The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-30 00:00:00

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,in a room -so full elopers, that by coidd hardly give .
down well merited condense:lolm on the Generalw:hcrt
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'efficient directions for finding it.
etammaetled the forces; but he trusted that the Court
There was an objection in ppint of laW to receiv-
would he of opinion that he would have beets most
ing this puller, as the trend:ll(W was not present to
uselessly hazarding the safety of the army if he had
lisitoweti, that ap . swear
_os:o:ftisniacicet
wracTiyii,dialfrlcoliillitelo.W4a; no opportunity
followed the advice of Admiral
to the llth he had no occasion to raise the siege, butthat
.of c
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that after the information he had received ont sin , Sir J. Murray then witherrew it far the present.
Astother memoir of Colonel catzenes Was then
night, it became his bounden duty to re-embark tl .
army without the smallest delay ; and that he ought
i; . liven in, the accurate trantlition of Which had already
been proved by Colonel ackeray.
tint to have compromised its sallety for the sake_
.0. ; ft was then
.stiggested 4 Sir S. Aycimuty, that it
bringing off every single gun or article of stores %vista
would be perhaps the best way 4tr Sir .I. Murray to
had been landed.
in Ove documente.wbtch be pro.
He hadintended to have finished his defence here, !
mirk those pylons
n. (Juced as he conceived to bear upoo blis defence. If
but he hail sullen into two errors in respect to
d:.iiirci these parts only were read, it would Iwo asrgatdeal
which he was anxious to correct. The signal
I Of time.
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was made by the Admiral foe anchoring was on the
I Sir J. Murray
.acguiesced_ in tide suggestion, 14
13111, and not the 14th, *as he had stated. This was ; said, that be-only wished to prove those papers sow;
the error of the transcriber. The other error was,
and as the Judge-Advocite would have.thens beforthi
that he had stated the 16th, Instead of the 17th, to be him,
be might then mark the partleadar passages to,
the day on which the Officer lhe
aw the corps of Sucher i read. . . .
army passing through Cambrils. • General Whittingharit was then called in, eSeE
Ile should now make 'some observations on the i proved some of the papers which were producedi,
evidence which had been brought against him. The I among which were some letters from bimseif to Sir J.
Admiral, appearing to mistake the grdund of his de- !tirray. He also proved some letters from Celonel
fence, had brought different Naval Meets to prove' Mansell.
that stores and gusts were landed up to the 10th, and 1 Sir J. Murray then produced written information
eved.n that (lay ; and they, therefore, appeared to
' from Magistrates in Spain, and from persons appoint-
imply that the beach was at all times practicable,
and ed and paid by Governmenttot collecting information.
the embarkation easy. Cot. Williamson, however,l the translations
had confessed that the rockets were not landed for The originals were produced, and
proved to be correct by Gen. Whittingham.
t 0 0 e .ys, on account of the surf. It must, how 1- . .
These papers were received in evidence, but were
ever, strike the Court, that the difficulty of landing
not read, pursuant to the suggestion of only. read-
articles on the shore, when the Naval Officer might ing those parts of theas,,which bore immediately on
choose Illation, of the day when the surf was most
. the defence.
moderato, rend not be at all compared to the ; The following papers were then put. In by. Sir
difficulty of embarking a • whole army, with its ca-
John Murray, some of which were proved by Ge-
valry Sod artillery. If Adm. Hallowell could have' Hernia Donkin end Whittinglonn,. Captains Sharp,
insured a safe beach during the whole time of the em- Milner, and Drewitt, and ethers, await the determi-
barkation, ergo is that case he should not have con.
nation of the Court respecting their admissibility' :--
sessted•to delay. As to the evidence respecting hiaj Two receipts from Doctor Don Viocentio Lau-
expressing an opinion of an inuriediate attack by the, ente, for money paid to defray his expences in pro-
enemy, the witnesses, upon cross-examination, al. curing secret intelligence, dated June 6, 1813.
lowed that Gen. Donkiis gave this merely as his own A report dated the llth of June, from Gen. Clio.,
opinion, and not at all as having been sig.
ton forwarded by Gen. Whittingham.
