The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-04-18 00:00:00

BUENOS AY RES.

The following is an extract of a letter from a pissimptik
on board the Thalia :

Arcane AYRES, Jags:ANY 2, 1326.
I write to inform you that I have arrived at Buenos Ayrea theta
6 days in safety, leaving Mrs. S. and all the youngsters quite watt
at Ensenada de Barragan, a small village 33 miles from here. Abu
S. would have come with me had It not been perilous, ha comm.
quence of the River Plate being blockaded by the Brazilians. We
very fortunately passed the city of Monte Video a day or two below
the blockade commenced with any degree of vigilance, since Chide
time they have stopped nearly every vessel that has come up the
River Plate. This city is in a elate of alarm, In consequence of
the rapid rise in valve of all colonial produce, which in many *raw
clew is 150 per cent. within a fortright, with the expectation of io
still further rise. There appears at !present not very great energy
in the government with regard to military matters. Colonial peer
duce is taxed here front 23 to 25 per cent. Sugar is about 2s. pet
lb., tea ilia., butter 25., bread 6d. per lb., eggs about Id. each,
beef Id. per lb., mutton about Id. per lb., wine from Is. to IN the
bottle, liquor about Cr. the gallon. Every thing that requires the
least labour Is exreedingl,y dear, and one thing I am fully pas.
pared to say, that if any English labourers could make up lII*
minds to work here in the way they do in England, they might live
as well as any person in England; they would get plenty of meet
at Id. air., and, by giving little for their iand, they e.nild afford as
raise vegetables and wheat, as the land is certainly rich enough fee
bearing any thing. The climate is exceedingly tint'. but being
now the midst of summer here, it is excessively hot; qualm
as hot as the extreme of heat, last summer, in England. Its
tegsrd to the natives, I never saw so lazy a set in my life;
in the villages they are is a state o nature. You can.
not picture to yourself a set of people so completely diA
vested of cares as is apparently the happy Village of Erma.
nada. Nature supplies them with all they want. There ap-
pears nothing done in the shape of labour, except it is a man riding
on a horse perhaps, drawing a barrel sliding upon the ground he.
hind him, or perhaps a few bushes tied by the butt end of theft
dragging after him. He of course is mounted, if it be only to go
100 yards. The oxen are quite as hoe ones as the Hereford Ipa
England, and as tine eating as the English beet. I have often
heard company at an English dinner say, in a tone of exultation,
" Foreigners never sat down to such a meal Ss this in their lives tw
but I can assure you I never saw tables set out more senristurnisly
than at Buenos Ayres.
I sat down to write this letter intmedistely an my return front.
witnessing the declaration of war in Baena Ayres, and was as..
rims enough to go through the principal streets with three band,
of music, about 200 soldiers, and about 200 spectators, that escort-
ed a private soldier, who in about ten different places tend the de..
claration of war, which was received (except in one instance of r
few crackers being let off) in sullen silence throughout the city; est
a single demonstration of enthusiastic feeling.
I came to Buenos Ayres with the Captain, to endeavour to pos-
cure a large boat, for the purpose of removing the cargo from tha
ship Thalia. which brought us from England ; but such is the me.
sternation of the Iluenos-Ayreans, that no price we could Om
them could prevail on them till to day-to send their boats out; foe
fear of being taken. We have now prevailed on one man to swell
his vein* on condition that we accompany it, which we horn
agreed to do.

SEA lIATIIIN6I.

TO THE EDITOR OF TUE 13R1VISH PRES&

Si 124—The late learned and ingenious Bishop of Lancing,
Dr.WaTsoN, has said in his Chemical Essays, that " the self
in sea-water applied to the skin is not absorbed." I cos-
fess myself of a different opinion. That some of it is ab-
sorbed seems to me certain, or why is not rain or any other
pure water equally efficaeious, when applied to scrofulous
glands? As this is a question of great importance to
thousands who repair to the sea-side at a considerable es-
pense, either to improve their general health, or to remove
local complaints, by sea bathing, the public would be
greatly indebted to any of your medical readers that should,
clear up the doubt which is thus thrown by this eminent
divine upon a point of such very general interest.
I am, Sir, yonr s, &c.
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