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7 JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT BUENOS AYRES. (Concluticd from the STAR of Yefterday ) NUMBER X. • On the 7th of July, Lieutenant General WHITE. LOCKE removed his head quarters from near El Miferere to El Retiro, together with his immenfe Staff. Major General Gowen alto changed his quarters at the fame time. The city was fill involved in all the dreadful horrors of war, every houfe being clofely flint up. The Britith officers were RriEtly confined to the cita del, but experienced every degree of attention from the Spaniards, which could be granted them in fuch a fcene of tumulr. It has been afferted by fome, that when the fire of the gun boats commenced againfl the citadel, an intimation had been conveyed, by authority, to the Bata prifoners, that their fafety was eery precari ous, from the openly vindietive fpirit which pervaded the Spanifh populace, excited by the calamities of the war, as well as by the cruelties and enormities which were faid to hate been committed by the Britifh foldiery : we can, however, with confidence, vindicate the honour of the Spanifh Governor, and his officers in general, as far as the fafety of their pri Toners was concerned, from any imputation of this nature t on the contrary, we can affirm, from un doubted authorities, notwithfianding the pizblie ac counts, that no jun grounds for fuch a charge did ever exill. It does not admit of a doubt, that the cireum fiance of the Britifh prifoners being more (hien) , con fined to the two halls rf the citadel, during the can nonading from the gon boats, than before, arofe from the folicitude which the Spanifh General enter tained for their fafety ; for he had much to fear from the licentioufnefs and want of difcipline among hiu troops, who, he well knew, were capable of the greaten enormities. Let it be alfc recollelied, that fome of the Britifh officers, who had incautioufly espofed themfelves on the outfide of the citadel, had been fired at by yerfons in the fireets: this is ano ther circumflance which juftifies the prudence and caution of Lstetsas towards his prifoners, and en tirely exculpates him from any fit:Mier intention in planting fentinels over them. Hitherto the wounded ctEcers and foldiers, who had not been admitted into the citadel, from the want of fufficient accommodation. had received but very precarious affitlance. Thole, however, who had been fortunate enough to be received into churches and private houfes, we have already faid, experien ced the moll liberal treatment, and only Rood in need of the profeflional Alliance of their own furgeons : but the wounded foldiers, will, in the general confu. Pion of Sunday, had been pronsikuoufly thrown along with their comrades, into the different common pri. ions of the city, had fuffered, amiclit the accumt: laud horrors of cold, want, and the feverity of their wounds f for they had, as yet, received no medical arai once, In this (late of wretchednefs many had expired, from the want of the common neccffaries f , f life, and others were pan all hopes of recovery, when the cef- Cation of hollilities, which preceded the treaty, or convention, now put an end to the (offerings of there unfortunate men, and afforded them all the ailia• ante of their own furgeons, who, in common with the other offices, had been till now Rrialy confined within the walls of the citadel, on account of the continu• ance of holtilities beyond the limits of that fortrefs. There wretched (offerers now received every Ala ance which could be obtained, and, being collated with much care, were acc, mmodated in one of the douches. The terms of the treaty or convention which had been entered into in the mean time, bttween the Bricifb and Spanifh Commanders, was thus announ ce4l to the army this morning : GENERAL ORDERS. BY LIYUTENANT-GENERAL WHITRLOCZt. " Head Quarters, Suburbs of Buenos Apes, 7th July, /goy: • The Commander of the Forces, animated by the conduct of the troops under his command, and at the fame time feeling for the diftrefs of thole in the hands of the enerny, has entered into a convention with the Slaniih General, agreeing that, upon cone • &ration of all Britt& fuhjafts tahrh Wore- this period, as well as upon the late oecafien, being ltberated,he will defift from the opc• rations againft the town of Buenos Ayres, a recafure dlEtated by humanity, and a policy which, he trufts, will prove beneficial to Octal Britain. 