Star.
London, England, 1808-01-28 00:00:00

FOURTH DAY.

GeneralGows R% Eiamin- Wtionby the Court teemed.
Q (By Sir Jona MOORS) Was the country from
Enfenada to Buenos Ayres fo little frequented, drat
men could not have been found at Monte Video,
and forced to guide the army ? A. I fhould con
ceive that the road from Enfenad t to Buenos Ayres
is well known, in confeque;•ce of the former beirg the
place at which all the 6rge Mips employed in the
commerce of the latter are laid up. I was not at all
employed relative to the obtaining intelligence on
that point. For my own private information I tiled
to collea what I could, but I could not find any
body at Monte Video who fpoke very accurately on
the fubjeet.
[By defire of Sir John Moore the queflk-n was
hete repeated.]
" General Glwer," Paid Sir John Moore, " I am
anxious that you fhould underhand what I mean by
this twellion. We all know that there are to,ooo
people in London , who can thew us the way to
Windfor, but not one of them, perhapit, will take
the trouble, unlefs a rope is put round his neck and
he is told that he (hall either guide the at my or be
hanged. Now I want to kuow if this was done at
Monte Video ?" A. 1 knew but of one man who ever
profeffed that he knew the road, and that man was
carried up to the army : all the others whom 1
preffed upon the fubjea, (fated, that they had gone
in (mall veffeis to Buenos Ayres, and never landed at
the Enfenada ; however, between Buenos Ayres and
Monte Video, before the latter felt into the hands of
the Englifh, there was much intercourfe. The ufual
way by land is to go to Colonia, which is .oppoftte
to Buenos Ayres, and then to anti over ; but I do
not believe that any perfons ever go willingly by
land from Enfeoada to Buenos Ayres.
qt. The march of the army on the zsith and 3oth
of June, and tli of July, teems to have been in
two divi us, did you conceive it to have been the

fame nn the sd ? A. I did, with the eitt„,...
the fmall variation, which truft have ha
the main dicifinn commencing its marchKT% , 4,
my own, by the left Rank from a Point abort
miles in the rear of the one from which I
Q.Had you any troops of the 17th
,• drag;,::
you, or if nut, to what crps were they
A. I law on the zsolt about thirty hurfes is
fellit,n of the 17th dragoons that could be:
lerable, but they were loon redurd to tvrh,
there were not fix of them fit to do ally duty'
lifter. I had three orderlies mounted nn
holies, which were the only horfes worihn
Q 4. Was Ilse face of the country filch st,l
admitted of the march of the army in (0 hi
rallel columns, and thus to have fhortened EMI
march ? A. From the Et! knada to the
never could find more_thao one road dung."
morals. Fr.m the heights to the Chnelln:'
part teemed equally fit for the pail:Re of is
in all direCtions. From the Chuel'o to flue„nli
for the &It two miles, the road Teemed eqnslyr,
ticable, and there wele then two roads .ottr'
, uths.

Can you Aare the reafon why the pal,
the river was not attempted at the briJgoi
do not know correetly ; the bridge was defolio
be of wood, and in the direffion in which it,
fuppofed to b: there was a very large &soli*
officers who had been in Buenos Ayres Watt
the guide that was with me, believed to be theli
on fire.

t.t.. Do you know whether the bridge ever
connoitred ? A. Certainly not by me,
was Jar k, and its diflance was, I think, fii 64,
Was it not palible to afcertain wheiht
bridge was on fire or not ? A. Certainly, by
ing a conliderable corps towards it ; but the
had fuch large bodies of cavalry betwers it mg
pardon, that nothing hut a confidetable
could have approached it.
Q Had the march of the army been in
columns, might ant the whole have allied at
Chico pafs on the morning of the ad, and pifed
with the advanced guard ? A. 1 knoll
shy they fhould not. 'Lite regiment, theleatc
pable of marching ,n that army (being the %NT
with me ; they had a great number of veryi,i,
men, who had been nearly a year on board d
tranfports. The 36th being a flouter bndy of bi
did not fail In much, but wee much fatigued,
corps, inured to hard lab.Atr in that cou.ttry,,,,
evidently much more able to march than a
lately hmded. _

