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t►e rasse► %%wrier the trim artillery ow hood were to the
westward of the tows OS the ath ; as I was informed Ge i•rat
Wbitelocke week' wake the attack ow t►at-aide. The can-
boots mere plated, mad kept spa firs ow t►e fith. The num-
ber of stamen *stied with the ante's* t►e Seth sod 19th,
was, 1 thiwk, abuut too, betide officers."

FIFTEENTH DAY—Fix. 15:
Lieshwant.Cassel T 11 celled ie affair
General Whitelecke was absent another time from head-
quarters, on the 4th of July, for about twenty minutes. He
hod been at the centre of thr• army.
Captain JOHN SQUIat ealkd in and swam
" I was Commanding °Seer of Engineers in the expedition.
The poutumis were not disembarked. I do not know the
ressou. I,Ve had very few intrenching tools with us; they
were merely aufticient to fill a small cart, drawn by men.—
Buenos Ayres could not be commanded by any ground .near
it. The ground to the northward would have been extreuw-
ly favourable for the erection of batteries. The convent of
Rocolita was about a mile and a bell, or two miles-from the
miliaria of the town • sad, to the best of toy judgment, it
would have been an advautagesrus position to Lave occupied,
oil account of the communication with the shipping."
Capt. ALES. DICICMIN nodded is and sworn.
He said, he was Captain of Artillery in the division of
Colonel Station, and gave an se connt of its march.
Put LIP U. ROCRT edited Ur end *4am.
Stated that be was oa the Staff of General Lumley, and
was snit into Dsesos Ayres us the morning of the id with a
tlig of trace. He 'entered the town a considerable way--was
wit permitted to see General Linters—was stopped by Gene-
rot Elio, the second in command, who said the Spaniards
had sollieicnt strength and spirit to defend the place, and
aunt W amens beck for further instructions. " I returned again
to nearly the malt sputarith Wlettor from General Gower to
taaenst linters. I delivered it to a Frenchman, Aid-de-
fray to the Spanish General. The Omen appeared In as to
Ire M a state of great confusion, as armed mob, and all rout.
I waited nearly an hour and a half for,aa answer, in which
time they paid very little respett to the (kg of truce, and,
but for the party of the nee corps I had with me, I mn sure
1 could not bare got back. I saw no gam; the houses were
all barricaded, all shut up,'ssid the whole population armed,
men sad buys;—delivered the :answer to Major General
tante, and every observation I had made upon the towii.—
They then were about to make as attack upon us as I came
out."
JOBVPH BE LLOr rt, o;ged in and etym.
Stated that ba was at the head of the foramiseariate in
the expedition. Witness gave an account of his department
—ass ordered to land only thrive day provisions at DMA.
nada. The hones is the country very bad, many of them
runlet Hot carry provisions.

SIXTEr.,,iIII I)AY.A-Fss. 15.
Joirru Er Lf.ecx called is again.

The eosin body of the army sad eireerri, man, Colonel
Melton, remove d supplies. The division ender General
Gower pioceetted, without any communication been
made to use that it was to go on. The•arway bad regular
suppiiie after the id. At the close there was sediment to
lust for five days foe the whole army. This arose solely
fives tuptures—hed nu other mesas
Jimetesqe-Csiesti Toots AS Bleariest", ogled is and were.
W Asyut wee Deputy•Adintart-Geaeral is the'expedition,
sod save art account of the force
fosienarir-erd. Ht. SPURT'S Davis coiled in endorses.
Was the Comniandieg Offirer trf the Stb regiment on the
ed July. It conlil have rear:lied farther on the sd.--halted
un account of the legman of the hour.
Lieuterreet-roinaei 3tios hiadtieNT called is and sworn .
Commasdell the 35th Ilegimeat on the td July. It woe
part of the main rimy under General Whitelocke, end
was able to worth further on that day when it halted
A fdragisg party ow that day brought in a dock of 4,000
sheep.'
Liertewant-esiesed,ASTlM NteReLS mitre in anrl sworn.—
" Commanded the estb, which was part of the main army
ender Giurral Vitbittlecke. The regiment could have
marched luither no the od hay when it baited.'
There three last witu,s,s said that no symptoms of
discontent appeared in their several regiments, but quite the
*verse.
gem the evideece in support of the two dust charges was

