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diesteargeat et the pose ; and whilst I was tOttting tie ode, whicii, from Neater , of the ground sod the sad- Orr of , tbe action, tierdgmt, no dentin, into some disorder, I !me disk. Whilst th is employed, 1 reeeited Ir y so of. r,l think Captam Slain, of the Engineers, an order from aradVairsr to fall back to the slaughtering place, the Tall; where be thee was. It certainly, at that moment, mired ine, that it would Met been adetsable to :ullow euensy the town, and I desirrd the officer who mght me the order to fall bask to request that the General spa allow me to d so; and 1 trust the Court will allow is any, that from nil 1 ham heard since, 1 am convinced, tt if the main division of the army ander General White. te, bad been sr near is I thought they might hays beta, ceidently should have takes: the town with cam. 1 have. ry strung doubts whether we might trot have taken it with eneralGowee% corps ; 1 think we should. Ido not Mum a& in gewgaw' the propriety of General Gower's to nut to dam ander the eircamstanmes. In slaver tle this mar, 1 rearmed a second and peremptory order to fall s.k to the Curran ; the Graieral stating, at the same time, at oar mounded, which did nut exceed six officers, awl rout for or fire and thirty men, were exposed to be cut oil I straggfavg parties of the enemy, who were still hovering out tttr grunitil. Just before the time, l think it was that twgoo to retio' I &wavered that Gettetat Lumlsy's brigade • arrived itaa;erhatety on ey tixlit. 1 think it was, but 1 o sot speak wry pridevely as to the hour, aliout three 'clock isa the adaaratow, General %Vbitelteke came up with Mit part of the army he had conducted in priwais."— ir damsel Aclustaty, 1 think-wither Sue Samuel Achainty Conroe: Pak, hat 1 thi.dt Sir 9mnuel Aehtouty—aug. **tett that a little het arc day-Meek iu the morning woad as hetmr dour; than noon fur advancing into. this town ; nib attar some coruuttation, the Coiatuandedn•Chief Mier. Mll'4 to dear the attack until the morning. of the sth.". • WAIT* DAY..-en &that) AT, Fall. 6. Ilrieedber-Cielieral Crautuid called is again. TO Afloat si my r; collection, we, the lkigadiers, were di. tiled ist Genes& Wheelock.% moio, at the time the plan of knack whoop...unheated to the °Mews. to reconnoitre the rO•laboni to !Welt each of of wall tan adverse.. My opinion stth istpett is the attaolt • of the deb was never s.kel, and it certainly was wetter Oven General Cower, in a &invention. , , eald me that he Mama recommend to Gao. Whitelocke to be at Mr Whiso%rhouss I answered, that I thought that wait out a boollimius satiation ; icon then ho mid he would recommend it to him to he at the right* my Ileigadri. Idoa. t ri collect Cap gostratt ont. is given in pulahr, at any time, where General While/mike wall to be found on the nth, the day of attack The reot of General Craufurd% evidence, this day, was merely 11l estismatisn. ••••••• KIND' DAY.--rsom DAV, Fag. S. prissdier General Craillarderall called in imam, and finished tit esplauatten. Ilrinothei-Gienteal Lunn.) , was then called, and (lapped a. !knows owe" 11. n was a geoaral order usuee en the SA of June, at to Ismeffing the.bsagags of the army, as a reason for winch ass. Whitsencks said it wail toot erosible to have such a qua.. sky (~Mute{ the army." lie theisal s etailed the as al ready gam. to the 2Ste. " We were then," laid he,....relered m march us the next wonting. the 29th. We pow:plied through wet temp: 'mann, Wail we arrived at an extremely deep amain, w hien wa* up to about the twos% middles. This deep morass wed about two miles in extent. After that we paaed two or tisreewiatren.ely deep drains; sad alter nisrehing LAW eight or nine miles, we arrived at die heights, where MM it-G. metal Gower had been posted the mint m. tine. The genii tie•h regiments were then ord.:ted to proceed with the Maj sr-General, who oat waiting on the heights fin them Ayer some couverm t i #### between the Liautcisant General and Mm r-G neral, 1 inn ordered to peeved with that part of my brigade, and rut myself under the eedeis of 114.je () ewer. I was eon •tanit.y with klakinGeneral Gower trim this time wide try- 3.1, when the I.motiroash.G neial came tip with ha at the Pace dw 161Inereve (lathe 31, about the middleot the d .y, the hoop. sari MapvGleinwal Gower had Hoe ordered to fall back, with the hope of inducing the Spaniards to come nut. We were in Mat grate show the Limit -Gonmal arrived wadi 4 he lenderie nodes Si' :mom. Arhus... N • bad been dweetrA to apply bwcas 1 a haunt...is by the name of Mr. Winte'irMuum„ some lithe distance to the .ear, which was afterwards Collwdetell as haadiatarters, and we procuied shout the minima d • I. ,cult a man, end a eartain pikturo vi wine to *eels maw. which we had Mood in sonic of the lieu-es of the doitonmeutswir