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AMERICA BALTIMORE, JULY 24. The following account of the capture of a Britifh fehonner, by fume American (cameo, who are Oa• ted to have been imprelfed into the Britifh fersice, is given by John Hyne, one of the above-mentioned feaman " John Hyne, an American feaman, and refidatt of Baltimore, thipped on board the !hip Eugene, of and from New Yolk, for Bourdeaux, in the fpring of alog. On the returning E.f the laid (hip from Bourdeaux, the was captured on the 7th Sep tember, 1805, by the British (hip CAMBRIAN, and carried into Halifax, Nova Scotia, where (he re mained for tome time, until the CAMBRIAN was repaired; and then the whole crew, together with this informant, except the Captain and cabin boy, were taken at:d detained on board the Camsataa, which went to lea immediately thereafter. 4• The Cambrian cruized on ihn Wed India Ration until March latl, when (he was ordered to England ; but previous to her departure from thence. this in formant, together with all the American (cameo on board of her, were removed on board a guard (hip, at. Bermuda, where they remained until the 9th of June, 1807, when (even of the American lumen, together with this informant, were put on board a Bata armed fchooner, to proceed to Charlellon, for the purpofe of cruiling of that port, in company with the Indian Hoop of war. After the Paid fchooner had entered on her flation, and had eroded for Come time, the was fent with difpatches from the Paid hoop of war to the Btitifli fquadron within Cape Henry. On the 'mirage of the (aid fchooner to the Cape, the fell in with Commodore Douglas, at tea, who or-1 dcred the fchooner to proceed after him to Halifax. This informant Mates, that being much diliretfed with his long confinement in a foreignfer vice, he concerted the plan, together with his fellow citizens, to rife and take the vat! Accordingly (even others. together with himfeif, pot the plan in execution on the 15th of July inh. when they. by firft fecuring the Captain of the watch, and Commander in the cabin, by tying them, as well as all the &hors. took polieffion. and 'leered for the Capes of the Delaware. The fuccefs which crowned the bravery of there hitherto unfortu- nate Americans induced 16 of the Englifir Tailors to join them. " The day after their good fortune, they fell in with a Carolina fchooner, on board of which they confented (at the requeti of their Commander) to an, for the Furpole of getting on fhore ; but before they departed, they were a ffured, en the word of the Com *ander, that they fhould not be fited upon after leaving the fchooner, which was accordingly moll inviolably obferved on the part of the Commander ; and the eight American and 16 Englifh feamen were Cady landed on the day after the capture, on Cape 1-lenlnpen, flow whence this informant arrived at this place yellerday morning. There was fuch im pl;cit reliance placed on the integrity of the Co t o mander of the Btitifb fchooner by the failors, that they had not only reltafed him and left him untied, but declined fpiking or HMl:ipping one gun." THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER zs. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : Confide, money, 621—for account, 6211 — °twines; money, dif —for account, par. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 per Cent. Red. shut Imp. 3 per Cent. 62,31 3 per Ct. Conf 6th f !sup Ann. 7 tt• toths 4 per Cent. but Exclieq. Bills, Is. dif. par is dif. 5 per Ct. Navy, 961 f Onmium Long Ann. but Englifh Tickets 2:1 195. Short Ann. but Confols for acc. 611} India Stock 17$ It is impaffible to find words to exprefs the general indignation that is felt at the manner in which the attack on Buenos Ayres was planned and cOnduded. Military men, Statefrnen, the In: and the Ord:, the armed citizens, and thole- who claim na ikili in mi. litary taffies--all agtee in reprobating the eonfum• matt folly by which fo many brave men we; e ex poled to defeat and dettruEtion, and to have the fpirits of the furvivors broken by the recolieainn of a difgrace which they were deprived of the th ffibility of averting, by that very fpirit of obedience and fubordination which, under proper guidance, fhculd have fecured them the triumphs of a viartry. Who ever before heard of corporals marching with tools to break open doors like a Sheriff's Offi• eer, on taking a place by florin ? Who ever heard before of au enemy incloftd in walls and baricadoed, being attacked with bayonets and fledge hammers, innead of having their houfes fired ? Who can with patience hear the decided hollility of the inhabitants of a city carried by Krum, urged as a reafon for foregoiss: advantages altaiatd