Star.
London, England, 1807-03-04 00:00:00

.11Z1EivO3 BYRES.

the Math id Gazette, of the snub January.tectived by the Gibral.
tar Mail on Ssturtlay.tontaini the following account of she re-
capture of Snows Amt. The principal particulars are already
welt Munro, but forme of the details parch fulficient inured to
render the account worthy of perufal
Mose Excat.zzir Stc—The Cisn'netandant Gene-
ral ot the expedition app.•intee to reconquer Buenos
Ayres, gives an account of the particulaes of that
glorious achievement 4.f his Majelly's troops. •
Sir Happening, through a 'concurrence of ciretim-
(lances and fupert %r orders, to be out of Buenos
Ayres at the time of its furrentlert and therefore at
liberty tOpurfue the coarfe which I might think hell
for the (crake of his Majetly, I only thought of pro-
ceeding to biocoevideo, with a defign to propote to
the Governor of that town the -recapture of Buenos
Ayres. But, upon my arrival, I found an expedition
prepared* for that purpole, and almolt ready to fed
out ; encl. in, confecptence of a- change of cireum.
ti attain; owing to the mote probability of an attack
being made wpm's-Montevideo, the Commandant Ge
neral of Mkrittes:Brigadier Dora.'.Palqual Ruiz Hsi,
dobro. fent me the following order, dated July 22.
(The (Inter Mates, at great length, thlat l)oict Parqual, having
conceived the *de. of mem queeit.g. iiirenos Ayra, communicated. I
it to tile Tnwo eponcii ;that the Iteeeffart iufunnation refpeeling:,
the ftreflgtt; of the toady and' tbg difpoOtions of the inhabitants
•Ji the espital having been .brained, an -espedition was planned, of
which lion Pafqual was appoiutcd Commander by the Council,
upon tyle fiproutioit • hat Monteviihtic oral out to be attacked ;
that. while Ode expedition we, repent's, I.iNrr wrote.woad that
be would attempt the recapture .4 &woos Ayres hinifelf,. and
would whoa for the Needs Mille ulidertalting, if they lave bins
don men ; that the Connell, era/heating bhp:tit/AI, Wilted up-,
on Lon Patipsal going Mink% as .bid hew fettled at tint c but
that, stoma pofitive Mtaigencetsaviat bgen.'received of the ene-
my's intention, to hsboilsird Montesidsch mid to attempt s tanding,
for which pottiofe they had re-endiarkedeight hundred issen out
apt the fifteen huoilreil It, Buenos Ayres the. former refohition of
she Cowed was itsetetivrith regard to the Commandar.or the ea
peditint‘and Cite Inkappointa, cue hundred lViiquelets being
airded to the five hundred choice men whom he bad Aced. for, and
. Ala connnand hang extended to the naval foreei, the crews of
• • the th(psthernfelvei being put at bts dlfrial, if be thought roper
to hod than )
On the 2351, I began to match with the artily,
pufhing as lar as the Canelones, in which place I was
overtaken by very heavy rains which cauled the ri-
.vers to overflow. This accident kept me there until
the .2,6111, when, having collated all the boats in Sta.
Lucia Chico, I formed rafts on which the whole
army eroded over. In the evening of the fame day
I reached S. Jofeph, where the army had likewife to
croft' the river on floats of timber. On the 27th I at.
*rived at Rofativ, and on the next day at the Colony
of the Sacrament, where I found the flotilla under
the Captain de Fragata Dn. Juan Guttivrcz de la
Con(n a, compofed of fix fchonners mounting IS and
24. pounders, and one with 36 pound howitzers, fix
of the King's gun hoati., and a merchant one with
nit 18 pounder abaft, two more with 9 pounders,
and eight tratifporti. On the 29th an Englifh brig
hove in light ; and, as the was almull becalmed, I
fent the gun boats out to beat her off, which they effec.
ted is a illutt time, the wind having frefirened ; not-
withflanding which, the fuffered d gooddeal of da-
mage in her upper wroks andraffard, as the received
a few sot. In !fal, we were detained by cuneraty

