The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-08-23 00:00:00

THE STAI

Was put, the public clock struck three, after which
hour the Articles of War do not allow Court-Martial
to sit, and they, in consequence, adjurned to half.
past nine in the morning, when the Defence will b 3
resumed.

'AN.

NOV4L INTELLIGENCE.

COURT MARTIAL.
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PLYMOUTH, AtIOUsT V.—Arrived the kpecitlafor, enuasesr, AVO 10. . •
On Thursday last, at ten o'clock) the CoureMartiot I
!Lieut. Bostock, with Mr. Williams, King's Messes). convened on the trial of Lieut.-Col. Maxwell, the
ger, who has set off for London with dispatches, Paymaster of the Leeds District assembled in the SATORD•T, •OGVIT 21.
.He left head-quarters on the lltkinst. and, it is re- large room of the White Horse linvern at this place. The Court being resumed, Capt. Jackson's ecami-
ported, that he brings an account of the surrender of The following Officers formed the Court : - nation was proceeded int and the first question-pro-
thePRESID i NT,
fort of Saragossa, with a garrison of 500 men, posed was—
Mnjor-General CHENEY, tit net Guards.
principally Italians, by capitulation, to General hit.MßLlti Do you think that time and assistance would-have
Lieut.-Col. Robert Ross, 4th Dragoon Guards; liquidated the balances due from the Prisoner to the
Mina. Lord William Benlinck is said to have
Majors George Smith, 4th Dragoon Guards; and J. Public, or any considerable part of thaw ?—I do
crossed the Ebro, about the 251 b, near Tortola, with V.
O'Dounaughe, 47th Regiment of Foot; Capts. not.
50,000 menl British and Spaniards. It is also re- Hamelin 'Frei§ wney, Royal Regiment of Artillery • , Inform the Court if it is your belief that time and
ported, that Sachet had fallen back en Barcelona ; Thomas Faunt, 34th Regiment of Foot ; Patrick, assistance are alone necessary to close the accounts
'that Tarragona has been blown up; and that the one- Hamilton, 4th Dragoon Guards • Henry Towers, 2d ,—I do, as far ae regards the making up of 64 ac-
my threaten to destroy Lerida, as well as Mar- Dragoon Guards; William Hinde, 65th Foot ;T. , counts. ... •
quinenza, both which places are still in their posses-
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Dragoon Guards; yd, 4th Dragoon Guards;
Dowbeggin, 19th Foot ;
Charles Sibthorp, 4th
Have you any reason to suppose Oaten offer was
made by Mr. Maxwell to liquidate the balance ?---I
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Henryra t
lion ; Tortosa, containing a garrison of 4000 in- 'l' ffo rd, 4 h Dragoon Guards ; Meroyn have understood from Mr. Maxwell that he had made
an offer to liquidate part of the balances.
;Richardson, 4th Dragoon Guards; and William
fanny and 130 dragoons, was invested, we under.
stand, on the 25th, by the Duke del Parque and Bush, 2d Dragoon Guards. To what amount?--I do not know.
Lord W. Bentinck. Several Officers came over in DEvUTY JUDGE ADVOCAtE. Acoof a letter from Col. Campbell (now Gen.
Major George Desbrisay, Royal Regiment of Ar- Campbell py)
to the Secretary at *War, dated the 12th
the Speculator, one of whom is the bearer of poor tiliery.
June, INS, and stating that upwards of 4001. had
Joseph's sword which is very elegant ;it was found The Members being sworn, the following charge been paid into his hands by
, Lieut-Col. Maxwellt on
in Joe's carriage, when he ran away at the battle of was read :—.44 For teals eitation in his office of Pay- , account of the public, was then put in and read.
The master of the Leeds Recruiting District, in having :
Vittoria. Pampeluna and St. Sebastian had not next questions were proposed by the Prose-
i embezzled or misapplied the sum of seven thousand cater, and related to the two bilk p id by the Pay-
Sailer)fallen when the Speculator left the coast. $
nine hundred and ninety-eight-pounds six shillings, tnaster, which were not entered in it s aecountso and
-thereabouts of the public Mopei." _
the Challenger sloop of war, with two gun- I
bows under her convoy, to reinforce Sir George °Coloneli Saliin to g....- " '
, whom, y lye appoinment or itappeared from
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took place white the Assistant Payriutiler. was on
Collier, off St. Sebastian. The Revolutionaire Government, theconduct of the prosecution was con- duty with the Local Militia, and that cot having
frigate, Captain Woolcombe, sailed from Lord flitted, submitted the different items in the account, been placed on the office file, they were overlooked.
quantity of from which it appeared that the following balances
Keith's squadron on Sunday last, with aCapt. Jackson further stated, that on i final arrange-
shot and shells for the bombardment of St. Sebastian. From Jane 24.1810, to Dec. 21, 1810, - £877 It 4 ment of the accounts, he did not theik the balances
would be materially different to the statement that
DEAL, AUG. 22.- Came down from the River Front Dec. 250810, to Dec. 21, 1811, - 6655 6 6
his Majesty's ship Cumberland, and remnins with the
Icroomm :Le: g, ittm, oID)ee.N, 11831?, -. . 17,6164 12 t had already been made out of the accounts—not
more in the general balance either way than 1001. ex-
King's ships as before.—Arrived the Archer sloop of i Deficient in the Clothing Account ' - 499 14 6