then 0 copied On rho morning of the eth, toe troops ware uoder arms about break or day, and •th.tv the same p.rnel Captain Mwswell, aid de-camp to Maj•n-General Gower come te me with ord.is in repair t.. head-quarter., to Mr. White% house, as soots es I could; the c innuaniting at cor.a woe slew ordered to attend. In eoliwialliente }.Ate Mail at liesd.gioarterr, and General Whitelocts proceed: ed to explain his nitrationo with respect to an asault upon the town tbad day at twelve o'clock . stating the bad weather, the prombility of u. beta. worse, anti the &canny of priividoos, argoineho against deity; interring lee the genera. detail to ke•sui-Genetral G00..r, who had a plan of the town before him; and pointed out ri it the jaunt:curing, atal ing how the troops were to act to adeelleing. We were to penetrate to (heaved. it poatible; and we mete to place °unities as lar In advent" as we could, taking we to enarap, the houses on oar Lett so preference to thou no our right, for fear of our being induced to tucline to our right, by which we should he exposed to the fire ut our eon gain. It was then found to, late to make rte stuck on that day: Sir Santo., Achrouty and myrrh were both 01 that upinawl: and the Gest manning, the 30, at daybreak, was heed for the time. Same evening I went to make my report to Major-General Gower, who wet at a house with ollisf•Gess. l emerald, a little elear.r than Mr. White's twouls, cam vu the edge of the Mtairierc TIENTS 10111/Fss g. itrigsdier-Gotersi Luri.sr war WIN, as open, and c'esed Ids OPpOiontion. EDON LLOYD railed ii aped sawn. "1 coremmoded We nth Light Drage/ow at Monte Video. ' A pest amober of thqrbeetr, cloaks, saddles, cubist's, sod othe r Wrap, were lidltiod at MooteVideo, is comisqualice ci out berg tel/ow•d to take them, by order of Strigodien , Geuersl larnalegr; sad they were left in the street whet we came away. 'they ought have beta left is store at Moats Video. CoWal Mahun's brigade arrived at Reductive as time tat July " DAY—fr•. to. "A few days Mier Gingered Whitelocke's arrival at Monte Video, 1 a ..a requited try him to oecoinpooy General riamaa, mid esamdie all the ships is the harbour, sad to sActet those that appeared fit for the navigation of the rn,r, with the exception, I was met, to the best of my re eat unia, ceinialted or employed in any arraagemeats our vuif.pments far the taking the field. In end matters, and ansaigenienta respecting the oat-ports of the army, I was fivoneatly, sod at ftrat generally, consulted I was pd../ to niauy coldvisatior at bead-quartet, r to the prartkshility of curryiog ow operators at that advanced season of the .ear, as well as the Tart advisable 'plate for the army to laud. A lauding above the town it was evident would he a ttended w tilt the frier difficulties, hut et was dreildful if the amino, *mail ;mind Gov approach.' Marin described the march aid the ,:iniculties her want of proviroo, and the swampy nature of the mousey, from the landing at F.s rattada the paring of the Chiroln on the 341 'sly, be thus proceeded Between two awl three o'clock an that day, we cun.uniairatrd• w ith Georral Gower my hvigode was ordered to take up • positiir, with at, right joining 4 kikeral Locoley's lett, and ritenchog towards the Recolita : ors approaching it, I found that General Lumley*. brigade hid retired, sad the eureifs Nth* hour were adranced to ir. I formed my hrigadela the rear of the portion, arid rzcooriitresl it; sad Ohre the troop on my right were prepared to regaloAlictir pertion, I advanced and occupied it some ttl ties carasy's sleet reached the line, both hewn and as we Item odirmiciag : as mom as the bripide was G isu ag,•it ass dash, sad the 'stair% is tureamtv ; hot the men were shelierail in houses, nod retried on atuivu,ce of binrait sad swam titter. ..Thar was much Ariel dariiiy, the riyist at the out-poets, which I eodevrowieJ to ri.veut• as, from the reports rude to or, 1 had re 211101: to haievr, twat Yr, WWI,. attar curia'. approached iso—i Rpralcorin, San brigade. Early on the cf.tt i.wieuieg, the atb, l fooLd dor chesty had gut rotrio uty Lett dank, sad were in inundiandde suntan nin my rear. 1 removed the kA wing of ese-meth Xi:lowest, the Reemosta on ,o r left, to the rear: after tree time tl.c rimy rei:red: it was now near teurahthak,airl • dragoon iofurrued ore, the General was — ivaii.eg 1.4 f w rat liatkearters. OS My terleal .