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tke town. On the fettling of the 4th, a boa - • suPP,„,v,i, Emi',l'• Ttlf ,,ri 117, VEN STASTAR.To -1 GENeKAL WHI I'ELOCKE'S TRIAL. SEVENTH DAY (In continuation.) i m s t ime Major Tra vers, who commanded . 4 • g f the 9eth, pointed out to me a foot eompianie, e i t i,h appeared to me to be a conilderahle ~ft „ 'se enemy's army marching with an intention kin.' in the heights oppofite to the ford; t o elk& which the y taking a P t) wer e evidently too late. 1 - er - to report this to Ge neral Gower, and! an 0 tw o hi, permiffion to move on and occupy the ti t s, which were about three quarters of a mile tr frgom t o he ford. 'The order I received was, that it o n a nd a& according to circumllances, i i hat h e would fuppoit me witliGen Lumley'! bri . We piing the hei?hts without any oppolition. ' t e a t general appearance of tiaings, I thought ene my's army was in a (late of contuflon, which IpPered t o me vry neceffary to take advantage o et g aining e the heights, I took the road pow , ru t by the guide a, leading to the town, and tui,b&r: ene my tock op, in order to cover t:,e t radiancej, we law additional appearance of Se enemy h av ing been diCcrtncerted by our move leflf. On t h e march, I received an order from Ge- Gv wet, by an officer, to kale; but as the day era las In fi g a dvanced, and Ore. (late of the operation 'eared Iv cri t ical, I reported, and flatcd my opinion rthat it was eel y defirable to proceed. A thou t time sre arrived at Mr. 'White's houte, the . Major iral came to the head of my brigade. 13-. lure arrived at Mr. White's. the road had turned to defr; Nathan on our arrival there we were ch. 'ready parallel to the pofition in which we after ', ditcoverel the enemy, who v ere then on our • fluor: ; the ground was fu extremely intricate. enveied with otchaids avid high levees, that al b the enemy at thi, titne were very near us, we iy had not ditenvered them : the fir''( indica we had of their pretence, was a (hot fired i t :in, at the diflance of about fix hundred yards, ifuon as the,Staff Officers appeared upon the great +upon which the column moved, and which leads the town, by the Coral (the flaug!rtering place), 'ere the enemy's guns were their piaced. General ;act laid, we nitwit to turn th , :ir right and left 1h;: I uruderilnod (I.IS as en order ti attack the which I immediately t beyed. The ereeny's f q a very thou time appeared to be that of 1 con• able body of intantr y; hut the light infantry, and ;95b advanced fo rapidly that they very loon gave it, leaving behind them twelve pieces of zannon. ofued them about three quarters of a mile beyond • potition. neatly to the c-..mmencement of the and shill I kva lot ming the brigade, which, idle nature of the grcucd. and the luddenneis el a 8 nn , Lad no doubt glt tor° foie contt,fion, it 'dark. While thus employed, I t eceived an or hum General Gower to fall back to the Coral, hetken was. It certainly appeared to me at u rome nt, that it would have been advitable to the enemy into the town, an& I d e fi re d t h e ter ibllkeunght me the order to fall back, to re :lt the General w. it'd allow me to du fn'; and I eA the Court will allow me to fay, that from all 1 heard fence, I am convinced that if the other trittaltif the army had been as near as I thought aright have been, we might certainly have taken town: I mean General ‘Vbitelocke% divifion, thwld not b tve it attended with much difficulty, with General G o wer's alone. In arrl'iwer to this I received a fee , nl, and peremptory order . back to the Coral, Rating, at the fame time, our wrinodetl, which did not exceed l.x tfi, ei s men, were expuled to be cut off by litag. rued that General Lumley's brigade had ar. limmediately vn my tight; we left the Gret;a. Companv and three companies of the 36th on the as advarced pills. Doting the whole of the July there a as tome firing between our piquets 'the enemy, and i thick it was about three o'clr,ck 'afternoon when General Whitelocke came up ,the main di-Minn. Early in the morning of the Gcreral Gcwer fent Mek)r Reche with a flag of :into the town, wi:h a