winds.
On the t fl of Auguft I ifftsed4he following Order
I. the Army.
" Don Santiago tinier and Fremont,- Knight of St. John, Cap•
eosin of the Navy. and Commander in lahtet of the land and ha
Fortes appointed to reconquer Buenos Ayres.
' Informs alt the Corps compofirg the Arniy wt ich he has the
honour of ennottanding in the glorious undertaking of the recap.
rare of Buenos Ayre., that, this evening. if favoured by the
wind, they will emhark to pals over to the Southern Sark; that
he make' rni await of the Alltl•ltr, pattintifm and intrepidity of the
brave Officer., Serjeant., Corporals, Privates and Volunteers of
la bum it conlifla; but that, if, contrary to his expedations, any
of them, forgetful of their principles, Would Ay berure the Enemy,
they arc informed, that there will be a gun in the rear, loaded
with cafe (hot, with orders to fire upon the daflardly Runaway..
" Valour without difcipline leads to immediate ruin; forces
concentrated and fuhmiffive to the voice which direds them, are
molt likely to conquer: I. therefore, recommend the molt Ecru
putout obedience to the refpcdtive Uthecrs, on pain of being
fummariry eunifhed, as enaded by the Ordinance In fuch cafes.
" If, as I hope, we fuccecd in conquering the Enemies of our
Country, remember, Soldiers, that the Spanifh Nation is ac-
eultomed fight with intrepidity. arid to triumph with hum.
nity : a conquered Enemy is our brother and the religion and
generatty of all true Spaniards, have rendered thek principles fo
congenial to their minds, that I Would be aChamed to dwell upon
their excellence.
" 11 gond order. difelpllne, and propriety of eondudt Would bo
ob"erved both before and after obtaining the vidory, we ought,
after retaking Buenos Ayres, to condua ourselves with the great&
prudence, that it may not he laid that the public tranquility has
been more diinathed by thole who are friendly than by the enc.
my ; for if a kw traitors to their country deferve to fuffer,
there is no doubt but they will be fummarily punithed by the
Authorities anointed to take cognizance of crimes of that
defcription. lA'herefore I expectt from all my beloved brother
(tidier', that they will afford me the glory of my being able to
lay at the foot a the throne of our btlnved Sovereign the deeds
of their valour, as well as their moderation and unexceptionable
eunduel."
Having, on the fame day, received orders from the.
Governor of Montevideo, to reinf.,tce my troops, if
I deemed it proper, with too militiamen of the Colony
of the Sacrament, the Major Commandant of that
place, Don Ramon del Pino, not only exerted him-
felf to teleet too men, already infttufted by himfelf,
but baying expreffed his with to give them an uni-
form, his Lady Donna Francifca Hutt opened a fob-1
fcription fire this purpofe, her fell firft fubfcribing too
hard dollars. After her eznmple, Don Leon de Al.
tolaguirre, Commandant of the Revenue, who bad
already flood fecutity for one of the tranfports, in
cafe the the uld he loft, Inbictibed 250 ; Don Juan
de la Concha, sco : an example which was fol-
ic.wed by all the Officers of the Amy and Navy.—
f hole troops difplayed the greatell bravery on the
12th.
We left the Colony on the 3d inflant, after
ftight-
ening away a frigate which was teen at day break
almotl becalmed at the month of the harbour. The
wind frdhened from E. and E.N.E. ; and the boats,
which had gone out to beat off the frigate, remained
off the Wand of St. Gabtiel, where we incorporated
nurfelves with them, all of us, fchooners, tranfpnrts
and troops, at half pall four in the afternoon. (Here
the relation goes on with the movements of the fqua.
dean until nine o'clock of the next morning, when
the landing took place at las Conchas, as :t could not,
owing to various c.tufes, be 'effefted where firft in.
tended ; alter Which, it tuns on as follows) The
whole of the troops and artillery was attune in lets
than an hont—and I proceeded with the mortal
!Teed to take pollitrion of the height of the Punta
...e les Moos, from which I puthed, in column, about
tali' a league onward, in order to pitch my tents

