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I NUMBER I. JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE BRITISH AT BUENOS AYRES. In the middle of June, after the arrival of the de tachment under the orders of Colonel Caauruan, the Britith Military farce in South America, confined of the following Corps and Detachments: Corps. Drtoclormits. COMPIP•1111 Of, Eff.eliwo ear& Royal Artificers Detachment Lieut. Pancovrt 30 Do Artillery 5 Companies Capt. Hawker 350 Do. Honk Artillery I Troop .-,-- Prater So bah Dragoon Guards 4Ts uops Lieut. Col. Kinston 3to 9th Light Dragoons so Do. Hon. Col. Mahon 700 17th Do. to Do. Lieut. Col Lloyd no soth Do. 4 Do. Major Blake 173 sift Do. s Do. Capt. Parker 145 cr S Foot aft Battalion Lieut. Col. Davie 9SO sdth Do. Do. -- BUM 830 38d1 Do. Do. ---••---.- Nugent 800 4:th Do. Do. Col Brown 780 45th Do, Do. Lkut. Col. Guard 850 47th Do. Do. .....--..- Baekhoufe 750 54'h DID. a Company Attached to Corps So 7ra Do. . i Do. Capt. Broolsman toB 27.11 Do. Ift Battalion Lt.Cni. Sir &Butler 750 88th Do. Do. ..—... Duff ilso 95th Do. (Rifle) 8 Companies Major M'Leasel 700 Forming a Total in South America of not Ws than 99o3men This refpeetable force was under the Chief Com mand of Lieutenant General %firs LOCK 8 the next • in fueceffion to whom was Major General Gowse.— The Officers appointed to the command of Brigades were Brigadier General Sir Samoan AUCHMUTY, Brigadier General the Hon. W. LUMLEY, the Hon• Colonel MAHON, and Brigadier General ROBERT CAA! FUND. In the &it formation of the above army into bri gades, defined for the attackof BuenosAyres, the 89th Regiment, which, on its way from England, had put into Rio Janeiro, and was daily expected to arrive at Monte Video, was alfo nominated ; and Brigadier General AUCKLAND, who alto put in there, as well as Colonel Lord BLANKY, who commanded that regi ment, had been alfo both appointed to the command of brigades. In confequence of this regiment not having arrived, the following was the final diftribu lion of the different corps into brigades : 95th Foot (Rifle)/ B rig adier r. Light Brigade Gen . , L.RAWYIJILD 9 th Light Company 1 tth Foot IH aft Brigade 3 6th ditto Brigadier General Sit S. AUCHUTY 87th ditto 36th Reg ad ditto 88th ditto Brig. Gen Hon. W. LUMLEY / 4Sth ditto (Royal Hurfe Artillery .1 I Detachment of Dragoons, mounte d 24 brigade • j 6th Dr. Guards Hon. Col. I 9tb Lt Drag. 1 unmounted A• M HON i 17th Ditto Leah Not It is neceffary to (Agave, that the command of Monte Video was left to Colonel Baows, of the 4oth Regiment ; the g,rrifon confined of the battalion companies of the 47th, 400 volunteer merchants, and a body of marines, 135. The neeeffary previous arrangements having been made for :he attack of the city of Buenos Ayres, the troop- at Monte Video defined for this fervice began to embark -.n the 16th June on board the lighter uanfp Iris, for the purpofe of proceeding up the ri ver : the troops alto in the harbour. belonging to the detachment lately arrived with Brigadier Gene ral CLAWFURD, were removed on board the light tranfperts of that fleet ; and the whole was in readi. nefs to fail on the day following for Colonist de Sa cramento, which place was then in the poffeflion of a detachment, compor.d of the 4oth ncgiment, and part of the gth Light Dragoon>, and gstli, under the command 4 f Lieutenant Colonel PACK, of the 7: ft Regirne.it. On the i S.h Jure, the firit divifion of tranfports fet fail from Monte Vieeci, with Sir S. AUCHMUTY, under convoy of the SAKACSN Clapp of war, and a gin brig and fchooher ; btu, on account of contrary winds, they did net arrive at Colonia de Sacramento till the afternoon of the 24th. fab.nit the fame time all., the remainder of the tranfports, along with the ref of the Generals, arrived off the roads of that place. In the mean time. the detachment under Colonel Pace having rendeied the guns todervice- i able, and deliroyed the works at Colonia, loft no time ; . in embarking to join the army, which was now ready- ' to fail act ofs the river o B uenos Ayres. It was un derftnod at &It, that a landing was intended to be effeeed above the city, principally with a vies to alfail the enemy at a point Ids prepared for defence than might be expeeed at any part below, or near the bri age. The place for landing, however, was afterwards changed, owing, it was laid, to the diffi culty and ; recarioufnefs of the navigation of the river for the tr ...fining f - high as was originally propofed. Rear Adoiiral Muitemr had fated his flag from the POLYPHEMUS. t 64, to the Isl. KEIDC frigate, and bad the c•otdue of the fleet. He was accompanied by the MsD'sa triple, PHEASANT fluop of war, and by all the gun brigs, together with fix gun boats, which were intended to cover the landing of the troni s. The gun boats were each mounted with one a4-pounder in tilt bow, and could run into flea wa ter near