verbal fummons ; and lsreturn, in conflqtrence ctf General Liniers a Mire that, whatever Maj , r General had to communicate might be duct in wri. a letter was fent back, containing a' propolal . mtain terms, which he Chewed me before he fent :did nut ail: my opinion, nor did I knt,w at the that the terms ..vere written in confecluence of infiruilions firm General Whitelocke—the only tratinn which I took the Wier ty of making was, Linicrs was nenfed of breaking the treaty 111 Graeral Bere s fo:d, it al-peared advifeable, in 'king any propolal to hirr, to rry f"rnerhing which t reirkve any appreheni:ons which he might en with relied to the manner in which, if ire fell hand , , he might be trc wed. When Major 'dunned ftom del:ye:log this letter, General informed rue that Liniers was ref, .Ived m '''deck, I went, in nbedience to ordtrF, to Ge ' IC'hitclotke' a (playlet. tin receiv-ng, inarti&ions -eat to tlie attack of the town, which Lc had , detirrined to make at tive:ve i.'clock that day. I read the . difpufitiln, General Wiritclncke the court yard, at,d la id tl.a he telt teinnattee at adopting a nicaltr e which TT n. , teneed with fo fit eat an efri.flon of blood. that Th!detctmirtej to fold another lummons to C;e• lie (hewed MC the letter, and cer• `allied my nt.it,i.m. I told him I thought he ute. nAt find it. The wht•le condo& 6f the tir.,lnced me to believe that it tv , old produce QtfLet, and might ;mince a h;:liei of a want tact . ..cc '''Jr put, .T 17 v: as .the exi Inh• "I the converfatitm. !If ral \V bitehtcice ex niti determinaticn to fen,l Captain Vv*hitting: lith the letter. The difpntition was afterward , ' and explAinA to the Ct ni:mand'ng Officers of itles,and to Lieuitnant (2... hind Pack, who was itquaitred with the town. The us der was f9r attack to he made at twelve o'clock thtil dsly ; th e ettliverfeti‘li I am about to relate tork 'hut h•di pall fix. Sir Samuel A twhmnt y (OW, that a little Oc.fire lay break i.l the rune' el • • -' . • • . . I • . . i . . .............................•• .i. --:- • St; PI I' ',", ID 'kilt, VEN IN G ) TAR.,!) Gi • - sIKAL WI-II TELOCKE'S TRIAL. --- P. I SEtrENTIi DAY (In continuation.) : , this t i m e Major Travers, who commanded ' • plies r f the 9e•th, pointed out to me a be . a confiderable fugierbl,ihrnii.vappeared to me to . s caerny's army marching with an intention d" '• • • -king a potato.' in the heigts oppofite to slate. frd; fr - ,,,E c ti which they were evilently too i t l '".„ - 4-er to r eport this to General Gower, and. '• re ''' - it .' pe nniffion to move on and occupy the quarters of a mile 1. :i l l, ' w hich were about three ! or .from the ford. The order I received was, that .ighhattgeo on and a& [ according to circumflances, ; h would (unpin tme winliGen Lumley'a brie We g ained the heights without any oppofition. fr . . t he general appeatance of titings, I thought i r t ay's army was in a fiat: of confuflon, which [ enc .1 m ^ve neeeffary tu take advantage upon,. to ... r t .,. o n g the heights, I took the road pont- ! „,,, by the guide at leading to the town, and , :t porahn the ,ene my taelc op, in order to cover . ,areadianceo we laW additi'nal appearance of , ;'enemy having been diCcancer t e d b y our move- ; et s. On the march, I received an order from Ge- tv a t G o wer, by an officer, tc kale; but as the day ac t., f at a dvanced, and the (late of the operation pit was to yed to eriiical, I reporte, and Rated my opinion deli, able d to proceed. A thou t time ' e that le ace arrived at Mr. 