The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-02-12 00:00:00

Fr.fiN.

(prom T. Madrid Gawetr.)

" inning eonceen.4l the raja§ of * conquwing
Stomas Ayres, Int An hit march, as if appears, tio.o Mont*
ride., en the 25.1 with 1100 men : iced the 26th, pat,-
eil, on rain, the risers of Cantelorre and St Joseph; oh, the
11th, •nsabed La ieuliinia del Sacramento, whose ha (mind
Dun Gutierrez De La CLIICha, with a &arils, conaialloga sit
sausonebt, armed with eighteen and chitty six pwroile.s, nue
with thirty eix pound howitzers, six royal grin boats. Unity-
threw atoned latuicht., anti eight treisportr. 29tli, the
donna +market* atNi beat off an Ength.h brief, Ow the Ist tai
August" he wee joined by 100 eel miters., equipped at the ex
pence of the inhobitants of La C4luina. Ito amilwikerl his
troops on the 31, and am the following der etf "cool A landing
at Les Conchae, wbtie ha e!rin disembarked the taib,. au.d
ma-
titsss of the flotilla, amounting to 523. On the Pith, he enter.
ad St Isidro, amidst the acclamations of the inhabitants. On
the 6th, the otailier was extreinel, taziiwsttioes, and 1114
E.irheh lost *ix of their armed launches. thi the 10th, Li-
ner rate,e4 Mitaderos Jet Mizerere, and scot in a summons
to General Reretfor.l to *eneeder the town. 4;etieral Ilene
lord basing it:tweed an ahlWalf in the negative, Linter imme-
diately procerdrd to attack the post of Si Stairs. which was
occupied by 20u English, whom lie ditims.ged, wiili the hiss of
from 3) to 40 killed, and ten made prisoners, fire of them be.
log wounded. At this instaat, the English C.userat can u?,
with from 400 to 310 Melt ; but Linter having opened a hoe
of
grape shot on there,' thee dispersed; trays hr, lace a
cloud, leasinz behind a number of slain.' Doi -Magnin
Toledo, a Slidthipittan, was the ouly hixttiard who sof( •ied
trom the fire o; toe Englis:l, a id he received wily a sitight
woo-t 4 in sue held. . .

•• On the 11th, Linier opera! a batrety on one of the Eng-
lish ships, whine rnir.en-too-umst was earned away, sod th-•
Eugliali deg teli into the water--a happy prognostic Of the event
which was to take place the day after in Vtienos Ayr's'
" At twviv• o'clock on the 11th of August,* contiowt 1.1-
num, " the Soan sh troops advance,' in two columns by the
strew of La Merced and that of the Cathedral. The marbly
guasded the anproacies to the sauare with IN pieces of end-
lery. The r tr asps weirra'se posted in the balcuntie id the
houses immedi..tely adtuiring the Sqttare, and the Cithe,tral.
For about two hoots the contest was mann...men on both aid v
with equal firmett, val.nir, a,.tl obstinacy, when at length
the amain, gave way at ant retreated from the
s tame, which was mita:thy occupied by our troops; ail h.v-
-il4 betaken themselves he the fort, they hosted the white flag.
kt-t from Vie enthusiastic ardent .f ...y s, it was ICOII.
slderable length of tints Wore a +top c iult be pot to ecr Are.
At length, seeing - Don Ilnarniii de la Qeintana enter the
Cat with a AA; of trOCe, they priesied forward tow• d the gite
and u o t th • euunterscarp; so that wir.eli mad nay officers
w;re obliged to male us; of threatening tatting, to ream n
their impetuosity. mid ,o r.present to them, t... 1 toe fort had
ti.:t yet aurimidee,d, t'lat he w. it hag might it- hiii.4.loll'y
as a signal of toe susposotion of arm-, it.. In fact, had the
Ea:hah Grifter.d been d.sposed to act with bad faith, he alight
have untamed my Ail-de Caiiiii, and occasioned a hormile
slaughtet am ng our troop', thouea, in no event, such m to
prevent our final .uccess But, fa, 1. th taking se de.p. ram
a revolution, he notate timely hoiriti the Sparlifin flag, without
Ptah,' of any other terms than C.o.'. anuoumed to him ty
my Aid-de Camp, and coming up to me, 1 keictly infoinied
him, that the • seem due to its biavery induced in, t s grant
him the ht.nouis of war. Aceo.diogly, having, drawn niv
troops n line, the English mall hid ,ut sit the f.'rt, to the
i. ..hto rof 1440. and laid strWil arms at the li-ed nor
troops. Their loss in killed and wounded was 411 t elates,
and h officers; and the on oar side was ltial sank and hl
with the AkAbhionan Don Jteef Miranda, wautieed in •iie
hand ii4ll Fms.go Von Joan Bautista Fantiii, my Aidadra
Camp, ard in the leg."