1 . The Commander of the Forces is tom to learn, tt at many of the troops have been guilty of plundering and directs that offi cers will be exceedingly vigilint in putting a flop to Irregularities fo highly afxreditahle to the Bridal nation. A chain of (entries is formed, heycnd wLich If any Milk!' is found, he will be very fe wetly punithed." _ . . Agreeably to the terms of the convention, all the tritiffs prifoners, officers, and men, including the wounded who were capable of moving, were libera ted from the citadel and prifons, and arrived at El Retiro, the Britifh bead quarters, at ten o'clock, on the Sth. On their way thither, they fufiered the melancholy view of many of the bodies of their un• fOrtanate countrymen, Come of whom were officers, who had fallen in the ftreets, piled in immenfe heaps on the (rand of the river. All the bodies were pet-- ft:illy naked, and many of them torn, mangled, and kali. devoured—a truly 'hocking fpatacle to their furviving companions ! The Blitith force brought again( Buenos Ayres little exceeded Boco &alive nun, at the commence limn of hottilitits. The force of the Spaniards, as fat at We have been able to collet from ralious fourcel of infiirmation,l did not exceed z 6,000. Of there only about S;Co were regularly difciplined, and compofed of European and nativeSpaoiards,Frenchinen, &c. and fomeßriiifh renegadoes. As the greaten dependance was placed in their regulars, thefe, as we hive before menrioned, had been polled at the bridge ; and afterwards they were enabled to difpofe of them on the batteries, with the guns in the great fquare and in the ftrects ; and thole who were the ben markfmen Were dillri bated on the tops Of the houfes. The ren Of their force Was ti militia, compofed of partly European and Partly Country Spaniards. Betides thefe, a large proportion cf the flares were alfo armed latterly, either with fire antis or pikes ; but of thefe the num • ber is uncertain. • Thus failed an eiriedition, fitted out and fupported at an enormous eipence, and compofed of the Bawer of the Britifh arniy. They had to encounter a numerous and undifciplined, yet formidable, enemy. An enemy prepared to receive them with confidence of the fecurity and advantages of their own fituation in the peculiar mode of attack unhappily adopted by the Britifh. Experience and long pradlice had taught them the ufe of fire arms, and their lite !oh at El Mi ftrere had again convinced them of their own inferio tity, in point of difcipline, to the 13: kith, in the open field. The plan of affaulting the town, therefore, was entirely agreeable to their mode of Warfare, and hap pened exaElly to their with. Their recapture of the city lan year had alfo taught them the efficiency of their own Iltength, and convinced them how much was to be atehieved by a people firmly united in the defence of their natural and dearell rights—and con fident of the juflice of their own cattle, againa an enemy whom they had been led to regard as law lefs invaders. The following extra& from the Orders of Lieut. General WHITILOCKE, publiihed to the army, after their arrival at Monte Video, and dated iGth July, will convey the fentiments of that Officer rerpetiing the conduit of the army under his command, during the late unfortunate Ude of the war : " GO. After the dang.:rs and difficulties which the army has lately experienzed, nd the factifice of conqueft which it has been necelfary to make. in order to fave the lives of fa many wounded and prifo,ners, it behoves the Commander of the Forces again, in the warmeft manner, to thank every individual Corps for the part it has taken ; for not a fingle inflame has occurred of want of pa• tieuce under fatigue, and privation, not an lnftance of the want of that fpitft and gallantry that marks the charadter of the Britifh Soldier. " The army are informed, that the men who fo hardy at tempted to join the standard ache enemy, at a time t.o when the bodies of their departed countrymen were yet unturied, and the wounds of others WU C %sal, fall