Qvo your think any material advantagitei
hive been derived from the whole army patio
river and attacking the eremy en the td?
[General Whit elocke objected to this quinin,'
the ground of its being a matter of opinion, ban
te:wards withdrew his objeflion on this grotted,a
the anfwer mull refer to a particular 26, but
a general opinion.]—(Z2eflion repeated..
A. 1 believe we fhould have carriedßuenos An
had there been a force to fupport the isptti
made by the light battalion, we mull have can
the ylace.'_ . _

Did yntr report to General Whitelockr
want r,f pi ovifions cn the to of July, or lull
manner did you prnpnfe to proviflun your oaf
A. On the ill of July General Whitelockefori
corps himfelf, and remarked iicnn tbe very eta
ed flats of the 88th regiment : he told me tta
expe6ted 1 lhould catch a fufficizot quantity of b
locks with the advanced guard, not only for my or
but for his column alfo.

Q._ Could not provifions for the army luxe to
conveyed in boats, and a communicalioa open
with them ? A. The oply point I believe belie
the EnfenAd4 and the Chuello, where provifimuce
be landed, was under the village of Reduelioe-1
the defcription which I have had of the tiver,li
lievc the vietuallers might have come cli.fe in.lh
difficulties the patttge through the morals, from
fhore to the village, might have pelmet!, I
Lot know.

Q._ In the orders delivered to the Cattail
ficera for the attack on the gth of July, what ihM
was allotted to yon ? A. I was ordered by Genet!
Whitelocke to be at the Coral before the WI
which the cannonade was to commence. I Int
wait there till he arrived and t.) receive his cadets
Were the general at ders given to the Ms
on the morning of the 4th verbal or written? Al)
order to me was verbal—the infirtglioes m
yellerday were read at that time, and each Gem
Officer copied them.
O Was it then or at any other time mum
cated to the Officers commanding the diffetesti
tacks, what was to be the Ration of the Coraromi
of the Forces, in cafe they thauld have occafxs
report to him ? A. Ido not remember that it r
it may have been without my knowledge, Witt
not fpoken of before me to the belt cf my In
lefti n.

Q_ Did you rxprets a with yourfelf on the
niche .}-h, to delay the attack to the 5.11, to
•you time to reconnoitre ? A. No I did not—
heve the enemy outnumbered us in the ratio of
I in men, and to tot in artillery.
Q_ Had you any o.
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asA A.
rCertainlyee(l
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tiers to coital hides at
of my being fent to Colonia was to expedite the
orderetlffieeet,that the great
was verbal,.
Et to this
Lion of that divilion of troops in the thorteli
rime, as the bad s. either was about to let in, nal
(hipping might be damaged, or the ft-antra of
might have become more difficult. Colonel
accompanied me, and pe An will remember
correctly.
( By General Meadows) Were you end
as to the mode of t:te attack to be made upon B
Ayres ? A. May I ark whether it relate; to,
attack upon the town, or the general plan off
[General Meadows here laid be meant the at
ut the Town.]
A. I was—,-on the evening of the 3d of Mb
Whitelot ke fent an order that L fhould comet.
quartet c. He then afked me if I had ant idea
the town fhould be attacked ? I !fated that!
I tainly had thought on the fubjeti, having meltd,
preceding day for that very purrote. He awe
it I had put my ideas upon paper ? I anflured
I had, and he defined to fee t ...)tn. I IlatedtheP
I was at my platters, and I let fed it at hitdefin
delivered it to
Q. Was there any confid We variation bel

and that adopted by General 07hitelocke ?
pii plan, having been made on the march
I knew that the 4oth Regiment and the Irk
Dragonns would not be there, included them

fZ Were there any places pointed out in the Retie.
ral orders or other wife, to which the army was to
retreat, in cafe of a defeat ? A. None whatever.
From the circomflanre of thefe places not being
attually in the poirdlion of the army at the time of
itflring the orders, they could not he mentioned in
'hefe orders as the pofitive points on which the army
WAS to retreat.