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"'There were morntelin the fort thhtv-Ave pieces of can-
non and 4,tir moitara. T. mrrktu, which have bees deli-
tenet up to ust amount 10.1600. There was no troth in the
repot that (I,- ATMS in the magazine of the lint bad been car-
tied of. We have further taicm hem the enemy tweitts-eia
pieces of cannon and tour hoe iterrs, and the colours of the
list regiment, which embalm een.ecreted to our Lady of Re
saris.° Litter then poses some eulogies on the brevet, and
perseverance of his troop., and the patriotic spirit of several .1
the iiihaniants of Buenos Acres, who had centritmt..d ea.:l
soma of money for the rehvf of the wounded, and Use widows
and chtitheu of Use abs..

On Saturday se'onight. an inquest was hell at
Kiddet minder, by tone FIDIUN, Esq. Coroner, en
the body of a new-bore infant. found in a small hag,
in the waters of the Staffordshire and Worcesterliie
canal. near that town. The body was in a putrid
state. but exhibited many marks of violence, and
the surgeon being of opinion that the child was horn
alive. and that such violence occasioned its death,
the Jury returned a verdi,l 0f..-Warder agaiase sone
person sr "errata aninvers.
A few nights agjs,
.a room adjoining the stable of
Mrs. Davies, of Bodlam, &met, was entered by
some robbers, who stole therein all the coachman's
wearing apparel, amounting in value to akinnt ten
pounds ; after which they proceeded on ro the hes-
roost of Mrs. Davies, distant Pram the stable Abbot
half a Mile, and stole therein thirty fowls. It is sup-
posed they entered the premises, by the help of ske-
leton keys, as the doors were all found earl-fully
locked the next morning, without the smallest traces
of violence.

One day lan week, as tl'e daughter of a brick-
layer, at Robertsbridte, Sussex, a fine little gal,
was eating her dinner, a portion of pie-crust Stuck
in her throat, which all her exertions could rust dis-
place. A surgeon was sent ftsr. *lto, on his arrival,
removed the obstruftion, but not in time to save the
poor child's life, as she souls alter expired, under the
most violent spasms. What rendies the circum-
stance more distressing to the (may Is, that the
mother lies in the last stage of a decline.
The following dreadful accident happened on fues.
day se'nnight, at Sandhurst. in Kent :—Two boys,
sons of a labouring man, named Servs, being left
alone, in the absence of their mottle', amusA ttiena-
selves by throwing shaving. on the fire, which soon
blazed, and communicated the name t,) the clothes
of the youngest, about four years old, which his
brother, in attempting to blow out with the bellows,
so lime-m.4ml. that the pour child was soon enve-
loped in the flames, and in that situation discovered
by a miller, wito casually called at the house with
his grist, and who lost no time in his endeavours to
extinguish the fire, which, by the help of water from
the kennel, he at length accomplished, hut not till
the little sufferer was so miserably burnt. that he ex-
pired, in great agony, soon after. Bout ears wet e
totally consumed, and, shocking to relate, the tire
had penetrated to his heart.
Last Tuesday se'nnight, a poor man, named
JAgES RIPPI morns, was found drowned in a rivu-
let, near Ripe, Susses, with his legs sticking up
above the water, into which he is supposed to have
falbo, in a state of intoxication. The deceased was
aged 61, and had been many years employed as a
letter-carrier from the Post-office at Chiddingly, to
Ripe. He had been drinking. not long before he
was found, with some ringers, who were celebrating
a wedding, in the belfry of Ripe chinch, and, after
passing a few fields, on his way home to Chiddingly,
met with the fatal accident. He was remarkable
for the retention of his memory, and, though poor,
much respcZte.' for his probity. Coroner's Vurdla—
atecisterstal Deal.