Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before the House, Related to the Expedition to the Scheldt (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 Excerpt: ...as to my military capacity as Commander of the farces ccaiing, was with reference to qucftior.s as to the defence of Walcheren; I do not apprehend that my military capacity ccafcd, but I conceive that I continued equally amenable to any Court of Inquiry or any Court Martial. lX)es your Lordiliip rrfnfe to anfwer the queftion juft propofed on the ground of your hoi-g a Privy Counfcllor r--I refute it generally. I decline anfwering the queftion. Did not t' 0 capture or deftir.elion of the Enemy's fleet form one of th? material -bUfta of the Expediiioa to the Scheldt?--It certainly did. It was ib deferibcd it) the infmittions. ' Did your I/rdfhif- know, prior to your failing from England, that the French fleet -OiM put itf.If under the protection of the bnltcrirs at Antwerp?--I hud no vorv precife infui'tiuition co-iiiiuHiicated to mo upon tiiyt fubjcet; it was rattier a naval tjuefrion. In the event that OHr Lord.ip iliould find, on your arrival, the fleet had ib put itfi-lf in protection under the citadel of Antwerp, and that your Lordihip iliouhl fisid tlic fitful' n: -dtl't' town of A-twirp in a itateot'deler.ee, had your Ix)rd l-p in tliiscountrv-fimH;d any determination as to wh-t were to Iks your Lordlhip's operutimis tmdtr 'thofc civciiwiftrtuces?--I hove before laid that no pi-ccife plan of operations was fixed upon Ik fore I left this country; it muft have depended entirely uwn circuHiftanccs, and the intelligence when we anivcd. The Right Hon. the Karl e dfitruy the Ilo-et, as one of the great objects, befiege Antwerp?--formed no determination beiore I went; as 1 laid, that mult depend upon circumihir.ces at the time. Then your Lardfhip I;od formed no plan of operations prior to your failing froiHtliis country...