Was there any other difference ? A. My firn
• an attack in columns from a central
would have been a confequent deploy.
anus to the attack. But as the attack was
in line, confequently there was no deploy
The bafis of my plan was very fimilar to that
by General Whitelocke, and I cannot call
:nce very great.
What was the diffance between the village of
and the Ration where you took up your
on the tit of July ? A. Between three and

Lie.nenan!-Colonel Btutick

The witnefs was tequelled to detail the orra
bus of the army, from its letting out from Monte
Video, to the attack on the sth of July upon Bomb.
Ares ? A. I was Chief Officer in the (tiarter
Matter General's Department in the expedition under-
taken againft Buenos Ayres, tinder the command of
General Whitelocke. I was introduced to General
Whitelocke by Sir Samuel Anchmuty, at Monte
Video. I tad confequently tome converfation with.
General Whitelocke, who Paid, that he wilhed to
dire& my attention in the firfl inflance to the pro-
viding of quarters for the men, and Itabling for
the bodes. He then introduced me to Major Ge-
neral Gower, as fecond in command, and told me
to difcufs thefe points with him. Captain Thom-
fon, of the Fly !loop, arrived flintily afterwards in
the Plata from the Cape of Gond Hope, with dir
patches from Brigadier General Crawfurd, who in-
formed General Whitelocke that he might be every
hour expected to join him in the Plata. The day
after Captain Thornton's arrival, General Whitelocke
fent for me, and told me, he wilhed me to go up the
River to examine Buenos Ayres, and look out for a
proper place fir landing the troops. I W4l. ?Ito
direCted to go to Colonia, in order to afcertain if it
was a convenient place of rendezvous for the (hips,
and to confer with Colonel Pack, w''o commanded
there, as to the expediency of fending a (mall body
of troops more to the weilward of Coltrina, to cut
off a body of the enemy on the left hank of the river.
On the fame day I received thefe inftruSi-ns from
General Whitelocke, he conferred with Admiral
Stirling, and received all the information he could
give refpeOing the landing up the river. He con•
fulted at the fame time with an American, and
with Colonel Dean, of the 3fltit regiment, who
had been at Buenos Apes with General Beresford.
They mentioned the Enfenada as being the only
place where troops could be landed, under c ever -1
the (hips of war. The General particularly di efled
his enquiries to the fiemation of Enfenada, and to Ole
Rate of the roads between that place and Buenn„
Ayres. It was 'fated that the Enfenada war. the place
where goods were often landeu, and from thence
conveyed up to Buenos Ares in witerred carriages.
—That evening I went on board the Fly floop, and
failed up the liver with Captain Thornton. We xi
mined on .hat and the fuceeeding day a conliderahle
extent of coalt for about fifty miles to the E inward
of Enfenada, Barragun, as far as 6 or 7 miles to the
Weftward of Buenos Apes. The refute was, that
we thought the Enfenada to be the belt place for lan.
.ling, under cover of (mall Chips of war. We were
oarticularly anxious to afcertain if the landing cou'
be-fleeted to the Weflward of the tow i, but Captain
ournfon was decidedly of opinion that the leas iga
tion was too difficult for a fleet of tranfports. After
having gone over to Colunia, and Ricci tallied that a
large fleet c uld rendezvous in that harbour, and
conferred with Colonel Pack on the oth-r matters, I
returned tu Monte Video on the 27th or 28th r f May.
I found, upon my return, that Major General G iwer
had arranged feveral meatutes with Admiral Stirling
with regard to the embarkation of the troops from
Monte Video ; that the tranfports were to be vie--
walled fir three weeks ; that fupplies for ten thou-
land men were to be provided by the Commiffary
General; and that eighteen light guns were to be
embarked, and alto time heavy pieces, I think four
24 pounders and two mortars, but of this I am not
certain ; the whole of the artillery arrangements be
ingcomtnitted to the care of the Chief Officer in that
department. General W. had given, up the idea of
mounting the whole of the cavalry.

~es.
Was the nature of the country inch, that the
akin by your corps could have been teen from
Tillage of Reck(!bon on the morning of the 2d ?
I fbould think fo. I faw the principal part of the
doting the greater part of the day, after they
-
Reduaion, and therefore they mutt have

toe.
Was there a free communication between the
ay and your corps on the evening of the
; A. There was no communication in that night ,'
the whole period of that march it was ins.
to communicate with tolerable tafity, with
under the ftrenzth of a company.
Had you any guide with you on the morning
Id, to fhtw you the Chico pafs ? A. I had a
me who prufefled he knew the road. Gen
all. captured an Indian in the courfecrf the
, ,us night. Both guides teemed certain a its
but not of its era& pofition.
op. On which fide of the river did. General Liners
", up his pofition, in order to defend the pafrage
to bridge ? A. His batteries were certainly all
the Wellern fide. I have heard it reported that
Jvanced along the bridge with fume infantry,
Ido not believe any confiderable number ever
in our pretence.
Having Rated that Buenos Ayres would have
Carried on the zd, had General Whitelocke
i your line of march ; Hate the grounds of y ,ur
? A. It is grounded on the information
then procured from the prifoncrs, that the
-the enemy's attention and means of defence
at in late a period as T 2 o'clock on that day,
'ireeted towards the line of the Chuello and the
~ and confequently the entrance of a body of
'-itn the town frum the Weflern fide, was b)
tally unexpeeted and unprovisfed fur.
Was the plan of the attack ifftred on the 4th,
' to by any of the principal Officers of the
A. Certainly not ; 1 believe every body
dent of fuceefs.