enough t.. b.: of the moil effential fervice, in cafe of oppofition from the enemy at the beach. Early on the morning of the 26th, the tranfprrts failed from Colonia de Sacramento, and joined the Admiral and the reit of the fleet loon after. They itnmediately proceeded towards the other fide of the river, which was difcerned early in the afternoon, and at four o'clock the fleet came to anchor off the vil. I: re of Enfcnada, about eight miles from the Bore. this place is twenty.three miles below the city of i Buenos Ayres by water, and computed at twelve leagues diaance by larid. There is no regular road, and the track thither is through Houghs, frealelps, l and extenfive plains. interfeftedfrequently by muddy rivulets, which are often difficult to pals, from the flippetinefs and unevennefs of the bottom, and Tome times dangerous, particularly after rains. In the afternoon of the 27th June, part of the tranfports weighed anchor, and moored as near to the ffiore as the depth of the water would allow for the purpofe of difembarking the troops : the remain der followed early the next morning, together with the gun brigs and gun boats, which were moored as clofe to the (bore as the fhallownefs of the water would permit, having the gums direaed and ready to open on the (pore. There was no appearance of oppofition, however, neither could any of the enemy be perceived. In the morning of-the zBth, the firs} divifion of the army landed without oppofition, under Brigadier General Sir SAKUIL AUCHMUTT. Of thefe, the Light Brigade. under Brigadier General CIAWFUID, firft reached the fhore. The fecond divifion of the army, under Brigadier General LUMLIY, landed immediately after the firft ; and the third, under the Hon. Colonel MAHON, in fueceffion. Before funfet, the whole army had landed without any accident, and had formed on a fwampy plain, lying between the landing place and tire village of Enfenada. which lay at the diftance of about a mile and an half from them. Immediately after landing, the Light Brigade, with two light field pieces, 3 -pounders, moved forwards in the direftion of Buenos Ayres, about four miles, funning the advance of the army. The main body, about funfet, moved on towards the village of Enfe nada, which contained only a few miferable and de ferted huts, which had been ttript °fever) , thing valua ble, and were fcarcely capable of affording any shelter. Here, and in the neighbourhood, after ettablilbing strong piccptets, and nut pans at a fallicient distance from their pofition, the army remained the whole night without the lean molettatiun. Indeed, with the exception of a few individuals who were met with about the village, there was no appearance of inha bitants : nothing was to be feen but immenfe flocks of cattle in all dire6tions. Lieutenant General WrirraLocca thought it ne ceffary, at the commencement of operations, to pro hibit, tinder the molt ferious penalties, every (pecks of plunder, and to erjoin the firift prefervation of private property of every defcriptinn—a timely and beneficial meafure, which was didated by every prin ciple of policy and prudence, and which, if religit.ufly obferved by every rank of the army, might have been completely effeetual.—( To Ge continued ) FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. HAGUE, OCTOBER so. The Royal Gazeite of yetierday contains the fol lowing dtcrer : z. AR navigation abang the coact, from the Dollard to the We fer, is forbidden, cacept under convoy of fhipa of war, and from thole part,. alone which are occupied by oor troops. 1. All veffels are prohibited from entering our ports, but futh as arc laden with articles which cannot be furnillted by England. fuch as timber fur the conftrudion of malts, and other produce o f the North. 3. All veffels laden with merchandise, which may be fuppofed to come from England, (hall be flopped at the entrance of our ports. The cargoes flail be fequcftered, if, after an examination, they (hall appear to be within the regulations laid down for tors• flfcation." OCT. z6.—Several American vefrels have lately arrived at Amilerdarn, laden with colonial produce, chiefly coffee—the price of this article is not, howe ver, lower. Thefe yeah were vifited by the Englifh, but were not prevented fr:ms entering the Tezel. It is generally remarked, that for about a fortnight finer, the Englith treat the Americans with leis ri gour, and appear dilpofeJ to mske tome facrifices to avoid a war with the United States, a war which would be extremely injurious to the people of England. There are it prefent in our ports a great number of vefrels, ut:der fcgoeflration. They will not be re leafed, unlefs their Captain; demonfirate that their cargoes are not Englifh property, nor have come from England. HAMBZJRGH, OCTOBER 21. . It having been intimated by the Charge d'Affaires of his Majclly the King of Denmark. that for the future nu