's, *hilt in fight, as to force the enenty to anion, on the 23a or 2.ttli
in what way could they approach the (bore, to coin. of July ?—No.
municate with it, before force part of the Britifh fleet, Did you receive any communication from me. that
not difabled, could have clofed with that part of the I fliould regulate my failing by yours, and that I
enemy which was difabled ?—By Chore, I mean any fhould always keep between you and the enemy, for
part of it between Cape Finillerre and Ferrol, where- your proteltion ?—Yes.
by their wifbes might be communicated to Ferrol. Did I do fo 2—Yes.
At what dillance were you from the (bore while tke Did yon fee the whole, or only part of our (qua.
enemy was in fight ?—I can refer to my book. We dron, on the morning of the 23d at day-break? I for
were 38 leagues N. W. from Ferrol on the 23d, the only part.
wind then N. N. E. What diflance were you from thole yon did fee tha
Can yoit recoiled whether you did not fend a report I ftipoofe about four or flee Chiles.
of your damages by the Fr ilk and Nile, on the night Could you have made a junftion with the !h-
-between the 22d and 33d ?—Yes ; I did verbally, by dron, if I had not .edged dawn ?—lt was impoffible
Lieutenant Fennel, of the Nile, nearly what is before from cite Rate the wind was in. • .
the Court. How far wete the Malta and frigates to leeward
Did von lay any firers on the flati of the lower from you on the morning of the zad was pretty
mans?—No. I Paid they were badly wounded. nearly between our fquadron, and the Malta, Thun-
As you have Paid you are not acquainted With the derer, and prizes.
relative failing of the fleets, on what ground do you Could I have forced the enemy to anion on. the
conclude the enemy could gain the More before the l 23d ?—Not ta'ring the whole fquadron; we could not
Britifh fleet could have fetched shun ?—From their have been taken Into th't an without being towed.
being fifteen or (lateen miles diitant from to. at the I When did I part with you P—On the :ph.
time, and the enemy's hoe of battle (hips being form. yon receive any orders from me to regulate
eti generally to fail as well as ours. I fay generally. your conduct when I thould part company With jou ?
Did you receive any information from the Vice. Yess . .
Admiral, after the anion, that it was his intention Have You my ltiter2-1 have not..
to renew the aition ?—Lieutenant Fennel, of the Nile, Can you tell what is bacome of it ?—I gavi it to
told me he was fent on board to know the damages the Commander in Chief.
Whined, and that the Admiral meant to renew the The letter was in Court, and read, and Vaptalh
aaion in the morning. Boyle laid it was perfectly correet. • .
When did you receive this information ?—Between Confidering the crippled Rate, and the relative
two and three o'clock in the morning of the aid. fituation of the two fleets, could te Windfnr Celle
The following paper was now put in by Sir R. have been towed up to the enemy, fo as to have ye-
Calder :—" I admit that, in the night of the zad, I newed the aainn either on the 23d or 14th P—Ontht
did hope to renew the anion" 23d, raking the day from day.light to catalog, the
Court—You will plealc to difpatch Captain Gard. Windfor Caine could haat. let hitt very little
tier as form as poffible, becaufe he is ordered on While tithing the lower yards, betiding a new fore
mediate feivice. fail, flitting the main-top-fail yard; -knotting the
Sir R. Calder—For that ezprefs reafon I called whole of her flays, the could have made but lit.
Capt. Gardner &R. tie fail ; therefore the powers of a 74, ailing upon a
Did the enemy eimear to you to have Coffered body like the Windfor Cattle, this Court will Judge
tnhch ?—Ni. I only obfeived ore main top fail yard how far it was poffible to carry her up to an enemy
gone in the whole fquadron. We were too far to direftly to windward. -
judge of their fails. Court.—As to the 24th ?—The Windfuir Cafe
The Hon. Capt. LEO°, of the Repulfe, examined. was able to make more fail. We got up a jury fore-
!. that the report you made to hie of the damages top gallant mail for a fore-top malt. We were then
!attained by your (hip ?—Yes ; that is the fecoud re- in a better Rate ; Might have been taken in tow, and
port I fent in. might have kept our llation in the line, but could nut
The report was then read. be carried, I fear, to windward, fall cootie) to fetch
Did you make a fimilar report on the o7ght of the an enemy that was inclined to avoid an action.