'White's houte, the Irsfajor : . cral came to the head of my brigade. Befure arrived at Mr. White's. the road had turned to 1 left ;fa t han on our arrival there we were tf,arch• II ready parallel to the pufition in which we after. e.. ,s ditcovered the enemy, who v ere then on our • ; flink ; the ground was fu extremely intricate. ; • enviiied with otchatels avid high fences, that al. t i :eh the enemy at this time wet e very near us, we e . inly had not (lit - covered theta : th fitli india i t r. we had of their pretence, was a (h e ot fired fro c m e pin, at the diflance of alarm fix hundred yards, I loon as the Staff Officers appeared upon the great ,d upon which the column moved , and which leads A,'the town, by the Coral (the (laughter iog place), F ' ere theencmy% guns were then piaced. General it •scr laid, we nitwit to turn their right and left % -is: I underilond this as en order to attack the , rub which I immediately r heyed. The et.erny's ; t a a very thou time appeared to be that of a con. . '.able body of infantry; hut the light infantry, and le 95 , h advanced fo rapidly that they very fuon gave e „ •bleaving behind them twelve pieces of zannun. a r palled them about three quarters of a mile beyond et ; pifition, nearly to the ce.minencement of the ft. ; and shill' I was lot ming the brigade, which, a t the nature of the gt cued, and the luddennels vl 4 aainn, hid no doubt gat into fume contofion, it f t w dark. While thus employed, I t eceived an or. ye . from General Gower to fall back to the Cola!, fi. .rte hetken was. It certainly appeared to me at t i ., . 11m/wa nt, that it would have been advitable re c n , Tit !be enemy into the town , an& I d efired th, ; Eet slaakiionglit me the order to fall back, to re tie teit the General w. it'd allow me to do fn . ; and l y b. nil the Coon will allow me to fay , tha n from all I lot • e heard lince, lam convinced that if the tithe' ;„. yiknii the army had been as near as I thought .;; •ey aright have been, we might certainly have taker h crown: I mean General Whitelocke'e divifion l b .d &Ad not b lye it attended with much difficulty with General G u wet's alone. In and-seer to ail I/1 ifyge. I received a fee. nl, and peremptory nrde: , fall back to the Corai, Rating, at the fame time re, tear wounded, which did not exceed fix t fizei a , thirty men, were expolCd to be cut off by ti rag i t. &panics. About the time I began to retire , it . nverect that General Lumley's brigade had ar alit dimmediately on my tight ;we left the Geelia ,hi . Company and three companies of the 36th on th a red as advanced polls. Doting the whole of th .1la!y there was tome fining between our piquet nq. the enemy, arid I thick it was about three o'clr,c 7 . the afternoon when General Whitelocke came u !Ilk main divilion. Early in the mo• fling ofth . t I . General Gower fernMein . Riche with a Hag c et ; einto the town, vi:h a verbal fumtuons ;an 0 , hateturn, in confeqttence of General Linier 24 g a &fire that, whatever Maj 'r Genet.; ,i , yer had to communicate might be duct in wt up ; a letter was lent back, containing a' propoli certain terms, which he (hewed me before he lea P• did nut ail: my opinion, nor did I know at ti he I that the terms evert written in consequence I r e iagrnaions horn General Whitelocke—the onl ir ; 'Aim which I took the li)el IT of making wa o i l 'tat Linicrs was acenfed art breaking the treat ea 'frt General Beresfoid, it aepeared advifeable, 54 h ag all y propn t a l to hi m , to treyfrimething whit b ht remi.ve any app rehenii.ons which he might el e , . in with relied to the manner in which, if he le ap , Ptlr hard-, he might be trt wed. When Maj , ti k 'le dunned horn deTveriag this letter, Genet ' cid .er informed rue that Liniers was relived I tkc town. On the evening of the 4111, ahem "'deck, I w ent , in obedience to orders G "). YlWhiteled ie ' s ci•orteto lot receiv.ng, initial, to & iot !ac. tel. he fte:t to die attack of the town, which he ho Ise '' determined to make at tive:ve r.'clock that da et I read the . difptAitiln, Gene: al Wlritclocl ' ts ' rtekr:Je ie, the court yard. arid raid tl.a he le it t i elieThance at a d o pting a nieafty e which llti g , r It:Led uith fo gi eat an effialan of blond, at at' ir e!determireal to lend another lummons to G iver hinters. fie (hewed me the letter, and et e, 1, t . i t. il4 . e d ourof.it.i.m. I told him I thought I it I Dr e not fend it. Th e whole ccinduCt cf tl - Ilh.dueed me no believe that it sy, ?s i t { p ro d te t "l ~ itrff:ft , and might insinet a h;:lie1 of a wa 0 e°i'fidecce on , Jr" rut. 