The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-10 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 10, 1843

The British packet has arrived, bringing letters
from Buenos Ayres to the 20th July, and from
Monte Video to the 29th July. Mention is made
in letters from the latter place of the total defeat of
600 men, under the command of General Nunez,
who himself, with only 20 men, escaped to Calaccia.
It appears that he had been sent out by General
Oribe to endeavour to bring in cattle for the supply
of the Buenos Ayrean army, which is represented
by numerous deserters to be so badly off for provi-
sions as to be under the necessity of eating horse
flesh. It was fully expected that the Monte Video
Government would be successful in farming half the
custom's duties for the year 1844, and this, it is
said, would supply the means of carrying on the
war for six months, by which time it was confidently
believed that Oribe would be compelled to retreat,
if, indeed, retreat should then be practicable. The
trade of Monte Video continues at a complete stand,
nothing is being sold and not a shilling paid on ac-
count of outstanding debts, and hence the losses to
merchants generally of that city cannot fail to be
most serious.

From a perusal of the Britannia newspaper of
22nd July, it would appear that, notwithstanding
the united representations of the French and British
admirals to General Oribe, he continued to
treat his prisoners with the most relentless cruelty,
characterized by the British Admiral (Purvis) as
being such " as would disgrace even the petty states of
Barbary." But we extract the following remarks as
to the murder of two Frenchmen, taken prisoners
by Oribe on the sth July :

" We must, however, not omit to mention the atrocious

two Frenchmen, who were taken prisoners by
sth instant, seven days after that General
ed a solemn promise to Commodore Purvis
and Admiral de Clerval that he would no longer persist
in his practice of sacrificing his prisoners of war. The We have given elsewhere a full account of the
manner in which these two unfortunate Frenchmen were proceedings of Government in their effort to put
put to death, and the nature of the torments they were down the repeal agitation in Ireland ; and, although
previously made to undergo, involve details of so dis-
gusting and monstrous a character, that decency obliges we have not withheld our admiration of the vigour
us to refrain from their description. and excellent arrangement, with which that effort
" Admiral de Clerval is understood to have sent to
has thus far been conducted, we cannot even now
General Oribe to inquire into the truth of what has been
here stated relative to those individuals, and the answer withdraw our past expressions of dissatisfaction at
given by Oribe was simply, that they had been ex eted the want of promptitude in adopting the step which
by his orders. On the following day M. de Clerval
dis-
patched a vessel to Buenos Ayres, it is supposed with
it has now at length been found necessary to take.
-'cations on the subject to the French minister, If meetings, such as that which was, on Sunday
It remains to 1 e seen whether he will last, to have been held at Clontarf, are now, in the
amefu .ncle It coup adopted by
tie. or if, bs lrne e Tgeti, emonstration, words of the Government proclamation, "calculated
'°sas has and intended to excite discontent and disaffection in
of
i the minds of her Majesty's subjects, and to bring

Oribe on the
had convey(

same shamefully indolent cours

at the pesti