22c1?—No. I did not then know that the bowfprit Coult.--;-What impediment was there againd the
had been wounded. I merely fpetifies:, that the tip getting up a proper fore top mall, oh the aath ?
ging and fails had been cut ; as the Officer of the The fore top malt was (hut away between the cap and
Frifk came on board loon after the aftion, I being the truffelarees ; this took the cap with it, carried
the next (hip to the Admiral, I had no report made away all the larboard fide of the top and crofs trees,
at the time of the damage ; my &II Report was, I therefore when a !pare cap was got up, to go over
believe;tianfmitted to the Admiralty. the mad head, there was not a fufficient time to fit a
Sir R.. Calder—Ali the fiat, or rough reports, were top and crofs-trees on the larboard fide, fo as to fup-
fent to the Admiralty. port a proper fore top mad. Befides, the foremaft
Were you employed in filking and liming your was wounded in loch a way that we could not, with-
Man and bowfprit all the 23i1 of July ?-1,10. The out taking much time, have tithed it to carry proper
bowfprit Was not confidered fo badly wounded as ki top fails, had we beet; able to rig the jury crufs•trees,
be fiffied, till after it liming on the evening of the which we had not.
zsth. The people were occafionally employed, on the Capt. WM. LECHMER c, of the Thunderer examined.
13ri, in 'knotting and fplicing tht rigging, and repair. Is that the report you made to me of the damages
ing the tads. your (hip fuftained on the :ad of July ?—lt is.
Did you make the fignal to me, on the asth, of the The Report was then read.
bowfprit being fprung ?—Yes. D d the enemy ever chafe. or attempt to bring me
Was not that the firft time We had tarried much to adion on the 2351 or Rath of July ?—No.
fail during the anion ?—I don't think that we had Could I have forced the enemy to anion on the
carried any fail to fignify, before that. The Repulfe z3d of July, if they had chofen to avoid it ?—No.
vas then under her three top-fails, and a fore-fail. Did the enemy appear to you to have fuftained
Did you, about the fame time, fee the Malta make any confiderable damage in their malts or yards I—.
the Signal of having fprung her foie yard?—Yet; None in their malls. They (hilted a top fail yard or
and I think her lower-yard. two, and that, I believe, was the utmoß.
Was the fquadron brought to on the oceafion ? Wis the Britifh fleet always kept between the enemy
Yes ; on the Repulfe Making fignal. and Ferrol, as long as the enemy remained in light
How long was it before the Repulfe and Malta Till the afternoon of the 24th we were always nearer
made the fignal they were ready to proceed on fa. Ferrol that the enemy was.
vice P—The Repulfe made the former fignal atifeaen Could they then have fetched Ferrol P—No. It was
o'clock in the evening of the 25511, when we were impoffible. The wind was N. N. E.
obliged to let every thing fly to five the malls. Captain WAt. Baown, of the Ajax, examined.
Made the fignal, that we were ready to make fail Court—Are the quellions the Vice• Admiral has
again, as loon as it was daylight on the ahtli. to put to this witnels the fame as thole immediately
Did the enemy ever chafe, or make any attempt preceding ?—Sir R. Calder—They are.
to bring the Britilla fleet to action on the 23d of July ? Court—There fcems no neceffity to examine Cap.
; but allways kept hull down to windward. tain Brown, or any other witneifes on thofe general
Could I have forced them to ailion on that day ? qweftions. Without frefh matter, they may be fpared.
—I think not. Sir R. Calder—l do not with to wane the time of
Did the enemy appear to you to have fultained the Court ; and I have no detire to examine
dartfuher
any confiderable damage in their mans and yards ? the ((fur on theft general quetions. But I with
,--hro, I could only diltmgnith one (hip, with, I think, Captain Brown to verify his report of damages.
her maintop fail-yard down. Some others might This was accordingly done, and the Report read.
have fails clued up to repair. Capt. Jotvi HARVEY, of the Agamemnon, examined.
