The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-09-26
SENTENCE ON LORD GAMBiER.


BY direction Of the court the Judge Adyo-
cate read the Sentence as follows:
That the Court having duly elaborated
ON the evidence in support of the charge
exhibited against .Adnliral the. Right Hon
Lord Gambler. ana having also mutually
weighed the evidcnte adduced by his lord
ship inhis defence, lave determined that the
~The Adr1rslsa Rishs Hon, Lo ID Gam
bter.bn the 12ta tff of April the enemy's
ships 4eing then on shore, and the signal hav-
inSAbe$n made that they could be destroyed.
didfhta considerable time. neglect or delay
taking effectuai measures for destroying
them" has not been proved aeain.s the said
Admiral Lord Gam6er. but that his lord
ships conduct On thatocc aston, as Com man
der in Chief of the Channel Fleet employ
ed in BASQUE Roads, between the 18th day
of March and the 26h day of April. 1909.
was marked by zeal judgment. ability. aud
an anxious attentionto the welfare of his
Majesty's service, AMI therefore do adjudge
him to be most hoorably acquitted. and
he is hereby most hoE,rahly acquitted"
The President thencalled for Lord Gam
bier's sword and addesssd his Lortlshp AS
follows -
Lord Gambier--Ihave peculiar plea
sure in receiving the ctnmands of the Court
to return YOU your svord. upon the full
lest conviction that pn will use it as you
have hitherto done, with advantage to your
country, and your ow personal honor IRE
turning him his swon)
+" Having SO far obved the com ands of
the court. beg yoa win permit me, in my
individual capacity, to express to you the
high sratiHcatior1 have experienced upon
this occasion"
Lord Gamble replied,
-.N - -.
feel of the patient attention Of the Court
and beg to rturn my thanks to you. sir, for
the oblisngmanner in which YOU have con
veyed to INC their Sentiments"
The Court was then dissolved.
August S.
Still are we without any official inteli
sence from the Expcdition-bnt we are hap
py to lay before cur readers, the following
letter, whrh informs us of the surrender of
Flushing, and the whole Island of WaIche-
rem -
"HAswIcn, Aug d.
Intelligence has just been brought from
the Expedition by forcign vessel which left
the Dutch ceast last "wednesday night
She had been with the Expedition from Sa
turday last--ou that day about one p. NJ she
was III the midst of orr Expedition, which
was then about two miles distant from Flush
ing. They Wee then at anchor. Three
guns having been fired at the British ADM
rars ship,the whole OF the feet weighed and
stood close in. The foreign vessel then set
sail for another part of the Dutch coast more
to the northward. where she remained uu-
TIL Wednesday night, when She received
short note by a fishing vessel, directing her
to return with all haste to England. sS-adding
that, g Flushing had been taken by the Br-
tish"
" BY Flushing, the master Of the foreign
vessel means the surrender of the whole
island of Walcheren. The above intelligence
comes from a source that NAV be relied on"
The above is the latest intelligence that
has been received. Other accounts have ar
rived, bat they do not bring down the inteli-
Sencc later than last Tuesday.
On "Wednesday night, teegraphic order
was received at Deal from the Admiralty,
for all the vessels with the heavy artillery
on board, lying in the Downs, to sail imme-
diately to join the expedition; and they all
sailed ON Thursday morning, under convoy
OF his Majesty's slonp Rindo.
AT a late hour this mornine. we received
Hamburger Correspondents vt the 25th ard
Goth ult. Berlin papers of the 22d and
Prague of the l7th. They contain the fol-
lowing intelligence:
THE MAIN, July 90
The head quarters of the Archduke
Charles are at Eylau. Acongress forpeace
is spoken of to be held in Moravia or at vi
emma. The Emperor Francis, according to
some accounts, is gone fromOlmutz, to Hun
gary.
BEfLIN July25
Every thing is likely tobe arranged be-
tween Sweden and Russia. The conditions
OF the Peace are the surrender of the island
OF Al!and--the surrender OF Finland. & ihe
shuttinSof the Swedish port. against the En-
glish.
CoNsTANTIfoPLE, July I.
Gen. Gardane, the French A mba ssador.
at the Persian court, is arrived here-and
has already had several conferences with
the Reis Efandi. 1t is no doubted that the
Porte will soon break with England"
BY a letter from Lisbon dated July 10Th.
Sir Arthur Wellesley wa, still at Valencia
on the 18th, waiting the arrival of the fight
troops under Gen. Crawford.
The Dutch letters which announce the
preiiminaries of Peace to have been signed,
represent the following as The substance of
the treaty.-BOnapartc is said to have wrest
ed from Austria all her territories on
the. right bank of the Danube, and to have
extended the Bavarian territories to- Vienna
on the Fast. and following line along the
Of Hungary. to the Drau to have as
cended TO the sources of that river. A line
is thensdescribed to Inspruck and Bregeutz.
and this new accession of Territorv to the
south OF the Drau, including part Of Carin-
thia, Carniola, Istria, Triette and Fisme is
added to the Kingdom of ItaIy--The Tgrol