...ships which he saw in so perilous a situation, aground, within point blank range of the batteries. Lord Cochrane has expressed an opinion, that two or...shoal water close under their lee. The testimony of Captain Rodd, the only witness examined on this point, on the part of the prosecution, corroborates...

...might, by running up on the verge of the Buoyart shoal, have passed to leeward of the two Frenckships remaining at anchor. This I declare to have been absolutely...well from the raking fire of the two ships afloat, and of the upright one on shore, in our approach, and the fire of the batteries, as from the shoal...