- thief, the fle eced informed e.e, that the principal officem of the army bad been waiting for me about two hours : oa Mies tigetresn. it proved, that General Gower's *id-de-CR . .l'p had hens scat to sae at day-light, hut had - never reached foe - , he had been takes prisoner on the way. I bond the Culeseels and Field-Officers in posetesion of the plan of attack, which was to be earned into sinecution at twelve o'clock , : it was explained to me by Column Bonder, who bad the phis of the town b afore him. 1 °banned to thee:venni, that the regiments of my brigade weretutally traacquaiittcd with the intended at tack, and I apprelebsired there would not be time to tow wietticate it to them, and snake the neceseary arrangements fee carrying it into executitt. I alro eleserred, having pee r notoly conversed with snow of the ',irineipal officers, that mididay was, in my opinion, as improper time to march through the streets of a popular city ; and I twinned we should penetrate farther, untwist animus lees ' if the attack was delaved.till day-light sleet morning. The Geared mem nutted this proposition to General Rower, the room being pevrioasly cleared of all the Minors, except the Generals and Colocel Pack; and Gemmel Gower acquiesced in the pro priety of its being deferred till day-liOst the nextmoruing. An officer was copying foe use the general orders for the • attack; buy General Gower observed, that there wsa an alteration in them, and be would *end me a correct copy in an hour. 1 eventual it in the coat se of the artermou. I lett head-gamins with the Deputy-Qsarter-Master-General, who was to point out to me the beads of the streets the cm lenin of my Iwigader were to °soapy the next morning ; but intelligence being received that the enemy were going out of the town iu force, I rirtuniesi to my bregatle, and soot after wards had orders to retire to the rear, in hopes ef enticing the sneaky to advance ; we reasabicd under arms the princi pal part of the day, and when the brigades remeenpied their ground, the Deputy-Quarter-Master-Gravel pointed out to ate the different streets through which the 'columns were to penetrate. I then explained to the field-officers the route of their culumne, and gave abortions for their being properly eta time the next moraing; awl I desired them to read a touts that had bens ordeted : by this time it was s•-* and frequently during the Mein it was reported to sue, attempts bad been mole to "Waits the tools without allibtess: I übbnotd, however, a few from the houses I was M posasesiou of. In ley connouniestions with the General, immediately upon his arrival, I acquainted him that the in lidntaris were so mimes; to us, I could gam little isforma boo from Jimmies Ayres, and tint little was not to he depend ed on , that t,euerat Bermford had better means of informa tion than it ass its my power to tibial°, and be had issformed me, that the number of reviler troops the em my possessed were few and their Geri:oral by no mans a man of aisilitics that the y bsd a large body of mei, in arm{, nd • v ry pawerfol tram of artillery. I was enacquainted with their intentions or plans fur the defence of the town, nor em I acquainted with soy particular infunnation tbu Gospel afterwards obtained. The ,troops marched on the allthwith there days province', though I apprehend must of the inecuit mast have been de stroyed in wading through the water on the malt and *lb. — On the Guth in the morning, there was some biscuit keened, though not I believe a day's consumption ; and agate on the 2d, iu the afternoon, we had same biscuit issued. From the evening of the 80th, teethe 25; there was no bow of peon sloes from the contasimariate. My hriehde lootiver 'New either the igsh or aoth, 1 do not precisely recollect which, and at uo other time: I cannot speak so particularly about the spirits leased to the men, as it was not of so much COlnte titmice se malty other things. Previsions might entainly have bees obtained from Quitter, lent out without IlliSCUl/i . , 188 they meat have been Clifilell over a 10011111.. When Gene ral Whitelawke ordered the drum to beat to arms 4111 the 2d, I told him that the mope were without' provisions, and his reply was, "Do yen DM one it is riles le taut ?" The first order I. *eta sae bees the , It, * the direction to wards the advesseeemps.biliolheelee eleeeti we were told that the route was ellmegmi, and Me temeitod Erni ear left about to o'clock. I lequiraltheeweeeolf tbe Deputy _Quar ter Master Gooiest, sod was We l ir him OM, the g** had proposed to lead the General a heeler owl to delefweptte, to a ford rather above the Clairolkee. • .4. ' - • t - - ' "I know sot low Elf it woe* have Use bileteelille *bete ietaehell a coups to the &maim t werieker n a w e olith's**. ties eseit-set hoes howt.itteileppiv sift* er di* hoe was noosed man to the 4•11 - .. The etelia Id 101.11 the Commander is Chief wee to I. &mod tierieg the setadt up** the 314, notified Madan, we etlenwise, to the delevels and other often - oldie May, was net notified to me. The into of retreat, if retreat harass searreary, is the Geelerds and other °Miters of the way, were set settled to sec—Feel eosl4 may he powered at the feria-benses, and the marches and halts appeared to me to he regulated by their venation. —I do