Star.
London, England, 1810-02-21 00:00:00

#

-.-~
_..

7.--, -
. . -
- - •
-M'•0:(? It: ~ - ~,P • • • • •.: eel -e- - • *eel-. *`!e ito'ree
le :' •. ; . 'IT .teffist Lads* isallitflquit- -*LORti CHAtTnitifle WitititA.TnrE
...... • -• • 4lsid wdirconantotilensiktir, with the
... . jusiottivirkTozo sgraiDendna, •.• - . •
? The -house -it *friinti" sle.reirded _.
.•. . _
Swo ae -- •y t families, *kilt Wit ittspnxsible
.(i:ans ottani tea noise or commons elstagowont sriotri.)
Iblit ali lfilittaised Mull lisrre befia beard. Her shriek, '.
Wit illVdtsf female distress anti sigonY, which PROW, COPY, 0/14 TUE Basil or AlTATffilegliT •• Mita
*PK* • wisely designed should pierce the 'brining --.tnoctixorivas, imeltli Ofll tete 1 Eitd.e-414rsorrwe
rot'sioser• than any other; vial unnoticed. Her ToTim lamb 14iii ran: r.810.)` . - . ..
WI from The sofa, and the thirkiing dOin of the •In sabetitthtf to your &felony i Stiternesit of nip Istoesoangs
chair, were not heard.' The Mins. *ale Sp very slight, in the elterntwe !If the °het" Mir Wfajesti Was itaidousiqrtrit
end is confide to Int, snd of. the events whieh sieneved ghat had these circumstances 'occurred,. diey must
.. .
• . course of It, it is dot any Inman= so itnisbk yoiirt ' •
have been known. Had the ease, therefore, been ca- any.firther details dr the earlier parte of our operitilahr; '
pnble of receiving any confirinatioti,hoir garb might having ter:min:tea de the speedy reduction of Wall:lkea by POO;
it have been. given ? Mrs. King, it aOpeared,• was a Majesty's troops, and the occupation of the adjacent Wands, Hal
friend of the defendant's. Why then had' :the not of the ImPr ant Pa" 6f. Bats. received at Ifie timu fie tti7.106194
been called before • the Magistrate, 'or
• • • • most gractousopprobatioe ; but to coufine myself
y wits. s ,vrhhe the narrative, which lam anxious to be permitted tri=nrli bide
not now adduced to give some cOnfirmotion to .the ;,year Majesty's view, to the consideration of the two following .
original charge ? This would have been done, had points, as most immediately applyinz to the conduct and Anal ••
melt of the Expedition to the Scheldt i--tst. The ground upon
~
'it been possible ; but, the fact Was there were state-
i winch, after the army was at length assembled near Bats, a land.
metals°• which no confirmation could be given, they log in prosecution of the ulterior objects of the Expedition wee '
being in themselves false, and therbfore incapable of not deemed. advisable: idly. Why that army was not sooner
being Substantiated. Therewasone evidence,howevei., , there assembled; in readiness to commence further operations. '• ..,
Murtha Lawrence, whom the defendant was called With respect to the former proposition; lam inclined to think L.
that it is so clear and beideht, that no fiirther Operaticini Mug at
on to: adduce, and 'Without whom she must give her- 1 that time, and in the then sickly state of the army, have been
self up
tied and bound, to the sentence of ihe Jury, i undertaken with any prospect of success, that it would be ens*.
. , i
and :that witness was Martha Lawrence; who, she cernelly trespassing on your Majesty to enter into meth more
std tither affidavit, had untied the handkerchief from detail on this point than has been already•bruoght before you '
Majesty, in my dispatch of the 49th of August: And tbsi'
her tiouth. These *ere things incumbent on the
eat ,object of this paper will be directed to sheet to your Mao
de-
fendant to prove, but the prosecutor- should be able jeity, that the second point, namely, why the army
,was not
to shevreven by those with whom Miss Latham must brought up sooner toile destination from whence iur ulterior
have been acquainted, and to whom, therefore, she • operations were to commence; is purely a naval consideration,
might be supposed to have imparted her griefs, if and that the delay did in no shape rest with me, or depend epee.
any arrangements In which the army was concerned, every.heie
of the nature described, that no such violence as that lity on the contrary, having been afforded by their :nova:esti to
sworn to by Miss Latham had taken place. He • the speedy progeeis of the armament.
should prove .by the woman of the house, who was ha doing this, it Will, I conceive, be necessary for the sake of
perspicuity, that i should take up the consideratioe of this bed-
in the shop directly under Miss Latham's room the
Hesse from its commencement.
