Star.
London, England, 1807-11-24 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Yeßerday fix Companies of the di Battalion of
the 82d Regiment, under the command rf Major
MACDON A LD, marched into Chicheller, on their route
to Portfmouth, to form part of the Expedition now
preparing there. This is the firft divifinn of a firong
brigade that landed at Deal from the Baltic, in the
line of march for the fame fervice. We believe the
32d and soth regipents are of the number.
The 88th regiment, lately arrived from South
America, was ordered to march from Portfmooth,
for Steyning Barracks, in Soiree ; they have been
fince removed to Battle, in the fame county, and
have been ordered to march from thence this day and
tomorrow, for Afhford Barracks, in Kent. Thefe
movements will have all happened in the fhort fpace
of a fortnight.

The 2d battalion of the 9zd regiment is at prefent
quartered at Ballyfhannnn, in the county f Donegal.
The soth Regiment marched through Lewes on
Saturday, on their way to Portfmouth. The firs di.
Tifton is commanded by Lieutenant Colonel WALKER.
Part of the
4th,
23d Oft battalion)
Sad (ad ditto) and the whole of the
28th regiment,
have been difembarked at Portfmouth, from Ct,pen•
hagen, and matched into the interior.
Several battalions of the German Legion have
been difembatked at the fame place, and have
marched for Bexhill, Battle, and Hollings; from
whence the tQ battalion 88th, and the 2d battalion
of the oh, and Both Regiments, with the Renfrew
Militia, have been removed to make room for the
Legion.

At the Privy Council whicheas held at theQ2een's
Houle on Wednelday lad, an Oirier was made,
which is extremely different in its nature from thofe
which have been praaifed under our navigation
laws. After reciting the titles and dating the parti-
cular objeas of leveral At of Parlia trent that have
been palled for the regulation of different branches
or our commerce, it ordains that hemp, flax, cotton,
wool, horns, hides, and leveret other articles, may
be entered at and landed in any port belonging to
the United Kingdom from neutral viffels, upon pay.
mew it the lame duties .re already paid on the
like goods imported in veil-els belonging r,l Great
Britain or Ireland. Moll probably the Order will
appear at full in the Gazette of this evening.
The Duke of CLARINCR, Lord ERSKINE, SCC:
dined on Sunday with the Earl of estor.stosolLar,
at his bottle in Piccadilly.

The Right Hon. ARCHIBALD CAMPIIIILL COLCur•
NOUN, of Killermouth and Clathick, Lord Advocate
for Scotland, has been eleeted Lord Rator of the
College of Glafgow, for the enfuing year.
The Commifliov.ers for condueting the Tranfpnrt
Service, &c. have given, as a gratuity to Mr. J.
Stinson, matter, and the crew of the Providence
tranfpnrt, of Scarborough, fifty guineas, f r their
exertions in raving the German troops from the Nor.
thumbedand transport, wrecked en the 3oth of May
1011, off the Rundleanne, as fully detailed io the S rat
of the t3th of July laft.
Yeflerday difpatches were received from Lord
Coselacwo, o. We are favoured with the following
letter from Malta :

" MALTA, OCTOBER c.

a Lord Cos:Aar:won is jut} returned here, hay.
ing left Sir ARTHUR PAGET at Tenedos, with very
taint hopes of fucceeding with the Divan. An Em-
bargo is laid on all Ragufan velfels in this harbour,
and the Auftrian is alma the only neutral flag on
theft fees. The aftivity of the Englifh cruizers on
this nation, in flopping .all defcriptions of vcffels, it
almofl without precedent."
The fate of Portugal is hill undecided. Lord
WILLIAM STUART arrived in town yeflerday more•
ing with difpatches from Lifbon, forwarded to him
at Oporto, from which place he failed on the sd of
the prefent month. Mr. WARRE, the Britifh Cnnful,
accompanied his Lotdfhip ; and we underhand, that
not an Englifltman was left in Oporto at the depar•
tore of the LAVINIA. His Lordthip a&ed as convoy
to a fleet of 35 fail, but was tcparated from them in
a gale off Cape Finifletre.
When his Lordfhip left Oporto, the French and
Spanifh armies had not gained the Portuguele bonna
dory, but it was generally underftood that they were
on their march. _ _

