English transports returning to the place of their destination as cartels, and to be guaranteed as such by the Spanish Government from capture on the voyage.

"3d, Provisions, &c. will be furnished for the pas sage of the English troops, according to the usual custom in like cases.

"4th, Such wounded of the British troops as cannot he removed on board of ships shall remain in the hospitals at Buenos Ayres, either under charge of Spanish or British surgeons, at the option of the British General, and shall be furnished with every thing necessary, and on their recovery sent to Great Britain.

"5th, The property of all English subjects in Buenos Ayres to be respected. "(Signed)

W. C. BERESFORD.

"SANTIAGO CONSIDIDO LINIERS."

"Return of the killed, wounded, and missing of the troops under the command of Major-General Beresford, from the 10th to the 12th of August, 1806, at Buenos Ayres.

"Royal Engineers-1 Captain killed.

"Royal Artillery-1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant wounded; 3 rank and file killed, 2 wounded.

St. Helena Artillery-1 serjeant wounded, 9 rank and file killed, 13 wounded.

"Driver-1 rank and file wounded.

"Seventy-first Regiment-1 Lieutenant killed; } Colonel, I Lieutenant, 2 Ensigns wounded; 1 serjeant killed, 5 wounded, missing, drummer killed, 24 rank and file killed, 67 wounded.

Royal Marines-1 Captain and 1 serjeant wounded; 6 rank and file killed, 5 wounded, 8 missing.

"St. Helena Regiment-1 Lieutenant woude 1, 1 serjeant killed, 1 rank and file killed, 4 wounded, 1 missing.General total, 144.

"N. B. Five men of the 71st, 3 artillerymen, I royal marine, I St. Helena Regiment---10 dead, since going to the hospital.

“Officers killed---Captain Kennet, Royal Engineers, Lieutenant W. Mitchell, 71st Regiment.

"Officers wounded--Captain Mackenzie, R. M. Lieutenant Sampson, St. Helena regiment. Captain Ogiloic, Royal Artillery. Lieutenant M'Donald, ditto. Lieutenant Colonel Pack, 71st regiment. Lieutenant Murray, ditto. Ensign Caurel, ditto. Ensign Lucas, ditto (since dead).

"Statement of Property captured at Buenos Ayres, but not removed; and was recaptured on the 12th of

August.

"Goods of the Phillippine Company.

"Debts due to ditto.........

❝ 4090 Arob. B. Tobacco (at 6 dollars, sold for 14)

"Dollars.

....

100,000

..... 1,011,547

24,000

"3000 Quintals of Quicksilver (40 dollars).....

200,000

"40,000 lbs. Spanish Snuff (2 dollars).........

80,000

"20,000 lbs. Havanah ditto (2 dollars)... 37,500 lbs. Bark (11⁄2 dollar)........

40,000

56,250

1,673,797

"Vessels and Floating Property....

1,500,000

3,173,797

"Note. No valuation is made in this statement of the timber, treasure in the treasury, powder in the magazine, and of armoury and ordnance stores.”

The enemy confessed to have lost about 700 killed and wounded, in the short conflict in the streets; and if it had not been for the inhabitants, it was thought, that the Spanish troops would have been completely defeated, although seven times the number of the British forces. It was supposed that Pueridon, and the other principal people engaged in this plot, had collected from eight to ten thousand men in the country; that Liniers brought over from eight hundred to a thousand;' and that the town furnished, though armed in various ways, about ten thousand, under the secret arrangement of the magistrates.

When every vessel that could escape from Buenos Ayres had joined, Sir Home Popham proceeded towards Ensenada, to retire the detachment of marines; and Lieutenant Groves of the Diadem, was obliged to quit the Belem schooner, as she would not work out. One gun-boat and a settee, a prize, were also left in the harbour, with the Justina, a small English merchant ship that had followed the expedition from St. Helena. Captain Thomson, of the Neptune, who was in the Castle, was made a prisoner, and Lieutenant Burgh, of the Raisonable, with Mr. Ramsay, a midshipman, and seven men, who were in the settee, as her boats could not hold them. Lieutenant Herrick, in the Dolores, the other armed schooner, worked out in a manner which, coupled with his conduct on the whole of this business, did him great credit. On the 13th, in the morning, the detachment of marines, under the com

mand of Lieutenant Swale, was embarked from Ensenada, and his two Spanish field pieces spiked and thrown into the river. On the 14th Sir Home Popham sailed for an anchorage in the river de la Plata, where he arrived the following day, and immediately addressed the governor of Monte Video on the subject of our troops. On the 16th, in consequence of receiving by Colonel Liniers' aid-de-camp, a letter from Gen. Beresford, he dispatched two of the transports to Buenos Ayres, where one arrived on the 17th, but from the prevarication of the governor of Monte Video in the first instance, and his subsequent dishonourable conduct, no troops were for a long time embarked.

Lieutenant Colonel Backhouse, who had been dispatched from England with reinforcements, arrived off Monte Video, in the early part of October, where he had the mortification to find, that the settlement of Buenos Ayres had been recaptured, and that General Beresford and his army had been made prisoners of war. He immediately reconnoitred, from one of the frigates, which carried him sufficiently close in shore for the purpose, the works of the place, and the positions. and defences in the vicinity of Monte Video, from which he formed, as the most eligible mode of attack, the idea of being able to carry the town and citadel by assault, on the south face edging on the water, in co-operation with the ships of the squadron, under Sir Home Fopham, which were to silence the batteries on that face, so as to enable our troops to land and enter. The attempt was accordingly commenced, on the 28th, by the navy; but the water proving too shallow to admit of the ships coming sufficiently near to cannonade it with effect, a further effort was necessarily given up.

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Sir Home Popham now proposed to Colonel Backhouse to take Maldonado, an excellent harbour, where the fleet could water, and get bullocks, which had become very necessary to recruit our men. Sir Home Popham himself, would have attempted the capture of Maldonado, earlier in the winter, had not the marines been left at Buenos Ayres. The moment that he had satisfied Brigadier General Backhouse of the expediency of the the measure, no time was lost in moving part of the 38th regiment to the Leda and Medusa, when they accompanied the Diadem to Maldonado harbour. The fri gates anchored about five o'clock in the evening of October 29th, to the westward of the westernmost battery. The beach was smooth, and at six the troops from the Diadem assembled alongside the Leda, and a landing was immediately effected, without any opposition; but, as Sir Home Popham thought it possible that the enemy might have a greater force than he shewed on the hills, and as the nearest transport was yet at some distance from the roads, he ordered the marines of the Medusa, and a company of blues from each ship, to be landed, to support the army, who entered, and took possession of the village of Maldonado before eight o'clock. On the morning of the 20th, he sent the following summons to the Governor of the fortified island of Gorreti, which forms this harbour:

"His Britannic Majesty's Ship Diadem,

"Rio de la Plata, Oct. 30, 1806.

"Sir, His Britannic Majesty's forces are in possession of Maldonado, and with a view to save time, as the General is on shore, I summon you to surrender the Island of Gorreti. Any opposition on your part to such a force as is now in this bay must be fruitless, and if you