lights would be kept up at Linderkere nor at Markac, the Senate of Han-burgh have given no tice of this intimation to the matiersof veffels refiding in that city. COPENHAGEN, OCTOBER it. The capitulation of CuPenhagen has not been ra tified by the Prince Royal, who has, on the contrary. direeed new mealures of feverity againfl the Englifh —he has recalled his Milliner from Lend.ln, formally declared war againit England, and made common cattle with France. Why then have the Englith ev•tcuated Zealand ? It is becaufe we fhould have reached them in the , month of November. Becaufe the iron would have chafed away their fquadron, and twenty thaufand Dann and thirty thoufand French would have en- tered Ze.tllnd. Since, however, the Englith knew, that in November their maritime fuperiority would; became adds, why did they undertake this ezpedi• tiun, and thus wok themfelves to a lhameful flight from Zealand, menaced by the combined arms (A i France and Denmark, to the lofs for ever of the friendthip and alliance of the latter power, and the refuge of her ports, and to the !hutting themfelves out of the Sound and the mouth of the Baltic, for twelve or fifteen bits of wcod, which can he of no ufe to them ? The anfwer is this—the fpirit of igno ranee, want of forefight, and blind hatred, dire& the Councils of the Olygarchs of London. Mr. Canning threatened at London the Dania' Charge d'Affaires with the non evacuation of Copen• hagen, becaufe the Prince Royal would not ratify the Convention, and would declare war againti , England. MIAOW, that the Charge d'Affaires fevered, “ You do not wiffi to /*nate Copenhagen--that is what we defire—befatE4 month is at an end, we null be enabled to drive you away by force." The Prince Royal has already thrown into 'Zea land fix thoufand men, who, on the 17th, formed a jundlion with the garrifon of Copenhagen. The long nights rendered the paffage I The greateft miluaderflanding prevails between the Hanoveriaas and the Engliffi. Two of the Englilh have been hung by the Hanoverian infur gent.. It is difficult to conceive an expeditionmore atrocious, more impolitic, more shameful, or more I unfortunate for the power which undertook it.— Monittur. VIENNA. OCTOBER Is. The Archduke Charles is on his return from his journey to Bohemia, where he reviewed the differ. eat bodies of troops. A new diltribution of them is expeaed. Ocroallt t¢.--The Court Gazette contains this day an ankle from Turkey, to the following elle& L .— ~ In confequence of the armiltice concluded between Rana and the Ottoman Porte, the navigation of the Black Sea is be come free; but the advanced Rate of the feafon will permit only a (mall number of veffels to profit by this liberty. ' 4 The Ruffian officers and folcliers, prifoners of war, have been releated from the Have prifon, where they were confined at Con ftantinopte. They will be conveyed to °della, in Ragufan vet fels. " The Turks have nominated SiHilda as the place for cary ing on the negotiations for a definieve treaty of peace; but many obitacles kern to Rand in the way of the approaching opening of the congrefs . _ _ " The Janisaries after Come frelh motions towards a rebellion, on the firft of September received their pay, which had bcen is ar• rear fcr a confiderable time. " The loth of September General Gardanne, Ambaffadnr from France to Perfia, paired over from l'ophana to Scutari, on his jour ney to Tehran, by the way of Bagdad. This Minifter is accom panied by Mirzer Mahmoud, Envoy from the Shah of Perk the French officer defined for the Eaft Indies, Commercial Agents, and Miffionaries " 0C T 011 tg.—The Court Gazette yeaetday con tains the fAlowing Articles of the Armiltice conclu ded between the Turks and Servians : the i It :tares, " That there than be a ccfradoo of hoftilities for Ain unlimited time. " 2. That orders Mall immediately be expedited to both armies to ecafe 3. The armiltice to extend to the two armies in Bulgaria, as well as the troors in and on the frontiers of Sepia. 4. The two armies to remain in their refpedtive politions. " s Ether party to break the armiftice at pleafure ; but five or fix hours to elaple before refumitig hoftilities. " 6. The Colliers of each army prohibited from going into the camp yf the other . " file armiltice is finned by George Petrowitz, Commander in Chief of the Servian Army of Infar ,eetion,(my, General of a divition of Ruffian troops, and Ibrahim Paella, of Macedonia and Ro. OCTOBet 2 r.—The following article from Turkey has been publifhed in the Court Gazette: 66 According t.) the IA advice., Wallachia is entirely evacuated by the Ruffians : they ate preparingalln to abandon Moldavia ; ►he troops are already marching towards the frontiers of that principality. The (barter Mat ter General De Suchtelen has proceeded trom Bucha left to Jaffy, to accelerate the evacuation. Prince Proforowlki ha. at prefent the command in chief of the ft talian forces in that country.