'll iv: as the ex a n fit of the Converfntiun. General \V bi'elvelce e - kis delermitutticrl to fend Captain Vv'hittiri r l ilt' the letter. The elilyntilion was arterwar , ... and explain:d to the C. nne....a.nii•ng Offices s , cdet,and to Lietritnant Colonel Pack, who w aelluaineed with the town. The raider was f att ack to h e the ,„;,. ~ m ade at twelve o'clock that d. i ce Amu, hilt errett'at I am ationt tr• relate tn, I gt o, , , PA fix. Sir Samuel Aisrlimo C‘i Inset a little MS ire day break in the me al at ' . parties. About the time I began to retire, . • ning would be a better time than mid day for advan ring into the town; and after fume confultation with General Whitelocke, determined to defer the attack until Ole morning of the sth. While we were in the room, a Mr. White, who had refided A . ennlicierable time at Buenos Ayres, gave us information, which Was afterwards proved to be extremely coreei refpeding the difpofitiens and defenfive arrangements which the enemy had made in the town fence the evening of the 3d. A part of the order of attack was, that the colomns were to be provided with weds for breaking open hnufes: bUt I really believe it was impoflible to obey this order effedually, for a fuffi cieacy of thefe implements could not be found. • (Z . What information did you receive, during the I.:arch, of the ftrength and dupe ditions of the enemy ? A. I think all the information we received was in a paper, written by an Italian, as I believe, that the enemy had entrenchments on the Chuello. EIGHTH D.ot. Brigadier Generel Crawford continued his narra. tive .•-•••" Some r Idle information I received from the guides turned out to be falfe. Of this defcription was the report that the enemy had conitruded a bat tery fir obfli tiding the paffage of the fwamp which General Beresford had naffed. I had alfo heard, and ftom a cunverfition I had wi,h General Whitelocke, on the alt of July, it appeared that he believed that, the enemy had conflrudeel leveret hatteties for the i defence of the paffes over the Clittello, and in the I neighbourhood of the bridge. Whether the Chico 1 pats was deleuded 1,1 a firnilar manner, we were not able to afcertain until we reached it. With refpedi to what teconnoitring patties were formed to lonk at the Clmelle, I know of none, excepting the ordinary advanced guard and flanking parties of my own bri• Bade on the clay of the id. In at feen- to the epleiliorts' why the pafl'age of the bridge was not attempted ? I can only fay, that m; 'opinion, and that of the other offi:.-ers with whom I converted, certainly was, that ' to pals the river at a point in which all the intelligence agrvel'in Rating that the enemy bad prepared a re (*Mance, would me have been judicteus, wi:en an eat . ) , march it appeared poffiltle to t emuye hire from that poll:ion. In ant\ vet to that qm:(lion, at to the flare of the advanced corpc prr.vi ,us tu, and af.ei the adion, with the probable event of the corps loieg defeated, I ao.fwer to this, I d not know where Ge reral Whitclocke's divifion naffed the night of t!'e ad, but if :het divilion halted in the fittiatiOn de:iv-sh ed to me by Lieutenant Colonel B it keollen it i, clear that no co operation could have taken place that evening. In anfwer to the quefliun, what =alto es were taken for affering_the fuccefs of the army in tl:e attack of the 3d, by bringing up artillery, or recon noitring, &c. I helve to tiate that I heard an order was fent to Colonel Mahon, who was then at Reduc tion, and had with him a confiderable pea of the artillery, to advance towards the bridge on the day the relt of the army was to tack the town. As to reconneitrirg the approaches to the town, I believe every thiog was elf.ne that could be done by the Staff Offi7ers commanding In ieordes. On the 4-h, to the belt of my rec iledirm, each of us was ordered by General Whhelocke to make otirfelves acquainted with the ground over which we were to go next day. As to the information received of the plans of the enemy, for the defence of the town, I do not rtcl left that any intelligence was received from the pr i loners taken on the ed ; nor do I belitive they could have given us eny greed information; for their dilpofi. lions in the town were entirely changed, in conic (pence of the operations of the ad ; but