The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-10-23 00:00:00


SOUTH 4Athice.

(Entract of a Later from a British Officer.)

" At 8 a ie. of the 24 July, we set off for the I
city of Buenos Ayres. The lieht brigade in front,
half a mile; the 36th and 88ih following in order.
The distaime we had to us tech on our route, by the
ford of Chico. was 23 or 2$ miles. We ezpetled
to see the main body coaxing up to support us. but
we were eipeeting them in vain. IA e crossed the
river Cbicellonp to our middles, about four, without
opposition. We immediately advanced to the town.
At son-set, or little after, the light battalion in
from, were opposed at the turning of a road, within
less than two miles of the citadel, and taken in re-
verse by the fire of 12 cannon, supported by 2500
men, and the Si:mush General Liniers in person.
These immediately charged them with the bayonet,
took the guns, killed 200. and made many pri-
soners. We rushed on to the town, the enemy
firing on us as we passed through the close lanes,
from their gardens and houses. It was dusk when
we got within a few hundred yards of the citadel.
We had possession of the street till near nine o'clock.
'and then retreated outside.
We had a good deal of skirmishing nn the 3d
and &brood proceeded by order of the General to
storm Oaf town on the miming of the 511. But I
must first acquaint you that we expeCted to get
possession of the town and citadel the first night.
our c in we conceive why we retreated. and why we
&stemmed so far into the town without doing any
thing further. It is said that General Cram ur O-
hre I to take the place with the fight brigade, but it
was not approved of by General Gawer. Here I
must tell you. that the lest time I saw pour Trotter
was in the streets of the town that night, along with
the light brigade. He shook me by the hand, and
at thst instant, the left of our column had crime up,
and I was oblig .d to !ears him. He was Major of
dr battabon. and snivel-silly beloved. There was
very little 1 to on oar part in the stre••t:, but the
enemy suntrc,l severely.
• "At day light of its a 5•11, the trn"pi began to
March into the streets. toknel Pack, and every
other person, represented that the top of every house
wee covered with musketeers and riflemen; but these
ifs*, were mere trifles! We rushed like madmen
into the streets with filed bayonets. Not a soul was
to be seen till we got into the middle of the town.—
e had orders not to file a shot! In an instant we
were fired at in every direaton from the house tops,
windows, loop holes, in front. rear, and every way.
Bat all this was not worth our notice! We were
to do every thing by the bayonet. To tire was cow-
ardly. and would havebten petting ourselves in some
degree csl an equality with the enemy ! Not a piece
was loaded! We rook possession of a church and a
home, which we then defended as long as possible,
with gun powder. in two hours we were obliged to
surrender, with the hiss of mme poor fellows.
was with Gmter4i Whittlock, in a
snug. sale place, as part of his guard. linne-t
Is4.Gregor was killed in the court of a house. to se-
enonolring the enemy, who were on the Louse tops.
He was shot through the back, aid died in a moment.
Trent( was shot ti.mtigil the licad and breast, from
thermopile a Matte, while looking through a glass at
the corner of a street, near the Church fit Dorm iso
Never did an ("Cheer die with more regret, or more
beloved by all ranks
" Termer was offered. hot refused, the appoint-
ment of Deputy Qis irter Master General, and lir—
ferred a dashing service, as he called it, to any other.
We resembaiked at Bitenns Ayres on the 10th.
and airived here on the 14. h " '

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
FRIDAY. OcTosca 23.

We yesterday announced th• arrival of a Lee.
ward Islar.d Mail in thirty—five days passage. The
letters and papers weep th.livered yesterday.—They
itate, that His laideagnet's ship Twee.', with the
Bert under her comfy for the West Indies, which
sailed from Portsmouth on the 23th June, arrived
at Batbst:oes 23 h August. The Jave.s mail-host,
from Barb-Woes for Drawers, we• captured OR the
Ith August, by the Jrvee Adefts French prit•ateer,
which has also carurcd the Danish sui.ooner Behr,.
Dst and tae Barrio., of and from Barbados,
both brut d to Surinam, and carried them into
Guaidaloope.

An English vessel arrived in the River on
Tuesday, from Riga ; the Captain of whirl
states, that at the time of his departure from that
port, which was about three weeks ,q,•o, 19 more
English v•:•,sels were upon the p.,int of sailing. fully
laden. the Captain arils, that at 11-e tme he
sailed no apprehension of an einhari.to in the Russian
ports was entertained at Riga. A sessel arrived
in the IZiv..r from Memel, which place she lent OD
the. WI instant, reports to the same effgEt.