When General Whitelocke joined you on the
id he affign any reafon for not fanner cupport-
too, putluant to the meirage delivered by Col.
to ? A. I underlined that the caufe he affigned
that his guide Lit his way.
Q._ Were the Officers encouraged by any thing
• tell horn General Whitelocke to Mate their ob

to the plan of attack if they had any ? A.

(30 ; and 1 did not hear the flightell objeCtion.
QDid they exprefs ►heir approbation ? A. I was
pcculiatly 6tuated with the Commander of the
that I had vcrylittle perfonal communication

Ay of them. -With the few I had, they did
/refs their approbation.
CL State what that particular fituation yen allude
;Is A, I have no difficulty in doing fn. Ge-
Whitelocke was extremely jealous of the inter.
•Gf any of his inferior Officers, and I had it
to me in a very particular manner in •the
of that day, by his defiring the command
. of the artillery and engineers not to fpeAlc
me, becatee, he Paid, that more attention had
. paid to me than to the commanding officer.
was therefore precluded from any further corn-
with the officers prcfent, or from ailing
fpecific order.
Did you hear any particular oblervation by the
then prGfent, which you can detail to the
?—A. I think I remember hearing General
afk if the oppofition in going down the
. was great, and the lots of men confiderable;
columns were to force their way in fpite of
Sing ? General Whitelocke anfwered " certain-
but care mull be taken in filing off not to
le fire of the artillery in the centre, and to
to the right or left, according as the ct.lumns
the right or left wing."
June ADVOCATE fuggefled that the Court
defer any quenions leading to a detail of
converfation, until the officers themfelves
. prefent are examined.
Were General Lumley's obfervatinns made in
'ing of General Whitelqcke ? A. All that
was in the hearing of General Whitelocke.
. was a general difeuffioo relative to the hour
attack ; as the defcription of light at the mo-
• 0 attack was conlidered of the utmoti con-

Were there any orders given in cafe of a re
A. No general ones that I know of. I
lood that the Refidencia was a good point
' at, in cafe of accidents; and that the Plaza
was another.
(Z_Explain what you mean by faying the places
I mentioned were undertfood to be proper places
letting ? A. I confklered that it was fappofcB
• clearable that the army, for which there re•
no more provilioas, fliould, at all events,
!, get into filch a fi•itation as to have a
communicating with the Navy r. the Re-
. and Plaza des Toros afforded this facility.
tilted retreat of the columns out of the town
Ilward deprived them of it. This 1 believe
reafon why it was more defirable, if pollible,
wing to give way to its outer flank—if
to give way at all—than to come direltly
town again as it entered.
Were theft places confidered by yourfelf as the
lees to retreat to, or were they foggelied
.sal Wl.irelocke, either before or after the
A. They were tugzelled both before and after
meeting of the 4th. I undertiood that they were
1) good, our troops could not be driven
them, and the event proved the faCt. Major
of the 7tlf regiment, who had been a p. ;loner
town before, was ordered to attach Iritufelf to
th reitirnerit, merely for the purpofe of vinting
ttle places.