on the Mr. While tr Id me and other offieers in General Whitelocke's room, that he was informed by people who had left the town, that the enemy had Itrongly entrenched and placed heavy cannon in all the flteete leading into the great fquares, and hadconcentred the Lprincipal part of their force it and about this fquare. With refeed to the politirms of the enemy, I ob. let ved, after being taken prih ner, that Mr. White's information was nrecife and coned. I mutt repeat my conviction that the town mull h tve been carried with cafe, if the army was in a foliation to follow up the advantages obtained on the ad ; aol if the Court win allow me, I (hall Rate the grounds of that con vidion. I thought fo at the tin-.e, becaufc, during the greater part of the march of the ad, we had ken what, from its appearance there was every reafon to believe, was the hulk of the enerny'-s force in the field. By cur movement, and wi.at we latterly obferved of them, it WAS evident that we had turned an original pufition, and that they were engaged in an attempt to take up a new one on the weflern tide of the town; and as we defeated a confiderable divifion of their army during this attempt, there was every reafon to believe, what in fad we afterwards found to be true, that they were not prepared for the defence cf the interior of the town on that fide. I heard alfo that we lhould have been in the town before the greater pat tof their army. As to the quellion about the trnrps being well (elated who cowpoke' the advan. cud corps, I can Rate that that c-•mpofing my bri t;atle being (with the merino of a detachment of the 7111), the light infant' y and the rifle corps were the very troops that ought to have been felefied for that purpofe ; but the 36th and SBth regiments, who had not been ou t of their Ihipsfor nine months,although very excellent regiment', certainly did not appear to be fo fit to form a part of the advanced corps, as he 34th, lech, or Seth regiments, who had been long in the country. Had fo (mall an army marched in one column, there would have made hole diffe rence, although filch regiments had formed part of the advanced guard ; but from co imall an a; my no detachment fltould have been made. I here repeat, that my ()pillion as to the plan of attack for the sth was never atked, and never given. I never could have approved of it, after the adion of the ad, or from what Tfaw then. Did you know of any local impediments to have prevented the army from arriving wilhin a thort dillance of the Clmello n the fetond day after it quit ted the heights of I3arregon ? A. if the army had not quitted the heights before the artillery had naffed the moral's ; and it the troops had been in the habit of marching. I :Link that the at toy might, without difficulty, have rcechn,d the pofition is Iron( of Re . drogion in two marches ; but cenfidering all the nit curntlances that exifted at the tune, I do not atirta the army could have been affembled in front of Re du Sion before the evening of the i It. Indeed. I have no reafon to believe that Colonel Mahon and the ar tillery mild have arrived fooner than the ad, when they adualiy did. . • I. • • .• .Q Sratc ivliat you remember of the cOny t eP'' with General Wllitelocke On the,. i t of JO-;• : A. While the troops were haltjst".", :he Gify..ssi took me. alitie, and the fuollance of aliat he laid to me was, that he had thothrsuf detaching a 'part cif thcarmy to make k onlidtrable detour towatis the hig l her parts of the Chuello, in order to turn the polition the enemy 4.n the Chnello, whilit the reit of the army fhould advance again-ft...01;4 ; and that General Gower agreed with him that this was adviialt.le. I toes' ion this as a proof that the Gene rat.had ihformatiun of the enem} 7 l. intrenchments.