596 
and his dernier resort in Lower Ca- 
labria, in point of position, together 
with the removal of his steres, &c. 
might contribute to prevent his at- 
tempt to re-enter the province.” 
[ The terms were, thatthe French 
should march .out with the honours 
of war, and deposit their arms; af- 
ter which they shall be sent to Mes- 
sina as prisoners of war. ‘The pri- 
vate property of the officers and 
soldiers to be respeéted, and the 
public proporty to be delivered up. | 
Dispatches from Major-generdl Be- 
resford, in South America, with 
an Account of the Capture of 
Buenas Ayres, dated July 2. 
Sir, 
‘IT had the honour to commu- 
nicate to you, by my letter dated 
the 30th of April, the circumstances 
of my arrival at St. Ielena, and the 
result of the application to the go- 
vernor of that place for troops.— 
The flect sailed thence the 2d of 
May, and, after a most unexpected 
‘long passage, made Cape St. Mary 
on the 8th of June. The Narcissus 
had been dispatched from the flect 
on the 27th of May, and sir Home _ 
Popham thought it right to proceed 
in her, for the purpose of making 
himself acquainted with the naviga- 
tion of the river, that no delay might 
occur in proceeding immediately on 
thearrival of the troops, tosuch place 
as our information should induce us 
to attack first. -I had sent captain 
Kennet, of the royal engineers 
(not liking myself to leave the 
troops) in the Narcissus, to make 
such reconnoitring of the enemy’s 
places on the river, as circumstances 
would admit ; and to collect every 
possible information cong¢erning 
them, and the strength of the cnemy 
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at the several places. From fogs 
and bafiling winds, we did not meet — 
the Narcissus until the sixth day 
after our arrival in the river; and 
I had there the satisfaction to see, 
in company with her, the Ocean 
ransport, which had parted from 
us previous to our going to St. He- 
lena. Sir Home Popham and my- 
self immediately consulted, whether 
it would be better first to attack the 
town of St. Philip of Monte Video, 
or Buenos Ayres, the capital of ; 
the province ; and, after much rea~ © 
soning, we determined to proceed 
against Buenos Ayres, which made 
it necessary to remove from the 
line-of-battle ships, the troops and — 
marines, and such seamen as were 
incorporated with the latter, and 
others that had been practised to 
arms during the passage, into the © 
transports, and his majesty’s ship 
Narcissus ; which was effected on 
the 16th ult. And though then 
only about 90 miles from Buenos 
Ayres, still, though to his skill sir 
Home Popham added the most per- 
severing zeal and assiduity, yet 
from fogs, the intricacy of the navi- 
gation, and continual opposing 
winds, it was not until the 24th, at 
night, that we reached opposite to 
it. 
morning about eight miles from the 
Point of Quilmes, where I proposed 
We found ourselves the next — 
landing, having been informed by an — 
Englishman, who was pilot for the 
river, and had been taken by the 
Narcissus out of a Portuguese ves- 
scl, that it was an excellent place, 
and an easy access from it into the 
country, Assoon as the wind would 
permit, on the 235th, sir Home Pop- 
a 
ham teok the shipping as-near as it © 
was possible for them to go, and at 
a convenient distance for disem. 
barking, which was effected in the 
course of the afternoon and night, — 
and 
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