have the trial to which, as Dritilh foldiers, they are entitled—and upon their ref pedtivc fentences will their fate depend." On the 9th, loth, and t ith of July, the Britifh army embarked on hoard the tranfports, off El Re tiro, and failing down the river La PlAta, arrived off Monte Video on the isth. Three lanflages were left at Buenos Ayres, on the part af the Britifh. until the fulfilment of the feveral Articles agreed to in the Convention. The lots fullained by the tritifh army, during the whole of the above operations, in killed, wounded, and milling, according to documents, and the moll authentic information which we have been able to coiled, is as follows : Kir.r.tD—q Lieut. Colonel, a Major, 6 Captains, 7 Lieutenants, a Enlign, s Affiltant Surgeons, I Veterinary Surgiun, az I.erjeants, 6 Drummers, 341 Rank and File—Total, tilled 386. WouNuE3-2 Lieut. Colonels, 3 Majors, 16 Canning. 59 Lieutenants, 4 a Quarter Maßcr, 49 SerjLants, is Drummers, 583 Rank and File—total wounded 7oz. Total Killed and Wounded 1088. MICSINCI Drummers. 6a Rank and File—Total milling C 6. Total, Killed, Wounded and Miffing 1154. Part of thole returned 4 miffing' are fuppofed to have deferred to the enemy, and were expated to be delivered up, at the &fire of the Britifh Gcneral. The lufs of the enemy we have been unable to of certain with any degree of accuracy ; but we have the molt fatisfadory realms fur afferting, that it far furpaffed that of the Britilh, during the whole courfe of the hoftilities. LINCOLN'S Nit HALL, NOTEMNER 24.—Michael mas Term.—The following Gentlemen were this day called to the Degree of Barrifters at Law, by the Honourable Society cf Lincoln's Inn, viz. WILLIAM Szt.wYN,Jun Efq. Eb. Bußrewituevr Sumer:, Efq. EDMUND LOMAZ, Efq. Oro I.twis NZWNHAM, Erg. JOHN SYMMONS, Ffq. BARNARD ELLIOTT PLRCT,Ffq . Jost; BATHER, Efq. Ww ALBIN GARRA r, Efq. The following has been fent to us for infertion 46 Great pains are taken by fame defigning indivi ekals, to clafs the ellablifhment of the Golden Lane wery among the numerous projeds of the day ; that the fuccel; and the advantage which the public has derived from it, has been the ace:diet% of moil of the fchemes now afloat, no one will be inclined to doubt; but the fait is, that it was fet on foot by Mr. Brown, in the year 1804, at a time when the opulent London porter brewers made an attempt to increafe the price of porter to fixpence a quart, and which the ellabllfltment of the Golder, Lane Brewery entirely prevented, by efte9ing a competition with the trade at large, which, until then, had been mo nopolized by perfons of wealth and opulence ; that a bettet beverage has been produced by thefe means. almoft every clafs of the c'mmunity can bear testi mony. Much more might be Paid upon the fubjea as to the utility of this brewery, were it, at present, neceffary ; one thing, however, is certain, that fuch is its magnitude and extent, that it is now the means of producing to the Government of the country up wards of one hundred and fevenry thoufand pound Fer annum." ii.durtut ivraLlitENcE. FALMOUTH. NOVEMBER . sr. Arrived the Bnnetta, Bssr, from London, for Newry, leaky, and lofs of fails, &c. and the Lord Hoturi packet from New York and Halifax: left New York the fith, and Halifax the 28th ult. DARTMOUTH. NOV. st. Arrived the Magicienne French lugger privateer, of 14 guns, and 46 men captured off the Lanois End by the Fort-rut/es frigate: the was out from Cherbourg three days, and had taken nothing. She had only two guns on board when taken, having thrown the tea overboard. A Lieutenant, a Mid lhipman, and 16 men, were put on board, vi:h (T. ders to carry her into Plymouth, but being driven by Itrefs of weather to leeward, they brought her into this pert. The Forruw Es had carried away her bov:fprit in chafing two French frigate:, one of them' fuppofed to be the Penelope, and both deep in (lures, out of Bourdeaux. PENZANCE, NOV. ii. Since my lafl arrived the brig Eagle, of Great Yarmouth, Ecativr, Mailer, from L'.ndon, with tallow, &c. for Liverpool ; alto the fletop Johnflnn, of Millings, from Rye, with hops for Newry. Captain STUBBERFIELD, the late Dialler, yellerday, during the heavy gale, was unfortunately wattled overboard and drowned. Four