the.earts inei Mules tip the riier toMoate %tided.— /
Ilionld obfervd, that in there 8722 men were included
t 5'50 brongirt over from Cohnia on the 25th and
26th June. 1 (ball now defcribe the line of march
from the place of landing to Buenos Ayres. The
troops landed en the morning of the 28th, at half
pail nine, confided of General Crawford's brigade,
the 38th and 87th, eight companies of light infantry,
and nine companies of the rifle corps. This tot co
(excepting the 3d company of the tifie corps ordered
to be left behind) marched to the heights, abort four
miles from the landing place, under command of Ma.
jer Gen. Gower. He had ago fume mounted cavalry,
and two field guns; bat I cannot exactly ft ste Omit
number, becaufe I received partictilar orders from
General Whitlocke not to move with the advanced
guard. Before fun-fet all the troops were landed ;
feveral field guns, artillery, and their horfes, and the
whole of the force, excepting Maj a General Gower'.
corps,was Rationed in the vill flee and fort of Barragon.l
This evening the General Rated to me his intention
to march the next morning at nine o'clock from the
heights with the main budrof the army. He &fired
me to remain, to haften as much as pefilhie the dif•
lembarkation of the hortes and fibres Rill remaining
on board ; and he wifhed to have a confiderable fuer-
ply of fpirits and bread fent up to the heights, and
authorized me, if the Commifftry General was not
provided with the means of conveyance, to have
pack fiddles put upon tome cavalry hortee, to tam
in conveying the ;et ovifions. In confeqneece of this,
forty hones were touted over to the Comn:iffary
General. By funfet on the 29ih, every thing wa ,
landed that could be conveyed ; and early in the
morning of the 3oth, the artillery, with the Cron
miliary pores, proceeded to the heights. On the
march, the Officer commanding that divilion of the
artillery, (hewed me an order of Captain Frafer, who
commanded the whole, In detiroy the Spanifh guns,
if any difficult y t•ccutt el in bringing them through the
marlhee. As I toppled this order was by the Gene•
ral's content, 1 gave mine alfo. I left the artillery
on its march, and proceeded to j 'in the General on
the heights. I found that General Gower had
marched for Reduetion, having tin ler his orders
four comoanies of the 95th, the light-battalion under
General Cranford, and the ;6th and 88th under Ce-
ntral Lumley, font &pounders, two 3-pounders, and
(-rime monnted cavalry. I found the General about to
move with the army to the ground underllo ‘d to
have been occupied the evening before by General
Gowet's corps. He ordered the difmromted part
of the 57th light dragoons and the 4oth regiment
to rc•nain on the heights under Colonel Mahon, to
efcoft the artillery when it lhould come up. He
then moved forward with the main body about
five miles, and the army was Rationed at three farm
!routes, about two miles dillance form each other;
1 the 36th was in the r ar, the 5:1) and 87th in the
centre, and Colonel Nlabon's brigade in front. The
main body of the army confuted of the 6 h di ageon
guards difmnunted, seh light dragoons difineutited,
and the 45t0 regiment. We received information that
the artillery had all reached the heights, hut that the
Icemen and horfes were too melt fat igrred to bring it
forward on that day : as elvers arrived from Major
General Gower Rating, that he had halted about feven
miles in our front ; he laid he had marched too late
in the day to be able to reach Redudion tie fame even-
ing ; that he' was actions to take his corps Irefh to.
wards that place, becaufe he had feen fame Spanifh
officers reconnoitre his corps, and he thought the vil
loge was occupied by the eneny. He Hared that if
• he did not heat farther from General Whi:eleeke he
fhould proceed in the morning tor ReLlmaion. In an.
Ewer to this the General ordered him to halt whet e he
was until he Ihnuld arrive wi,l: the main body of the
army, which he hoped would he tarty next day. An
order was fent this evening to Colonel Mahon to pro-
ceed as far as he could next day on t/•e road towards
Redudion. On the ill of July the main body moved
forward before fun-ri(e. General Whitelocke moved
forward, accompanied by me, and we jerned the
troops under General Gower at eleven o'clock.
FIFTH DAY. After fume private conference, General Gower
Colonel Buttes again called in. moved tinward to his corps, and, when we returned,
O Do you know if there was any accurate furvey the main body was halted for an hour. I could not
of the country between Monte Video and Buenos afcertain d the tee route General Gower was ro take,
; Ayres, comprehending both bank; of the river Plata? and it was-about one o'clock when the main body'
