The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-25 00:00:00

NIONTE VIDEO.

Private letters have been received from Buenos Ayres
to the 13th May, and from Monte Video to the 17th May,
at which time an opinion prevailed, at the latter place,
that Rosas's army was suffering greatly from sickness,
and that it would ere long be compelled to retreat (should
this be practicable) from before Monte Video, while the
public journals confidently predict the utter destruction
of that army.. . _

The revolution in Corrientes against the authority of
Rosas is confirmed, and the interior provinces of La
Plata are represented to be in a very disturbed state.
Subsequent to the attack made on that island, as an-
nounced in our last publication, a correspondence took
place between Commodore Purves and the commander of
the Buenos Ayres vessels, which ended in the placing of
Rat Island, as also of the fort on the Mount, in the pos-
session of the British.

We also observe that a notice had been sent to the Bri-
tish consul at Monte Video, by the commander of the
Buenos Ayrean army, to the effect, that foreigners taking
part with, or using their influence in favour of, the Monte
Videan government, would (upon his taking the city) be
treated as rebels and savages, which terms, we are in-
formed, signify that such individuals should he given up
to the bloody vengeance of the Buenos Ayrean army, who,
it is very probable, would gratify their cruel propensities
by cutting out their tongues, cutting off their ears, and,
finally, by cutting their throats with the knife. But, to
give our readers a correct knowledge of the opinion enter-
tained of the cruel character of this notice, we subjoin a
copy of Commodore Purvis's letter to General Oribe, the
commander of Rosas's army :

" Her Britannic Majesty's Ship Alfred
Off Montevideo.—April 9th, 1813.
"To Brigadier General
DON AIANI:EL ORIBE :
" Commanding the Vanguard of the army
of the Argentine Republic.
" Sir,—Her Majesty's Pro Consul General in the city of
Montevideo has forwarded to me a copy of a circular
bearing your signature under date of the Ist instant and
addressed to him, in which you declare that you will not
respect as foreigners those subjects of other nations who
may use their influence in favor of or take part with per-
sons designated by you as Rebel Savage Unitarians against
the cause which you and the forces which obey you main-
tain, but that on the contrary, they shall in such case be
considered also as Rebel Savage Unitarians and treated
without any consideration whatever.
The violence displayed in this most extraordinary do-
cument, the policy, wisdom, or expediency of which must
be as to its results for the consideration of the Buenos
Ayrean Government, the cruelty of the threat which it
contains and the language in which it is conched is such
as in my opinion would disgrace even the petty states of
Barbary, whilst the extreme penalties assigned to those
who may fall under the accusation of so undefinable an
offence as that of using influence in favour of a political
party, are unfounded on any principle of justice, or the
rights of a lawful belligerent, but are rather corroborative
of the spirit of atrocity and cruelty in which this war has
been carried on and which has already drawn to it the
attention and the reproaches of the whole world.

A proper consideration therefore for the lives and in.
terests of the subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of Great
Britain, to which it is imperative on me to extend all due
protection in cases of danger, obliges me to declare, that
until I am furnished with a sufficient gaurantee that
those threats will in no case whatever be carried into
execution, and until I am satisfactorily assured that
British life and property will in no wise be endangered,
I shall not consent to allow the prosecution of any
hostilities by which the security of British subjects re-
siding in the city of Montevideo may be affected.
" I have the honour to be Sir,
" Your most obedient humble servant.
(signed) "J. B. PURVIS, Commodore, in com-
mand of Her Majesty's Ships and
vessels employed on the Eastern
Coast of South America."

We are not aware with what objects the forts on the
Mount and Rat Island had been given up to the British;
but should conclude, from the above letter, as a security
against the atrocities threatened by General Oribe ; and
now that he has divulged the horrible character of the war
he is prosecuting, that even' innocent merchants and
others are denounced as fit objects of vengeance, we hope
that our government will take measures to put an end to
this war, involving, as it does, a most ruinous expenditure
to Buenos Ayres, which must for years put it out of their
power to pay the current interest on the British loan,
saying nothing about the seventeen years of interest now
in arrears, an enormous loss in debt to our merchants at
Monte Video, and the ruin of our trade to that place.