veffels have been wrecked at St. Ive's within the lalt two days, two of which are totally 1011, and the others very much damaged : one of the former is from Brittol, with lundriv, for Dartmouth, &c. t the Mallet's name was WEBBER, who was drowned notwithflanding the greatell lible exertions to fave hits from the wreck ; the reit were Caved. kie was wafhad on fhoreyeiterday and decently buried. Several - others wercloft from the other velrel, but we do not know the exaft number, nor the names of the veffels or the Mailers. TRURO, NOVEMBER 21. A meffenger arrived here lafl evening from Cran tock (about (even miles north of Truro) with infor mation that a brig laden with hemp, tallow and other articles, had been driven on fhore there, and that three of the five men which compofed her crew, had been drowned. We coold not learn the name of thi, brig, ner any further particulars concesnirg her; but the meffenger reported that two other b ig were alfo embayed, at a little diffance from the former ; that one of thefe, which was within the range of the breakers, was in imminent danger of coming en fhore, and Out the other would be f-rtunate if fhe taped. There %vac a tremendous lea heat i,tg, in dead upon the fhore. A party of dragoons were imme• diately difpatched from Truro, to alit in laving and protean% the cargoes, &c. CHATHANI, NOVEMBER .2. Came up to Gillingham Reach, the Wnolw:ch tender, and brig Mary, with 201 Dann prifoners.— The prifon fhips at that anchorage beefing G► full, it is imagined that another (hip will be commiffioried for that purport. Sailed feberal tranfports for the River, having difcharged the troops and baggage brought over from the Baltic. The VICTORY has been taken into Dock, for the purple of having her poop cut off, previous to being commillioned ; alto the WARSPITE to be copp:red. The GUERRIER, now one of the fineß frigates in the fervice, is fitting out with every difpatch ; the command of her is given to Captain SlittlF, who proceeds, as fl--.n as ready, with the Duke of IsTANCHESTEIt and foite to Jamaica. His Grace is going out to that &Ind as Captain General. Nov. 24.—Yelierday miming as one•of the Guards, who was on working party in the dock yard, in en. deavouring to get on board the Romnlas frigate alongfide the Jetty Head, he nutted his hold and fell into the river and was drowned. Saturday a man belonging to one of the tranfports fell into the river and was drowned. Part of the 92d regiment landed here let meek, from the 11%13, 44 gyms, who on their p,ifige from Copenhagen, ran on the Long Sand, and were obliged to throw all the Rorer overboard to enable her to get off. The regiment marched for Neely barracks. airing the gale on Friday, the TAM an and FREYA frigates drove from their moorings, but were fecurel without any damage. BRIGHTON, NOVEMBER The weather here has been excedively boifierous and damp for many days and nights pall. On Thurf. day evening a tremendous gale from the South weft came on, which continued to rage with unabated fury until Friday night. Several houfes were un roofed, and many (core panes of glafs in the houfes in Stjames's.ilreet, as well as other parts t f the town, were demolifhed. The molt ferious injury, however, fuftained on '1 hut fday evening, was by a boat belong. ing to a perfon of the name of Short, and which had returned from Hallings, loaded with he, rings, having on board four tails (40,00 o). The b• , at palled this 1 town about nine o'clock, P. M. and in endeavouring to ge t into the harbour of Shoreham, upfet, by which accident S'aort, and a filherman, an inhabitant of Worthing, who had accompanied him to Hallings, were both drowned. The body of the latter was wafhed on (bore here, near to the Royal Crefcent, yeaerday, from whence it was taken and carried to the workhoufe. The body of poor Short has not yet been found. Upwards of to,ooo of the herrings which the boat contained were, by the flrengrh of the current, carried as far as Rottin • a ? dean, a &fiance of at leaf, eight miles from the place where the fatal cataftrophe occurred, and where they were yellerday picked up by the inhabitants of the place. Yefterday, though tur buient, was comparatively a fine day to thole of the two preceding ; but the night turned