A. There was a furvey made by an officer of the moved forward for ReduCtion. The advanted guard'
Navy.—The witnefs then proceeded with his narra was formed into columns. On our approaching Re
live : I cannot fay what meafitres wete adopted -at dudior. I moved forward again. I found fome of our
Monte Video to procure horfes with which to mount dragoons in the village, and there learned that Gen.
the cavalry ; but it was found, upon the embarka. Gower had marched through with his corps. Shortly
tinn, that five veffels would remain to he ufeJ as after Gen. Whitelocke came up to the village, he re-
florae (hip,. The information we received at Moore ceived a difpo',..:ll from General Gower, who awed
Video refpeding the road from Enfenada to Buenos that he got through Redudien with little oppolition,
Avec, amounted to this— The dillance from the and fhould endeavour to pull' forward that evening,
Enfenada to Redndion was Paid to be about 20 miles ; and, if poffible, endeavour to pufh a (mall corps
and from thence to Buenos Ayres was nine miles— *trots the river: A little !gime funfet the main
that there were three different roads ; the one on the body arrived at the village, and was Rationed two
fande, the other through the marfh ; and the third, hundred yards in front of it. Some time after fun-
and belt was upon the heights—that, in order to fee a fecond dilpatch arrived from General Gower,
reach the heights, tome marrhy ground mull be who Hated, that the ground in his front appeared
very marlby, and that he would pufh forward to the
palred—that the road was firm and goad when tire
;heights were gained—that there were but very few Chuello : that his leading brigade was about five
farm houfts on the road, nor could the trot lee expect miles from the river, but that the bridge was burnt.
Ito find filcher Runt of the ftiburbs of Buenos Ayres Shortly after we reached the village of Redaction,'
—that from Redndicn the higher road led along the an officer landed from the fleet, to whom Genet al
Ibridge. The whole of this information I gave to Whitelocke gave tome diredions refpeding landing
Genet
al Whitelocke, and the greater part of it was Tome bread and fpirits next day for the army ; he
Rated it to be his intention the next day to allow
contained in a memoir written by a perfon who ac-
companied the expedition—With regard to the Colonel Mahon and the artillery to join him, and
that the whole of the army might be fupplied with piraitets of the enemy, it was uncitrltood they in
I tended to oppofe our landing at the town of Bue bread and fpirits. It was alfo fettled that General
!nos Ayres itlelt, or at St. Sacro, to the wellward Whitelocke and fume of the Staff were to proceed
lof the town—that they alto meant to difpute the in the morning to the advanced corps, from whence
; paffage of the Chuello. With regard to the enemy's they were to proceed with an aeon for General
; force, the reports were fo contradidory, that no Crawford's brigade, to reconnoitre the petition of
I credit was attached to any of them. 'rl•e army dif the enemy on the Chuello. It was fettled alfo, that
the ford over the river was to be examined ; and
embarked near Eitfenaela and Berragon on the 26th of
June, was 8722 rank and file, including 150 mounted from this reconnoitring party great advantages were
dragoons ; it was provided with eighteen pieces of expeded. An order was fent in the evening to hallen
field artillery, and 2c6 honks and mules for their Colonel Mahon for ward next day. This doted the
conveyance, and there was a finall armoury, and Proceedings of the ill of Jelly.
ammunition for its fupply : a large quantity of ord- On the zd of July, about two o'clock in the
morning, General Whitel eke called his Secretary,
trance (lore, were betides embarked, and a referve
artillery of fume heavy pieces, mortars, and howitzers Colonel Torrens and my felt, and laid he had changed
his mind, and would order General Gower to move
—there were entrenching tools for tOOO men, fix
pontoons, fafcines and carriages ;camp equipage for forward, as he was very anxious that the troops
ihould get into cantonments, which lie underitood
to,coo men, but no horfes for their conveyance.
The embarkation of the provifions, or means of eon.a could be found in the fuburbs of Buenos Ayres. He
veyance on fhore, was not in my department, hut I
I dictated a letter to General Gower, 'the contents of
underflood there were provifions for 10,000 men, for 1 wbich I cannot pefitively (wear to at this ditlance of
two months at lean, and I had been applied to by time; but, to the heft of my belief, the Major Gene-
the Continiffary General to procure (hips to convey ral was ordered to proceed with the corps under his