If I had approached the enemy, could I have Are thofe your reports of your damages P—They
fetched them, had they avoided me, before they are.—The Reports were then read.
would have been able to communicate with the (pore ? Captain WILLIAM COMING, of the Prince of Wale;
—I fhould think not, if they chorea() avoid an adidn. examined.
Wag the Britifh fleet kept between the enemy mid As you were near my perfon during the whole
Ferrol, while the enemy were in fight think they time of the action of the 22d, was any part of my
were till the 24th. But not when, during the latter condo& to be attributed to fear, or a want of zeal for
part of the time, we lad law them. They ltood tc the his Majelly's fervice P—Molt certainly not.
&nth ward, Court—Capt. Coming, what number of the Bri.
When weparted withthcm, could thcyhave fetched tith (hips appeared to you, on the morning of the
Ferrol ?—As well as I recollea, I lhould think not. 24t h. incapable of failing in the line of battle, or
Court—You hare flayed, that you did not difeuver order of failing ?—I imagine the whole, except the
your bowfprit to be riming till the 2 5 th. Do you Windfor Cattle, might have been formed in line of
apprehend, if you had been obliged w carry fail upon battle.
the Repuffe, put lint of the enemy, your bowfprit If the Windfor Cafllc had been taken in tow, ctn.
would have borne it : howl.pi it was not fprung lidering the relative fituation of the two fleets, could
till the evening of the 2.5,1), and, as it then went un- the &kith' fquadron 'rave renewed the anion on the
der reefed top fails, and foie fail, l fltould fuppofe it 24th, the enemy declining to do to ?—Certainly not.
..as not caual to carry any fail, at any time aftct the Did th'
Vice Admi: al necline the aaion, either on
:amen. Ithe 23d or 24;11, the enemy not being inclined to re-
\ Vas there not nut.:': Ira on the 24th :—A heavy new it ?—fie did n,,i.
a.-;dale,tolt caint ; the (hips rein:l,g very Mad:. C.IVI Ail. ED WA RIIGR T of the Dragon:
Was it fu ail the day ?—ln the unit ring, after the Do ycli kry.w or lihn.,l u.dli beit% erected between
");•cze 'Prang up,
about ten o'clock, the !hips did C.alie Ot t::;.;a1 and Cape Fillifterte, and to Ferrol
.lot roll In much. Yes.
Sir R. Calder being allied, whether lie had any Did you reconnoitre the port of Ferrol about the'
s-aefki,..sns to put to this v.itnelis? laid, he bad not. sgth of July ?—I did.
i Charles Boyle, u: the Windfor Cattle, examined. Had the Combined Squadrons then arrived there?
.:s this yoor :e.,,.•,rt of the damages of your thip in —NDoo.
you remember our being blown off that port,
;!It. Aftinn
fo; after the anion, when about the ft of Augult, by a &
You m felf, W. wind ?—ltblew
yya were pat' aviadwaid of the Ptince of a gale of wind fi rim the S. W. on the tit of Augult.
''ales ?,..Certainly.
and drove ui, nut off tile coati, but along (bore to the
What did I lay i—You aflced me, whether my N. E.
rote-top matt could be got up very loon, or without When did we return P—l cannot fay precifely. I
lof4 of time ? have not my lug book, nor any minutes. I fhould
What was your .anfwer ?—That every exertion think we made the land two days afterwards. We
Aotild he made. were never forty-eight hours without tieing the land,
What was my reply?—;Teat you did not d•iteot it. from the 28th of July to the loth of August.
Was your
(hip in a condition to work to wind- Had the Combined Fleet taken the advantage of
cirri;; in En: of haul:, or order of failing, Co our being bloira4 that part, to get during our

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ablenee ?-;--Yes ; as I raw a fleet afterwards at anchor"...
off orunna, confifting of , thirteen fail of the line.
four frigates and a brig ; and at the fame time law
the fquadron in Ferrol, as they had been there for
Many months.