nut as unpleafant as can well be conceived. It at this time blows a complete hurricane from the South, and :he rain for many hoots has been excel five and incelfant. Happily, not a fail of any de. fcription is at this time viable in this part of the Channel. Great apprehentions are expreffed for the fate of the Cliffs to the call of the town,itnentury thofe who have property there may well feel them. (elves alarmed. Perhaps this place had never a more defolate appearance than at ptefknt, for though we have yet much fafhionable company in the town, fcarcely •a fafhionable individual is to be Peen. The Northumberland Militia, on Friday evening and yef. rerday, marched into this place ; the falling torrents from the cloodF, and the confevent dirtincfs of the roads, had occafinned them a very unpleafant march; covered with mud, and wet through to the (kin, it is really ditireffing to behold them. They do not, however, appear to have received any injury by their journey. I. HU : L, NOVEMBER S ri ; R _ or m in; e 3 o k u n r d ia tti % A h n e eh tvoeiajtthaectchoitisnltTlocfonvte:trn,riesd (hverip.wrecked, or otherwife dialoged, have daily been re- Ceived from the different parts upon the coaft: We fubinin !itch particular, as have already reached us, though we fear the event of the milihief is yet far from being known . 'Vie Brothers, Coltman, of this gnu, lot Gihtaltif, which veffel firuck on the BA( bet. Sar...!, has been got off and is el rated upon Cailtnr be. , ch : the principal part of the cargo faved: The Searth, Blorunteldi front this part f t London, with oats, parted froni her anchors is Yarmouth itnad:, and is driven on the beach, crew and cargo raved. &inlay lall, a large conning finnp, was difcovered at anchor near Waxholm, on the Haldernefs coaffi which had 101 l her mall and tigging : it bloaviag a ftrong gale, and the lea running Very high, the peo ple on !lune could not render them any afEllancea though the velfel laid in near the land, that it watt thought they might have reached ir, and faved their lives, had they ton her aground. Cordiiing, perhar, in her ability to weather the gale, they t 'ntinued at anchor, and in the editing right, lamentable to lay. (he went to pieces, and all on board perifhed: A (mall ca(k with a b ,, ttle in it, and two letters inclnfed, was driven Arne on Monday morning ; one of them &firing the perfon into whole hands they might fall, to fend the other by the poll, at direfftd, to a Gentle man in Newcall le. The veff..l is luppoled to he the Janes, Rndgers, of Leith, for Newcaflle, with a cargo of Gap, harrilla, gunpowder, &c. and a nem. ber of paffengers, chiefly bcys. going to Newcaffle as apprentices. Part of the cargo is faved. The bodies of a woman and chid, and fix or liven men and boys, have been driven a(hore. The (loop Endeavour, Richardfon, of Whitby, is fuppofed to bt 101 l with her crew at the mouth of the Tees, part of her (tern having been tuund upon the neighbouring finds. The brig Will;artt, Tongues; and ProviJence, Sanders, both of Sunderland, were driven on those about four miles of Huntcliff Foot. and !ince broken up ; crew faved. Wednefday fennight the brig Cornelia, of New. cattle, frt.rn Liverpncl, was wrecked on the Herd Sand, in entering the Tyne. The lea W2t frights fully high, yet the lite brat faved the tel.-01 e r f the crew. The Eliza, R• berts, of Aber iflwith, with a cargo of riff from Memel ; and a light fchooner, the "..Jdney, of Stonehaven, were driven behind the South Pier, at Sunderland; and on the following day, the Mary Jernitna, belonging to Sunderland, was driven on the fame place. The firft is a wreck; the latter is expo( ed so be got off The p e opl e w ere taken out of the Eliza by the Sunderlaid line bnat. The Lark, Cook, from Yarmouth, laden with barley, bound to Shetland, was wrecked at Darin (tone yetlerday fennight. The crew were fortunately faved by the life boat. The Helen (loop, of Shields, and Dapper, Grachy, of Jeriey, to Leith, have put into Bridlltigton in dint-els, with the lots of boats. fails, &c.