in a good fpot of ground, where I found plenty
of provilions for the army. Conlidering, that the
flotilla could not affift in the fabfequent operations,
I determined, in concert with Da Juan Guttierrex
de la Concha, to land 323 men, feamen and foldiers.
who, in the fame evening joined me with Concha
himfelf, headed by Dn. Jufef de Cordova, &c. &c.—
We had a very bad night ; the troops paffed it
under arms, without uttering the leaft complaint.
On the following day (sth) I moved to S. lfidro,
through which we paired amidst ti:e plaudits of all
•the inhabitants. WC encamped on a beautiful fpot,
but fuffered during the night from the wind and-
. rain, which the men endured with great fteadinefs.
' This ftormy weather continuing on- the 6th, I re-
folved to quarter the army in the town, both to
give it Come reit, and to clean the arms. The
wind continued to blow from the S. E. with heavy
!bowers, when the Englith loft five of their gun-
boats, until the gth, on which day I proceeded to
take poffeffien of the poll of the, Chacarita de los
Colegialer, whence I moved, on the next day, to
ilos Mataderos del Miferere, which 'I reached at half
pall ten in the morning. There drawing tip in order
of battle, I Cent my. Adjutant, Don Hilarion de la
Quintana, to the town, with the Nimmons to the
ghth General, which were verbatim as follows: .';
.. Mott Excellent Sir,
,I;Ira The fortune of war is vat latiet It is fareely above a' month
see you entered this Capital.scauning, with away (mall cumber
of troops, to attack an immenfe population. whith certainly wanted
a leader more than bravery to °mare your 'attempt. Novi, how-
ever, animated by the .higtieft aithutiatm to Blake off an odious
yoke, they arc ready to thew you, thaf the valeur difplayed by the
lohabitants.of Ferrol, the Canary Wands, and Porto Rico. is not
foreign to chore of Buenos Ayres. I come at the head of. Regular
TtooPs. 'to far fuperior to thole under your command In point of
numbers, and which yield to them neitha is *ill nor 'in Wel.
pine. My naval forces will command the Balite', Cu limit's
will be cut off from the pollibility of effeding a retreat. The sie.
gard to which your F.seelleney's valour is entitled, the generofity
of the Specifit nation, and the horror which humanity feels fbi
the deftrudioa of men, the mere tools of tick who go to War
with or, without justice cm their fide, induce me to give you this
information, that,acquainted with the saavoidable danger of your
fituation, yoit may let mt know; In fifteen minutes precifdy. whe.
tier you be inclined to take the defpetate refolution of ex poling
your troops to complete defirudion, or to furrender at difcretion
to a generous 'enemy. May on prefave your Excellency's life a
great many years.
" Spaniel Army In the neighbourhood of Buenos Ayres, Aug.
to, 'gob. • Mott Exedlent Sir,
(SittnTd) I "SANTIAGO LINAge
* To H. B. William Carr Beraforil."
Bait my Adjutant, thinking himfelf detained by
the General, without giving him audience, a longer
time than I had appointed, returned without de-
livering my letter. It appeared to me, however,
that I ought to thew the General the attention of
fending the Officer back with the fummons, dile&
ing him to declare, if they attempted to detain him,
that he would immediately let out, never to return,
and that they ought not to complain of the conk-
quences. This, however, he had no ocealion to do,
ac the Englith General admitted him without delay,
alledgiog, that if he had not been received fo loon
in the morning, it had been owing to his being at that
time engaged with the Bilhop, Town Council, and
Confuls. He gave him an aufwer couched in the
F01L.% ing twins :

" Buenos Ayres, Auguft to,
" I have received your Cfsdal Note, and confers that the for
tune of war is vark.ble. I have no doubt but you are far fuperior io
i-oint of numbers ; awl that it is of no ufe to cßablith a compa
rifon between *Ur refpretive Troops in point of thfcipline: our
h ,ve I ever admitted that I had entered this Town without oppo-
&ion, Suet I was under the t ecelbty, in order to creel it, twice
to beat the Enemy; and, at the fame time that 1 wilhed to beep
up the clutratfter of my Country, I have alto contrived to main-
ta.n the fair reputation of de Troops ander my orders. This
pit:mired, I have soly-to fay. that I will defend illicit as long as
confificnt with the didates of prudence. in order to prevent the
evils whit', might fall upon this town, as I fhould lament them
epic than any one; at,d front which it will be free, it all its inba-
bitant► behaved agreeably to the rules of good faith.
I urn, Sir, &c.
(signed) W. C. Br RIMORD.Major-Gco.

To Col. I.lnier.