not think the troops could have marched to Reduc tion sooner than they did without dietresaing the men; per haps they might have come sooner to their ground on each days march, if the army had suit been freqnearly halted. —rhe General frequently expressed apprehension as to the rain setting in; and I have on doubt he expressed also his ' anxiety to get the tern under cover in the vicinity of the tow., though 1 cannot recollect that. There et no doubt that cattle might have twee had iu abundance with proper precautions. As soon as we bad taken Hnenos ;terve, we could have immediately remccapied Collins. Colosite from its sitaatioa and Defence, did not require a large bod y to be left them at that time. If the advanced corps hod - marched on the apth, . they might have arrived at Iteductkei early enough to have reconnoitred the river es the let; mid the army might have bees iii readiness to march from thence (Reduction) on the id, but not with the principal part of their artillery. Much ineonventroce was undoubtedly ex perienced daring the march, from the nature ef the country we -inarehed through ; and other inaniveniencies were CM/CrieSeed from the want of regular provide's." TWELFTH DAV—Few. 11. Se SAIIUZL ACIIIIDTV rotted ix ogees. " Men I game ray opinion that it was advisalik to halt, on the ed of July, I was fully persuaded iu sty own mind that we could sot vapport the untamed corr. I recollect the Ciesend saying that lie thought it advisable t. halt Colonel Mahon at Reduction, till we fumed out where we were see mien." Thew ituess withdrew. CO,'C'S AtAMITI3 FRASER rolled is mod mews. "I had the humour to command the Artillery employed lo the expedition 'pelmet Buenos Ayres. The deberhatiow off the army, awl of the first piemsof artillery was, 1 under eland, after day-tweak. on the morning of the loth of June, 11107. Thom even two thivespounders, and were assisted by seamen, of whom two huseind were fornisheil fur the general service of the artillery ; four hundred seamen had hero ex pected; but, by en arranguient with Admiral Illustay, *day or two previous to the debarkatioss, two hundred wive fur uuhrd : clone two field-pieces were tarried through the I swamp, and advanced to the tetemeis oa the heights over that swamp in the course erf the troth four six-ponoders, forming the remainder of the kadiug brieatie of artillery, were ranied thiough the swamp in the course of the follow ing day: the remainder of the sixteen field-pieces were not carried through till the 30th: I bed inyailf rut tower the ream, on the ...Tann of the sgeh of June the two six powders, with %Inch I was, were amiated by nearly three handled of the 35th infantry; without whose exertions we should have been unable to get the field.pieci a through . Fire Spanish lino-pounders were, by my orders, destroyed in the insect,. My reasons were them r—tlin redettiag, after haring crawl the swamp on the 09th of June, which scamp was one mile end three-qaarters in breadth, sad was in many plarep so deep, that the men could with ex treme difficulty stead, and in which ti,, assistmice of bones was nearly uselem ; coiseitiering also, that limey bones bad been lest, awl fearing that many mere would be lost in brine debarked ; end further reflecting, that it ass essen tially tegaisite that the men awl horses that should get aero.s, should be miniheuelied with fitiene, I judged it to be decidedly for the benefit of themeewire to sarritiec sums of tlia bast edicieet pieces, to apply their .streneth in men and hawses to the licence of the remainder. 'the whole of flee reinaisnier of the artillery were carried through the swamp, and on oche artillery carriage whatever was lust. The total member of gum and aaninunitionmarriages of all descriptions landed at remands were thietoso ; of those Ib~rty•tee, 111...P•A were &beteg.eel, and twelve were attached to the leading brigade, there rd males therefore thirt.mi. I saw Geneva Whitelorke immediately after the deborlintio• at Faiseada ; Lis erten had base befiwe that time hewed farAis immediate ne.raore of two field-pieces with the ad mimed carp ; I saw General Whitelorke, after it was lake , de*, ue the eveisiug of the mils ,tia die either, of Bannon. • lima a very earnest enerr..neativi them wide Des. Mite lucks, about the artiliery being carried through the swamp ; .and I unsaved General Whiteioeke that I *could be responsi ble, that on the fulluaiog day the fielelipiroce Alined go .across the' swamp, unless it was totally impemahle. I bad sofa/titer conversation, nor did I ace General Vilikteleiebe again, till it um nearly dark on the following evening, when 1 bad crossed the swamp with the rest of the six field-pieces General Whitriceike was thee at the tint Ustantia user the swamp ; be ordered me to proceed to an advanced UstantM, probably a utile awl a ball on ; and 1 there joined