war from Plymouth.—Sailed the Cretan for off ! Property Tax Account not made up, ! elusive of the bills of 1001. and 150!. which had been
Flushing. Came down from the River the following I Against these deficiencies a number of items in fa. admitted, and which went to dimmish the balance
your of the Paymaster, were to he placed which re- against Mr. Maxwell.
merchantmen :—Neptune, for Minorca; John and
Thomas, for Quebec; Union, for Nova Scotia ; Go- ; duced the balance to the amount stated in the charge. Had sou any means of knowing any thing respect.
sentry, for ditto
orunna. ; Caroline, for Quebec; and the i The only witnesses called by the prosecution were leg t' e balances prior 'to the tim • you.and.csene_ral
Ceres, for
General Charles Campbell, late inspecting Field Campbell examined the accounts ?—Yes I had.
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FALMOUTH, AUG.
.20.—Sailed the Lady Louisa Officer of this District, and Captain Jackson, the I In y-ur absence from the office, on duty, who
; Assistant Paymaster, who deposed that they had by ' transacted the business of the day ?—I suppose the
packet, with a mail for Cadiz ; and the Queen Char-the direction of Government examined the Pay- Pas master.
tulle packet, with a mail for Lisbon. •
SHEERNESS, AUG. 22.—Sailed three sail of the master's accounts, and that the balance, as stated Lieutei s it-Colonel Bennet, of the 32d Regiment,
line (Russian), two Russian frigates, and two Rus- above was, to the best of tbeir knowlege, correct. and Capt. Priestley, late of the same regiment, de-
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slats corvettes, on their return to St. Petersburgh. This was the case of the Prosecutor, and at the posed that they had known Lieutenant-Colonel Max.
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The fleet for the Baltic sailed from the Nore on Sa-
. request of Lieut.-Col. Maxwell, the Court adjourned well intimately for many years, both when he was a
turday, under convoy of his Majesty's ships
Ag_ at one o'clock on Thursday, to twelve o'clock on Field Officer in the 32d Regiment, and since he be-
gressor and Hasty. The next convoy will sail about the following day, at which hour the Colonel said came Paymaster of the Leeds district, and that they
he should be prepared to enter upon his defence. had ever held hii character in the highest possible
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the 31st inst.
a, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20. estimation, both as an officer and as a gentleman.
The reported arrival I
of the ships from Jamaic
The Court having assembled, at twelve o'clock, The evidence on the part of the defence having
s bound to the Clyde and Bristol, is incorrect, only
Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell, after a few introduc- closed, Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell addressed him-
two of the convoy are arrived, viz. the Ardent, at
tory observations to the effect, that the deficiehcy self to the Court in one of tie most affecting
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Greenock and the Coriolanus at Portsmouth • the which had arisen, was rather to be imputed to the speeches that ever we heard deliiced, but of which
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termer parted company on the 3d inst. on the Bunks embarrassment of the accounts, than to any intention time will only allow us to give tie outline.
of Newfoundland, and the latter on the Bth inst. in ,
on his part to " embezzle er misapply" the public ; In order to show that he had no intention to wo-
lat
money, proceeded to call his witnesses. ' j bezzle the public money, he arp-saled to the whole
puny, under protection of his Majesty's ships Bed-
'4B ' !Ong. 30. at which time 88 sail were in corn- General Campbell, his first witness, stated, that body of evidence to prove that he had not in any
ford, Cyane, and Paton.
Colonel Maxwell had represented to him, that owing single instance kept back any voucher or document
,to the inadequate assistance in the Paymaster's Office, that could furnish a shadow of suspicion against him,
I the accounts had got considerably into arrears, and Rod that the way omission that had appeared was
~that it welt within his own knowledge, that the finan- 'Syr-his favour. That he had been guilty of misappli-
'cial department of the depots created so much busi- calion of the public money, he did not deny ; but he
tress in that office as to lend to much embarrassment hoped the Court would not visit the indiscreet tutti-
and delay in the accounts ; and that he, General cipation of resources which had unexpectedly failed
Campbell, had repeatedly, at the instance of the him, with the penalties and disgrace of an abandoned
Paymaster, submitted representations to the War- , swindler.
Office to this effect. I He admitted that he had found himself incompe-
In confirmation of these facts, two series of letters, tent to the intricate details of official affairs, and that
the first from Lieut.-Colonel Maxwell, and the se- the accumulated load of unsettled balances quite
cond from General Campbell, to the Secretary at overpowered him. He was aware that the ruin of
War, were put in and read, in one of which it was ' his fortunes must be the result, but he implored the