pitied•to him by the Commander of the Forces. I 2
I a letter hens Col;Frevost dated. Fort St. Felippe,
As to the allegetiou that the ships and guns
the i 2th of June, and received at 3 A.M. by Sir John
boats could have prevented the advance of the 1 Murray,t through the medium of Admiral Hallowell,.
enemy to Tarragona, this had been complerely.l
pu board the Malta.
disproved. Col. IVilliamson had been called to many i
( A letter from Gen. Copoas to Sir J. Murray, dated
points, but it appeared that the information on , the 16th of June. , .
which he so much relied, that of the peasant, had I
1 Letter from Gen. Donkin to Sir J. Murrey, dated
turned out completely false. Colonel Iltackeray had !
11th of Jane.
admitted the different roads by which the emony I
; A report from the British. Consul, Mr, Tucker,
could have advanced, and had disproved the idea that i dated 'Castello, lune 7,1813.
the fire of the gun-boats would be sufficient to stop! A report from Brigadier-General Terms, Chief
them on their march. As its General Mackenzie 's •of the Staff to the Army of the Duc Del Pinups,. of,
evidence, if it had been jqvvis with a full knowledge the state of the Valencian Armies, in May,'lBl3.
of air the circumstances, it would have been entitled ;
to great consideration. • It was evident i Letter from Capt. Sharp, dated onboard the Hirk
~ however, and, off Alicant, Julie 10.
; Two re
that when he spoke of the prospect of brilliant sun. i
ports of CC!. Ciabartes, dile( of the Staff, to
cess, he rested this epinion on the supposition that Gen. Copoas, dated 'Jana 14.
there Was no other force of the enemy advancing, es.
A copy of I report containing a calculation of OW
cent the corps of Decaeli. It was on this supposi- elimars; force, by the Quarter-Master-General'
tion 'that he had stated 1900 melt to be -sufficent to founded on scattered documents end different sources.
leave for continuing the siege of Tarragona. He had ,of jaw' mesioo,_ in the months of April aid May,
afterwards, 6n the 14th and 15th, seen hinself strong 1813. .
bodies of Sorbet's' army. As to the great excellence
A similes. paper by, Gen, Whittiuglypts 41104,4.6.
of the troops under his commend, he could not go' colts, the lthik of Marc)), 11113.
quite so f.ii as that General hid dime in making it i A paper cowgirl% an eqiintate or the enemy's
the foundation of his calculatiori of brilliant snccesa. , force Catalonia,
referred to in Lord Wellington's
General Mack,miie had himself reported the ill con- letter received the Ist of July. ,
duct'of some of the foreign corps under kis commatid, i A report from Admirel.ileUowelltOßiri.htursay4
who threw a way their ammunition when under the : dated the 16th of Juno,'
fi I e'.4 the enemy. Gen. Clinton had 'also made at, A letter from Col. Adam to Sir J. Murray, dated
report of the inefficiency of some of those corps I the 15th of June. • ,
which were attached to his division. 'A
report from Colonel Cabanes, dated the 7th of
Of all the evidence which had been brought against j key, 1813, of the French force in Catalonia ;
him, there was none which so much shocked or sur- a second, dated liens, the 10th of • Jqne, of the de
prised him, as the evideoce which had been given by 'position of the army commanded by Gen. Copies.-
Lieatenant•Gesseral Sir W.. Clinton. It was a guar. I. The JUDGErADVOCATE observed,, that the produe.
ter from which he tould not have expected such evi. i tion of this latter paper would open the way to him
Bence. That General, professing not to be in pos. I for producing an official return made by Gren. Co.
session of any of the circumstances on which a pons himself, in obedience to.the direotion.or. Les 4
okilituy opinion can be formed, did, nevertheless, Wellington.
give his opinion pretty strongly, and that in a man- Two other returns from Cabana. . .
oar ',Jul with atone of voice which was very remark- A letter from Lord W. Bentinck to Sir John
able. Ile should now say, that the endless orders Murray, dated Palermo, May,9, 1813.
