Virginia Argus

From the Havanna Aurora.

[TRANSLATION.]

HAVANNA, NOV. 26.

By the Montserat capt. Francis Carbonell, arrived yesterday from Carthagena after 18 days passage, we have received the following intelligence, which was published in Panama, on the 31st Oct. from whence it was brought by a vessel from Payta.

Capt. Don Santiago Liniers, having under his command about 1500 men, chiefly veteran troops and well armed, conducted them in country-boats, small schooners and gun-boats, to the river Las Conchas, six leagues to the north of Buenos Ayres, and being joined by about 300 or 400 volunteers, marched with great expedition, by land, to the city, on which he made a spirited attack in several points at once, which were successful; and on the 12th of August, the enemy having lost 500 men, the remainder, to the amount of 1000 capitulated, and surrendered themselves prisoners of war, with the General in chief and his subaltern officers.

From the Peruvian Minerva.

RECAPTURE OF BUENOS AYRES.

Lima, 23d Sept. 1806.—Yesterday arrived here an express, which left Arequipa on the 13th inst. with the pleasing intelligence, that the victorious army of his Catholic majesty had reconquered the city of Buenos Ayres on the 12th of Aug. Its brave deliverer was the marine captain (in navy) Don Santiago Liniers, who having heard of the capture by the enemy, went to Monte Video, the governor of which place, gave him the command of a light flotilla of about 30 sail and 1500 men, troops of the line and volunteers completely armed.

They disembarked at Puerto de las Conchas, where they were joined by some inhabitants of Buenos Ayres and the surrounding country, by which addition their number amounted to 2500, when they marched together on the 10th, to Retiro, where they were detained by various circumstances, until the 12th, when they attacked with the greatest intrepidity, all the fortified places occupied by the enemy, and completely defeated them.

At the moment of the assault, the enemy surrendered, to avoid being put to the sword, with which our general had threatened them. General W. Beresford is a prisoner of war, with upwards of a thousand troops, who now remain at the disposal of the conqueror.