— Genet al Whicelocke asked .my opinion ; and 1 told him, that.er...tilidelipg the fmalltlef, of our army, it did not appear to me advifable to make any Inch fe paration, or to divide it into corps tiding at Inch a dittance. I think he ended the constellation, by fay• 51g Fire!!, I think you're right." Was it known at that time that there were more palfes than one abov, - ; the bri•tge over the Chu ello ? A. The intormatiun which I had received at that time was very vague. I had heard that the comic of the river WAS in fhort that we might head it altogether. I now allude to the tn. Ori the zd, the tattler partof this was contradieted by a man whom I founi in a bottle where I pallid the night of the ill July, and chum I tuck wills Inc rot the 2J. Q z. Did the letter feta by- Ge,teral Whitelrcke to General Gower on the mor.;ing ()fate zd conrain an ardor to march, or roily an authority for I) doing. it he few it advifable ? A. I helkve the letter Weis In w a rded as t o leave it in M , jir Genet al Go.wer to aet accuiditig to his own xli'ere"tion ; at the fame time I do n. r rccollt-C.l the pt cute terms of the letter. Of • thi., h wevet, 1 cat' 'Peak pntitively, that the c,.n duCt of Geoettl G >over op in t is rt.:cation was not that -1 who Lai received a peremptory order. . . (:)._ Is the Coort to underllanet, that although you don t remember r e words of the letter, you remern bc:r:the ,rt the' lubttance, and that you have Ia•r: I . it in evidence ? A. lam not fore whether the le•ter curtained any authority to fummon the town. I gave ;card 'ince that it did. law it only once, av,i a:.? moment when my mimi was whol l 4 0..:c• • . with the operatiuns viol; on : ;bete might leave s t partit of the !vim- I did rwt remember. I thi:ll. i. can fwear that Major General Gawer was by tlu.rt letter aithorifed to make a tOdgment in The fob to", t.f Butn..s Ayres. T (Jere the Juor:r. 'ADVOCATE intimated that hi:‘ es minati ro of General Crawford war. cancluded. Gerieral Whitelocke fail, he .declioed putting any qotations to the vtitnefs in this flage of tide trial.] QL•tilions by the Court. QDu you Ictrrw if there were any mules provided t- convey camp kettles ; or was there a pi , flibi9ty of providing means for their conveyance ? A. 'When landedwee ' at atrragnn, I law a cenfiderable number of •horfes , whether the number was fufficient fr r conveying the camp kettles ; or v hether, if fried with pack Caddies, thee w• old have carried them, I had no opportunity of afeettaini-g, as my brigade moved immedia'ely to the heights. S ,roe of the !tortes certaiuly could have carried them. I got one or two myfclf, which were quiet. Upon the whole, I think that if it had been made an (kit& a portion of the camp kettles might have been conveyed. I here repeat that General. WII .-171 Cd to f/Cti flee every thing to the wifh of getting the men under cover at Buena s Ayres before the heavy rains let 1:1. In my opinion, conlidering how touch time they bad at Monte Video before my arrival, to make prepara tions for the attack of Buenos. Ayres; a greater num ber of horks might have been conveyed acrofs the river Plata with the army. Q .:. How were the vidoAs for the troops dreffed ? A. IVe had three days' fait provili ns ready &Wed when we landed. What we got afterwards was roan ed in the fire. Ido not think my own brigade for feted for want of meat; but they fuffet et/ much from want a bread and fpirits. • IQ Do you know what part of the army Gene rat Whitelocke had allotted for his ft:ilium during the attack on the sth of July ? A. I had fonte conver fation with General Gower on this fobj.-0 late in the evening of the 4th. From this I under flood it to be fettled that he fhould recommend it to General Whitelocke to take his flation at the commencement of the attack, a little in the front of the ground on which the right of my brigade then Llood. sc i L Had General Whitelocke appointed any pl ice of retidezvons la the troops in cafe the attack did not fucceed ? A. I never heard of any. Was it communicated to you and the General Officers, where Generals Whitelacke and Gower might be found in cafe of need ? A. At the fame time that General Gower informed me that he thould recommend it to tire Commander in Chief to • take the Ration already defer ibed, he alto, in anfwer to a quellion I put to hint refpeding his own lunation, laid, that General Whhelocke had ordered him to be with hirufelf ; but I do not recoiled his having men tioned this as having been the fituation where he Ihould