ifict pars tie t htieiln :Ante the bridge, to
take up a pnfition on the heights, wefiwatd of dig
town. and to endeavour V open a commudicatidd
with the Spanifh Commander, on ,he fillijat of iht
furrender of the town, anJ I think he Ilred uphr. 'h*
terms already difctifiA. I had lime further cod.
verfati In with the General, in which I fisted to Mitt

my extreme ignorance, of the c untry, and urged ,he
necelllty.of reconnoitring the river. I was ordered
to uke a letter at day break, that its otting. I pro-
ceeded to General G met, and delivered the letters

He complained to me that the 88. h Regiment, under
116 command, WAS erre nely unaeady, and very
much frigued, and he Lemed altogether ditritisfied
with th& orders he had received. I limed to hint

that as the didance h:tween the two corps was but

*thou, it might perhaps be advantageous to commu-•
nicate himfelf with General Whitel'cke on the
litbjeft. He told me, that, as he had received pe•
remptory orders tn m.arch,he should obey them. He
t! en fent lot Gen .Crawfore, and an American, who
laved as a guide, and conful•ed with them 'Ton the
prop tfed march. He particularly quefiinned the
guide as to the Chico paf,.; it was defcribed as a very
bed pads, and ablut fmr or fix miles dirtant from
General Gower's polition. As far as I can reme:n-
ber, the refolt sf this was. that General Gower
refulved not to march his corps to the Chico pals,
but to move along the heights, and endetv ,or to
rind a more praBicable General G again
exprelfed a good deal of uneafilefs at tie match he
was ()Meted to take, and that I would repreftht the
m suer to the General. I laid, I thought it likely
he would move the whole army to his fuppl,rt, bat
that on this fithjed I could (peak will, no certainty,
as the General hid not communicated to me whe-
ther he intended to march that day or not. Gene-
ral Gower then wrote an tinfwer to Grieral White.
locke's (riders, which I crmveyed, and he detired me
at the fame time to write down the terms he was to

offer to the Spanith Comman 'tr. PreviJus to my
leaving lteduaion that morning, General• White.
locke communicated to me what the terms were,

which I wrote down accordingly at General Gower's
requeft. I cannot es.telly llate them from mem ry.

excepting that the principal one was the immediate
rerlotation of the 7111 Regiment, and the ptif inert

taken under General Betesf(ird. 1 returned to Ge_
neral Whitelocke, wlom I found half waysbetween

the two be,die, : he afked me if General Gower

Teemed pleafed at the order he received? I limed
that he complained of the Rate of the 88th Regi•
ment, and 1 lubmitted to the General whether it
was not advifeaWe to it:ppoa him ? The General
_ _

&ft propofed fending a tingle regiment ; but a ihort

. .
time afterwards he rircletedthe %VII le army to march
about ten o'clock.—He then defired me to write a
letter to the Admiral to Rate, that the whole army
WAS in motion, and proceeding to the Weftward if
,he town, and to detire that' means thould be taken
for landing provifi ni there, and that the (hips which
conveyed she heavy artillery, lhogld be lent up there

. . _ .
likewiie. He then defired me to confult one of the
guides, (the fame min who had written the memoir
upon the roads) as to the thortell rotfte to a proraica-
blc pais over the Chuello. He Hated, that about two
Leagues dillant, in a S.W. direction, we timid arrive
37 the place where the Chuel'o was paffable, and he
brought us a peafan:, who per feftly lo:ew the coun-
try, and would conduit us there. • General White-
Locke had fame converfation with this man, and he
delired me to condo& the columns tinder his direc-
tions. The army marched about half pa.t ten
o'clock, ard proceeded about three miles, in a South
Weil direction : about twelve o'clock I Caw the
corps under General Gower about three miles
diliance, proceeding nearly at right angles with
our line of march ;—I Dated this to tne guide,
who told me, that as to-n as we had croffed the
road, called Atojo di Maitail, we timid ni ,ve in
the lame direction alto ; we accordingly erotica the
Arrjo di Mailail, and proceeded pretty nearly in the
d.recti It which the guide hated--he then (hewed me
the higheil tree upon the hill, under which, he laid,
at a (bort dillance, we Oat:mid find the ford to which
he intended to conduit us. About halt pail two
o'clock, as we were moving by three larm !mules
the General propofed to halt for the day. 1 ;toted
to him the information the guide had given as to the
diftance of the pals, and 1 alto Hated, that from my
communication that morning with Gen. Gower, I
was convinced that wilds he was ordered to halt, he
would crofs the river, and proceed to the heights to the
Weltward of the town. "i h: General had not de-
cided whether he would actually halt or not, when
Sir Samuel. Auchmuty came up, to whom he re-
ferred the qucilion. Sir Samuel Auchmuty voted
for halting, as there pas a large quantity of Iheep
clofe to thefe houfes, and plenty of fit e wood to drels
the meat. The army accordingly halted, and
formed two tines—Sir Samuel Auchmuty's brigade
in front, and Colonel Mahon's in the rear. An offi-
cer and Come dragoons was fent back to Reduaion,
to order Colonel Mahon to halt there till further
orders. A little bef 're fun fet this evening we heat d
a cannonade, apparently near Buenos Ayres, the
Ileeples of which had been in fight fine we left Re-
duition. On the 3d of July the army marched a
little before day break, and patting. the Chuello at
the ford the guide pointed out, which he then told
us was called Patio di Zamora—we went firward a
mile and half in front to fee it.. The water was fo deep
that the guide fwam his torte over, but, about a
mile farther down the Dream we found a good and
fafe pals. The army had arrived at the pal: between
19 and to o'clock, but as it was exceedingly narrow,
j and the water np very near to the arm pits, the.
whole army did. not evils until near one o'clock.
About one mile and a half from the pals we met. an
officer, fent by General Gower, with Dated to us
that he had been engaged the evening before ; and
this officer condneted us to Gower's chvifion, which
was about 1 mile and a halt farther: we found their
advanced pair were engaged all the morning, and I
undertlood that he had juts before ordered the" to
.withdraw, in order to induce an attack upon him.
I conduced General Whitelocke to General Gower's
quarters, who had the map of the town of Buenos
Ayres upon his table, and who was defired by Ge.
ne, al Whitelocke to point nut the belt politicos ter the
troops then come up, as, he oblerved, that having
been :onger on the ground, he mutt be better ac.
(painted with i:. General Gower propoled, that
Sir SamuelAuclinurty's brigade thould march to the
. left,and extend as tar as the Recolletta Convents, on
1 the banks of the river Plata, and be was direfted to
1