We flattered ourselves, yecterday, that we bad
Jana with the famous Proclamation of Saturday
night, but it: is a sore point, and as such ti,ti venal
prints still keep lEirping upon it. When a Print
of this description, by the assistance of the French
lievoli.tion this pay, and of domestic Revolutionists
to-morrow. serapes together a little sale ; when,
by "the aid of 4orrile adulation of Mr. Fox, his
party, at cnet time, and the m.st abandtmed and un-
warranted abuse of them at another, it has added
a little more ; and when, by a last desperate effort
of toesnn-•st, it has reached the awe of its moist
cauLd *Silos, by the complete uansfoinsation of

I i sn orizinisiiy Jacobin Print into the most servile
tool (4 filmistets, recorded in the history of the
Foblie -prised at any de-
Nty in which it

may love to indulge. We know that in giving this
true ehveter of 7be Cloutier we are serving.ir; for,
10184w/eke. in Tie Sated for &afield. to speak well
of •it might ruin it for ever. Nothing bat this sor-
did and selfish contempt for all 'consistency, could
have induced Tee Ceerier of yesterday, to make the
following observations upon the Proclamation of
Saturday night :

sr We have for the last century thought we had so little
title to the nght of 'watching neutral ships of war, that we
emitted instructing our Officers to enforce it; and the liniment
we hen of its hiving been eastci.ed, as at tr.,s in the affair
of the Chesapeake, re disavow it, and cause at to be under-
stood, that we do not lay claim to at."

We request our readers, if any of them have
ever casually seen The Cuuricr, to recolleCt its vio-
lence and ahuse of every Print that dared to ques-
tion the propriety and necessity of the attack upon
the Cbssapea4s, as grounded upon a right so men:.
vial and unquestionable, that the English Captain
who did not nail theillag to the mast, and go to the
bottom rather than surrender it, ought to be brand-
I ed as a coward and a traitor to his country. The
Costits, however, has nothing to lose by plunging
onto these inconiittensiet. If it offend any of its
Id friends, of Houtz Tooxes party, formerly the
objeft. of its idolatry, by one position, it is sure to
recommend itself to some of the golden calves of
' its present worship, by contradiSling it ; and vies
versa, if it should inadvertently offend the present
Minister, by recurring to its old habits, it is sure to
ple.ne, on Sunday, the company at the sign of the
Horne Tooke, a: Wimble.lon. In this there is a
great deal of selfish sordid good sense; for The
Courier well knows, that the tolter Citizens of Lon-
don, though sill upon ns:e look out for the Comet,
can pass over the Sun, Mon, and Sewn Stars, with-
out emotion—aye. eves without notice. Any
eccentricity or ..extravagance that can draw
attention, is, therefore, p. Inc, and cannot fail to
answer the purpose of those who think nothing
good or amiable, but as it tends to 611 their pockets.
Leaving, however, this ungrateful su'ijret, let us
examine the new ground which .1 he Gansur has
taken ; for the stomach of other of the Truttory
Journals. not so skilled in twisting and turning, still
strains at swallowing th.tr own words, and have
grace enough still kit to hesit .te at acknowl:dglng
their meanness and subserviency. We stated, can-
didly, from the outset of this discussion, that the
right of search, in its general tense, did nor ettrA
to ships of war, that there is a greet ar.d wile d s-
natchers with respect to such right between ships of
war and trierthantmen, as the former represent the
state, and between two independent states there is
no common tribunal ; whereas, in the case of mer-
chantmen, there are Prize Courts in which the party,
it aggrieved, may seek redress ; but we never meant
to say that it was more shaft a general role, and
that a case could not be possibly conceived which
ought to be an excepticn. We, therefore, con-
tended, that Admiral Bcxxei.asr most have had
a very strong case to justify his departure from
tins general pi aCtice ; and as evidence that we SAW it
in its true light, and that the error and the eunfu-
sion are all with those trimming Prints, that must
suit -themselves to their employers, we find, that the
American Government took up the question upon
the same grounds. Mr Jirrestson.in his Proclamati-
on, contended, that the seamen taken from on board
the Cliesapeele. were native citizens of the United
States. The Amettems Covet iiinent, and the Atneo
rizan writers, all rested their case upon this ground,
and for that purpose an official report was drawn up,
of the birds and parentage of toe seamen in ditpute.
In this they placed all the merits of the question ;
they never contended that they had a right to kid-
nap, trepin, or inveigle our seamen; to parade
mem to and from their rendezvous under the notes
of our officers; to laugh at all our remonstrances
upon land ; and to eclitsit them ors deck at sea, on
beard the Cntrap:ake, alongside the very veisel, and
in full view et the Captain, from whom they had
desetted. The faCt is, Cate right of search is a rigf:t
exercised at the pail of the party exercising it, and
if Admiral 'Smuts." was erstainformed, and the
gross and aggravated Case upon which he rested
his v.uhreon from the general suite had not bees
fully established, he would have been guilty
of misconduct, and deserved punishment. In
the case of the search tit me:Mantmea, whether
the vessel exercisMs the right of visit he well er
badly informed, whether Mere be or not contraband
goods on board, the right of visit, is, in either case,
equally legal ; but it is not to in the case of a ship of
War. hat is done at the peril of the party. and is
only to be justified by the particular circumstance
of the case. Even its the case of merchantmen, this
right partakes so much of might, that if a privateer
were to attempt to visit a fleet of neutral merchant-
men, and the latter. favoured by wind or tide, or
ether circumstance, Mould be able to make their
escape, and avoid it, we believe such privateer
would be laughed at, were she to complain of such
escape as an insult to the British flag ; and if a mu-
tt al gust-Wig should attempt to search a ship of the