stated, that the Paymaster's books were seven quer- honourable tribunal before which ate stood, to save
ters in arrears, for want of sufficient clerks in the his honour, and if his character was not destroyed,
office to make up the accounts. 1
• all would not be lost ; he begged this for his own
;
General Campbell proceeded to state, in answer 'sake, but more especially on behalf of his uncon-
to questions proposed to him by Lieut.-Col. Max- scions wife and unoffending children.
well, that he had at all times bad full access to his ; Lie then proceeded to offer some observations on
accounts, and that he had reason to believe that the the evidence en which the charge rested, and said that
Paymaster had not practised any fraud or kept back nothing but the clearest proof should be admitted to
any vouchers, " and that he had always the highest substantiate such serious balances. He declared
I opinion of him as an officer and as a Gentleman." solemnly that he was never till very recently aware
By the Court.—As you have had constant access of the magnitude of the balances against him ; and he
to the Prisoner's public papers, have you any suppo- said it must be manifest from an examination of the
sition how so large a suns as that stated in the charge accounts, that alt the deficiencies must have arisen
became deficient ?—By an unfortunate indiscretion. before the 23d of March fast, when the Mutiny Act
Did Mr. Maxwell exert himselfas much as possible, which made the offence with which he stood charged
as far as came under your observation, to forward l BO highly penal, received the royal assent.
. the business of the office?—l did not think Mr. After a number of other observations, he con-
Maxwefl a man of business. eluded by saying —" If then the evidence which has
By the Court, to Lieut.-Col. Maxwell—" Is Mr. been laid before you establishes beyond a question
IMaxwell in possession of any document that can in ti se charge of misapplication, I ask you not to screen
any way account for the large deficiency that remains me from the consequences which await my extrava-
due from him to the public ?"—ln my peculiar situ- gan&—but I conjure you, by the sympathy which
ation I must decline to answer that question. honourable minds feel in the wounds of an injured
Captain Jackson, the next witness called for the reputation, to protect me by your sentence trim the
accused, stated, that on his entrance into that office accusation, or even the suspicion, of dishonest mo-
in Aprll, 1811, he found the accounts very much in tires."
arrears ; that there were then six depots in the dis- Lieut.-Colonel Maxwell's defence being gone
trict, and that the requisite atteation to their financial through, the Court atijourned till Monday, on which
affair" introduced great confusion into the Pay- day the deliberations will close, but the sentence can-
master's accounts. He further stated that two bills, not be promulgated till it has received the sanction of
one of them for 1001. and the other for 1501. had the Prince Regent."
beeq paid by Colonel Maxwell, on account of the '
s
i imblic service, without having been passed to his
ccedit, and be thought it probable, that on a final Count Tamers, Royal Bailiff of Iceland, as stated,
examination of the accounts, other sums might be in the Paris Papers, to have been arrested, on sus-
fiend in the same situation. During the time he had Picion of holding a dangerous intercourse with the
been in'the office he never discovered the least listen- English.
lion of fraud or dishonesty on the part of Mr. Max. The Royal Artillery is to be augmented, by the ad-
i well, who, he knows ha; paid 'Dewey oat of his dition of another battalion.
dim pocket to clerks employed in the duties of the The gazette of Sataralay night contains a long list
!office, to facilitate the progress of the accounts. of minor military PlOspotionsv ift consequence of
By Lieut. Col. Maxwell—Conversant as you are deaths in the iste battlesin SPaitti • '
in the accounts of the office, had you any reason to nSaturday a 0 001) ok oUltat owl completed
suppose, till very lately, that thebehonees against me his 48th year.
were so considerable No; I had not.
NATIONAL DIBT.-011 the Ist of August the
By the Court :—Can you give any reason why the tot '
al of tbe National Debt eedeemed, was
accounts of Mr. Maxwell have not been made oet
262418,4211. ; 94,777,1001. of thli Capital is to be
since his suspension as Paymaster ! They have been
cancelled purbsent to 53 Geo. (It. e. 311. The sum
suede out for one quarter, and tendered to the Super.
be
intendant of Accounts, and there is anoth,er quarter to expended ht Ike ensuing Quarter is
le as great forwardness as the means of the office will 3 ' ,48} $OB7l. Is. 1t d.
*flew.
MICACILING ACOlinrell:-.-Friday afterneerc about.
Inform the Court if you believe that time and as- ' four o'clock, Ehmsl3 *lust, a lad, 12 yens of age,
felt from thetop of Mr. Martin's house, St. Mary
4
'Mance only are requisite to remove the embarrass-
assents, in Mr. Maxwell's accounts ?—I do.
Axe, Leadenhall-street, into the stone-yard, and
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Anether question was handed to the Deputy Jadge was killed on the spot. He pitched on his forehead,
Affroesteto traitscdbe late the minutes, but before it and literally drove his skull off his head.

