The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

June 3. On Saturday the Court Martial sat at the Horse Guards, and passed the following Sentence on Lieutenant Colonel Cockburne :

" The Court Martial having duly considered and weighed the evidence given in support of the first charge against the prisoner. Lieutenant Colonel James Cockburne, with that produced in his defence. is of opinion, that he is guilty of the whole of the said charge. namely, of culpable neglect while commanding in chief his Majesty's forces in the island of St. Eustatius. in not taking the necessary precautions for the defence of the said island. notwithstanding he had received the fullest intelligence of an attack intended by the enemy upon the same and of having on the 26th day of November: suffered himself to be surprised by an inferior body of French troops. which landed on the island without an opposition : and did most shamefully abandon and give up the garrisons. ports, and troops. which were under his command : And this Court do adjudge. that he, the said Lieutenant Colonel James Cockburne. be therefore cashiered, and declared unworthy of serving his Majesty in any military capacity whatever. and that the same be not read to him publicly at the head of the 12th and 15th regiments of foot, who were under his command at the time of the said surprise. if they may conveniently be : And the Court doth, for the sake of example, further adjudge, that the charge of which the prisoner has been so fully convicted: together with the sentence pronounced against him, be declared in public orders, and circulated to every corps in his Majesty's service."

As soon as the sentence was pronounced, the Court in the most public. satisfactory and honorable manner exculpated Lieutenant Mackenzie and Lieutenant Rogerson, from the very false and cruel aspersions which the prisoner had thrown out against them in the course of his defence.