the troops wader, die command at that time of CM:mei Mahon. Os the following rootuiwg, the morning of the aJ, I saw General Whiteluele at this advaured Ustentia, and ordered lan to more forward with the tour field-Mecca, which were then farther in advance to where the advaueed corps of the army were ; ordering further, that I should take, for the protec tion of the artillery, a company of the 9.lth. I NO GeOefla itleitelucke tin the morning of the bat of Jule, and renewed his permission to accompany the advanced corps under Gm. Gower to the pas .age of the Chicado ; after the separation lot the mail hodj front the advanced corps us the tit of July, I had no cons emotion, nor did I see General Whitelocke till the afternmen of the ad of July at the Coralles de Al iserere. I bed at that time no precise orders from his Excellency . : but I was ordered uu the taunting of the nth of July to accrusee aide two field-piers tutu the city of Hueneme Ayres; to ad vance cautiously, sod feel my way not to advance -too far ; and to bring word myself to his Excellency how afrain stood at the out-punts. I bad no other orders from Gen. White lecke during the comse of that day ; all the arrangements of what bad takeu plsee at the uut-posts, the nuvance and drawing in at limes of different out-puoto,itatiog been at dif ferent louses reported to him, but au eiders. The arrange ments made in repeal to the artillery under my iinenediate direction, preparatory to the attack of the 6th of July, were these , —Thoter pieces obutlllrry which had been taken from the enemy on the evening of the gd of July, were, early on the moruing of the 3d, BO placed in pusitien as to command the open space ice front of the Curdles de lllscrere ; end to command especially tbr roads leading from the fort, and the grand square of BOCIIOb Ayres: with respect to the betel- Meter, sometimes two, and at WIWI' time/ four, of them were at. the out-posts there were farther at the Candles de Misereve a disposable foree of shay artillery-men. In the general order few the attack of Brews Ayres, on the nth of July, the particular number of field-pieces and the. station of each, were prescribed: it berserk:, the;efore, only dry duty to see that those ceders were carried into execution. Afterthe artillery gut over the swamp, the leading brigade was so far front resistirsn% any assistance from the army, that (In were fully adecruate to overcame auyobetueles from their own resource's it has aleu bees reported to me, by Captain Hawker, eornmandiug the artillery with the rear dii eion of the army, that that coining' was never delayed or impeded by the artillery ; so fir from it, that the sick and wounded men of that column were oearioually brought forward by the sr ' tillery. I must further observe, that, at. the passage of ' Chita)°, where sums delay in transporting the gmis and ant ' naneitrun was to a degree urraverdable, two field pieces alone ' (gnawed the euluinu, at the head of whirl, they had till that time intariai'ly beeii ; the reinatniug two also hallowed the column, molar tine protection of two companies of infantry, nailer the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Durrock, of the 36th relent; those two companies,' with two field-peon, from the darkness of the night and the liminess of the rued, lost tt.eir way, and passed the night is tift saber's% if Itneuess Ayrei, not with the advanced curps.• Every !:ince, and every "'minima, in the most extended neelininre.l the words, were shown in briagiug forward the artillery. The uillicultie a to he eucounteted in passing the swami, with the artillery, were exceediogly national: it is hardly pmisibie to tUlteelVe a a swamp which would oppose an obstacle more digerati to overcome to the passage of a eurriate ape* olteeli.. •I certainty undenetood, butts from the climate*. of General 'llaresford, and from general information that there was a wasp, Which eon parallel to the right 'boa of tht Plute, Mt Mad ate idea of its bring to the extent 'which we atter seggs Aiwa/ ft. Very considerable preparations, Mann, lad been made, and sit! Gametal Whitelorke's dirretiouts, I.ll,4mille•tba artillery to get arras this swamp those pre prwatioas, *lnch remitted of +toadies and portuhte bridges, wed layover, found of very Utile utilety.' —The Tibiae .• - . 