—the male of the Helen was waffled over , buard. A fiflting c•dile, with " Jnfeph Harden," painted upon it, was waffled afhore at Aldbrnugh, on Sunday morning. The fl .op Recovery, of Howden Dike, was loft nff the Spurn on Wednetday fe'nnight I but the crew were dragged on (hare with a ripe, by thecountrr penpic, and their lives were raved. A heat has been driven on (hire near Cloughtnn. on the Yorkfhire enact ; her name is the Dart, of les fey.; the mailer's name cannot be ma..',e out. The S-Thia, Cook, is afli re near Saltburn ; crew fared, FIWM LLOYD'S I IST. R Avtstwo, Nov a;—Palled by the Woreand Caßle, Mar. tenon, from the Cape cf Good Hope; Lord Weville, Bruce, from Quebec; Stranger, La wui, Irom Virginia ; America. Adatalan, (rum Sicily ; Ncrur Biel, from Nialta Mitata, Sanger', from Oporto; Britic, Thorna.; bilverug, Lawfun ; Chriftiana, Bir•ger ; jtitn and Thomas, Britt, and the "1 wo Frierds. —, from R iza.—Sailed the Minerva, Rapler,fer Gottenburg ; Heariae, George, for Cork : Olroline, Phelan, and r.c Grace, Ta.lw. for St. Kitts; Kr.yxl Edward, Minfhead, and the Sir Edward Ha. tu,iton, Bell, for Jamaica. ARRIVED. Off Doer, the Stringer, Sitting, from Virginia—At G•ange mouth, Caledonia, Watts, from North America---At Whi•ehavtn, Lavinia, from North America—At Dab Oren Charlotte, frnir North America—At Scaborfe,--, from Staid holm— ‘t Scilly, Palnthistot, —, from Stocl. .09in —At Gut rn Icy, Pomo a. —„ front l'e - erfbn r L h —At nwfound. land, Alfred. Prowle, from Dunnriei, Board, from London—At Q . llehee, Equ'ty, hum I .ondcn. The Alpha, Seivright ; Mars, Canting% and the Ci.rlew, Calthmfo, from Rigs, with a it et from the Wine, are arrived off Low etl, tr. he Adonis, Ward, from Pettriburgh for Liverpool, u put into Gottenburgh in (laird's, and mutt unload • . - '1 he Ann, Phillipq, trum londtin for Brian!, is o More near Padftew, and it is ft arcti will be loft. E;;en, lte, mayne, has bow on Chore at Liverpooly and received much damage: The Nordttero, Lts - rirg, from Plymouth, is detaincd at Copm bk!en. be thiney, Stra.lian, ftraraied in the gale of the t t th init. near Suntlerl end, is got off,aud carried into that yor:. The Enigheten, from —, is on chore near Harwich. The Charle , , William. Kirby, front London bound to Pete. C burgh, was fate in Copenhagen Roads on the 3cth of Odlober, un der convoy of his Majefty's Chip Vanguard DISTRIBU 110 N OF PRIZE MONEY. The Ganges, for the capture of the Preedebt, September 2F, Ro6, will be paid ou board, on her arrival. The Centaur, for the capture of l'Armide, la Mirerve. Plndefa. tigAhle, and la Gloire,September 25, iBos, will be paid on board to-morrow, and recalled at No. 7. , Great Ruffen tercet, Eloomf bury. fhe Mars, for the above valets, will be paid onboard en Wed nefday next, and recalled at No.lB, Clement's Inn, on Tuefdays and Fridays. The Did.atnr for the capture of the Nieholii and Martha, May a, 1806, will be paid on !mud on her arrival, and recalled at Nu. aB, C! tnent's Inn, on Tuefdays and Fridays. ADMIRALTY COURT, DO:.TOR'z' COMMONS. Monday, the Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM SCOTT proceeded to the adjodicatian of the following cafe: The Difpatch, Claver matter.—This American weird, with a cargo of various merchandize, on a voyage to Bremen, was cap tured on the ground of a breach of blockade —Ship and cargo rt.- Bored. Little William, Brown Mager.—This was alto an American wird, and the queflion before the Court was with refped to that part of the cargo briongirg to•various claimants (the fhip and part of the cargo helorging to the owner thereof, having been con. demned at a former hearing) The Cour: was of opinion, thpt the fame rule ought to be applied, and accordingly condemned that part of the cargo likcwife. Augutla Htlcea, Matter.—This veffel was failing tinder the Mecklenburgh laden with a cargo of Spanifh wool, and dealt:eel therewith to &Mot. The Court, in tins cafe, reftored the Ihip and cargo, and pronounced for demurrage, to be atm tained by reference to the Rcgtftrar and Merchants Vigilante, —, Maßer.—This Kniphatnen vein] was laden with a cargo of wine.—yropertycondemned. • Voluntrir, Mafter. • —This veffcl "'a.' laden with a cargo of fugar and cotton, on a voyage from Phil?d , :lphla to Tonnin gen. The Ccurt, in this cafe, reftored the flip and l art of the cargo. and retibtired further proof to be product 4 at to t'te et tnaining part. confiftirg o: bales of cotton.