A copy of the following communication from
Rear-Adm. Foote to Mr. CI-WREN was on Satan.
day posted at LLO r D'S

" Medway, at Spithend. Aug. sn,
" SIR,—I be 4 to acquaint you, for the informa-
tion of the Lords Commiscioners of the Admiralty,
that by the Cori°(anus merchant ship, which is ar-
rived at Spithead, 1 learn. that she left Jamaica on
the 2d alt. with a convoy of 100 sail, in charge
of his Majesty's ship Bedford, Captain WALKEit
(Admiral STI RCA NG'd flag flying on board), Cone
and Peron In company. The Goriolanns parted from
them on the Bth inst. the convoy then consisting of
88 sail, in lat. 48. 25. long. 31. W. in a violent gale
of wind.—l am, &c.
" Enw..l. FOOTE, Rear.-Adm.
'6 To john WiNon Crotter, Esq."
The Bedford, it is said, has on board a million of
specie.
It is said, that last week 40,000 stand of arms were
shipped from the Tower for Prussia; and 10,000
were sent down to the Nore, without their destination
being avowed.
The inn and hotel keepers of Maidstone seemed
resolved to profit by the attrattion which Nicholson
created. A bed was not to be had at less than one
guinea a night, and half a guinea for the use of a
sitting-room. The latter was indeed demanded from
lodgers, who were obliged to breakfast in their bed-
rooms. For board the charge was quite in propor-
tion to that for lodging. Posting was also charged
at Is. ntl. per mile.

The ‘s ife of a shopkeeper in Snmersetshire has
lately taken, in the course of business, a Queen Anne
farthing, which has been authenticated to be the very
one coined in 1711, and for which she has been of-
fered a very considerable sum.
AMERICAN BARRA arrv.—,Mr. Joni( LEWIS, a
dealer in catth., who was passenger in the Dinah and
Betty, has favoured us with the following statement :
On the might of Wednesday last, about twelve o'clock,
and about five leagues to the southward of the Smalls,
he was taken by the Argus, in sight of two other ves-
sels, which were burning at the time. fie had on
board 30 head of cattle, of which the enemy killed
three for the use of his crew, and burnedtke rest wills
the vessel !—(Waterford Mirror.)