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London, England, 1806-09-15 00:00:00

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE,

• Sept. to, '806.:
TIIE PRIiVCIPAL OFFICERS tf HIS M. 21-.
yESTY's ORDNANCE do sherd." give Notice, : That
Proposals will hereceivedat thqr Office;' in St. 111argareastreet,
Wemininster,on or before Wednesday the 15th Q.y of Odober next,
from Inch' Persons as mil), be willing to 71/n4'i-take the Prbvtsion'
.of CLO THING for the several Carps under, the direaion of.
the Ordnance, •Piitterns.o.l.which.mqy le 'viewed up,m application :
at floe-Principal Storekeeper's Offce,.iii' theTimFer, where further
Particulars may 6e known ; and also at the Secreta)y's 011 ice, in
MarkarebsPeet af.wesaid, any day between the bours of Ten,
and Four o'Clock.

The Proposals to be delivered at the Secretary.'s Office, sealed
up and marked au the outside," Tender for C{othing-;"' but no
Propolal,can be admitted after the said ri tb d.ty of Oaobei.. It rr
' further expelled the Person. whose Proposals m.ty be accepted shall
enter into sufficient securiy,' upon executing his Contraa,"fer 114'
due perfOrmance thereof,
By.. Order of the Board, -
R. ii. CREIP; Secretary..

PRICE SIX? NCr.

THE
LONDONGAZETTE EXTRAOR,DINART, •

SATURDAY NIGHT, SECT. 13.

Downing-street, Sept. 11.

Dispatches, of which the following are Copies and Extrans,
have this day been received by Mr. Windhain, flow Major=
General Beresfol, commauding' a detachment of His Ma=
jesty's Troops in South America.
SIR Font of Btrerzos.4yres, July,2, 1806.

I had the honour to communicate to yon„ by my
letter dated the 30th April, the circumstances of my
arrival at St Helena, and the result of the applicat:on
to the GoVernor of that place for 'Troops._ The Fleet
sailed thence the .).d of May, and After a most un-
expeaed• long pass'age made.,Cape St. Marron the
Bth of June. The Narcissus had bevel dispatclwd
from the Fleet on tie 27th of May; .and Sir Home
Pophath thought it right to proceed "in her for the,
purpose of making himself acquainted with the navi-
gation of the .river,-,that no delay might occur in
proceeding immediately on the arrival-of the Troops
to such place as our 'information should induce us
first to attack. -I had sent Captain Kennet, of the
Royal Engineers (not liking myself to leave the'
Troops), in the • Narcissus, to make such, recon-
noitring of the Enemy's places on the river-as dir-
cuinstances "wOuld'admit ; and to collea every pos.
sible information concerning them, and the strength
of the Enemy at the several places.
From fogs and baffling winds we did not meetthe
Narcissus until the 6th day after our arrival in the
river„ and I had there the Satisfaaion to see
pally with her -the Ocean Transport, which had
• parted
,from us previous to our going.to St. Helena.
. Sir Herne Popham and myself immediatery consult-
ed whether it would be better first to attack the
..-I'dwri of St. Philip of Mbine-Video, or Buenos
Ayres, the capital'of the Provinces ; and after much
reasoning, we determined to proceed against Buenos-
Ayres, which made it necessary to remove froin'the
Line-oflbattle Ships the Troops and Marines, and
such Seamen as were incorporated with the latter.,
and others that had been praclised to arms during
the passage, into the Transports and His iMajesty's
Ship Narcissus, wjiich was effe6ted on the 16th ult.
arid tbough then only about go .miles from Buenos
-Ayres, _still, though to his skill Sir Home Popham
added the most persevering zeal and assiduity, yet,
from fogs, the intricacy of the navigation, and-con-
tinual opposing winds, it was not until the 24th, at
night, that we reached opposite to it... We found
ourselves the next morning about eight miles from
the Point of Quilmes, where I proposed landing,
having been inforthed byan Englishman, who was'
Pilot for the river, and had been taken by the Nar-
cissus out of a Ptqpigtaeiw vessel-, that it waran ex-
cellent place, and an easy access from it into• the
Country. iks,-soott as the wind would permit, on the
25th, Sir Home *Popham took the shipping as near
as it was posSible for them to go, and at a conve-
nient distance for disembarking, which was effedecl;
in the course of the afternoon and night, and 'with-
out any opposition, the 'Enemy remaining at the
Village of Reduction, on a height about two miles
from us in our front : the whole intermediate space,
as well as to the right and left, being a perfedt flat;
but my guide informed me, that though in winter
it was impassable, it was then very practicable, and
easy for us to pass: -
Jt was eleven o'clock in the morning of the 26th
before I could move off my ground, and the Enemy
could, from his position, have counted every man
had; the numbers are per margin.* He was drawn
up along the brow of a hill, 9n which was the village
of Redudion, which.covered -his right flank, and his
force consisted principally 'of cavalry (I have been
since informed 2000), with eight field-pieces. The
nature of the ground was such, that I was under the -
necessity of going direetly to his front; and to make
my line as much as I could equal to his, I formed
all the troops into one line, except the gt.. Helena
Infantiy of
.150 men, which I formed 120 yards in
the rear, with two field-pieces, with orders to make
. face to the right or left, as either of our flanks should
he threatened by his cavalry. I had two 6-pounders
on each flank, and two howitzers in the centre of
the first line: In this order I advanced against the
Enemy, and after we hadgot within range of his guns,
a tongue of 'swamp crossed cur front, and obliged
Me to halt whilst the guns took a 'small circuit to
cross, and which was scarcely, performed, when the
Enemy opened their field-pieces on us, at first well
pointed, but as' we advauped at a very quick rate,
in spite of the boggy ground that very suoti obliged
U 4 to leave all our guns behind, his tire did us but
little injury.
.The 71st Regiment reaching the bot-;
tom of the heights in a pretty good line, seconded
by the Marine Battalion, the Enemy would nut wait
their nearer
.approach, but retired from the brow
of the hill, which our troops gaining, and cominenc-
ing a fire of small arms, he fled with precipitation,
leaving to us fuur field-pieces and one tumbril, and
we saw nothing more of him that day.
Lhalted two hours on the field to rest, the' troops,
and- to make arrangements for taking with us tho
- Enemy's guns and our own, which had now, by the
exertions-of Capt. Donelly„ of the NarcisSns, been
extricated from the bog. He had accidentally laud-
ed, and;accompanied the troops on seeing them ad-
vance to the Enemy, and I am much indebted to
him for his voluntary-assistance. I then marched `
in, hopes of preventing the degtruelion of the bridge
over the Rto Chuela, a river at this season of the
year not fordable, which lay between us and the-
' city ; distant from it about:three miles, and eight
from oar then situation ; and though I used every
chligetxt, I had the mortification to see it in flames
long before I could reach it. I halted the troops for
the night a. mile from it, and pushed on three coin-
• ponies of the-7 Ist, under hieut.-Col. Pack, with twci
howitzers, to the bridge, to prevent its total destrmft
tion. I accompanied this detachment, but on reach--
- See the ;Waal State Cr: Troops, Scc. at the emdog th
Letter.