—On the other hand, we are informed, that the Grand Vizier has rite into winter quarters at Adrianople and in the environs." AUGSBURG, OCTOBER 20. Private letters from Egypt itatethat the Englifh have experienced a new check in that country. The Enghilt Commanders in the Mediterranean and in the Adriatic Gulf, are Rated to have received (,rders to refpeet in future the Auftrian VENICE, OCTOBER Tr._ We learn from Malia, that an order ef the Eng in!' Government has arrived there. purporting, that for the future nr, flag fh,til be confidered as neutral, and that all nation► who are not in alliance with England (hall he confidered and treated as enemies. A great many RufEdns have, it is hated, been de tained, and which are to remain until further expla nations take place between the Courts of London and Peter(burgh. SENUIR (COTE. D'OR) OCTOBER i 4. Madame Gra ion by journey to Paris, was at tacked near Bouvrai, by four rabbe►s, who took from her 6o !nuts and fome jewels. One of the rob berg was afterwards taken, two were killed and the four: h efcaped. MORLAIX, OCTOBER '2 S. We have been in the habit of fending fl rgs of truce from time to time to Londrn. It has been for bidden to allow any to proceed thither in future. No further comn.unication ought to call with that coutrry, governed by the unjuft and eternal enemies of the Continent. FONT AINBLRAU, OCTOBER sst. The Emperor often goes out in a calsfah, 'mac. companied by any one except the Emprefs. and un attended by fuite or guards. FROM THE MONITEUR OF OCTOBER 3t. After having given extra& from the Englifh Pa. pert, refpeiling the departure of the French and Spanifh Ambatfadors from Li!bon, the affembling of the French troops at Bayonne, the rumours of the projeaed emigration of the Portnguefe Government to the Brazils, and the little hopes there were of an arrangement favourable to the Englifh, the Afettitnw adds the following note " Why did the Cabinet of London, having fuck news from Lilb , m, allow their ally to remai'. without fucconrs ? Why did not one of thefe terrible cape. ditions fet fail, with the ammunition of which the Englith Papers are filled ? It is bccaufe, if the Eng. lith timid fend their forces to Portugal, they old there find troops to contend with—they would there have to encounter the brave Cavilians cf Buenos Ayres. Thefe celebrated Englith expeditions are in the habit of attacking only by furprile, and of having to do with none but unarmed neutrals." In an extra& refpaling the million of Mr. Merry, to found the inclinations of the King of Sweden, as to the defence of Zealand againit the French during the winter, the Menikur has this note : " It is not true, that the mifflon of Mr. Merry was to the King of Sweden. He has been, in fat 9, fent to Denmark ; but the Prince Royal has fent him back in the fame manner that he difmiffed Mr. Jack• fon. " This Prince has received the propolitions of England with the prof , .undell contempt. It is in the fame way that thole of Lnrd Paget have been received at Contiantinnple. The Porte has replied to that Envoy, that after having ken the attack in the Botphorus, without any declarati:m of war, the burning of an Ottoman veffcl, And the loft& offered to the Capital, he could no more repofe any curia. dente in that nation of pirates." In a paragraph relative to the fuppofed afcendancy of the French interell at the Ccurt of St. Peteriburgh, and the furprize occafioned by that circumitance, it has this note : gt There is fomething very flrange in the Minna ment of the Englifh. They every day infult the Em peror Alexander—they pretend to import upon Ruffia a treaty of commerce, fimilar to that which they wrung from the weaknefs of the Cabinet of Verfailles; they dirallow the maritime rights of Eutope, to fub. fiiture in their head their own violence and caprice; they attack the molt faithful and moll ancient of the Allies of the Emperor of Rah ; they violate the fea, which is under his guaranty; and they cape, that that power which they have treacheroufly eeived in abandoning it during the war, and which they have infulted in attacking Copenhagen, Ihm!I be infenfible to fo many outrages The time of itil• punity is pall, and the Englifh Government have many other fubjefts of aftonithment. The English mull for the future thew, in their conduit, moderation, juflice, and refpea for neutrals, if they with that there fhould be in Europe neutrals for them. Raffia, France, the Porte, Spain, Portugal, Aufiria, and the whole of Germany have the fame imprefEons with refpeEt to the outrages of England. All nations have a right to have their flags refpelied. —They ought every where to cover the goods, and thole powers are wanting to their neutral neighbour*, who fuller their flags to be violated." On an extra& from an Englifh paper, Rating that the Per fian Government had appointed an