line, and the latter should treat the summons
contempt, and, is ease of perseverance. sht
'Lend the brig to the bottom fur iti presumption.
I rate would not be likely !o excite Bauch pity,
say,tben, that to admit the right of searching
of war. would be to admit the American
consisting of nineteen gun-boats, to search
British navy, consisting of nine hundred ships
war, of various descriptions, is to put a ease that ca.
not apply. No such extreme case is necessar
to support the general rule. We contend only I
the exceptions; and ste do think that the case .
the Ckeirpeake may. as far as circumstances
have transpired, be justly considered
of them. The Proclamation of Saturday
has decided to the contrary ; and, therefor(
mitting it to have been even a doubtful case, i _
tefICCSIIO/1 on the part of Ministers ; a concession
made without any 'Trivalent, and a peace-offeri
America. Suprose our squadron, off Usliant,
authentic information that an American hiker
entered the channel, manned by deserters ,
the British navy, and filled v:ith cambu.tibles,,
burn our arsenal at Portsmouth or Plymouth,
surely the Commander of the Channel fleet our
not to wait for instruEtions from London, which t..
come too late, before he shoeld procoed to search
such vessel. Net at all. The extraordinary
cumst awes of the case oblige him to violate
general rule. He searches the vessel at his periy
Admiral BErtastcy soarchel the Cinapeake.
information prove corral, then he is justified.
If he has :rata in error, then he is amenable
to his Government, and the State, whose ship
war bas been visited. may fairly claim reparation,
In this light then we do consider the Proclamatior
Saturday night, indirealy condemning the caiiof
the Chesapeake, and every such extraordinary
use of great aggravation; and extending a general
to an universal rule ; a monstrous concessive
America, totally unwarranted by circumstances,
and the mutual relations of the two countries.

The plain and manly language to hold to AI
rice, was this. " If the condtgl of the Cheeapeeke
riAbt, there is eio reparation is our power that
will not make. If the Cirsarseake was wrong,
have no tight to complain. You. America.
the aggressor." But this language TAe Couri,r
ly condemns. Forgetting its fulsome praise of.i
Kowa Forum... it sr's, a British Officer muse
is future consult his own juelgmtnt and discreti
" The Froclimation," seys,ne Courier, "crust ,
considered as declaratory, as a warning to Officer,
not to wander from the 'inept their instruaions."

If letters, of the `2sth last, from Bayonne. in.
credited. General JCNOT'S army bad no: broken
at that date lox the invasion of Portugal. and
not reach Lisbon before the end of the present month.
Government appear to have been aware
this, when they issued orders, so late
the present week, for the sailing of all the
Vessels in b Mast at Portsmouth and Falmouth,
the Tagus. Those from Portsmoth, uoder convoy
of the R. dbreast, the sailing of which we announced
yesterday, we find have been obliged to put back'
contrary winds. From the great distance of Lisbon
rom the French frontier, it is impossible
Mon AAAAAA to surprise Lisbon; and therefore.'
out a strong party in that city, and an insurreni
he cannot derrin persons err property, so far as
is shippirg to carry them aWly. Having thus
polled the B. kids subjels by the mere terror of
vasion, it will not be necessary to send an arms
close the Ports of Portugal against England,
an order will be sufficient for the purpose.-
We continue inclined to think that the Pam
gorse Government will not transfer itself to
Brazils. All the private nceounts, however, concur
in stating. that it is determined upon that spirited
undertaking. A Portuguese Nobleman, it is
WAS dispatched se I months since to the 13I;
for the purpose of making the necessary preparations
for the arrival of the Ceurt. A large sum of money,
all the jewels, and valuable moveables, belongi,
to the Court, and a considerable train of artillery,
had been put on board, and nothing was swatted ,
fie the final determination of the Court hut the .
vance of the enemy; and,even though the French
should not invade Portugal. it is added, that
young Prince Da Basis is to proceed to the Bra-
ails. under the care arid escort of such of the Nobles
as tray prefer emigration to their present state
miserable uncertainty. The young Prince
BAHIA is the son of the rIitISCI Rentisr, and
About 12 years of age.

Extra& of a lettrr from Berbice, dated July
" A ship of 20 guns It reported to be captuicgl
Surioain. lam fearful it a the TAIN44I hum Ix
poi. she !king eapetied."
The ha-peddle', An besraotio, of and from ,
derland. has been captured. recaptured. and
fis4 into Dover.
, . A Dublin paper 1114401111Cfl t'.:at French troops
aro assembling in force at gentazne. We shall pro.
•MiblY Woo receive the Irish lieWi 134 Constaati.
nople. •

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