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protecting fire of the Wizard, 

 which, by the judicious conduct of 

 capt. Ferris, contributed very es- 

 sentially to keep the enemy in 

 check, both in the advance and re- 

 treat of the boats. I should have 

 pleasure innoticingthe midshipmen 

 and others who were conspicuous 

 in this little enterprize; but I fear 

 that I have already given a longer 

 detail than it may be thought wor- 

 thy of, and shall therefore only beg 

 leave to add, that one seaman kill- 

 ed, and one badly wounded (since 

 dead), both of the Kent, is all the 

 loss we sustained. The enemy left 

 many dead on the ground. The 

 gun-boat was a national vessel, call- 

 ed la Vigilante, commanded by an 

 enseigne de vaisseau, with a com- 

 plement of forty-five men. 



Thomas Rogers. 

 P. S.— Since writing the above, 

 the boats of the Kent and Wizard 

 have brought out, withoutraischief, 

 from under the guns of a fort near 

 Leghorn, where they had taken 

 shelter, three laden vessels, and 

 burnt a fourth, which was aground, 

 and could not be got off. 



Revolution at Buenos Ayres. — 

 We have long expected that Liniers 

 was exerting himself to the utmost 

 infavour of the familyof Buonaparte, 

 and we now learn, by letters from 

 Rio Janeiro, of the late date of Fe- 

 bruary 6th, that a revolution took 

 place on the 1st January, in which 

 Liniers triumphed, and is now com- 

 pletely master as viceroy of the city. 

 It seems that the marriage of his 

 daughter with a young man of the 

 name of Perichon, which was con- 

 trary to law, disgusted the people 

 generally, who were, besides, very 

 desirous to elect a junta, in imita- 



tion of Seville, &c. The Cabildo 

 met, and the usual elections took 

 place on the 1st of January; after 

 which, previous depositions having 

 been made by arming, &c. on both 

 sides, to decide the matterby force, 

 in case of necessity, a negociatioa 

 took place between the Cabildo and 

 Liniers, regarding his laying down 

 the sovereign authority. At length 

 the heads of that body went to the 

 Fueste to treat personally with the 

 viceroy, when up went the draw- 

 bridge, and they were quickly 

 marched through the Puerto del 

 Socorro to the water side, put on 

 board a schooner, and have been 

 sent off, nobody knows where; but 

 it is supposed that the voyage was 

 not a long one, since it is known 

 there were very few provisions on 

 board. The names of those who 

 thus put themselves into the trap 

 are — Alzaga, Vilanueva, Sta, Colo- 

 ma, Varela, and another. 



As a proof that this revolution is 

 altogether in favour of France, we 

 only need state, that the above- 

 mentioned Perichon isa Frenchman 

 by birth, and is the person who was 

 charged by Liniers with dispatches 

 for Buonaparte, giving an account 

 of his defence of Buenos Ayres 

 against the British under general 

 Whitelock, and who, on his return 

 from France through Spain, on his 

 way back to South America, was, in 

 May or June of last year, appre- 

 hended in Andalusia, by order of 

 the junta of Seville, and confined 

 in Cadiz, from whence it would ap- 

 pear he effected his escape. 



The event which has thus takea 

 place, though unfortunate for the 

 patriotic cause of Spain, has remov- 

 ed every difficulty which obstructed 

 the course of operations that it 

 might behove the government of 



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