morning of the 12th, from the hour of sevea until Majesty will permit me here to recall to your ?mike-
nine, that they could not have taken place without her Hon the change which took place in the original project formed
knowledge. He should also call the servant of Mrs. for the attack of• Antwerp, and of the French fleet in the West
Scheldt, in consequence of the opurione of
the General and Staff
• '
. King, to chew that the Conduct of Miss Latham was
Officers to whom this question was referred; angles combined
alt ether repugnant to the situation she ought na- operation of the army and navy, the whole, the7Atich ea don
turally to have been in immediately after the violation of the force to be left for the reduction of ere", 71110o-
of her person. She called the Mistress of the house ced up the West Scheldt, was accordingly determined on: •
before nine on the morning of the 12th, and instead Upon the practicability of such an operetksn being at seer care
reed Into execution, which was, howevet, the' grolintlworkot
of expressi het agony at the brutal outrage she had
,he hxpedition, and which alone, in the opinion don persona;
just suffered, her only business was to dispute about conotited, seemed to afford any prospect of success, even bl the
three-pence or four-pence overcharged in a washing most sanguine view of the subjuct in all other respects, 1 tat*
bill. Was that marked and gross indifference con- confess I entertained great doubts, rill the commuuicatlon of a
sistent with the outraged honour and feelings of fe-
dis:inct OffiCl2l opinion given on this point by the Lords of the
Admiralty, decided in the affirmative this important question. '
male nature ? But this was not aIL That very.day Miss At the same time it is to he remarked, that the occupation of
Lathsmwent abroad, and insteadof disclosing her wretebednessto Walcheren• which by some persona it had been thought possible
a female friend who was with her, or to the mistress (statehouse, to leave beeind us, acid the reduction of Flushing, which it hid.she concealed it, and mixed as before with society. If this objece **cc been proposed only to mask, were deemed iOdispensaishrto
don could be answered by any ingenuity a' man, the I.earned i the security of the Beet, in case of disasters ; and accordingly •
Serjeant knew it would be answered by his Leaned Friends ! considerebteeseparate force was allotted to this service; and, In
retained on the part of the Defendant. He was satisfied, 1 this view, it was beside, distinctly agreed upon, that a Amnia.
however, that such an objection coed not be met by any ar- ; attack by the navy upon the sea front should be made at detains
guntent, however ingenious, bet must be refuted by the testis i time that the troops, after effecting their landing, advanced to le-
mony of witnesses.. If it was to be so met, be should:expect vest Fluttery; It being hoped, that by a powerful co-operation
en ass that monster exhibited who had Induced the Defendant from the sea, at the moment the troops presented themselves bt-
le Slew Mr. Barrett as the object of her aceveation. On the fore the piece, the labour and delay of a regular siege might bides
however, a bill was posted up, effacing a row rd of 100 been avoided, and a considerable portion of the forte slotted to
1 Oases for the apprehension of the offender, who • repro. this service set at liberty to follow the army up the Scheldt. How
soled as a man of genteel appearance, about to ears nt age, far this expectation was fulfilled, or whether the entrance gives
1 4 faddy ColnPillZiOni tall, and well made, with black hair and chili the whole of the armament (the part to be landed at Wd.
odhldien. He wore a slouched hat, black coat and waistcoat, cheren excepted) should be at once transported tip the Sdseldt,io
lather insilk clothes, and boots; and he was supposed to have ; prosecution of the ultimate objects of the expedition, was carried
lloadtat th• Ow Worth*. The Jury would have an opportunity ' into effect, or was wholly disappointed, the infor - already
St how ella.dakehatkon corresponded whit Mr. Barrett's I before your Majesty will Dave in a great sallesure : add
a was, intact, totally different. It
seas retuartahts that which it will be my duty to bring more particularly under jar
Mr. Barrett was at Worikinesbaviog arrived there on the MONO I. Majeny's view, when'l detail the subsequent course of our pplug
fag of theeletb, yet although he lived openly with hie • family, I wettings, e
WOK into society as before. and Miss Latham had daily and 1 From what couseetth failure ensued, whether it wrote from
los* opportunities of - seeing hint, no charge was preferred ! insufficient arrangements on the part of the Admiral, .ter woodie
vim hen menl he was taken into custody, on his return to ; unavoidable result of diffizulties inherent in the natuend thees-
aforlossiand brought to Marlborough-street OfAce. Mr. Serjeantl pedidon itself,. ft Is not for me, considering it entirely as si natal
lantilhallebt it was also worthy of explanation,- why his Client, 1 question, to presume to offer any opinion upon to your Ims)otr. •
.tabctedded in London, had been carried before a county Molise It may, however, be here proper to remark, that, in* all the
Woe"' annlinetion- He paid the Albeit possible respect to projects which have at various times been brought forward meth*
the Worthy Magistrate before whom the examination had been subject of an attack upon the island of Weida:rest, and the
earned on; but still, he could see no results why it might apt Scheidt, the necessity of having a wind a good deal to the Welt-
have taken place before any of the Magistrates of the city. Hie ; ward, with moderate weather, has always been insisted, on.—
Clime had but one object in view-,the vindication of his own ; Without these advantages, in the one case, the passage would be
eimeenter and honour, and the satisfaction of adding the ter I difficult.; in the other, the surf would prevent a landing on trig
Benny of his own oath, to the other evidence already adduced 1 points deemed most favourable in other respects. In the present
in proof at his innocence. It was impossible he could retire I instance, owing to the wind blowing strong from the Werwatd,
from the position lie now occupied. 'lle better and more ex- 1 the surf was actually such as to prevent a latidiiig on either of US.
