Kentucky Gazette

FROM THE WILMINGTON DEL. WATCHMAN.

Letters received in this borough from Buenos Ayres, contain the following intelligence;

"The Portuguese, by intrigue, have got possession of Colonia, and general Lecor marched about the same time and possessed himself of Purification and Paysandu, with about 5000 men. A corps of cavalry was sent over to Arrova de la China, which was sacked and the women violated. The Portuguese have now become audacious; they openly speak of taking Montevideo, long since held by the government of Buenos Ayres. General San Martin, who is here has acted like a true patriot, and, if his time would permit, would go over to confer with Artigas."

Colonia is a small town on the eastern shore (Banda Oriental) of the river La Plata, opposite to Buenos Ayres; Purification is a town in the interior, built by Artigas; and Martin Garcia is an island at the mouth of the river Uruguay.

It is stated in the Intelligencer that the government of Buenos Ayres permitted the Portuguese to send their troops up the river to co-operate with their land forces against Artigas. We are sorry to observe the respectable editors of the Intelligencer lending their paper to statements so insidious, and, withal, so absurd. When it is known that the Portuguese have a vastly superior naval force to that of Buenos Ayres, and that the river La Plata is more than thirty miles in width higher up than that city, it must be obvious that no permission was necessary, and that none would be asked.