remain all day. I do n ot recoiled that this was publicly made known to the other General Officers. _ _ Qla the eliflriblition of the attack on the h , was any part allotted to the Commander of the Forces, or the fecmad in command ? A. In the written difpoti:inn and otder of attack, nothing was mentioned of this kind ; and it was in conlegnence of this I milted General Gower thefe quetlions.. General Gower laid, he advifed Ger.eral V l / 4 'h,telocke to he at Mr. White's honk. I laid I thought that would not be a becoming fituation. . _ Q . ..... Were any older: Hilted where General White. locke was to be found at any part of that day ? A. I do not recolleB any. . Q .., What proportion in point of numbers of the Spaniat army was engaged with you on the 2d, w:►cn they 101 l their eannoh ? A. 1 law fo I.ttle of the Span;fh atmy in a bAy alter we paired the Chico Pafs, that I cannot (peak cirre6tly. I think there were 2ouo men engaged, but it. was not pi flible to fee dittinetly enough on account of the thickhefs of the Int rounding hedges. Q If Maj it General G iwer had attacked and defeated the enemy at the Chico pals, where it was reported they were entrenched, would not this have opened the raffage of the bridgeover the Chnello fur t h e m a in holy ? A. I have already Elated, that after croffmg at the Pall,. Chico, I oblerved what appe: I. d to me a very conftdetable . part of the enta y's di my moving from their former pofiti-n in the vicinity of the badge, with an intention i f taking a new one ..:,?- •• • ~.; • i v 11;00 .p the r ive afterward. m"de, could take R illy propricty. .. I • .i• , (Z ... Major cnetai bower l!ipref. ap; .. dilpienpre s or unealinefs at the. he teceive .1 • from Gene ral ,Whitelocke, . n tht tool !Ail"; (4 111 ed ? A. (bite the c• orrary. • • , ' [Hoe the exam;til(iiii3 rf Gct.rtlCir.trtnrci &late,' by the judge "14,' to I.r LA, conclukW.3 ~l w y. • . Brigadier General CFAWiturrii waa again called) , as sti undersdond by, his ovi 7 ri teq-eil, to gra,. tome explanations.—He laid, the Ittif•r2 is 'y Getuo.•! Whitelocke Was. In anxious to }set the men strider Colter, WAS, that there were no tents fit tl•e move along with the baggage. On the 3d of jot) he Jaw fume lalTar-men (or the cattlecateeer s of the - omo rv). cutting up fume buliocks tor the. IT - rips. F' to the in of July the weather Was generally. rainy until the 9th, when he left South America. igadier Gorer al LINO. v ftvorts. " I was tire fenior (Miter ofolie to:valet, implOyed in the service signing Buenos Ay:ea. From Major General Gewer I received almolt all my orders, and none at ail from General Whitelocke, except what came from the Adjutant General's Office I hop e . therefote, the Court will not he fut prized at my Inca tioniog the name ct' General Gower Mach more fre quently than that of General Whi elocke ; and I hope they will not think I am capable ofuflog either of there name< improperly. On the arrival of Gene ral Whitelocke and Maj r General Gower at Monte Video, or, the loth of May, I went to pay my refpeets to • both. On the tBth an order was ailed with refpeet to Major General Gower being appointed to the executive duties and the loeallties or the flotation. Oa the morning oldie t3th of May General G , Aver tailed me afide in the ((pare of the Government Houfe, and afked for infot mati • n refpeeling the cottony and the polls I had vitite.: l , with the num ber of troops they Lir onld meet. I gave him the in formation he walled to the extent of aboot 7o miies, being the whole of my knowledge. In conferoteuce cf flume cnnverfation, Major General Gower, tin the tg:h, defired me to go up the canntry to procure h :rfes. I hated to him that it 'would be the readier way to purchafe them this way than to call upon the Magifirates by war of 1 told him that four dellars was the tifual price given by the Spa niards, but that I had nn doubt of getting exceeding good bottles for fix dollars a piece, and that they were very clever horfes, on which a corps of cavalry might Ise mounted as well as in this country ; but •he total want rf thy fend on *heir firft arrival at Monte Vide , , rendeied