The Patuce Red &NT is reported to be in a Rate of
great anxiety ; ant it is (till uncertain, acc-rding to
the flatement of fome of the pafrengers on hoard the
LAVINIA, whether he will not find it neceffary to
emigrate to the Brazils. It is faid that BnNAPARTIi
has returned no antwer to his advances, but that
both are playing a game. the objeft of %hie; is to
deceive the other. The French Chief is anxious to,
get poffelfion of the Portuguefe Fleer, and to that)
end is faid to be amnfing the Pr.tacs Rsatur ;
whilft the latter, fufpeoing his purpofe, is Ural!),
upon his guard ; his (hips being fo manned and equip-
ped, that he has the power to depart at a moment's
warning.
With refpea to the Portuguefe people. they are
Paid to wait their fare in filence and fubmillion. In
fait, they hare fo little to foie, that any revolution
will be little more than a change of Matters.
Report attributes the prefent invafion of Portugal
rather to the PRINCE of PEACE, and to his ambitious
fug,geflions, than immediately
.to the French Empe-
ror. It is confidently and currently believed, that
the Emperor NAPOLEON has promifed this upftart
either the whole, or a confiderable part of the king-
dom of Portugal.

7

JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE
BRITISH ARMY AT BUENOS AYRES.

(Concluticd from the STAR of Yefterday )

NUMBER X. •

On the 7th of July, Lieutenant General WHITE.
LOCKE removed his head quarters from near El
Miferere to El Retiro, together with his immenfe
Staff. Major General Gowen alto changed his
quarters at the fame time.
The city was fill involved in all the dreadful
horrors of war, every houfe being clofely flint up.
The Britith officers were RriEtly confined to the cita-
del, but experienced every degree of attention from
the Spaniards, which could be granted them in fuch
a fcene of tumulr.

It has been afferted by fome, that when the fire
of the gun boats commenced againfl the citadel, an
intimation had been conveyed, by authority, to the
Bata prifoners, that their fafety was eery precari-
ous, from the openly vindietive fpirit which pervaded
the Spanifh populace, excited by the calamities of
the war, as well as by the cruelties and enormities
which were faid to hate been committed by the
Britifh foldiery : we can, however, with confidence,
vindicate the honour of the Spanifh Governor, and
his officers in general, as far as the fafety of their pri
Toners was concerned, from any imputation of this
nature t on the contrary, we can affirm, from un-
doubted authorities, notwithfianding the pizblie ac-
counts, that no jun grounds for fuch a charge did
ever exill.
It does not admit of a doubt, that the cireum
fiance of the Britifh prifoners being more (hien), con-
fined to the two halls rf the citadel, during the can-
nonading from the gon boats, than before, arofe
from the folicitude which the Spanifh General enter-
tained for their fafety ; for he had much to fear from
the licentioufnefs and want of difcipline among hiu
troops, who, he well knew, were capable of the
greaten enormities. Let it be alfc recollelied, that
fome of the Britifh officers, who had incautioufly
espofed themfelves on the outfide of the citadel, had
been fired at by yerfons in the fireets: this is ano-
ther circumflance which juftifies the prudence and
caution of Lstetsas towards his prifoners, and en-
tirely exculpates him from any fit:Mier intention in
planting fentinels over them.

Hitherto the wounded ctEcers and foldiers, who
had not been admitted into the citadel, from the want
of fufficient accommodation. had received but very
precarious affitlance. Thole, however, who had
been fortunate enough to be received into churches
and private houfes, we have already faid, experien-
ced the moll liberal treatment, and only Rood in need
of the profeflional Alliance of their own furgeons :
but the wounded foldiers, will, in the general confu.
Pion of Sunday, had been pronsikuoufly thrown along
with their comrades, into the different common pri.
ions of the city, had fuffered, amiclit the accumt:
laud horrors of cold, want, and the feverity of their
wounds f for they had, as yet, received no medical
arai once,

In this (late of wretchednefs many had expired,
from the want of the common neccffaries f,f life, and
others were pan all hopes of recovery, when the cef-
Cation of hollilities, which preceded the treaty, or
convention, now put an end to the (offerings of there
unfortunate men, and afforded them all the ailia•
ante of their own furgeons, who, in common with the
other offices, had been till now Rrialy confined within
the walls of the citadel, on account of the continu•
ance of holtilities beyond the limits of that fortrefs.
There wretched (offerers now received every Ala-
ance which could be obtained, and, being collated
with much care, were acc, mmodated in one of the
douches.

The terms of the treaty or convention which had
been entered into in the mean time, bttween the
Bricifb and Spanifh Commanders, was thus announ-
ce4l to the army this morning :

GENERAL ORDERS.
BY LIYUTENANT-GENERAL WHITRLOCZt.

" Head Quarters, Suburbs of Buenos Apes, 7th July, /goy:

• The Commander of the Forces, animated by the conduct of
the troops under his command, and at the fame time feeling for
the diftrefs of thole in the hands of the enerny, has entered into a
convention with the Slaniih General, agreeing that, upon cone-
• &ration of all Britt& fuhjafts tahrh Wore- this period, as well as
upon the late oecafien, being ltberated,he will defift from the opc•
rations againft the town of Buenos Ayres, a recafure dlEtated by
humanity, and a policy which, he trufts, will prove beneficial to
Octal Britain.