of the Commander-in-Chief were best excused by A letter from Sir J. Murray to Sir E.-Pellew,
the little promptitude with which his orders were dated June 4. . .
obeyed. Hefted higher duties, to perform than merely A letter from Sir E. Pellew to Sir J I,
M*.
to coocitiefe the feelings of Gen. J. A
Clinton, by giving dated Caledonia, June 8.
him all the, marks of confidence which he as second Several oeicial returns of camp equipage, &c.
in lestierity conceived himself to. be entitled to. Extract ora letter from the Puke of Wellington
The evidence of Gen. Clinton.. was stamped with that to Sir J. Murray, dated May 23, and extract from a
acrimony. wl,'ch allowed the spirit in which It bad jotter or Sir S. Murray, which led to the trans-
been given. If lie was really influeuced.by no other 'mission of the f0xm,,,..
consideration but 'thegoed.of the service and the.hci- P.reVioas to the adjournment of the Court, a paper
nour of the army, and bad always thought that the having been tendered by Sir J. Murray, purporting.
re-embarkation of the army had all the appearance . to be a leiter from Admiral Hallowell, the latter
of a disgraceful flight, why was heso fang 'silent 2 I offered Sir J. 'Murray's reply, to the reception of.
Was it not, then, his bounden duty to have comma- i which Sir J. Murray objected, on the ground that
nirated that opinions to Lord W. Besstinek on his ar- the latter•was no longer competent to produce fresh.,
rival, and was it not rather for him, than for Ada+. : evidence on the side of the prosecutions.
ral Ilallowell to put hitivself forward as a champion ! The DEPUTY Jorros-AnvocAvz stated the role of
law to
for the honour of the army ? , .t
a .
be,
.tba prosecutor had no right to add any.
He was not surprised at Admiral Hallowell feeling evidence sub Sequent to the defence, except whoa
some reluctance at giving in that letter of Colonel any new matter was introduced• by the prisoner, to
Loder. If it confirmed one point of his statement, it which new matter he was entitled to oppose evidence
also disproved the evidence given by several of his strictly limited to tine disproof or refutation of such
witnesses on a more material part. From this letter 'lsew matter.
it appeared, that tile, enemy were at Villafranca on 1
Sir John Murray persevered in his objections,
the evening of the 12th, hut that they suddenly. re..upon which it wat referred to the future decision of
treated from it in the night. What became, then, of .the Court. .
that evidence which had repeated by so many Admiral Hallowell then observed, that Sir John'
of'bis witnesses, of the information given by a pea- Murray had, in the course of his defence, made such.
sant, who left the French at Villafranca on the., unexpected and serious attacks upon his honour and
morning of the 13th ? This information was false, I character that he.,vratt sure every Member of the
and tbe,peasfht was probably a spy. After apolo. Court, ;bp considered for a moteent his situation,
giving for the length of time which he had aneroid.:l must foal thelueticerof allowing. him to avail himself
ably taken op, he proceeded to state the course add ot.every legitimate opportunity of vindicating himself
he intended to pursue in producing his evidence.—. from such aspersipno.
He should first lay before them thaelocuments conn • The JUDGFrASTOCATE, with• the apparent aqui-
taioing the information he had received; 2dly, the; escence of the Court, remarked, that both proseen-
orders he had issued; and 3dly, he should bring 1 tors and prism; pore allowed.considerable latitude
general evidence of the motives for issuing thosen•of statement .nbseriation that had po effect upon
orders. 1 the judgment o the Court, which must be founded
,on legal and satisfactory evidence, and on theteri-
dente alone..

EVIDENCE FOR THE. HEFItriCE.
The first paper produced by Sir J. Murray was t
translation from the original memoir of Colonel.. We are happy to lousy that 4iseiniaJen planate:,
Cahanes, as to the state of Copons' aromy.- who murdered the pobr old. woman at the toll..ber-
Sir J. Murray stated, that the original was in the house, netts Tideswell, has. been apprehentled,,and
possession of the Duke of Wellington, but his Grace committed- to-Derby Gaol. The fellow, it is midi,
bed told hits a few weeks ago in Paris, that it,ssiwisas .coulesied.the horrid dead.

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