shed the connections of the Defendant were, the more danger- points first fixed on for that purpose by the Astinital; and the
ens was the attentet she .had practised on the prosecutor. if ( situation of the gun-boats and transports at anchur its tie Scow! •
* story had been more consistent, though it had been form- I Deep becoming very critics), and the gale inereasin: , he found-:
timely ordered that fal.ehduds were seldom consistence in them- I necessary to carry such part of theleet as was arrived fee alfet :
selves, who could have ventured to have shaken the testimony of ! Into the Roompot, and by which means the division of the :stn.
Dr. Lathattee daughter t If such Were the case, who could be • destined fur the attack of Walcheren was enabled to cfrea• ~ -
sate under such accusations as that to which the present Prosecu- landing from a more sheltered anchorage on the Bete eased to tte
tee had been obliged to submit ? The Learned Counsel submit- Westward of Fort den Haak. At this time, the divi,ion und.:
ANL that all idled mistake or inadvertency was out of the clues- Lieue-General Lord Rosslyn, as well as th;t'under Lieutenan •
lila ; and thetelbe Jury, though they might do so with aching General Grosvenor, oleo the cavalry, artillery, &c. were nut at-
MP% Ala Mid a, verdict of Guilty. rived; but they were afterwards, on their making the Island, or-
- Tbe Arroattev-Gas saes said, knowing that no attempt 1 dared by the Admiral into the Veer Gat. It is, however, par-
eemilar to that alluded to by his Learned Friend was intended, Ocularly deserving of attention, that this measure, though hi it-
=, to attempt sell to attach crinenality to Mt. Barrett, he ' self one of great advantage, as far as it applied to the division de-
have interrupted his Learned Friend at an earlier period I 'tined for the attack of Walcheren, by placing •the transports,
of his speech had he not been afraid of cawing him labia present storeships, and small craft in security, was, if carried further,
skunk:in, additional inconvenience. He could have no objection ctrtain/y not a little at variance with the leading purpose of the
to the ale Proeeelings bat be Doer limiest himself selsoltoed ID ezpedkion, namely, the running with the right wing, and the
taking the earliest opportunity of saying, that there woe wither advanced the army at once up the West Scheldt, at the same
°beret, iteration, yr view on the part of the defends.* to bopite moment that the attack upon Walcheren was proceeding; but that
my criminality whatever to Mr. Barrett ; on the etNs uiryke' even this need not have delayed it for more tbanehree or tour days,
, himself bad read with great attention and antler/ Ilse deideeee 1 unless on account of naval difficulties which it will be for the
' before the Magistrate,. arelbs was fully satisfied, nil Seely that : Admiral, not for me, to explain, I deny ; for as soon as Ter
Mr. Barrett had not been at or neat Worthing oo tug day or days Veere and the fort of Rammakins fell, which happened as the
alluded to, but that he could not have been so. He Aided, at the yd of
August the passer of the Sloe was open to the transports
request of the Gentleman who acted with him, that Ma was not and gun-vessels ;or they might have entered by the Darla' s* by
even a suspicion of any "'initialler attaching to tballasaaanon the Zosolaid passages, the batteries of Dyshook, of Vygester,
Me. Assay said, when an opportunity bad occurred to hint Ell , and the Nolte, having been all carried by the army early
.= the
seeing the evidence before the Magistrate, andiebith had enabled I est of August; and on the same day the battery of Benign at
:bins to see that no charge attached against his clients he bad Sint i the South-west end of South Beveland was sbandoited on the
of respect to the feelings of the defendant, pledged himself and I movement:9f a detachment from the corps under Sir Joiettliope;
his client that, if a satisfactory apology and diseimmetion of all 4 and i know; of nailer." (but this, of course, is a point for-tote
e ,
bins were then made, all farther proceedings of a Admiral to. speak to) to heve prevented the line of battle ships.
on the part of the present prosecutor should be. and frigates Rom coming in and passing up above fluihing, in the
. . Thlsebtrwever, bad then been refused, and if things lint instance, according to the plan originally decided upon.
