Rochefort squadrons fallen in with me, I must have become an easy prey to them. Had they taken a different course and sailed for Ireland, or even England, there was no squadron to arrest their progress. Had I been defeated, although many of the enemy's ships must have been disabled in the conflict, I should have lost the advantage I had before obtained, the enemy would have acquired spirit, their remaining squadrons would have been unmolested, and it is impossible to foresee what might, in that case, have been the consequence. The question before you is a great and momentous one-it affects every officer who has been, or any time may be in a situation of command. Miserable indeed must be their condition if they are to be censured for an honest exercise of the discretion necessarily resulting from such a situation. I have ever felt that in my case, I have exercised it wisely and beneficially; I still feel so, and were I again placed in similar cases, I should act in the same manner, unless this court, putting themselves in the situation I then was, and considering all the circumstances that at that time presented themselves to my consideration, the various con cerns to which my attention was necessarily directed, should tell me I have acted erroneously. This I trust they will not do. If, in the discussion of this question, I may be allowed to look to subsequent events, they, I think, will fully justify the line of conduct I adopted. By it I was enabled, after receiving a reinforcement, to pursue the combined squadrons into Cadiz, and thereby perhaps to have laid the foundation of that glorious victory which we have so recently celebrated. Believe me, gentlemen, the circumstance of having, by the various calumnies which have been spread, been put under the necessity of soliciting the present inquiry, and thereby been prevented from being a sharer in the glories of that day, has been no small addition to the various sufferings I have undergone. These sufferings, I trust, will now have had their period, and the opinion of this court will, I flatter myself, cónfirm me in that estimation with the profession and the 'public, which I have for so many years employed, and restore to me unsullied that fair name and reputation which has on this occasion been so cruelly and unjustly attacked.* * For further particulars, and for the result of this most interesting trial, vide Chronicle. Pp2 CHRISTENINGS AND BURIALS, From DECEMBER 13, 1804, to DECEMBER 17, 1805. DISEASES. Diabetes ABORTIVE and 80........ 757 80 and 90........ 390 101...... 10S....... 105...........0 110............0 90 and 100........ 82 | 120............0 1 Mortification.....318 7 Dropsy............712 Palpitation of Abscess............... 86 All Fevers......... 1307 Piles............................................. French Pox....... 49 Rash CASUALTIES. Broken Limbs... 3 2 Bruised.............. 3 V. 24 Burnt................. 23 4 Choaked............ 1 1, Drowned...........115 Excessive Drinking......... Executed* sudden..........421 Gout................124 Rheumatism..... 10 2 Small Pox........1685 4 6 Found dead..... 3 cers.............. 6 Frozen St. Anthony's Fire................ 1 2 Killed by Falls, Spasm................ 11 Killed by Fight ing..... 1 14 Killed them 1 2 selves.......... 19 Murdered........ 4 ture ........................ Cancer....... *............... 59 the Head.......157 Chicken Pox...... 1 Jaundice............ 64 Childbed.............222 Jaw locked....... 2 Chin-Cough...... 1 Imposthume.... 1 Colds.................. 8 Inflammation....570 Surfeit................ Colick, Gripes, Influenza. &c. 12 Inoculation 2 Swelling.. 1 1 Teeth.................507 Poisoned......... 2 1 Thrush...............108 Scalded.......... 10 Tumour in womb 2 Shot............... 2 Vomiting and Smothered 1 Consumption..3432 Itch........... 1 1 12 Strangled 1 Suffocated....... 2 Total............264 * There have been executed in London 9, of which number 6 only have been reported to bo buried (as such) within the bills of mortality. TABLE of the Prices of the Quartern Loaf, in London, from Dec. 1804 to Nov. 1805, inclusive. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 6 1 4 41 44 1 1 3 5 1 4 3 1 34 Day. Price. Day. No2 412 Price. Day. Price Day. Price. Day. Price. Day. Price. Day. Price. Day. Price. Day. Price. Dec. Jan. Feb. March. April. May. June. July. August. Sept. Oct. Nov. Day. Price. Day. Price. Day. Price. |