Star.
London, England, 1829-10-10 00:00:00

/ROM MR. CROKIR TO MR TOWARD CODTINGTOW.

" Admiralty-office, Augnit 5, 1829.
Sir,--Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty your letter of this day's date respecting the Court
91.artial on Captain Richard Dickenson, c. B. I have it in coat•
'and to acquaint you. that its consequenci thereof, and of Captain
Dickenson's having consented to waive, on his part, the attendance
of the absent witnesses, their Lordships have directed that the
Court Martial shall proceed as soon as Captain Ommanney may
be able to attend, and the other witnesses now in England shall be
ccllected at Portsmouth

"I am, &c.

4.. T. W. CROKER."

1110)1 SID 1. COD/LUMMOX TO K. 431111ETRAU, PQ.

" Eaton-square, August 10,1829.
" Sic—Adverting to your letter of the 20th of July, and the
desire of Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford therein contained,
to have ' a correct plan of the Bay of Naval in, and the situation
of the different ships during the action,' I have now the honour of
furnishing you with such a plan as appears to me generally correct,
with the omission of the positions of the Genoa and Albion, as they
will be deposed to by their several officers. I have added a copy
of the order to the combined fleet where to take up their an-
chorage, and a supplementary plan of the position of the Asia at
four different periods of the battle. And it is due to myselt to
explain that tie delay in furnishing these documents' arose from a
fear that I should subject myself to being considered the willing
author, at this protracted period, of a prosecution which I had re-
linquished nearly two years ago ; and not from any want of that
respect for Sir Robert Stopford which it is always a gratification
to myself to show to so distinguished an officer.
" The explanations which have taken pl.,ce since my receipt of
your before-mentioned letter having established the point of my
si,.t standing in the character of prosecutor, and being only called
upon to point out all the means which occur to me for completing
the investigation which the Hoard of Admiralty, in their superior
judgment, h ye been pleased to order. I beg you will assure Sir
Hobert Stopford that I am ready to give any further information
for elue:dating the allegations which may be in my power, and
which he may think requisite for that purpose.—l am, &c.
(Signed) "EDWARD CODRINGTON."

5011 )I C &OKRA TO RZITHAN, 1111 Q. D.J.A. OF TEI •LIST.
" Admiralty Office, Sept. 5, 1829.
" Sze—My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having
been informed by various channels that observations had been made
to the Court Martial, now sitting for the trial of Captain Dicken-
son, imputing to their Lordships the baying denied or kept back
certain documents, the production of which was considered as im-
portant to the inquiry, command me to acquaint you that no such
documents have been denied or kept back, and that their Lord-
ships are at a loss even to guess what is meant by such a statement.
" Sir Edward Codrington, in a letter to me of the IJAI of August,
observes, that he thinks the' Court should be in the possession of
the return of killed and wounded ; and of a copy of my letter to
him of the 24th of December, 1827.' The return alluded to was
immediately sent, but the copy of my letter was not sent, in the
first instance, only because Sir Edward Codrington had himself the
original letter in his own custody, and had it in his power to put
the Court in p"•seasion of it, in its original and therefore most
authentic shape.
If, however, this be not the fact alluded to, and if this state-
ment had refet tate to the correspondence which passed between
this department and Sir Edward Codrington as to the character
in which he was to appear at the trial, my Lords command mu
to acquaint you that tL•is correspondence never was ',kW for ;
had it been so, their Lordships would have directed it to have
been trati.mitred ; but they did not originally send it because
they could not anticipate that it could have any legal effect on the
trial of Captain Dickenson. A., however, it seems to have been
now brought into discussion, I am commanded to transmit to you
herewith copies of the whole of that correspondence, in order
that if the production of it, or any part of it should be required
by the tourt or by the parties, it may bu at hand for that purpose.
And their Lordships command me to authorise you to deity in
the strongest manner that there is or was any desire to suppress

or keep back any document whatsoever, or that, in point of fact.
any document demanded by the parties was kept back, with the
exception (if it can be called an exception) of my said letter of
the 24th of December, a copy of which was not sent for the rea-
son already stated, that Sir Edward Codrington was in possessiou
of the original.
" Their Lordships command me further to acquaint you that
they observe that allusion had also been made to some other docu-
ments, stated to be of considerable importance. and to have be-
longed to another department of the State, which had been de-
tained from Sir Edward Codrington by this office, and the teceipt
of which had not been acknowledged.
" Again, their Lordships are at a legato know to what this allu-
sion can refer ; the only colour fur it which they can discover are
the following circumstances :
" Some of the enclosures in a certain dispatch transmitted to Sir
Edward Codrington, were In the French language. It was thought
right (in order to prevent the risk of any mistranslation or rniscon-
stt =ion) to accompany the French originals with translations into
English. It afterwards tweeted that the copy of these transla-
tions, which had been intended to be reserved in this office, had
been transmitted as a duplicate to Sir Edward Codrington ; and
as no copy had been retained at the Foreign Office, from which
the dispatch had emanated, I was therefore commanded to write
to Sir Edward Codrington, to obtain a copy of the duplicate of
the said translations, which I did by a note, of which I enclose
you a copy.
" How this very unimportant transaction can bear the character
ascribed to it in the observations said to have been made at the
trial, their Lordship. cannot conceive, but if these translations be
not the s important documents' alluded to, their Lordships do not
know what is meant. _ _

" All this seems to have little or no relation to the trial of
Captain Dickenson, Mali, as their Lordships have been informed,
such observations. or anything resembling them, have been made
(however irrelevantly) before the Court, their Lordships think it
due to the Court to put them in possession of the true state of the
case. " I am, &c.
_ _

(Signed)

" J. NV. CROKER."

ASSIZE OF COALS, temp. HENRY VIII.

" M'd. That the Lorde Meyor of the Ceteye of Londrin for the
tyme beyng may and doth anise after what rate and pryce the
colyers bryng colys to the said cetey than shall seel the same.
" It. The said Lorde Meyor hath officers appoynted to se that
en'y tole sake eontyng to the cetey be of letight ij yerde, and in
brede iij q'rs of yerde ; wt sake ought to bolde, yf it be well and
truyly fylled, .iij bz.
" It. If it be at eny tyme lounge the said uks to be defectyne,
and not of niche contents as aboue wide, the said officers may, and
cloth, from tyme to true, take the sake so fawte, and kepe the
same till a tyme apoynted for the bornyng of the same in the open
market-place.
" It. There is a lawe that, in eu'ry wards w'in the tetey ther
shall be a grate sake wt cont. vtij bz. and ye p'ce of colys to be aet
by my Lorde Mayer and the Aldermen, bothe wynter and tomer,
as the case shall requere ; and, now at this present tyme ye p'ce ys
at viijd. the quart, seised and to be mesered."