ky ihe &weer, of the troops ? Did the General lint ktiow before, that the place lie attacked was occupied by a foe ? Deteflable triflit.g. SA.iiers matching with tools to open doors when a ci• y is taking by florm, and the inhabitants of thek very houfes dearoying the men below with flaws and bt ickbats ! But where did the Commander in Chief take his ilation We cannot learn this In In the difpatches ; h i t we find him carrying his divilion thirty miles be yond the place to be attacked, and not at his appoint td ila!it,n till a day after the time appointed. And we know that many of ow brave tars and foldiers fell, caati;led with fatigue, in a fruitier% attempt to sli 4n heavy c . atlnon, for a (pace of thirty miles, over a country covered with fwamps—the men at the fame time witlarut bread, wine, fpirits, or any other (ofte n ince. Was the mode of attack which was purfued adopted • in coitfegtienee of the General's ignorance of the fpe c es of lieftnce intended to be purfued bf the enemy ? Want of information on this point might, perhaps, . bare teen urged as a reafon for not being prepated initantly ate the houfcs ; but it appears tbat the General had cone& information al that the enemy meant to occupy the Rat toofs of the hooks; " and this, we are informed in the difpatches, gave rife to the mode of attack that was adopted ! It is the full time we ever met with a deliberate plan to carry a hoßile city, by employing foldiers as fmiths and carpenters ! It is impoikbk.. lb out indignation, to contem plate tive ignominy thus brought upon our arms, and the Ws of: brew brew men, without any fault of their own. without any poffibility of availing them felves of their native courage or profiting by their unimpeachable difcipline. Among the many fine fellows who fell. and who are deeply lamented by their country, none is more fincerely regretted throughout the army than Major Tanvrsa, a da ring and intrepid Officer of great merit and promife, who had twice before been wounded in the fervice (ibis country. When gieat men fill triumphantly— when their memory lives in the viaory of their com panions—nay, where defeat itfclf has been preceded by wifdom, and prudence has marked the conduit of an unfortunate enterprise. regrets fc)r the lots of brave ‘ met are not without their confolations. Bot whin their fate is precipitated by redraints laid upon their phyfical powers, and Rrength—by fubmiffion and difcipline. emotions of a very different nature are escited—" Died Abner as a fuol dieth Thine hands were not bound. nor thy feet chained in fettcn of brats." Do we regret that the orders of the Commander in ' Chief were not difobeyed I No : Such an example might have lived oar troops, and given us a vi Tory at Monte Video ; but it would have been deftruitive of our army. which cannot exit without aria labor. dination. But hence the neceffity of a fevere invefli- gation of the conduit of thofe who are entrulled with the command of the brave defenders of our country. It is poffible the Commander in Chief may not be to blame in any thing that has happened, and that this may be proved by an expofure of all the circum. fiances in which he was placed. But if fo, he appears to be moil unfortunate in advocating hi, own caufe, and his difpatches mull either contain facts which ought not to have been made public, or faits have been cuppreffed in them which ought to be known to enable any one to form a col a& opinion. EXTRACT OF A LETTER, SATED " Off Buenos Ayres, July 8. " I fear our army held tbc enemy too cheap. They were fo Pure of vidory that they rufbed into the town, and advanced fo far, that their retreat was cut off. Never did trorpa behave bet ter; thty fought to a man. Buenos Ayres would have been taken if we bad acted with common caution. Ido not know haw they who bad the conduct of the operation will acquit themfelvea to their country. Part of the army. lam told, return to the Cape of Good Hupe, the remainder to India. We have been meeting, for Come time, the 89th Regintetit. which filled from Portfmouth four months ago, under convoy of a couple of Hoops of war. It is Isppored, they have been obliged to bear up fur the 'eft Indies." Upon the entrance of our troops into the town a molt dettruilive fire WA: opened from the upper parts .1 - the !Inures, the lower parts of which were fo firong I y barricaded with land, timber, and other cumbrous materials, that they could not be forced. Amoeg the Officers wounded at Buenos Ayres..l l are, Lieutenant Colonel Ktensrom of the 6th D r a goon Guards, who is wounded in the leg, clefe to the bone, by a tnufket ball ; Lieutenant ScerAltß Y 9 of the Royal Navy, nightly in the knee ; Captain Benoit wax, 