7ls Itoeeerate Caned Nano 4 mud tiraramter----; .4 I was employed as Colonel on the Stiff oft brlgatL ; bad sot a regiment nodes my enaltslawd. a .the paned • the swamps, and also teed; up 072 0 , 4114 Rh. which I understood the light brigade had Maimed as the eight of the seth the beadAuarteni of the Commaader in Chief were on the left of the line on the 29t1t 1. with Sir Sainted Achieuty's command. OR the morning of the st9tb, Sir Samuel's column lamed, said Wlll accompanied by the Cuissaaader in Chief, ohs mentioned bis istentiou of taking forward mane of the troops of my brigade, and leav ing lire in the command of the elismostated, and a few ' mounted, of the 17th Light Dragoons, and about fuer com panies of the sloth Iteinsemat, for the purpose of waiting for Marx Campbell, who was ice command of the marinas* protattiog the gum lanes tbe-morase." • THIRTEENTH DAY-Fri. 12. The _fformsersbieColiesti THOMAg MAROS culla in *Op. On the evening of the ed ofJely, I did receive ordsraryfa officer of the i7th Light Dearness, wit► a sweated port, ; which bad been went bask from the Cowintantier.in-t %le 's coition, previous to my arrival at Reduction, within a mile of it: and these we the urdera-(Prodwciog them.) The order was read, dated July it, te:o7. Quarter-pmt Three o'clock, p. m. Ste—Noteithstaading the orders communicated to yes in my sole of this morning. I am directed by the cos , oanwier of the form to desire, t►at you will ream, at Re duction, until farther orders are forwarded to you: the Lituteuaut-General likewise desires, that you will rerun provisions foe your owe, and obtain bread and spirits frets the skipping. I hare the honour to he, kc. HENRY TORRENS, Military Secretary. P. S. You will likewise make as great a depot of poi:wisdom' from the Nest, as you possibly can. "There is armee of prior date to that which I received us my arrival at Reduction, which I have numbered I , mid which is referred to in the note I have jest gir en was read.) Reduction, July it, thoy, Hsli-past Tea, e. m. Ssit—Upen the seppesitien, Ilet you wltt certoi sly PIO& this place te-ilay, the Lieeteemet-Geueral diens 8 sue to me gamut you, that he is just about to mow: s'uw 'MULL' is s ' direct Suutla-West point, is order Salome the met 1. hieulu,hy reaching that part of it which is fordidAe, or rather the eatunteuermeat of its source : be therasire desires you will follow Imo early tu-inuerew ate g, bri,s inl with you every thiug from this. Major tlwynis, of the 45tk, •ill pans, eat the direction which the column has talceu : the Gearral has written to Admiral !Cathy, to 1:11A1 thcce day , * bread sail fur yuer people ; which, he truss, nail he was shore tlieeing, irons lice brigs that are at encher. I he,. the humour to be, tic. HENRIC. TORRENS, Pituitary Secretary. "Tke nest orders I received were at 4u minutes past to en the is of the fitla, wbisb ceders I bass also 188 say puclsat.— (Tbsy were reed.) Headquarters before Buenas Ayes, July .1, 1107, F.igist fetlock, p. as. Sill directed ►y dee Con;;kandef of the focus to &aim., that imaiediateli ua the receipt of this, you will tuarc► wit► the detach:meat under your itunreami, and pro ceed without delay o take peat at a safe distance hum the bridge over the Rio Chisel's, a here you will wait fur further urdcre. I have the hootrurto be,ke. lIENRY TORRLNS, Military Secretary. " I received supplies of.pruvisium; bat I .hid nut receive them in sofbeicat quantity tu make a dept; they were miliciant fur the ratio of the men wider my curnmand: there was out mum than enough fur a day's comiumptiou at a time, iimag to the liadwils of the ovation., and Mks surf ennuis; high, they were prevented leading more no alum, therefore we could make no depot. 1 Isere was a ere aiderable soarer, which it mast hove been d dealt tu burs pi; provision. aerate; and, tu 'Madam' to that, I understood Crum tine of the Captaios of the Navy, Cuptiiii Corbett, of the (iereid, that Ras, bisesit was not Pi au) large (muddies bosrJ the brigs that were MY I dad nut go into the seal, myself; hut Captain Corbett, of the Nereid, who erred it, Mold me, that the rionvoyaace of protium:3i was eittremily practicable. During the butt at lartion, un tat gamin of the alb, I wdesed misting 4./..tart,T. 'fester-General At: wart, sal Captain Hawker, of the tea. , Ley, rak.oe with Hum terry dragoon, moaned, of I:,e 341.. ril'ittirtilt, to CO•016110ANS the neet,ent4 33 d, tip,. 6 ,,hle, to get itendligrece of lscil.ow of zi,„ rainy, either of :Ire Cornmeal,: la Chiec lei the adered erw lum rot the arosy, withoct risking say i 1! eit eegto:naoat with au) part of the euemy they mid ; to trst such isfuror non as they might be mudded : they d:d nut approula lla Sedge tied the Lb kilo, it being tor deftest from us ,tad they retanied about one o'clock, *Mort baring ban silo t o • Cointililuicatiet with either etilinuo, or to *lll.l any to. (urination relative to the bridge or the paasoge of the riser Provieus to the note whet; I last roc- reed, at twenty trainee past ten, on the montiug of the Sri. it was generally tor (raved that the lodge ass broken dows; • rumour to tkat effect had übtained. Fran the bridge to the Mieevere, is the manner that we marched it on the bat of JOly, I ems rive it to rive been about sic tulles : we made • defuse, la order to avoid the gun, of the city. Betweet Rodueben and tire bridge there were several swamps to plat, and inedete ; and it e. am tetra toe:y heavy fur the artillery to be drawn in; end a greet part of the read from the bridge to the ){lams was also very heavy. Os the int of July. we sinarehill fo e " the heights at about she o'clock is the roarer;; we halbdu twelve o'clock for about two hours to refold', and we armed at oriel half par !'