Under what fail was the Windily Cattle when you
took her in tow?—l cannot fay exatly : but the had
made very little fail ; no head fail, except jibs, and
tome (mall after fail.
At what rate did yon then tnw her ; and what fail
had you .!it ?—As well as I can recoiled, we had
only our tingle reef top fails; and, at any time on the
23d, I do nut think we cold: have exceeded two knots.
Could the Windfor Cattle have been put in a con-
dition by the evening of the aids to have made it
praaicable foe you to have towed her fo as to have
failed in order of battle in the rear of a fleet, to have
pur?ued an enemy with any probability of comjng up
with than, .if they were not inclined to battle
thould think not, the Windfor Cattle being at, the
bell of tiinet.but a dull failing Chip ; if the enemy
wire inclined to avoid a battle, certainly not.
Captain CHARLIti Etertierrnas FL, ratwo (worn.
Did you take one of the prizes in tuw after the
salon ?—Yes, the El Ferme.
In what Rate was the prize when you took her in
to ?—Hgr rudder difabled, many of her ports blown
off, and the made Co much inter through the rot
holes that we could jug keep,her free.
Were you able to have totved her up to the fqua-
dron, if I had net edged op to you ?—No, the Egyp-
tienne's rudder was gone„and the prizes were dale-
bled, Co that we could make very little way.
Did you continue her in tow till you parted from
the fquadron ?—No.
bid the (well of the tea prevent your getting up
jury „malls ?—Yes, there was a very heavy (well,
which prevented the boats going alonglide her, and
prevented our getting up jury malls.
Did the prize the,Syrius, in tow, alfo lore her malls?
Yes, all her malls Were gone, except the fore malt,
which was not fit to carry fail.
Could you have taken the prifoners and wounded
men out of the prizes in order to dettroy them, if,
neciffiary intendedito do fo, to let them fink, as
there was fo much difficulty to get the Spaniards at
the pumps.
How king was you at Rochefort before you failed
with Adniiral Stirling do not redolled the exat
time; I cattle 6 June and left in July.
What was the force of the enemy in tkat port ?
Five fail of the line; and five or fix frigates 1 I do not
recollsa which and three or four brigs.
When did they fail ?—1 do not know ; I heard
they failed the day after. I was told by a French
prifoner I took in i'Aaeon, a French corvette, the
Captain of which informed me, he had failed with
the Rochefott fquadron the day after Admiral Stir-
ling left that port in Odober latt.
Lieutenant THOMAS WARRIN fworn.

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Veit arerved, k Oral very pratble they worth) he ni
Ira, ft they been; applied .of the corn,
biped fituadtent tieing returned frritai the Weil
and that the wind had hen fair for their failing nuti
daystubfegnentroyourleavingthe blocicadenf Ferri)),
•Sw Robert Calder—l have no farther troubit to
give the Court, I have no other witnefs to call.

FOURTH DAY —DECEMBER 16.
THE SENTENCE.
The Court met this morning at ten o'clock, fn
the purpofe of determining on the fentence,rhert, af]
ter a deliberation of p
hours, the doors ae vened,;
and Sir lttlbert Calder was called in. Silence being;

ordered,
The Judge Advocate read the fentence neatly in
the following words :
" At a Court Martial held en the 23d of Decem-
ber-, and continued by adjournment to the preterit
26th, purfnant to an order from the Lords Con ~
midioncrs of the Admiralty, dated the igth of N..
vember, di, eaed to the Prefident—Nets Me names of
tbe Court Martial were rtaell—fetting forth, that
Vice Admiral Sir Robert Calder requefted an in-
quiry into his conclaft on the aid July, the day
after his engagement with the Enemy, to explain
his reafons why he had not taken all, as well as a
part of the enemy's (hips, and to give his reafons
I for his conduft on that day, and his fubfequent
conduCt to the moment that the enemy finally
101 l fight of his Majefty's fleet. The Court pro-1
ceeded to enquire into that concludt, and alfo his fub-
fequent condua, and to try him thereon, and they-
have heard with attention the evidence in fupport of
the Charge, and the Defence which has Leen made I
to it, as well as the allegations in fupport thereof.