closed.
AI Ow-General GIMPS ten/ thevralled is, end tAe rid led
.01 Cheerer Itriag rat to him, he reword h. Narrative from
the 4th JRli.—" I oat Lanteaset-General Whitsludte, ar,
cooties to order,"snot after sot o'elotic, eta the nownieg of
Ii c rith, a little in front of the Correll de Massre, at the
time sppoiated. That night Lieatenant-General
Vpbite-
fueke ordered, that slider st&frOffieers, who were assembled
at the plate where l was, slemild go with hint to his quarters:
at did so, sad remained times till day-light the succeeding
aortae:. Some lima afterwards I heard General White-
aim order Cartels liVlaittingimai to proceed to the right,
end try themes a emensnoication both with the right corps
of the Mash, tad those troops which hid been left over the
("Vault,. t-Gmeral Whitelocke., and the Officers
olio Were tilh Mae" thou afterwards went up to the Correll.
At roam periodic( the foremasts, Serimet Hamilton, of the
17lb Regiment, arrived with ti letter, which I saw bins de-
er to Liestaosst-Ciestial Whitelorlre the central gam
it to Captaiu Skluires, and waived leUn to reedit ; and
"sadly to norself, with the sense order. It wsesstastriti;
anodtot the bast of my retnallartioo, seat by a
sok not prefectly teatec of the Spaniel' Imnessge7l;rl
think I uudentaind it sufficievly to bc able to state' that it
astiaed, gessrally, • theteeption of the effect produced
by the altrult no the preeteAng die, sod to it was added a
✓eread fur the coolatioa of hostilities, end fa the emo-
wieseseasot uf seventy; which he married to gave up all
the ailment tit war is hie posecssion, if the British troops
would emaciate the River Plate. Lieutenant-General White-.
lake ordered Lieutenant-Colonel Bradford to remain in
command of tier troops that were then in the vicinity of the
Correll, wine mama also fur thole under ('ulunel Ms-
Eii, Wile user they might arrive, and went immediately,
with all the other Staff Officers. to the Plaza del Tanta.
Ithen arrived at La Plata del Teen's, he ordered me to go
mod inspect the ordnance, generally, which had been cap-
seised, and to be spoil such sputa as 1 thought most desire-
lute fm batteries, toe his further cousideration. I was some
considerable time occupied on that duty, and returned to
him. Ile asked me if l thought there was touch probability
of curfew In the re-attack I stated that there were but
Iwo means, sod that I dill nut think that either would
succeed : the out, by assault, bad been tried with only per-
that sumo. ; the second, Ay bombardment, even ware the
Melia a our power, to the fullest extent, would, in my
tosioion, produce very little offset in seek en inantose town.
1 moreover stated it as my orioles, from the rough estimate I
• l Led hate able to for of the loss, that the number
of troop, remaining, sees was the Spaisish General disposed
to give up Secure Ayres without a farther straggle, were by
act siren • lemma, easterly to, to combust rah a mass of
armed Isheintsote, sod Ile bold such pasts as mind be *heti-
lottly seassary foe the rapport of each other. Soon after
this, Lieutensat-Oteeted Wbitelothe informed me, that he
had !tot in to General haunts, to say, that be would order
see Situ the tows tit communicate with his of the 'abject
of his letter. 1 ottemied Liestromit-Genreal Whitelake,
/Dote time afterwards, W receive his orders : sad he gave me
a variety of verbal come, relative to the labia which I was to
Btu um with General Wien'. I renuested a detailed written
onto .on the subject, bat be would wit give it me. I believe
it ass about three oarlock that I went with • Out of Out'e
lulu the Welt. I west with a Sex of trace into the tows and
there act (Mara Limier, and some of his principal officers.
I asked LieutenautAlenerul %%Advt./he when he delivered
the orders to me, *lather I was to abide absoletely by the
ratite ehieli bit hail masted out; or whether, w about losing
Mutt of them, l might propose three or four other conditions,
that if the MEOW itterra.l4 iu their dreusuid, I might, Without
sada; fiat his orlginal order*, have ennorthing to row-
emit, in return foe say commotion' they might make) The
knee which he Intel prepoord bane If, cud front whirls he
Oita be ahon.d not revolt, in soy material drgree, nod to
bacli 1 wet to pay piertiesba attention, were, the possession
pf flit to of Monte Widest, in sovereignty, during a period
of fuer months; stud that a district, europtebooded within •
boo dente n from head Carlos °lathe vast, to Peed* on the
met, rhould considered as a neutral chantey that the
Sposeards should deliver up all primates of wet in their
poseasitto; lLet there should be no attempt to prevent the
otaiftwo of supplies into Monte Video during that period