71ft. mortally ; Honourable Major Id RING, sth, nightly in the arm ; Enfign WILSHIRE, feverely ; Volunteer H. de WAAL, feverely ; Captain PAYNE, through the breaft ; Major MILLER, badly, but not dangeroufly, in the thigh ; and Captain Ross, badly in the eyes. It is a remarkable circomnance, that the news of the evacuation of South America, arrived on Satur day fall, and that it was on the corraponding Satur- day of lalt year that the intelligence of the capture of Buenos Ayres by Sir Hota II POPHAM was received. With the tall India fleet came home the precious remains of that fine corps the 77th Regimen!. Up. wards of 20 treat s ago they went out to India a young regiment, trot they greatly diflinguiflied themfelves there, there lacing hardly an affair of conizquence in which this very fine regiment was not engaged. So high is the charatter of this regiment, that though they have not been a week in England, a battalion is almoft completed by volunteers from Game of the finett Militia Regiments. Colonel WHiTILOCK, (bro ther of the General), Majors SPEY /lid bd.GREGOR s have - come home with the 77th. It is with much pleafure we announce the fate ar rival of the 51ft Regiment, un board the Eaft India fleet, after an abtence of above 17 ye... s from their native country ; we undeittand they i.ave brought with them the highell encomiums from his 'Excel. leney the Governor of Ceylon, for their Ready, brave, and foldier-like condua on all occaii ms during their Itay in the Ealt ; and though this is but adding ano they wreath to their ever memorable hovels; lo glo rioufly attained at the battle of Minden, &c. it cannot fail of being highly fatisfatlory to obferve, how uni formly they have,preferved that chitinguilhed charac ter which has ever In par ticulatly and juftly marked the corps. It is laid they are immediately to have a ad battali^n, as a teltimony of his Majefty's and the Duke of York's approbation, who never fail to reward the merits of thole who have deferved well of their country. Yefterday the Royal Mid Lothian Artillery, enm• manded by Major &owe, were to march for Stirling, to do permanent duty for 13 days. The third Lancathire militia are about to leave Driliol for Plymouth. The Ninth Devon arc ez peCted in Briflol in their Read. The twenty-fix foldiers, of the 28th Regiment, lately iceufed of producing optlialmia in their eyes by anointing them with a pernicious compufition, were left week tent off from Maldon Barracks for the He of Wight, hand-cuffed, two and two. They are to be lent to the Eaft Indies to join fume regi. • uterus on that flation. Thole of the Shropfhite Militia who volunteered into the 53d, now quartered at Shrewfbory, began their a:aich for that town on Saturday laft. GENERAL BERESFORD's EXPEDMON. The General has left town to affume the command. Liam Colonel Darling is Deputy (ttarter-Matter General. fajor Attain, of tbc 58th, Adjutant General. We learn that neither Drs. Bancroft nor Irvin go, but that Dr. Morehead goes as Phyfician. It is expelled that the 34th Regiment will be em. bat ked in a few days. SIEGE OF COPENHAGEN. No further advices, that we could learn, have ar rived from the Baltic. Letters from Hull Rate, that a veffel lad arrived in the Humber which left the Sound u late as the 4th inflant. Atthat time nothing had been &died agaiaft Copenhagen. Flags of truce, however. were palling between the town and the &VA head quarters, and a negociation for the furt'ender of the Danifh navy was fuppofed to be going on. Both the naval and military preparations were Paid to be complete. and an immediate born. budment or in(lant capitulation was expefted to fol- low. The intelligence from the ourpoils is generally too vague and unauthentic to deferve much con fidence. The pi efent, however, is fupported by in formation from fources which are more to be relied upon. Since writing the above we have been favoured with the following letter, dated FLUSHING, SEPTEMBER 3. The German newfpapers, in an article from Ham burgh, mention the arrival of a merchantman at Lu beck, which brought a report that the Eng la had 'entered Copenhagen in ccnfequence of a Capitula tion. This report, however, requires confirmation. " HARWICH. foRPTEVIBER 14. 