1. The Commander of the Forces is tom to learn, tt at many
of the troops have been guilty of plundering and directs that offi-
cers will be exceedingly vigilint in putting a flop to Irregularities
fo highly afxreditahle to the Bridal nation. A chain of (entries
is formed, heycnd wLich If any Milk!' is found, he will be very fe-
wetly punithed." _

. .
Agreeably to the terms of the convention, all the
tritiffs prifoners, officers, and men, including the
wounded who were capable of moving, were libera-
ted from the citadel and prifons, and arrived at El
Retiro, the Britifh bead quarters, at ten o'clock, on
the Sth. On their way thither, they fufiered the
melancholy view of many of the bodies of their un•
fOrtanate countrymen, Come of whom were officers,

who had fallen in the ftreets, piled in immenfe heaps
on the (rand of the river. All the bodies were pet--
ft:illy naked, and many of them torn, mangled, and
kali. devoured—a truly 'hocking fpatacle to their
furviving companions !
The Blitith force brought again( Buenos Ayres
little exceeded Boco &alive nun, at the commence-
limn of hottilitits.

The force of the Spaniards, as fat at We have been
able to collet from ralious fourcel of infiirmation,l
did not exceed z 6,000. Of there only about S;Co
were regularly difciplined, and compofed of European
and nativeSpaoiards,Frenchinen, &c. and fomeßriiifh
renegadoes. As the greaten dependance was placed
in their regulars, thefe, as we hive before menrioned,
had been polled at the bridge ; and afterwards they
were enabled to difpofe of them on the batteries,
with the guns in the great fquare and in the ftrects ;
and thole who were the ben markfmen Were dillri-
bated on the tops Of the houfes. The ren Of their
force Was ti militia, compofed of partly European and
Partly Country Spaniards. Betides thefe, a large
proportion cf the flares were alfo armed latterly,
either with fire antis or pikes ; but of thefe the num •
ber is uncertain. •

Thus failed an eiriedition, fitted out and fupported
at an enormous eipence, and compofed of the Bawer
of the Britifh arniy. They had to encounter a
numerous and undifciplined, yet formidable, enemy.
An enemy prepared to receive them with confidence
of the fecurity and advantages of their own fituation
in the peculiar mode of attack unhappily adopted by
the Britifh. Experience and long pradlice had taught
them the ufe of fire arms, and their lite !oh at El Mi-
ftrere had again convinced them of their own inferio
tity, in point of difcipline, to the 13: kith, in the open
field. The plan of affaulting the town, therefore, was
entirely agreeable to their mode of Warfare, and hap-
pened exaElly to their with. Their recapture of the
city lan year had alfo taught them the efficiency of
their own Iltength, and convinced them how much
was to be atehieved by a people firmly united in the
defence of their natural and dearell rights—and con
fident of the juflice of their own cattle, againa an
enemy whom they had been led to regard as law-
lefs invaders.

The following extra& from the Orders of Lieut.
General WHITILOCKE, publiihed to the army, after
their arrival at Monte Video, and dated iGth July,
will convey the fentiments of that Officer rerpetiing
the conduit of the army under his command, during
the late unfortunate Ude of the war :
" GO. After the dang.:rs and difficulties which the army has
lately experienzed, nd the factifice of conqueft which it has been
necelfary to make. in order to fave the lives of fa many wounded
and prifo,ners, it behoves the Commander of the Forces again, in
the warmeft manner, to thank every individual Corps for the part
it has taken ; for not a fingle inflame has occurred of want of pa•
tieuce under fatigue, and privation, not an lnftance of the want of
that fpitft and gallantry that marks the charadter of the Britifh
Soldier.

" The army are informed, that the men who fo hardy at-
tempted to join the standard ache enemy, at a time t.o when
the bodies of their departed countrymen were yet unturied, and
the wounds of others WU C %sal, fall have the trial to
which, as Dritilh foldiers, they are entitled—and upon their ref-
pedtivc fentences will their fate depend."

On the 9th, loth, and t ith of July, the Britifh
army embarked on hoard the tranfports, off El Re
tiro, and failing down the river La PlAta, arrived off
Monte Video on the isth.
Three lanflages were left at Buenos Ayres, on the
part af the Britifh. until the fulfilment of the feveral
Articles agreed to in the Convention.