Upon receiving this letter, I immediately marched
out to attack the Retire, which I effelted at five,
having fent a party of Miquclets forward to teem,
noitte the pat. They began by taking two prifoners
who were brought to me, with the intelligence that
that point was defended by zoo Englifhmen. I di.
reeled two howitzers to move onward, preceded by
the Catalans, and the &art of the Company of Ore-
nadiers of the Fizo, which proceeded with the
greatelt rapidity and refolution to the polt attacked,
followed by the whole army au pat de charge. The road
leading from the Miferere to the Retiro is very bad,
owing to the country boufes, and rugged or marfhy
(pots with which it is interfetied. This would have
greatly impeded my progrefi, if numbers of peafants
had not affilled in dragging the Artillery. In Ina,
I fuccceded in completely routing the Englifh, taking
ten prifoners, among whom five badly wounded, and
killing between thirty-five and forty. Upon hear-,
ing the report of the fire-arms, the Englifh General
came to the affiftanoe of his people, with fome ar-
tillery, at the head of a column which I fuppafed
to be 4 or 100 men flrong ; but, my Commandant
of Artillery having opened upon it with his howitz-
ers loaded with cafe !hot, it difperfed like a cloud,
leaving many killed behind, and abandoning its can-
non for a while ; for which reafnn I diredell it to be
attacked, with another, in the flank; but, upon re-
fleCtion, I ordered the troops appointed to that ferrite,
to (top, as it began to grow dark, and my people
were exhaulted by the forced marches of that day,
and as I had fucceded molt fortunately, and without
lofir:g a man, in making myfelf matter of fo impor-
tant a poll, in which are the Magazines where I
found waft fupplies of balls, thefts, tumbrels, gun-
carriages, and flares of all kinds. I had been -in.
formed, ;hat fome of the enemies were concealed in
the park; on which account, and alfo becaufe I
thought it the molt expeditious way to fupply the
want of keys, I direded a piece of ordnance to be
pointed againit the dont ; and a howitzer, loaded with
cafe-fhot, bell per chance more at 'land, they let fire
to it, when it unfortunately happened, that Don Joa-
quin Toledo, midflipman, was wounded in the head
by the rebound of a ball, which mull have hit a nail.
I was the more grieved at this accident, as I law him
covered with blood, and as it betel an Officer who
enjoyed my molt diftinguithed confidence ; but, the
wound being examined, it was found very flight, and
on the nest day, be did his duty at the pieces, to
which I had appointed him together with another
midfliipman, Don Federico La Cos.
Confidering, that if the enemy thould take refuge
in the tot t, I fhuuld be under the neceffity of battering
it to make a breach, I had diretted two IS pounders
to be landed from the (chooser Dolores, as it was a
flip which drew much fenteN nod could fcarccly be

of any ufe at Satires, in cafe of an attach on there&
fide. Thefe gunsarrived at the camp of the Retiro on
the t fah, and having found in the park carriages of
the fame calibre, though the axle trees had been cut
off by the enemy, I bethought myfelf of mounting
them upon the fame, after repairing them. This I
got done by twelve, at which hour, obferving that I
might, with one of thofe guns, fire upon the enemy's
forces in Balifits, I placed k on a proper fpot ; and
though, owing to the inequality of the ground, the
Ihot could not always tell, T fucceeded an hitting a
gun boat, which was thereby difabled from returning
I our fire ; after which, pointing it againft a frigate,
we fhot away her mizen peak where the Britiffi co-
lours were flying, which of eouife fell into the wa.
I ter : a happy pelage of what was to happen on
the next day at Buenos Ayres. And indeed, on
I'the t2th, at ten in the morning, the Miquelets hay.
ing opened a brine fire upon the enemy, for fear'
that they Would be either driven hack or cut off, 1.
battened the attack which I had refoleed to make at
twelve o'clock, moving in two columns, with the
whole of my artillery, through the areas of the
Merced and Cathedral: the IS pounders, without
limbers, were dragged by the men. The enemy
guarded the fquare with eighteen pieces of ordnance;
their troops Ailed' the flat roofs of the Poultry mar ket,
;and of &feral huufes contiguous to: the lituarr, at
well as the balconies of the Chapter hook ; from all
which points, after two hours action, which was fought
on both fides with equal obftinacy and bravery, the
enemies abandoned the lquare, whit was immedi-
ately occupied by our troops ; and, taking refuge in
the fort, they hoißed a white flag, but Inch was the
fuuy of my foldiers, that it continuedßying a long
time before our fire ceafed. At length, having. feen
Don Hilarion de la Quintana enter the fort with a
drum, they threw themfelves upon the barriii and
edge of the ditch ; and I had, together with all my
Officers, to ufe threats to reftrain them, and make
them underliand, that the fort had not furrendered
as yet ; that the white flag might have been bullied
only for asking a fufpenfion of arms, &c. And, in-
deed, if the Englifh General had not been a man of
honour, he might have lowered it, difpatched the
Adjutant, and made dreadful avoc among our peo-
ple. This, though not fufficient to fnatch the victory
from us, would have occafioned the efinfiln of more
blood. Far, however, from taking fa defperate a
determination, he cunfented to hoift the Spanith Flag,
without any thing further having paffed refpe&ing
terms of capitulation) than the declaration of my
Adjutant, that I would only admit of his forren-
dering at difcretion. Some time after, he came nut
of the fort with my laid Adjutant ; and upon our
meeting together, I expreffed, in a few words, that the
regard I ecrertained for his valour, induced me to
grant him the honours of war ; and indeed, having
formed my troops in line, the Englith came out of the
fort, with their arms, drums beating, and they laid
them down in front of our army, being rzoo in
number, and their lofs in the aElion 412 men and
five officers, between killed and wounded, while we
only 101 l 180 of the fame defcription, Don
_Kept' de
Miranda, Midfhipman, being wounded in the hand,
and my Aide de Camp, Joan Bautifia Fantin, Entign
in the imperial Army of France, had his leg broke:
There were 35 guns and four mortar. mounted in the
fort ; and upwards of 1600 muskets have been deli.
vered to us. It is not tine that they bad taken away
the arms which they found in the armory ; they have
remained untouched. We have taken from them,
betides, 26 pieces of cannon and four howitzers, and
the colours of the 7111 Regiment. which I had vowed
to dedicate to Our Lady of the Rotary.
I do not know which I ought more to praife, the
heroic conliancy with which Officers and Soldiers
have borne the hardfhips wiling from the bad wea-
ther, without any other Welter than the (ky, and
without any of them having preferred the fmallell
complaint, or betrayed the lea fymptom of uneafit
nets, or the incomparable bravery diiplayed in an at-
tempt attended with greater danger, and requiring
more boldnefs and intrepidity that: any other.
Among the traits of patriotifm of the inhabitants of
this town, I ought n-t to pafs over that of Don Ma-
nuel Ortiz Bafualdo, who gave me one thoufandhard
dollars, to be difiributed among the widows and
children of thofe who had fallen in the expeditinn,&c.
It is my duty to Rate, that the inhabitants of Bu-
enos Ayres, Don Juan Martin Puyredon (already
diflinguilhed by a deed of valour which he performed
a few days before my art ival, when he poffeffed him-
felf of a cart loaded with ammunition, and protetted
by a body of 600 men) Don Manuel de Arroyo, Don
Jofef Gabriel de la Hoyuela, Don Pedro Nunez,
Don Lnees Vivas, and Don Tomas Caßillon, who
rated under him, at the head of true Patriots, have
dune me the moil effential fervices as Light Cavalry,
patrolling whole nights round my camp, and inform.
ing me with the greatett punctuality of all the move-
ments of the enemy, (paring neither trouble, fatigue,
nor danger.
May Gnu long preferve the important life of your
Excellency ! 1 have the honour to be, &c. &c.
(Signed) SANTIAGO LIMIER.
Banos Ayres, Aug 16, I 806.
H. E. the Patties, of Psacs, &C.