41 In my letter of yefierday's date it was mention. ed, that betides other Data!) Greenlandmcn detained by Lord FALKLAND and feat in here, no left than eight fail might be expelled to arrive every tide. I have now the pfeafure of informing you, that there eight G rcen lar den are all fafe arrived at this place." Dutch Papers to the 6th intlant have been received in town. They contain a very important Decree ailed by the Dutch Government againft the Com merce of this Country, by which all vefrels entering the ports of Holland are to give a double fecurity, which is to remain until the legality of the paper is folly acknowledged, and until it is proved that thefe 'deli have touched at no enemy's port. And if it Mould appear that the Ship had touched at an enemy's port, the double fecu►ity to he immediately demanded of the fureties, and the amount paid into the Public Treafury. If any goods of Englifh mannfallnre, or coming from an enemy's port, ate unloaded, they are not only to be confifcated, but the double Amity alio to be levied, and the fhip, obliged immediately to put to fea ; and in cafe of bad weather, to have no filcher, except under the &ilia precaution.— Likewife all Correfpondence, Journals, &c. coming in a neutral flag, to be fcized and burnt, and all pal: fingers who cannot prove that they do not come from the Britifh Me , ' to be immediately fent out of the Dutch territories. On reading the paragraph from Bolton, of July 31, in cur Paper of Thurfday, our Readers will se. c.)110 our contlant opinion that Bomar arra was fomenting a difpute between the Spaniards and the Americans. It is Paid that Tata oraaan is ever 'air ing frefb obftacles to an accommodation. We have olten laid it—we repeat it—the wound will never be doled till Louiftana (hall again he in the hands of France. BONAPARTE, apprehentive that we &mild wrell it from him, fold it to Mimic', but prefer ved a claim on the part of Spain. This claim will, on the &II opportunity, be fupp , ,rted by him. He will All Spain in the recovery of Louifiana. Then he I will eafily prevail on his ally to cede that counity for l an equivalent, which his fertile mind. will eafily (up ply. He will then be on the rear 4,1 the Americans with his myt Lads, and yet America is now oppofing the only power that can prevent her fobjugation 1 This morning arrived a Mail from La n, b r ought to Falmouth by the TbinISHLIND Packet, in thirteen days pallage. I We Rated a few days ago, on the authority of letters from Falmouth, that an embargo had been laid upon all Poi tuguefe veleta in this country. On Ifurther enquiry, however, we do not find that this flatement is coned. Two Dann vac's came in to Leith Roads on' Wednefday morning, detained by his Majety's gun. brig CR uizta ; and alfo a captured fmuggling lug. gcr, full 'of gin, &c. prize to the Fancy. The Danes are faid to have excinguilbed the lights on the Sc.+u•. The Danifh feamen, of whom there are great number; ranging about Wapping, appear much dejeded at the prefent dilemma cf their country. — They frequently attempt to pafa far Swedes, hi order to avoid the rettriaiont to which they are fubjedl. Saturday the Sprightly, Name, from Meramachi, New Btudwick, with timber, arrived at Leith. Lord Daastucron's Foxhounds commenced on Friday, with hunting the Bilham counMy. _ _ _ The Dowager Ducheft of Baaurorr, and Lady F. Somata?, are gone to pals the feafon at their beautiful feat of Stoke Houle, near Brittol. Acce iterunt Cr:hints I—Sautiu SMITH, the Sleeting Beauty, once more configned herfelf to the arms of the god Morpheus at Cuckfield. in Sam on Monday the 7th irritant, and continued in hi. embraces until Frid►y morning the t ►th. When the awoke the com plained only of faintnefs and languor, but brought nn fe.crers from the 44 Pri(on Houfe." What's' Cl ' cellcnt wife the would have made to Mahomek! NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. Dublin Waterford MAILS—Wind N.E. All. DUI o 1 I Clotted/ugh I I I WWI PENZANCE, serr. is. AIL tr.:. It I• This morning a very fine lugger called the Dafi of Guernfey, laden with fpirits, tulmcco, &c. was feat in by the PLOVER !bop of war, Capt. Bauwx, which from certain circumfiances, no doubt is entertained will prove a good pt ize ;—arrived the King Georg-, from the IN of Wight, with floor and brick, for ft' place. TORBAY, SEPTEMBER ts. Sailed this morning his Majesty's fifth: ROYALLY with four cranfports with part of the Kink Germ, Legion under convoy, for Ireland; all 9 itk sagas/ gun brig, on a cruise.—Wind S. W. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 14. I Sailed the SPARTIM man of war, on a eruitt, Admiral DRURY has this day hoifted his flag on I board the Mow MOUTH man of war, and will fail the I Zra fair wind, with the &et for the Eaft S. Wind W • DOVER, SEPT. r 4. Sailed the Kniphaufen brig Commercie, Captain Jo* ass, with falt, from Marennes, for Rotterdam. Came in the Pappenburg fhip Vryheid, Captain Cot. )(EMUS, laden with genera, detained by the Attire cutter ; alio the ketch Shaftfbury, Captain A unasws, of Weymouth, bound from London, with pipe navel, for Portfmouth, having her larboard fide partly film in, bowfprit broke, and loft fume fails by being run on board of early this morning by the Saw !loop of war, which had her bowfprit likewife broke, snd (he is gone by fur the Downs to get it replaced. Arrived in the Roads from a cruize, the Bloodhound and Monkey gun brigs.