The Sun.
London, England, 1819-07-12 00:00:00

.SOUTH AMERICA.

The-affairs of South. America have attracted so
much notice, and tire likely.to excite so strong
an interest, that we submit to our Readers the
followink Extract from The British Monitor of
,yesterday

" MACGREGOR, THE.BUCCANEXR.
" A fewsanecdotes concerning this celebrated
Adventurer has recently come to my knowledge,
‘vhich I think proper to communicate to the
public, and Thiel) I assert to be facts ; and when
they are connected with MAcGaEourt's recent
conduct at Porto Bello, it will clearly appear that
hells acting,as a Spanish Agent, at Fast he is now
so considered by every person in South America •
who- witnessed his recent proceedings ; these L
alio-em enabled to communiette, with tacts not
generally known, having seen a letter from one of
his Officers now at St:' Catalina, which is the
iilaCe of rendezvous for the adventure's destined
to South America. .
" Some months before MacGazacra took pos-
session of Amelia Island,,which he did with a
force of about 80 men, he had been at Wish-•
ington, anti while there, was in daily conference
wraith the American .Secretary or State, and 'Don
ONIS, the Spanith • Ambassador. It was : then
and there agreed on, • that Amelia island stionld
be ceded by the Spaniards to the Americans ;
but in order that, it might not give umbrage to
the' English, MACGRRGOR was to take posses-
sion'of it in the name of the Republics of Vette-
zuela and New Grenada ; that be was to remain ,
there 'a
short time, and that the Americans were
to, take it front him, for which ;Wm.:GREGO&
received a -considerable sutra of money from the
Spanish and American Alinisters.-7-All the time
'lVlAcGaeourt and AVRY were in Amelia, no seri-
ous attempt was made by the Spaniards to retake
`it, although an handful Of troops might have 8c-
.oiiiplishert it. And' further, that,dt,t(ingihe time .
11,rinelia , ryas in possession of those two fre4-
bunters, the American 6overnment had a Corn-
.missiirner residiag there; who was consulted, on •
all oceasions, by tiNlAcGrteooa, and,_when he left
it,:bV.ALIRY.----..llc,oame of rheConm/i9;kner i 3
(awls; he was a' Colonel in'the Arnericart army,
anti a member of the co'ngress!! Thus much for
NikcGiteona's•conduct,4hen7—noyv far his conduct
at Yorto .St, Catalina, as already observ-
ed,. was, and is, the plaCe of tendezvOui for-the
'siiips 'and nien'''svhiell'formed his expedition...-r
Hail he waiied•there three days longer, he might
:have: carried with, hint to Porto. Bello at least
1200 men ; instead of which be only took 350.
with 'him. NO 5'6660; did be get possession of
;that place. than be seized all the ready money,.
•althongh‘privateproperty, which he sent on board
the ship which conducted him there, a flue ves-
sel
called the Hero, Carrying 32 gans,.and eighty
seamen. In •spite of his depredations, be refused
to give a dollar either to his.officers or men, till
at last seeing that they were duped by this adven.
turer, began to slew a mutinous disposition, and
even prevented•the further embarkation of several
elicits of dollars. In consequence of which,
MaoGREGOR gave his officers 50 dollarseaeli, and,
15 dollars to each private ; but. in order to get
that money back, he plundered the merchants'
stares of 'articles which he knew his men stood
most in need of ; •snch as rum, cheese, salted beef,
; consequently they were compelled to pia-
-chase those things from bitu, which put the greater
;hitt of• the money Ve.advariced thefts again into
his porter.: . .
The day hefor.e :the Spanish General, entered
Porto-Bello, MACGREGPR was apprized of his
being within a pistOV-Shot from the town, with' a
ei)nSiderable:force. , Yet he took' no precaution
:whatever, as lie in:ight easily have embarked_ his
,rnen,on board the Hero, which lay Within-a guar-
`ter'tft.a mile of the town. TheGnvcr-rioi Lon%
w'as killed iiva:romw adjoining that where Mac-
.Gaeoott Was, at !the time he (MA.ccitegoa) wits
rntployed in throwing the bed-clothes out of the
windOw 'to prevent 'his being hurt by the:fall.
Wheiihe got on bakribthe Hero; theisailars, we.re
anxious to go on shore and liberate their country-
„men, but they were not allowed). they then re-
quested 111ActtE,o0,•? to go uet4r,tlr7iii 'shore to
teetiv,e the fugitives, and protect them fn.34int-
ming ro the s,hiV-L=4 is was also not complied
conduct has.convin'eed every' man at
St. Cotativa that MscGaeoort hit's betrayed them.
lie is to be deprived of his'comand, Which has
been offered to Geinial'NlacEaotif, the Chief' of
t is
,Stai, who is suit muEngland.—This Gentle-
,.
man was once an Aide-de-Cainpl6 rauttar, an.l
,publiihvd an interesting book, about tliree years
ago, on MuRAT'S fate, extracts front which ap-
peArkd in the AntiGallican."

DRRADVUL ACCIDENT.--0U Saturday as a man
was driving a corn is ag on through . Brown's-
lane, Spitalfields, with Isis three children playing:
in the vehicle, one of them pitched out, and •the
wheel passed over -hit head and body,. and li-
terally crushed bins to atoms. The body, which
exhibited a dreadful spectacle, 4as conveyed to
an adjacent puhlic•bouse to await a Coronet's
Inquest.