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Afternoon 43 Minute* after :

MR. BREE has frequently been quellioned why
MR.
he continued to advertife to difplay qualifications which no
man has hitherto difputed, and to exprefs his fekdium of a peculiar
branch, in which the extent of his pradice it already fufficiently
known. To Inch queftions Mr. Bree replies—the kcrecy which
is infeparable from the treatment of that branch debars him from
the ufual mode of profelfional recommendation, for it is fcarcely
within the pair of the aloft perfedt intimacy, that a confafion of
error is fubmitted to merely to illuftrate the charadter of a Medi •
cal Pradtitioner. His qualifications and privileges are repeatedly
stated, to dißinguilk him from thole whs, without the acquire-
ment of profellonal knowledge:, have the temerity to afpire to the
advantages of prufdlonal pradice.
In thole ferret diforders, which are ordained to be the punifh-
ment of illicit indulgence, and in that complicated derangement
of the fyftem, which medical men denominate NERVOUS COM-
PLAINTS, producing general or local DEBILITY, by which the
Itamina of life are deftroyed, and the &arca intereits of pofterity
affeded, he claims fuch fuperlority of !kill as might perhaps have
been equally attained by any other Member of the College of Sur-
geons, confining himfelf for fourteen years to this branch, and
concentrating hit ftudies and pradice to this particular point.
Saud:Honed by the fucccfs of his undertaking, be offers Reftora-
Hon in every cafe of Venereal Infedtion, and in all thole Deficien-
' des which are the cor.fequcrices of tong-continued indulgence in
luxury or in vice, relidence in warm climates, or any other caufe
producing Dthility or Nervous Complaints in the one felt, mad
barrenneft in the other.

fhe terou of rcntunerrtioo arc plainly Rated on the &ft inter-
view, or in anfwer to letters enotainiog s Bank mote.
No. 29, AkrundcWircet, near Temple- bar, Feb. 1, tgoy.