—Wind W. S. %V. and mock rate. DEAL, SEPT. :4. Arrived the Sam; a ffoop, from off Beachy Head, with her bowfprit fprung I Staaa.ow Hoop, from cruize off Boulogne ; SATELLITE, from (0 Oltend Ilifpatch tranfport, from Portfmoutl., failed through for the River. Sailed the HEARTY gun brig, having under her convoy the Supply naval trrnfport, for Spithead, with a aumber of outwardbound veffelt; Sumas gun brig, on a cruize off Calais —ln the Downs, Printers of Orange, Canada, Snake, Royali Satellite and Sparrow.—Wiad W. N. W. with a moderate breeze. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAY/SIND, fart. tc.+Palfed by the Alm% Ford; Lod Middleton. ; and tit, Nancy. Thempfoo, from Archangel; Enmity, Pcseock, from %mbar; Marls McCord. from Rids DMina, Pottedlett, front Koningibarg; Jo. and Ann, Conine; Alpha, Brows; Flora, Rogation ; Clarks, and Wilnatti, thews ; and the Sufannab, Robfon, from Pstcriburgh. ARRIVED. At P.rtfmouth, the Berjamln, Butcher, from Petextburgh— Fxperinumt, —, and the Matta. --, from kip—,At bred• lington, the Mary, from alga..-At Newcattle, the Maria, Stratton, from Virginia—. John and Charlotte, from ht. John's.- Cbriftlan, Pierfon, from Piclon ; and the Crawford, l'urnbull, from Qmetlee—in the Clyde, the John, Howell, from f.tfebee—.At Abe an, the Ploughman, 1 bumpkin, from (tie brc—At Liverpool, the Crofbk, Little, from ctsrbee..Prancis Curtis. from Virginia—lrbm, Keyfer, and the Maxwell, Edwards, from liarbadoes—At Newfoundland, the Minerva, Pierfon, from Liverpool At Balrlmore, the Olive, Collin, from Liverpool.. At Barbadots, the Prefiflent, Newbold, from Newfoundland. The Alert, French privateer, of as guns and 21i men. left her cruising ground, off Berinudi, the idlUdle of junc, for the viol! of Africa. The Dolphin, Corrington, f,r Dublin veal from Mollie. ton for Drogheda...a gallica from Dublin for Liverpool--the Prof. perity, and the Mary Ann, Jokufem, from Whitehav for Duhlln, are ou &ore near Holyhead. The Flenton, Spurs, from Liverpool for Quebec, is towed into Holyhead totally MfmafteJ. The Good lucent, Suowdeu, from Archangel fur Hull, I, loft --only a boy raved. The Briftol packet, Walker, from Briftol. is on 111011 heal Dublin. The Peggy, of Brifol, to wrecked on Miaow Bar. The Penult, Clark, from the battle for Lynn, was captured and burnt on the 7th ult. by two Dana boats. _ . . By the (hips Ma:well, Capt. EDWARDS, and the Liam, KPlrSille arrived at Liverpool, the toll..will letter has been received, dated " BARBADOES, AUG. I. ‘4 The French ptivateers General Ernouf, ad Jeune Richard, of 14 guns and 98 men, each, an cruising to windward ; the former captured, on the 23d ult. t6O miles to windward, a brig of zoo tons, deeply laden, with black fides, no head, and a dull fader, and was feen fteering fur Guadaloupe. The latter captured, on the toth of July, a Chip letter of marque, from Glafgow, and lent her for Ouadia loupe. His Majesty's brigs Swinger and Dominic* t arrived here on the t 9th ult. from Surinam, with ti fail of veffels, which had mitred the June cetnvafei• His Majetty's (hip Cerbei us tailed ft 411 Somali' ror the aoth ult. with the trade for 'Tortola. The Wig Clarence, Capt. Grieve, from Demerara for Liver. pool, was 'poke with on the Ty It tat. to windward 0 1 Grenada, with a view of joining thehonaewatd b0n6.1 1 t ade, but which had failed foam days previov, The fhip Belluna, and brig Orion, from Su.ir,,to, 101 l the Ccrberus and convoy, and were leen trrur.l 7 ward of Barbadoes, on rite 3orh of July, sad t , r l4l, ‘' alto mifs the convoy. His Majelly 's brig Llemeraro failed from Berbice with the trade, god anchored oft Demerara River, awaiting the arrival of the Cet!w• nu, which miffed the Demerara, and proceeded with the Surinam (hi s. Only thirteen fail 14 ort Dcrarl and feven of the Bet trice trade, were at aloi ha 01' Demerara on the z7th of Jriiy, under tire protanao of his Majetty's brig Demerara, which could mg leave her nation to condal them to the g lace of I et deavous, and confequently mutt wait lui ot , das are received from Admiral Cochrane, now at fond& :1 1. From St. Vincent's, we learn the capture of a va 1 ble Dutch EaR Indiaman, from Jay I, hound to Mt . • lierdam, taken about twenty days ago 14 the lip Diminica packet, of and from Livetp , orl. bo.'" I° , Trinidad, where the tent het prize. She is fripip . fe. l to be worth too,oool. fterling, having, WI s t' , r ) regular cargo, a watt quantity of trete on board.