The Sun.
London, England, 1807-06-10 00:00:00

ItIONTE VIDEO, 111ARcx 10.

The life ilusa is recently returned fro -t: Rio-Oaneiro,
whither she sailed the-- day after the Ledoi's depth-
tore; with an Army.'Commissary, to make purchases
of wheat and flour, winch, however, proved to be
of too hig,h ei priefe, and so she returned With an in-
con:iiderable quantity of, rice and wine. The Rolla
went to Rio -G,;:ande for the same purpose, but the
Governor refust:d perlins;.iion for any steps to be
,takt?.n towards purchasing-. I have learnt but little,
since, of 'the stafe-of affairs up. the. river 3 but it
appears M me, that whether we retain possession
here or\ not, the century ..will never again be
under the dominion of Spain, and that Great 13r+taM will have to consider herself indebted to Sir
HoStE* PernAm as the .means and cause of so great
and,.important a diminution of t het erritories of our
'enemy. Monte Video was in a great measure de-
serted on our first possessing ourselves of it; and of
course Might have been secured by an inconsiderable
number: of. troops, . in addition to the force, .Of. the
men •of war ; but every one was invited to return
immediately ; of, course the difficulty of garrk-on-
ing it increasetL The difficulties.of attacking Buenos
Ayres have daily increased, as well from other ob-
vious reasons, as on account of the weather,. which
is already begin-ling to get bad. The Lancaster,
has been parted her cables, and this morning we per-
ceived a vessel wrecked on Ratones, which we tear
is' the Poyal,Charlotte ; she, with two others, which
had been armed (and which were of the greatest.use;
during the siege), and some more, had the light bat-
talion and 21st dragoons, embarked under COlonet
PACK, l'•;3' go to Colonia ; and' I rather suspect the'
Diomede will not go - hence till that in our-post
session, that, some: furthtl/4 success may be an-
nounced,oy h.er. You will have heard of the loss
vke have sustained' by the deaths of VASSEL and'
BROISViti RI GG. 'The. assault was on 'Tuesday morn-
ing. and the forther died. on 'Fridaynight, the:
latter ,oti Sa:urday evening, as tii.ey were carry-
ing tint of the house the body of his friend. I.
sa,v them both during the time of their confine-
ment ; they 'were easy and resigned,
and did •not• suffer much pain: BEOWNEIGG re-
ceived the Sadrament from Mr. GRIFFITHS the
tiftern`na,o-of his death.. BROWIsIRIG6 and TROT-
TER appointed, -on the arrival' of Sir SAMUEL
AUCH NIUTY'S SIRIT; to Catlin:l.4ld the light battalion,
consifiting c all the flank cotiipanies, and of course
became the most expo. e& to danger of any ; but
TROTTER has mostiorttinately escaped being hurt
in any the least degree,sand all those that know him
will rejoice to bear it. Tliere is DO breach under,
or rattier a littleto the West of the Round Tower, as
was supposed, but the wall is praEticable all the way
along the sea face, ,and, with the loss:of the boats,
men would have got ashore there without great
difficulty. By the liberality of the Commander in
Chief, .almost all ,valuable property in. the town
has been. given up, and it is said but little remains
for the captors. At BUICIIOS. Ayres such ccinduct
must, have appeared to every one politic and likely
to produce good of et ; but, I cannot conceive that
the enemy, from all that had occurred before, and
the'circumstances attendant on the capture of Monte
Video, had. the smallest claim tq any indulgencies
whatever..

I cannot think where General CRAUFURD can be
going, but to the Isle of France; but his torce • the
ap-
pears too small to attempt that place We know
nothing further of him here than that
,he was on the
4th of February steering M the S. E. trade, closed
by the wind.

MAR cn'22.--It cannot be uninteresting to you to
hear that the Britisli: Government already compre-
hends, on the northern shores of the Rio de sla Plata,
that immense country lying between this •River and
the Portuguese Settlements, and limited on the west
by the plains situated on the western banks of the
Uruguay. This territory produces more than three-
fourth parts of the, hides and tallow that was for-
merly exported from Buenos Ayres. The bullocks
which cover Its plains exceed 20,000,000 it is said
they extend' to 30,000,000, and that one-third thft
number may be killed, without lessening the present
stock. The territory I have just described, including
that Of Paraguay, is of far greater importance than
the remaining part of this extensive Province, so
rendered by its navigable rivers, and by its exemp-
tion froln the, destruCtive droughts in which; during
a single season, more than half of its donwstic ani-
mals have bcen swept oft

On Sunday last, between one and two o'clock in
the afternoon, a dreadful accident happened off the
coast of Suffolk. His Majesty's Brig Belette, hav-
ing anchored in the Bay, put out her boat for the
shore, in order to land Mons. Bedezee, a Prussian.
Officer, charged with a special mission from his
Prussian Majesty to our Government, somewhat -re-
lating to the defence Of colberg. There were in
the boat with MonsieUr Bedezee, Mr. Kennedy, the
Master's-Mate, Mr. Parks, a Midshipman, andfour.
seaman) upon approaching, the hart oar mouth, the
Gentlemen in the boat discovering that thesea, which
was otherwise moderate,. broke heavy upon the
shoals which form the bar of the harbour, at the
harbour's mouth, very prudently attempted to avoid
them, by running ashore upon the beach ; but the.
tiller having most unfortunately broke, by which
the bOat became unmanageable, they were thrown
upon the breakers, when the boat immediately filled
and sunk ; by which accident, although it happen-
ed scarcely two hundred yards from the shore, Mr.
Bedezee, Mr. Parks, and
.two seamen, were lost.
Mr. Kennedy continued swimmifig, until picked
up by a boat; and one seaman, John Simpson,
swam ashore ; William Carr,' another seaman, was
taken ilp by the lioat, "but every method was tried
inelli:anally to restore him to life. The Bodies of
Mr. Bedezee, Mr. Parks, and the two seamen have
not yet been found. The dispatches brought by the
Belette were found by the boats, but it is feared that
the private dispatches brought by Mr. Bedezee, were
lost with hint. •

On Friday a Mr. STEVENS, for a bet of 450 gui-
neas, undertook to go on foot from the Wool Pack,
at St. Alban's, to Finsbury-square, a distance of 21
miles, in three hours. He'started at a quarter be-
fore 2 in tl:c morning, and arrived at the spot at 4.
He rati in the first hour seven miles and a half; in
the second, ten; and in the last quarter, three and
a half.