The lots fullained by the tritifh army, during the
whole of the above operations, in killed, wounded,
and milling, according to documents, and the moll
authentic information which we have been able to
coiled, is as follows :
Kir.r.tD—q Lieut. Colonel, a Major, 6 Captains, 7 Lieutenants,
a Enlign, s Affiltant Surgeons, I Veterinary Surgiun, az
I.erjeants, 6 Drummers, 341 Rank and File—Total,
tilled 386.
WouNuE3-2 Lieut. Colonels, 3 Majors, 16 Canning. 59
Lieutenants, 4 a Quarter Maßcr, 49 SerjLants,
is Drummers, 583 Rank and File—total wounded 7oz.
Total Killed and Wounded 1088.
MICSINCI Drummers. 6a Rank and File—Total milling C 6.
Total, Killed, Wounded and Miffing 1154.

Part of thole returned 4 miffing' are fuppofed to
have deferred to the enemy, and were expated to be
delivered up, at the &fire of the Britifh Gcneral.
The lufs of the enemy we have been unable to of
certain with any degree of accuracy ; but we have
the molt fatisfadory realms fur afferting, that it far
furpaffed that of the Britilh, during the whole courfe
of the hoftilities.

LINCOLN'S Nit HALL, NOTEMNER 24.—Michael
mas Term.—The following Gentlemen were this day
called to the Degree of Barrifters at Law, by the
Honourable Society cf Lincoln's Inn, viz.

WILLIAM Szt.wYN,Jun Efq. Eb. Bußrewituevr Sumer:, Efq.
EDMUND LOMAZ, Efq. Oro I.twis NZWNHAM, Erg.
JOHN SYMMONS, Ffq. BARNARD ELLIOTT PLRCT,Ffq.
Jost; BATHER, Efq. Ww ALBIN GARRA r, Efq.

The following has been fent to us for infertion
46 Great pains are taken by fame defigning indivi-
ekals, to clafs the ellablifhment of the Golden Lane
wery among the numerous projeds of the day ;
that the fuccel; and the advantage which the public
has derived from it, has been the ace:diet% of moil
of the fchemes now afloat, no one will be inclined
to doubt; but the fait is, that it was fet on foot by
Mr. Brown, in the year 1804, at a time when the
opulent London porter brewers made an attempt to
increafe the price of porter to fixpence a quart, and
which the ellabllfltment of the Golder, Lane Brewery
entirely prevented, by efte9ing a competition with
the trade at large, which, until then, had been mo
nopolized by perfons of wealth and opulence ; that
a bettet beverage has been produced by thefe means.
almoft every clafs of the c'mmunity can bear testi-
mony. Much more might be Paid upon the fubjea
as to the utility of this brewery, were it, at present,
neceffary ; one thing, however, is certain, that fuch
is its magnitude and extent, that it is now the means
of producing to the Government of the country up
wards of one hundred and fevenry thoufand pound
Fer annum."

ii.durtut ivraLlitENcE.

FALMOUTH. NOVEMBER. sr.
Arrived the Bnnetta, Bssr, from London, for
Newry, leaky, and lofs of fails, &c. and the Lord
Hoturi packet from New York and Halifax: left
New York the fith, and Halifax the 28th ult.
DARTMOUTH. NOV. st.
Arrived the Magicienne French lugger privateer,
of 14 guns, and 46 men captured off the Lanois
End by the Fort-rut/es frigate: the was out from
Cherbourg three days, and had taken nothing. She
had only two guns on board when taken, having
thrown the tea overboard. A Lieutenant, a Mid-
lhipman, and 16 men, were put on board, vi:h (T.
ders to carry her into Plymouth, but being driven
by Itrefs of weather to leeward, they brought her
into this pert. The Forruw Es had carried away her
bov:fprit in chafing two French frigate:, one of them'
fuppofed to be the Penelope, and both deep in (lures,
out of Bourdeaux.

PENZANCE, NOV. ii.

Since my lafl arrived the brig Eagle, of Great
Yarmouth, Ecativr, Mailer, from L'.ndon, with
tallow, &c. for Liverpool ; alto the fletop Johnflnn, of
Millings, from Rye, with hops for Newry. Captain
STUBBERFIELD, the late Dialler, yellerday, during the
heavy gale, was unfortunately wattled overboard and
drowned. Four veffels have been wrecked at St.
Ive's within the lalt two days, two of which are
totally 1011, and the others very much damaged :
one of the former is from Brittol, with lundriv, for
Dartmouth, &c. t the Mallet's name was WEBBER,
who was drowned notwithflanding the greatell
lible exertions to fave hits from the wreck ; the reit
were Caved. kie was wafhad on fhoreyeiterday and
decently buried. Several-others wercloft from the
other velrel, but we do not know the exaft number,
nor the names of the veffels or the Mailers.