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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 29t1t1. 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.