Star.
London, England, 1807-01-19 00:00:00

BUENOS AYRES.

On Saturday afternoon, in confequence of a Teled
graphic Difpatch from Plymouth, the following Note
was fent to the LORD MAYOR, for the purpofe of
snaking it known in the City :

" ADMIRALTY OFFICE, JAN. 17, 18e7.

"'MT LORD—T have the honour to inclofe to your Lordfhip, a
tilefrage juft arrived at :he Admiralty, by Telegraph, from Fly-
mouth.—l have the honcur to be, &e. &e.

(Signed) " THOMAS nnstorittc."
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH.
(copy.)

" Bnenos Ayres taken, and the Aimy prifoners.—Anguft 12."
When the above reached the Manfion Houle, the
LORD Mayoa was attending the Sefflons at the Old
Bailey, to which place it was fent to him. His
Lordthip obferving the date of the reported recap-
ture, could hardly believe the Notice genuine, and
therefore helitated to make it public. To afcertain
its truth, he fent his Secretary to Mr. GRENVILLE, at
the Admiralty, of whom he had an audience ; and,
after his return, the Notice was made public ; but,
owing to thefe delays, not till a late hour.

The circuinflances that followed, fully juflified
the LORD MAYOR'S caution.

Yeflerday morning, the difpatches, upon which
the above notification was grounded, arrived at the
Admiralty, and were found to diminifh the autho-
rity of the previous communication. In conic.
quence, a fecond note was, in the afternoon, tranf-
mitted to the LORD MAYOR, but the contents were
not made known to the Public. The anfwer to all
enquiries on the fubjeft at the Manfion•Houfe was,
that the official information was not to be commu-
nicated till this morning, and that the former an-
count received by his Lordfhip was not true.

In (.10, the news now received, is the fame that
had been obtained from the Spanifh packet captured
about a fortnight ago ; ana, though the intelligence
may ultimately prove to be correct, it does not, as
yet, refit on any official information.
This morning the Loan MAYOR fent to Lloyd's
the communication which was yefierday forwarded
to him from the Admiralty, of which the following
is a copy :

', ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, JAN.IB, 1807.

4' MY LORD,

ig I have the honour to tranfmit to your Lordfhip
44 an extras of a letter received this morning from
44 Lord Cowacwoor, ; and alio an extras of a let*
46 ter from Captain MUDGE, from Portfmouth, de-
" fcribing the information giving to him by the Md.
" ter of the Spaniih fchouner El Cupido, captured by
44 the COLPOYS fchooner, on the 27th ult.

" I have the honour to be. icc. dre.
(Signed) THOS. GRENYILLIE."
*XTRACT OT A LETTER FROM VIOE•ADM IRA L LORD
COLLINGWOOD, DATED THE OCEAN, 01F CADIZ,
JANUARY 1, 1807

•6 By the Plincefs Elizabeth, Malta Packet,
44 I beg you will be pleafed to inform my Lords
Commiffloncrs of the Admiralty, that the Bsect.t
44 has juft joined with a Spann fchooner fhe cap•
" cured yellerday from Monto Video, which the left
46 on the t 7th September. I am bony to inform, their
" Lordthips, the brings the account of Buenos Ayres
" being recaptured on the 12th Auguft, and that
44 General Bkarsroio and the whole of the troops,

" amounting to about we, were made prifoners of
" war, and marched into the interior."
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN MUDGE, OP
HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP rHOIMIX, TO WEE. MA/ISDEN,
SUL DATED SPITHEAD, JAN. 12, 1807.
" The El Cupido, a fmall merchant veffel, taken by
" the Cotpors, failed from Monte Video 13th Sep-
" umber lA, bound to St. Sebaftian's, (in old Spain)
" but loft her miten•maft about ten days after : the

,6 put into Rio Janeiro, where they faw the Matter

" of a veffel, that reported that Buenos Ayres
64 to have been retaken on the 12th Augull—one
" month prior to his failing ; but, as the dißance
" from Buenos Ayres to Monte Video is only 107
" miles ; and not having heard any thing on the
" fuhje&, he (the mailer of the vetel) slid not credit
66 the report."
To the above we have to add the fubjoiced letter
from Lord Cottmowoon to the Commander of the
PRINCESS ELIZABETH packet arrived at Falmouth in
fifteen days from Gibraltar, and which the packet
received on the sd inilant, on which day the (poke
Lord COLLINGWOOD'S fleet all well.
(COPY)

" Ocean, off Cadiz, Ift Jan. z Bc7.

" Sir—His %jelly's brig the BEACLB, yeflerday

11 captured a Spanifh khnoner from Monte Video in
" the Rio Plata, by which intelligence was received
11 that the Spaniards, on the 12th Auguft, recap.
11 tured Buenos Ayres, making General RERESFORD
11 and his army prifoners of war. '

" I have to defire you will pleafe to give this in.
" foßnation to every man of war you may be fpAen
" by on your pairage to England, and alfo to fuch
" Englifh merchant (hips as you may have any con,-
" munication with. I am, &c.
(Signed) " COLLTNGWOOD."
The following was received by Poft this morning.:
'I PORTSMOUTH, JAN.I7.
_

" Reports of the recapture of Buenos. Ayres have

44 much occupied the attention of the London Plinio
44 lately. Falk information has been fent to them,
"‘ upon which they have reafoned and (peculated.
" That communicated by the Captain of the El
Cupido, has never been diftinftly Rated. It is
" limply thus :—On the 13th of September (he failed
" from Monte Video. On the 19th (he carried away
" her mainmaft, which obliged her to go to Rio
44 Janeiro, where it was reported that Buenos Ayres
44 had been recaptured on the 12th of Augu(. Now,
" as the diQance between Buenos Ayres and Monte
s' Video is only 107 miles, if the report had been
44 true, could (he have been at Monte Video a month
" without hearing of it ? The fad is, there arc no
" grounds at all for believing the report."

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

The following are Extraes from American Pa.
pets, which have juft reached us up to the sift ult.

FROM THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND AND DAILY
ADVERTISER.
NNW YORK, DEC. 20.
IMPORTANT.

Buenos Ayres retaken—Mr. Hall, a paffenger in
the brig Adeline, Capt. WIcIHAM, 28 days from
Havanna, has-fent us from Gravefend Bay the fol-
lowing important intelligence :

"Two or three days previous to the failing of the
Adeline, news were received Om Panama, Elating
that accounts hal kirk been received there (the
20th of Oetober) of the recapture of Buenos Ayres
on the Bth of Augull by a Naval Commander named
Don Sr. JACO LE NAIR, at the head of t;oo troops,
and 3 or4oo volunteers ; that they had killed about
500, and taken 1000 Englifh prifoners, including in
the latter, the Commander KIURLEY, and a number
of officers. The Spanifh troops were from Monte
Video, were carried up the river about 24 miles N.W.
of Buenos Ayres, to the river Conches, in launcbes
and (mall veirels. It appeared to have been an en-
terprize of Le NAIR and his followers, unknown to
the Spanifh Government.—P. S. The accounts re-
ceived at the Havannah make no mention of the
Englifh fhipping."—Evening, pg.