*dm allowed to take their course, it could not be attributed Before, however, I pursue further the details of the proceeds.
to hies or to his Client gags of the' army, governed as they necessarily • *ere „Dena a
• Mr. Cletaa6w, foe the defendant, ; stated that. his Learned footing should be gained on the Continent) by the medallists of
eFriend, Mr. Alley, must make great allowances for the feels the navy, I must for a moment refer to two separate operations;
of one of the best of fathers that sect existed. ', dm one under Lieutenant General Lord Huntley Cotottai.
A consultation, with regard to the pretrial of Proceeding l, a , ions Gwen, and the other under Lieutenant General Sir Jobs
the cause, then took place betwast: the CoMend and Sacked:lM e Hope and Rear Admiral Sir Richard Keales • but both directed.
the Prosecution, Mr. Barrett sad Igo Mende. . to assist and ensure a rapid progress up the Scheldt, bad the Ad-
Mr. Serjeant Baer stated, thee lie tiles* wee waits %OA* ''
ngrallound it practicable in other respects. -With respect to tilm
, all farther proceedings provided bolo*, Moroi sremakothis ' focmer, 'which was destined to destroy the Cadsand batteries, sad
own innocence by his mike •_ , - . paniculaeiy that of Breskens, bad it been carried at once Weeds
Lord ELLIN/48MAX 'Welles Coehlost badoinhat In deer* tent, and that the Admiral could have availed himself of it, to
dinarfthanner•Thetnallthereviintheillthilatetber=sikrottilh tike the ships up the West Scheldt by the Wetting Passege, II
'flee Amount GIN/MAI. *lll. 1%194 his Inn to would have been of the utmost advantage :brit wee certainly
Stmeter the different calls timde an. Illan by the tamed. Counsel rather fartunate It did meet take place at a latet period, et after all
kin the other side i but, at the saw tithe again tqPresen It tes be. the transports, store:chips, Itc, were ordered inns the Veers Cat,
: the joint opinion of himself and dies Learned Ftioods, hie.Cilar• and the plan of: running at puce up rho Wist *chow by ass
c, Mr. Fiske, and Mr. Jervis, who saga wish bin, that Mr. Wetting Channel seemed abandoned, the died of destropine
t was not guiltyee-thal it was impassible, in the nature of the Cadiand batteries ceased, ani a landing there we Ent,
ems, that be could be guilty-and that ise suspicion had attach- haste been an unnecessary risk, and a batenveibist swim
:Ia
' eel, or did now auach to to hint, • . tion of our force, and of course • _ re! twos leakep.
, • Mr. Serjeant BEST said, atter this very ample ilislaratks, as open for ulterior operations. It must not beenrepr be Iletpastea,
ellen' did tut feel himself called canto "du" 1•31,__,„_
___ .ffblunaa•_. that the decultles here tornestout to be smell steam this had
Lord ELiausoaslools addressing the Jury, ImmEtitmUtt•LS been at all foreseen before we sailed. in ihe Vet eisehibo bowl
that no eitdeoce being offered on the part of thesprosecatlea, it : wao se exposed, that in blowing weather it traelbaull
was their doty, under these einnuostances, to AM the belenttant , and, froth What r-, 1 ' thh_Wihrl:Stri
not sulky. Mt Jeer dewed the defendant—Net Guilty.
; .1=1.••• NOW
i The.actiss hireasbt by Mr. Dudish. against Mr. Read, the
:Magistrate, arising eat lithe O. P. cornea:, at Covent Garden
Theatre, cease on amen ,--hs dip Court of Coniston Pleas.— ,
dlibileeener; hWMbe - . bar, addressed the senesce in ebe
^ i!il vittliolpinlimablain SO Stunt The pidariewaa
MINIMINAHMIMIONINIcaibiamIitr hp the precesdinos.,

_
.

.
.


Wig lIQ ILILFUNiag, Wm& am wow., awls wr amirlipMll
to and, trout What rause I know ate, the Mumps Herb
Iy's division could not be taken up, in the first install*, MO
enough to attack the, ?Steams batterp, die only sae, bent ill din.
timbre *sub imperteoce. Is addition to this, tit ointenis War -
had beep represented by all the Intellieleno• onaltnioniolleei Mon
to Ins veer *teak; alma 4 actually withaat lib that emisig.
appeared to be wel3 prepared, and in cooiidesW. teem • Vali
thew circumstances, according to. Lord thantifereport.lampli
dam Owes wears as hen asperieneet pas Magolumme Ia