them tilelels in a• very few days. They, therelcre, were necelfaTily wetted not a few hours every day, and gliarded in a fine rich pollure. At this period ii:e Indian corn the country had jolt lieen cut down. Genet:ll Gower then laid he would colleel all the corn poftible, and that Ilhould exert myfelf in the mean time in pro cm ing horfes. I remained in Monte Video ail] the morning of the zoth. About the 18th Gereral Gower found fault with me t.r not going former ; but I had arrangiments to make both in Monte- Vi deo and up the country which detained me. On the 28th of May I pros edcd to -a !mall village, called Candor. Doting the few days I was sip the country I correfonnded withLiru enant Colonel Torrens, the military fccidary. Upon my arrival at Condos, I found the rivers had been completely overflown earlier in the year than ulna], and the light troops of the count, y had been very alive in deterring peo ple with whom I had made arrangements, from bringing down honks to me I catild not praceed acrofs there rivers therefore without difficulty, and with :nt getting my fm - all detachment reinforced.— 'nee rivers weie Great and Little St. Lucie, and the river St. Jtifeph. I wrote for a reinforcement, which was lent me, and arrived on the 24th, hut at the fame time with a caution not to run any silk. I therefore dtcPeel not to pals the rivers over which ;le horfes mull have twain, or he conveyed in boats, which could only cat ry two at a time. I contented toys - If. therefore, with what bora:- I could procure near Cnnelos. Having collefled about too, betides few will which • 1 tc pl Iced thole that were tired nut, I wrote for permiffinn to return to Monte Vi deo, as I thought I Could he of nn more ufe ; and - I returned to Monte Video on the 29th or 3oth of May, leaving direP.it - ins %l ids Lieutenant Colonel Lloyd to procure as many more horfes in that.neigh. bon:hood as he could with f afety. I was authorifed to give any price as far as a doubloon for the horfes I fhanld procure. Upon my return in Monte Video, I paid my refpeels to Generals Whitelncke and Gower. The lattee found fault with my having li mited the price ta' fix dollars, which he laid ha-d IntL a great many horfes. I rinfwered, that in proportion as we railed our prices, the people of the country rafted theirs. I then prnoofed the plan of calling arpon the Cabildos, r y Magitirates of Monte Video, to fend out to coiled horfes, in the way they -had been always accutlomed to do for the King of Spain. On the to of June the order was ill - tied accordingly, and on the 4.sh or sth they brought in about goo, of which certain numbers were cholen to completealie artillery in the firfl infianee to the number they were ordered to embark, and then the cavalry were completed to 160, as ordered. Several more, confilling of about 200, hill remained, the wort} of which were turned out to grafs under the care of the King of Spain's Land Steward, and the refl were ' turned over to the 20th dragoons, as there was not any more room in the tranfports. During this pe riod the mounted dragoons had come &silo the country from the out polls, under Lieutenant Colonel Lloyd, and had embarked on the aS and 3,1 of the month, as part f - the mounted fanadron before-men tioned With fuels hot fes as were fit for fcrvjce. With lefpeet to the food fir the bodes, - General Gower informed me, that tFe Commitrariat would take care • t that ; I was to give direelions by an order of the 18th of May with refpeel to the feeding of the cattle ; having previoufly flated.the quantity of Indian corn thought neceffary. On the 3d of June a geoeral • order bad been Hilted relpeeting the lelTening of eke baggage of the army ; and I think immediately after o f dragoons,Gowery baggage he n e t e d f d o f u t o n h u e d n f etesaf a d gr eat fault ah h ue is, l9t i 4 e h q7 , tuha G ni e t i t e yti r t a l t their quarters, which he issfitted upon being removed. I pointed nut to him a gt eat number of iupernumerary cavalry appointments, which in any own opinion, at • . . 4 ,02 ;: . 0 4 1r,t .: 414 •) Ift ., 11111‘" ' Zfq 40, ' apt ! eitied tope a only one •ve I I •