The Sun.
London, England, 1807-11-25 00:00:00

BUENOS ilYzigs.

An Officer who kept a Journal of the late unfor-
tunate operatiiii s in South America, after describing
thr plan of .itrzicic upon =Buenos Ayres, in to
cearly suuilar to those already published, proceeds
thus : •

" In obedience to these orders, . the troops at-
.
vanced with 50 tlnkai ,contidelic6 of success, twit
no order for a retreat was thought to he required
bUt the pppnsi t ion. Laid loSs• which the columns "soon
met with, wit!, a probt that thet,snenty, though an
undisciplined.rabble, ,were prepared for the attack
with .every pdvantage wliich the known strength ,of
their situation, and the expertness they had actiuirqd
in 41w constant use of tirearnis for the Receding
ten months, afforded them over,a regular army, un-
prepare3and unable to act, under snch unhappy Cir-
cumstances,

The British troops who had been cOmpulled. to
Surrender' to the Enemy were, led 'throtighi the
streets, amidst the triumphant aCelairiation's of the
Spanish soldiery and inhabitants.' The'Qttieers wet e
condudted to theeitadel,and the stildiers,
the, greater part of the wounded., were distributed
into the different gaols and isons throughout the
Tity. ,
‘.‘ Althoifgh.the populace evinced every mall Of
contempt towards the British Officers in their way
to the. citadel,. yet . they were. received with, every.
degree of politenesS Which. the .existing, state of
affairs would allow :by Seignior nAtIVIA.II, the
second 'in command, and, the other Spanish. Off-
icers then in the'citadel ; w ho,:s4e hate ,neard, grata-:
.ed them the assord.c~ of.their perfett safety, what''
ever might ,be the issue of,the contest.
In the alarm which prevailed thronahont the
whole town, and in the confusion in ,which- it was
necessarily, involved, . attehtion could ,be p;lid
to the. comtbrt to the convolence of the Pri-
sork,.s ; and every seeming tiegle& of attention on
,the part of the Enemy in & his respe eve are obliged
to attribute to the unavoidable calainhies of War.
The Officers were required to: sign Parch:, in
which they engaged themselves nit to serve against
the King of SPAINi or his. (lining the pre-
sent :\Var, until their arrival in England, or.
,until
rtfttr t'bey had, been. regularly ex'coanged., rThey
were then confined to two rooms in. the cita-
del, and the wounded Officeri were accommodated
in ;in Nospital.at a 'Shiiirt distance, and ,their own
hutt;reons were permitted to attend them, as well as
the wounded Soldiers, who had been collected in the
.strCeti and hrought into the (It ‘idel by the. Enemy.
The rest,of the wounded Orlitiers and men had been
removed' from where they had fallen into (Inc nearest
ChUrches and private houses iu different parts of
the City, . where, they were treated with great hu-
manity
,and attention by tlie Priests and lqiars, as
well as,by tamilies—a noble proof' that
true- Castilian virtue is still to be. found in a 'dis-
tant Colony of gptlin, almost independent of the
Mother Country-rand AO. a feeling, heart afford-
ing that ineffable grat'ificati.on which :,ever miti-
gates • calamity, and softens the rigours of relent-
less. War."

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7--77-77-7777-

The murder of Mr. .1 toms WIONWRFI,. of Knoyle,
Wiltshire, on the eld or!o6tober, 180,5, niust he
Abe reColledion of many of our readers.: Ile had
been to Winchester, with n load of cheese for the
fair, and had set.out the saine.eiening on,his 'return
home, but was murdered ere 119.resched StockbeidgP,
his body being tOund on the road the next wornititr,,
„shot, through by a musket ball, but it did' non appear
that hia,pockets had:been tied.. Not withstanding the
most ditigeutsearch,the perpetrator oft he murder could
neverbe traced ;' n4.,did suspicion light, on any one
till recently. !tr:m pirintsat:l4llent,the wretch who
:murdered Mr. 'SaIeGENT. The spot'Where the; deed
waa perpetrated is .not so remote from Allen's. resi-
.dence,, but that the prospea.of,plunder,; ,conse-
quence of the Fair, mightindtice,him: to :cross the
country into that road ; "the direOtion of he fatal ball
indicated that Mr. Widpaou z had been shot by
St per-
On :on foot ; Allen' always !robbed on foot, and it
now appears. that he made no scritpl&offiring at any
one wholdid not iMmediately.stop at •his mandate,
and submit to be robbed ; .but in that public road,
a sudden footstep, alter' he had tired; might
.alatin
even that ferocious villain to the, abandonment of his
vidim,:and driveliim to retrace his guilty steps back
to his accustorned haunts: This is only.conitMtUre,
.but it has strong probability .to-support, it. It was
stated, in relating the murder,; that Mr. Wfolgoite
had left.a Widow. and nine children. Another -me-
lancholy incident: is now, to be added, to the narra-
tive :—..*Mr-s..WkomoKE never recovered the shoek;
but after Winking into a melancholy despondency, her
iutelleas became More violently affeeted, and she died
a few days ago in a state of total mental derangement.
Fears, ,we understand, are entertained, that Allen
was not without accomplicea,. a.nd which are
strengthened by' the . following circumstance
.dragoon seeing aman on Tuesday morning last, on
the..road between Singleton and Cricking, by whose
dress.and manner he had reason to swipe& his being
a deserter, approached him, view to enter in-
to eum:ersation,, when ~the man,. inStantly prodUced
a gnn, and threatened to blow his brains out if he
did not immediately decamp. -

POTATOE OATS,—A Letter • from Caithness, dated
Nov. t 3, says—" The autumn-months have been the
most rainy and • stormy ever ,remembered in this
country ; many fields of corn have been laid:fiat on
the ground. Those that have:been sown with.pn-
tatoe oats haVe suffered most. , To have brought
the potatne oat into this country was.,an ill-judged
measure ; it is a .late, and weighty grain, and not
-suited to 'a climate so moist and far north as. oars.
About fifteen years ago -that indefatigable patriot,
:Sir JUIIN SlNcLits,. introduced into Caithness a
grain called Red Oats;: it ripens much sooner than
any thas ihilt W:3 know_; what has been. sown of it
atoongus last spring, even in the beginning of-May,
is .now shle •in the barn-yards. It is certainly. the
fittest: species of oat 'for .the uncertain, cold ..and
-rainy climate of the North of Seotlattd,"

tit is said to have been ascertained that an acre of
land, planted with pot mtoc, tidal product r,utlicient
fa()A for 10575 healthy men los one rig :at, wliite.an•
acre of wheat will riot -feed more
.The
.exPence ottuitiv:iting the potatoe ts'estitnatcd, by.
a Norther:- Agriculturist,' at icl. Is. and that of,
wlieat at I'll. Os. •