.-ree at thelteigier; where we took up mu ground, suakieg, I tosppose, shoat eight miles is the g ,,t,•,. ; of the day's mereh On the ell, we touched so mach lir.faro day, as to culenlate mu &nivel at arl4er, three mitre ditto'', would come to a.berat the time of its leers light : it 11Ai se to pass that Hoer : theft were very steep batiks, said=not arguer Reductiort until five o'clock infra emu ; the dormer ' I comers to have boa fount One to eleven mike : ws baited oa the ad and 411/ at Redaction. The country afforded nu other provision bet cattle, sad the difficulty of the march, (runt the swamps, was very umart, and far greater than the description I had heard of rem— General Whitelucke did 'all Ii his power to facilitate t h e mounting and care of the cavalry at Monte Video." Lierentet-Celmel Metre TORII:CP:in MOM. "I was klilitary Secretary to Geseral Whitelocke, lode expedition to Humus Ayno. The linfurmaliou received at Monte Video, of the mesas sad dispenthe of the Spattiards to resin at Deems dyer, was eery defective. We lood, generally, dint the Widen and Ishabitairs of Brum Ayres were determined to caked the tows to At last, ass drat they Intl erected batteries 13 the priesei Oren* sad that • mtbe ordnance moulded . them might hire bra about ao or to heavy crime, bud tUat the eery curried of about 804 , 0 men. On the minium of site ed of July, I were, by peeler oft:emend Whiteluekc, an order to General Gower, to odnure, and take a petition its the western saberbe of Blinnint Ayrrll--110 further; sod that at was the intnniiiOn art (lament Maddock, to support him with the column miler his immediate coinsuand. The order to (lateral Gower to advance, was peremptory. The Pere Chico wee emaidend impracticable, arid a part higher up the Chleolo never mended. Porker to the above seder, no attempts rue wade to reennuortre or ercertaia the strength or position if i the misery out of Ike town. The order was earned to Ge neral Gooier by Colonel Bourke, who also deliverrrd Gela/R3l Grwer's answer to General Wilitelocke. The latter, cm res ceiling it, said het "aid seed the eyth to support Gemmel Gorier. Sobeequen to our arrival at the Correll de Mr *rem, two Spaniels taffies*, who were takes primers in the arra& trf the ..nr, stated, that it end the twenties at the ~"„iT to ri .,..rir e us by m •ivemble cetera, in the rust tifila town beiug stormed, soil out tooreapy the lamer." sea.— I'OCIITEENTJA DAY—red. 13. L.,..t,uore.roleirel Realty Tommie can is aver • I do out recollect any partieure Inferrer' twig re ceived from lie. White, excerpt that be did out conceive it,. force in Barer Ayres to rand Woo urea ; soil, I bellow, he captained • coshetest eepeetarem tied the emery so-act surrender if we gained • pension eft rah flank, that is, in the Pheita dal Team and the Residieutia. 1 herd, glee rally, before the iufocutaf eivht by the "no a=r 6 sours, that the enemy wait to occupy the del the hooves. tihottly after my antral at Iliad-Qaarters, as the ereateg s of the stir, Colonel Bourke returned frees snit* tbe out-poets. Growl Whitctochc mentioned to us thei bed la hie Mod a paper, costainisig a plan of the Untiring day. He mentioned that it rut eneurated by Chew* Wryer, mad eaptaared himself extremely averse t ie It s vine ' tkie score of He said be my erns the order fur making urr penmen, and, before Popham sr curried into executive' would send egala a trearnee tee& ',lteral hirers. Colonel Rorke said, it was • very seed WA uf snack, or some expreasiuu of that kW, and air that be thought it would tai, attetaled akb thr moires of • vest irony Hire. He added, however be thoug h t a vreakisee med. I merely remarked. the weather honing set to to nit it was necessary pour prompt suresuree should ha adopted; that wee all that passed at that tire. Shority afterward+, General Crsufurd rams to head-oratters, tad the Galan addressed himself to him pretty mach is the same twos r he bad to Colonel Bourke. General Creufurd and I Ward over the plan of the toss, and were applying the ;the of attack to it, when he started • difficulty, from the idea that it was the Intention to penetrate dower the not, : Instead ankiag ea Impression on tee flanks be s i vir o b. *tier Welt um that score, red Pai4 be Viola r an d ta lk N . General Gower. A few onion atter r .:itiaerel Crauford's Pullin, I found that he had aeeole a mistake and that then was sat such iuteatioarit the Ow. F11)10 the time uf Gre, sera Wititclaski"!, unsol at tire aliverere, on the