raft ,
gel !ha'
an.
• creel knewl thi
• •h; Dragcros
Qo.
n Was there a
was an attl
,•,t—there wool
rec; previous to
;Id; in line, co
et, The bafiso
fed by Gener
difference very
Qz What was I]
irduat
•on and the
t r fidon no the tot I, r miles.
Was the nat
, to taken by I^%
e village of Red
I, I thould think
rim doting the
,netted ReduCtion
rime.
Was there a
• bay and y,
•
I dr A. There iota'
,ring the whole
to commit
force under the
(1...1.1,,d you an
.f the id, t^ thew
, an with mewho
Crattford all' cap'
' ,reVIAIS night.
iiiienCe, but not
Q.Oll which fu
uke up hit politic
d the bridge ?
tPe en the Weliern fit
he advanced alon
• but Ido not belie
t' rfed in our prefi
I Q Having flat
hen carried on tt
' hwed your line o
• ;finks ? A. It
which I then proc
the whole of the corm
)14
mi la, at fo late a
en direeted tow,
1! Plata, and confer
fs troops into the to
them totally unex
Ili Q.. Was the p]
dle objected to by an'
Army ? A. Cer
at was confident of f
at. QL When Gem
114 yd, did he atlign
'te tee you, purfuant
Bike ? A. I ur
r.ele was, that his guil
toaQ. Were the I
• that tell from Gei
ftions to the plat
161 Ce tainly ; and 1
Q_ Did they ea
• fo peculiarly Grua
W Forces that I had
11' with any of then
he exprefs their app'
0 State what
vele to was ? A. I 1
metal Whitelocke
tee Terence if any of
la marked to me in
en morning of that
di iog officer of the
'by to me, bec au'e ,
he • ..en paid to me
tet ' was therefore
the .unication with
de 'flout a fpecific
Q._ Did you he
Of: •• era then pro'
•urt I tlt
tali • amity afk if
'eels was great
IN columns wer
y thing ? Get
tint; but care
fly ofi the fire of
ad eff
o the rig,,
Nal long to the rig
The ILTOCE A
ati. -mild defer an
▪ tneral converfa
ho were prefer
nn Were Gen
'e hearing of C
wee 'fed was in air
col. •re was a gel
attack ; as the
if attack
pit orrice.
(Were then
1 • A. No
• 'flood that
ti: meet at, in ca
Toros was ar
'.1611 (t. Etplein w
Inv mentioned s
role meeting ?
the be clearable t
I;erre more
poffible, get it
lit 'et of comets
, a and Pla
liedireCt ret re
:we the we It Wit t d
the be the r f
a_ ea on s
ice? each Wing t
:ack 'ry to give
of the town
;en. Were rhef,
114 places to
Ito° • Ceenetal WI;
ee. lA. Th
the c y
meeting of ti
tree nit 1‘) good,
that cm them, and
c 41,, of the 71
and ' the town heft
45th regime,
wsa thele places.