The Court is therefore riopinion 'that THR Cameos
Kas sasm PROVED ; and that the cendua of Vice-
Admiral Sir Robert Caldet has been minim, RR.
TISHIlliISLII; but they are of opinion that His cos-
DUCT H• 11 RRISIN FROM FRIO% IN JUDGIIIINT, and
not from fear or cowardice ; and therefore this Court
doth order and adjudge, that the laid Vice Admiral
Sir Robert Calder be SETIRELT RETRIMANDILD, and
he it, hereby ItIPRISIANDID SETILRILT."

LONDON.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17. ' •
A letter from bourdeanr) dat:d the tit hill. in-
(cried in our Paper of the 4th. dated that 13 veffels
had been carried into Teneriff by the Rochefort fqua-
dron. A paffenger lately arrived in the Alfred, Capt.
'Monson, at BeDaft, from Tenerife, hates that he
left that place on tht 16th Odober, and the Canary
!Elands on the t ith November, at which time there
was no account of the Rochefort fquadrim, nor of
any prizes.
On the 24th inflant his Majefly's gnn-brigAcirra
picked np off Bnulogne a boat a ith a letter and fome
newfpapers in a tin cafe. The Argus of the ryth. an
Englifh newfpaper printed at Paris, contains a p ra-
graph. hated to be from the Arnie:or of the it 11,
w;th the 3oth and 31ft bulletins of the Grand Army,
which Rates that the Emperor of Germany on the
4th inflant had an interview with the French Empe.
ror, and that after a converfatiou of two hours, an
'Armistice was agreed on, which was to include the
Ruffian troops, on condition of their evacuating Ger-
many. Thefe bulletins alto contain pompous ac-
counts of the battle of the ad, but not even an allu-
fion to any renewal of the battle on the 3d or 4th,
though we know that on thefe days there was fome
revere fighting.
The .4rgrar contains nothing of a
what was received from Vienna by I
lie, dated the 6th, and fent by him
and publifhed at Hamburgh on the
an armillice would have reached Par
the 16th, which, when fent round
Moravia, reached Berlin on the t oth,
the 13th.—Colonel lasseust, BON/
camp, is laid to have left Agherlil
have arrived at Paris on the t nth.
laid to have taken place on this Oh
of it travelled as quick as Laugh,
been known in Paris on the sith
hated till the ,6th. If tae armillice
municated by telegraph, as the anion tar,
it would lxave reached Path on the / ac-
count of that anion reached Paris on the loth and
the whole of the terms would, as has ever been the
cuftom to all fuck cafes, have been inflantly ktiblifk-
ed, to fare the further and unneceffary effursOn of
human blood.
Government are alto in poffeffion of the Mtaiiter
of the lath, and Dutch papers of the 17th, intl. The
former contains an account, not given as a billetin,
of the anion of the zd limiter to that of I;eral
BRUM publifhed at Amtlerdam. One of thi utch
papers contains a letter from General Dumont ea v.
which Rates that doting the battle of the 3d,r*n in-
terview took place between the German and French
Emperors in a mill, but does not Rate the refult.
Other accounts have alfo been received in town,
but not fuch as to remove the veil which covers the
details in the French and Dutch papers.—Three
American merchant' of refpettability arrived in town
yesterday who quitted Amiterdarn on the soth, and
Roterdam on the 21ft. No accounts had then been
publifhed in Holland from the Armies of i later
date than thole containing details of the battle of the
2d, excepting Duraoaceatz's letter above alluded to.
There is alto a letter in town from a refpeetable
houfe at Prague, which (fates that during the anion
of the 3d, Basaraart did adnally propofe to the
E 'Term. ALIXAND!R (not FaaNcts) an armiftice for
tit weeks, but received for answer—".No, suit for fix
hours."