ad, to ti t elute of 11'e41.11 efJalp, Ye did 001 make any reecamoimuum taw:As the tors. I was quartereel with him le Mr. White's house. General Genet pointed it sat, so our anivd at the NI iserere, aerie best situation for head-quarters. Te the close of the eth of July, he was not shier from it, ro cept one hour. The suburbs ere so mended, that it is rue heath for use to say what is the eitraire of the town. Mr. White.' bore is about two I..notirtst and fifty, or three hew deed, yards, in rear of General tahreefurd's position that in. at the Con all. i'vo provision was motto hie mood I le lime the general idea was, that oar operations wou:d le crowned with complete surer I never recollect, in to curse of my services is the Gast sad West ladies, to halt smoked through a morose such SO 11131.0,3 the Lay :•• ea heights of Bernier. The Meteor from the bridge, ev'e colonel Mahon was ordered to halt until fettles r or.fr,s, to the Dearer part of the town, is about two loth:: seed a bar Copta4a Cita•Las II•to et L. called,, rm.! • " I was Aid-de-Camp to MajoriGeueral Goa rr. I 1 -v.. , ed a letter from that Geueral on the ed of h I • strayed ou the tit, to pirverst its fillurg into the ertnija Lamle." Cerk:eis IV HITTING Ha is and msers. " I was ao extra dithile-f 'amp apart General 'it hitriarter Btu/. On Alto woralite of the Ith, k wee seat into Sat..* Ayrea, with a Lia;.; of truce, and a letter to Goners.' i proceeded into tar town a tisk inure thana Ioj•IPCSJoe b•••••:- quarters. saw nothing hut their oat-peels ; end, don T ut Ida time I was there, ail lh.stilittur were seepouled" rest of this Witness was a reptitiou prisoolllng tildcoce. Rout- Adrhiroi Gier.grit Al:111,1t.t V cria•C re etre sKor. ■ Bennaatia de lien-non wet rceseted the best pa; , landing. I ...funnel the Gtmeral, upon Lie hmi:•.t dap. , Gun, that wheaten , he came to the watt . : Ode, should communicate with hint; and. tee sky atter brevity Vete:tr.:3, trumpets were scut up, by my du Pio% to ai b the, as scar Bueuus Ayred es the aboalterw of tit , riro wunhf periolt,—utliet traiwports, with a e:(•-.4.1er, I hip . iti shore, as sear Le they could go betwmu Perellott to 4 Lavoie Ayres, foe the purpose of howling proen.uirs foe ll arrta, in case the Oeuerat should hare wearies for ib Pruett:one were Itlevare ready to be lauded, if mown% after our troops took possession of she Pieta del Tsars three days provisiress wen: ordered to he co ed kw tle troops %herr they disembarked at Satrap's, sad thre• 44 a • bread anti spirits we?e repotted to lin Mauve bees boded I thank, on the aid of Jul;, toe the dio.sioa of the army COO Uviirded, I thhalt, by Cot.uti ; Mora WOW hos bees tended, if Colonel kfuhun had aerbed it. The MI" ports beviag the artillery, the heavy GRIMM were urireef the westward of the town. oe the 3d of Jul ' , by the I' titular regomet er General Whiteluche 1 Marra..; rerrier leeks from Cahmel Bourke; the ktitertee,diein -- -GlikeT . "9' thIIAL es the teal of July, statingAliat it was it.. 14" dinretiras that te hxfur.. use of Los Mt. tEme ire to the west/rent of the toes, and ra.no,,ti-e, "wt • ..sifw the mama, • hang the heavy Petah-yr la, to I phewlt I likewise ordered the Cm,. gnu-how:, with as tied vow* as drcw hit tittle eater, a•tarr - • , ad Captain etc the Il r . dime 1,,•.1•1 • a • • • the veasels bar* tl we stward of the Whiteluelte read boats carte Owed, bee of seautea was, I thiak, abou FIFI Liestosant. cenetaiWhiteto quarters, on the at bad beau at the cei Captain J I au Coalman , The poutiants .er reason. We had were merely gobs Buenos Ayres cou it. The ground t ly favourable fur t iteeolita was shoe submits of the to would lame been uu 3ccount of the Capt. A Fie said, Le o Colonel Mahon, i Put "lilted that he .'as lent into DUI ttir, of tram. H um perniitteil to T A Elio, the so had sußieamt st twat Witnesa beef to Hart, the sae Heaeral Liaterr. Crisp to the I , tpi he in a state al I awaited nearly I time they paid • tint for the pert 1 could not hew all barrieadedo mem wad buyi clones, and tem They tbes were out." • 1011 VP Stated that t the expedition. —ass ordered trade. The boo c0a1.% oot carry The amain Mstrou, rerrie Gower Nomad made w sae fe eapplaiim after last for fire di from rapture. le.:Krevivi-C•4 Vi doers Ina pie au Si U , utemast-( \'i as the Co •fiJuly. It c uu accuont of Linrienent-1 " Cotastaadei part of the was able to A fitragiag sheep: " Cow monde onier (: r ule: touched fowl Thew thee discoutteat apl weren't. gem the e eked. JNer-Gdieg *A Charges 6 tfle 4th coretiag to a the .sth, a ht time. spriel lock, ordered at the dace se did so, mornisq. ktche ark: and try to op at the amok thieola. I. aka tare wi At roue pen nib Ilagiate l;cen to Lisa it ta Calash madly to ny 'mat t.t the I 1 Stlll not pt think 1 uu.l coat aimed, by the attar In0:41111611 tool inenceeseat die prillOile