Ambaffa dor to proceed to Bombay, to tranfmit to the India Company affurances of his frientlfhip, the Monitevr has the following note : " This intelligence is falfe. The truth is, that the India Company, having fent a Minifler to Perfia, the agent was driven away, and faced to re•cmbat' without delay." FROM THE MONITEUR, NOV. r. . _ [Of the following artfole we only give the molt material piffle*. It confifto of remarks on his Majerty's Declaration re petting the Expedition to Copenhagen.) After fome general obfervaticnc, there are, on the patine in the Declaration, Rating the intention of France to take poffeflion of Holllein, to (hut out England from the Baltic, and to leize the Dartifh navy, the following remarks : is Why do not the Cabinet of London make know,' the fources from whence they derive this informs. lion, which they fo pufitively hate : the reafon is fimple, becaufe they have received no information on the fubjeft. There did not exit} any difctillitm, negotiation, or treaty, between France and Den ' mark. The Emperor of the French had no intention of making war upon Denmark—he could not have, becaufe that would have been unjull, and he is too great and too enlightened not to know that the fire principle of all wife policy is juftice. It is not thus that the Oligarchs think, who dire& the affairs of i England. But how is it they have not feen that s 1 war by France againft Denmark was ufelcfs to the Emperor of the French. If he had attacked Den- I mark it wool I have precipitated her into the arms cf 1 England ; it would have given to hi s e n e my t h e ems 1 Aire of the Sound. He could certainly, without M. 1 ficulty, have feized upon H..lilein, but the Diniiir army. taking refuge in its . wn Hies, coveted by its own fleet and by that f Fngland, would have been Iloon • ,ut r,t the re . c h o f attac k. Th us t h e on l y re f u l t of an unjult aggitflion w o uld hav e b ee n t h e cr.narairt ing of Denmark to make common cattle with Sweden land England. ~ If the. Enplint Minihers reafon ill, they ought at !earl to know, il.. t the Emperor of the French is a better logician than they. An-niter motive, (till , more powerful, has efcapcd them. locapahle of feel ing, it is not ationifhing that they have miffed it.— , The attack upon Denmark would have been a figh:t ibjullice, it would have been to the Emperor Napo. leon a blot in the eyes of Fatuity ; and the epinkn of pofterity is not indifferent to that great Sovereign. " The natural ties which attach the Emperor of Rutlia to Denmark are known to all Europe. To attack Denmark was to violate the treaty of Tilfir, to recommence the war, to loft the advantages con qttered ac Friedland, and to augment the force of the enemy with 40,000 Danes, and all the indignati , n of Europe. The peace of Tilfit would therefore have been a guarantee fey Denmark, if there was occafion to feek any other guarantees than the neutrality and the wife conduit} of its Government. But the Minifters of London will probably far that a league again;) England was determined upon at Tilfit, to which Denmark was to becotne a party. This affertion, which would be as ridicult.us as the others, is demonftrated to be falfe by the event. 14?- thing is to England but the shame which a Go vet nment cannot avoid, which always regulates its conduet by fufpicions and falfe hypothefes, a habit which at once charafterizes weaknels and tyranny. If, however, England (offers herfelf to be abufed by falfe information, the Its told not fail to declare war againl RUffl3, to cola - ewe her vela', and to attack her fleets. Shc has not done In, and for this reaton; it is true that fhe is bold enough to attack a weak nation of the fecond order; but (he dare not attack a powerful nation of the firit order. However this may be, the whole of her condu& is ill calculated and contradictory. She learPd that the Sound would be (hut againtt her, and the conceived this tooltili expedition, of which the only certain refult is tp realize her fears." In the courfe of the following obfervaiions, it is denied that the French at my near 1-I , thlein had beta reinforced, or was intended to a& agditilt that Pro. vince, and it is afked why the 26,000 men fent to Copenhagen were not fent to Stralfund, or the mouth of the Wefer, to make a diverfion in favour of the Allies of England. After fr:n t e other remarks, in which it is osferved, that if the Houfe of Braganca had made common cattle with England, it would have cealed to reign, the following is the concluding pafidge :- 1 All that has paired in England, proves the ad vantages of a moderate Monarchical Government, and the dangets of an oligarchical Government. If a Monarch is aftuated by proper feelings, the Minifters ! under fuch a guide are juit and enlightened, but an loligarchy confiders neither the interests of the coun • try, the rights of humanity, nor the rules of jultice.