The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-23 00:00:00

BUENOS AYRES AND MONIE VIDEO.

We insert the following article from the Britannia,
qualifying the intelligence it contains with the observation
that the Britannia is published at Monte Video :
" The British Packet, of the 13th instant, publishes a
translation of the bulletin under which General lioss has
attempted to disguise the signal defeat of his troops in the
battle fought on the 28th of last mouth at the ' Mount.'
This account has been got up with so little tact, and ex-
hibits such palpable absurdity, that the Buetsos Ayrean
writers have been deterred fromattempting to raise any
plausible representation upon it that can at all serve to
cover the shame and loss which the besieging army
actually suffered in the affair.
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of audacious lying constantly resorted to by the Rosista
partisans, still as the battle was fought under the eyes of
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what lengthy,
ridiculous bombast in the up with mere repetition and
usual strain of Buenos Ayrean
documents :

'" Observing from the manoeuvres of the enemy that
they had in view to surround us, their right wing be'ng
600 in'antry, supported by two squadrons of cavalry, their
centre 1000 infantry, and their left, 400 sharpshooters, the
whole flanked by 500 infantry and 300 cavalry, 1 gave
orders to :retreat, which was effected with the greatest
order, although under the fire of the enemy's numerous
infantry, and our force altogether of both battalions only
amounting to 530 brave fellows' * * ' The whole of
the enemy's infantry continued vigorously to assail ours,
until at last we had no ammunition left, and the firing
ceased throughout our line after we had expended 30,000
musket ball cartridge. We were yet 15 squares (1500
yards) from the rivulet, and our fine fellows, without any
other defence than their own breasts, continned their re-
treat. * * * `Eternal honour, excellent sir to those
brave men, who being pursued in an open country by
forces so numerous, end without any cartridge, could yet,
by their intrepidity alone, keep those wretches in are.
The brave Lieut. Ramon Marquez, of the battalion inde-
pendencia, who was ill at Cerito, came with a email skir- '
mishing party to support the infantry, and this too with-
out ammunition.
" After thus retreating 1500 yards, without one cart-
ridge, without any other defence than their breasts, from
before 2500 infantry and 300 or 400 cavalry, the list of
casualities, as given in the bulletin, shows only three
officers and eighteen men killed, two officers and thirty-
five men wounded, and seven missing ! It is well ascer-
tained, however, that the real loss to the enemy, in
killed, wounded, and prisoners, fell very little short of
300 men, nor could it well be less from the nature of the
defeat, even according to their own description of it.
" The whole affair consisted in a bold and resolute
attack, before which the enemy gave way, and fled in the
utmost route and confusion. Their principal loss was
inflicted in the close and unrelenting pursuit by lancers
and infantry which followed. As to the cessation of the
enemy's fire from want of ammunition, after having ex-
pended 30,000 rounds of ball cartridge, the statement is
partly true, but the expenditure consisted in the fugitives
throwing away their muskets and cartridge boxes, which
on being collected afterwards by the victors were found
to be well stored with the said cartridges."
* See "Britannia" of the 30th of March.

BAZAARS OF DAMASCUS.—The bazaars, like the Palais
Royal of Paris, have their restaurants, where the mer-
chants or the loungers may find dinner. Tables and
covers are, of course, out of the question. The pur-
chaser provides himself with one of the cakes we have
mentioned, which serves him at once for bread, plate, and
napkin, and the cook supplies him with little pieces of
baked mutton about the size of nuts, stuck on a skewer,
somewhat in the fashion of our cat's meat. A man, says
Lamartine, might fare of the best in Damascus for two
piastres a day ; the common people live for less than half
that sum. lie might hire a very pretty house for two or
three hundred piastres a year; so that, all expenses in-
cluded, he might live at his ease upon an income of
fifteen or sixteen pounds a year, It is the same all over
Syria.—Library of ;'ravel.