LI any armillice has taken place, it muff, in all
probability, have been Ales the 4th or sth, when the
Allies had gained tome ad.an'ages, and the terms
mutt have been proportionally favourable.
Report, according to tome of the Morning papers,
lates that Minitlers believe an armiflice has been
concluded. It this be true. many grofs untruths
mull have been publifhed. It can hardly be credited
that the Allies, alter gaining fa h decided advan-
tages as have been afctibed to iheir armies on the
3d, 4th, and sth, would have grantzd an armillke to
an invading army, at filch a dittance too front its own
country. -It is more probable they would hive fol.
lowed up the victory, to the utter deflcudion of the
vanmtithed. We cannot reconcile thefe Wm.-titles
The Hamburgh Mails arc eapeited to desalt th
prefiat uncertainty.

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Was you my figtial Lieutenant in the month of
July lan ? Yes.
Did you obferve the enemy's Ships en the morning
of the 23d
Did you perceive they had a fmaller number of
(hips on the morning of the z3d than they had on the
zed, the day of the alion, betides the two prizes we
had taken from them ?—I did.
Did you obferve any of the enemy's (hips advance
from their weather bow ?—I did ; four fail of the
line, befides frigates; were feparated from the fleet,
apparently in good order.
Did they appear to have fultained material da-
mage in their wafts and yards ? Nothing of conk-
quence.
What was the fignal made to the Defiance on the
morning of the 24th ?—No. 77, to bring to.
What is the number of the fignal made to neon-
noitte the enemy ?—ig.
IWas that number made to the Defiance on that day?
Court—Was any fignal made to the Defiance to
look out between the Britifh fleet and that of the
enemy, or to watch their motions, previous to that
fignal for her to bring to ? No, none.
Do you knew by what accident the Defiance came
in that firuation the fternmoft chip of the
weather line, i fignal was made to bring her to, as
one of the enemy's frigates was coming up a•ftern to
ireconnoitre us, previous to which a fignal was made
to the Dragon to reconnoitre.
Was any fignal made after that to call in the De-
fiance to join the fleet, before he made the fignal to
the Vice Admiral to a& if he fhould any longer keep
fight of the enemy ?—None, except that of anfwcring
her fignal.
Did the font fail of the line on the weather bow
appear to be parr of the fleet you engaged, or were
they frefh (hips that had not been in the atlion ?—I
conceived them to be part of the fleet with which we
had been enacted.
What was the number of the enemy's line of battle
(hips at that time ?—Eighteen.
Was the fignal which was made to Captain Dur-
ham to bring to repeated by Admiral Stirling before
it was anfwered 2—l did not fee it.
[lt was here propofed by Mr. BICKNELL to call
back Captain Durham to explain his evidence, but
Admiral CALI/E1 hying that he conceived his mif-
taking the fignal to be accidental, it was deemed un-
neceffary.]
Mr. JOHN Strroa, Chaplain to the Phoenix.
Admiral Cai.o2 it—l call this wands to (hew try
apprehenfloos of the Rochefort and Ferrol fnuadrons,
which I have mentioned in my defence to-day ; and
that I expreffed them at the time. If the Court think
this unnecelfary, I have no farther trouble to give
them. I mean this, that I may not be fuppofed to
have taken up the ground fence the 23d.
The Court thought it evidence proper to be received.
Do you re mimber my fending to you a copy of the
duplicate of my account of the attion, iricoutequence
of the illnefs of my Secretary ?—I do.
When ?—On the 24th of July laft.
Did I fay any thing refpeaing my further inten•
tion °Nerved, that from accounts you re-
ceived of the danger of the different (hips, it would
be very imprudent in you to attempt to force the
enemy to renew the allion ; that the damages were
very confiderable, and that if you had it in your
power to renew the aaion, you mutt abandon the
captured (hips and the Windfor Cattle.
Did I Mike any and what obferrations of the
probability of the ltochefott frinadron being at lea ?
*You told me you fully expeeted they were, as the
Wind was fair for failing at the time Admiral Stirling
left• the blockade.
Did I fay any thing of the French Squadron

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