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kits Alajesty' sship Brazen, Monte-Video, Dec. 29, 1823. Gem3emen,-I beg to enclose a memorandum with the situation of the orTy two buoys we found in the Chico and Ortiz, on our wav up to, and down frorm Colonia last week, and at the same time feel it my duty to state that the masters of merchant vessels from Buenos Ayres should be cautious against confidence as to their falling in -with them, as their distance from earh other, and the irregularity of the current *n the rirer is such that i think therc is little doubW but thoie who a'mir takinm the hitherto precaution will certainlv get on shore. As a proof of their inutility in pacsing up, we met the Dunl das, of Jersey, who thought the buoy then near her was the weat instead of the Cast of the Chico, while the master of the Elizabeth nearly at the same time was beating as though it were the aame and our boat sounded within a ships length of the spot she lhad tacked ir., and found but eight feet of water; this in a fine clear day. I should further addl, that the Ata'laya ehurch is almost the only mark near the =reat danger, i so difficult to distinguish in conse- queace of its towers being so low, surrounded by trees, and vithouit a fiag-stafi, that it can only be m'ade out bv vessels of' snall traueht of water, that can keep the coast on boarl. The same buoy lecl us so far into the ex-ror conning up, that I wase oblized to zachor and send the boats to sound before we discovered it, although but thice niles .rom it., with men and officers at the mast-heads with spvy glasses look^in out, and every other precaution taken that could be isoughtr,f. iand I feel bou'nd to say, that without a great many ~uom, the passage cannot be rendered a safe one, unless a large light vessel is placed on the east end of the Chico, wlhich would b scen from. one end to the other when it is proper weather for ves. scls to run. t am, genitlemen, your most obedient servant. G. IV. WILLES, Captain. To Messrs Brown, Buchanan, and Co., Agents for Lloyd's, Biienos Ayres. Mernorandum.-On the east end of the Ortiz, tiiere is a black buoy, in laL 3.;. 7. S. in 0j fathor,js vater, about weven miles E.S.E. bv compas fromn the Old PEeacon, which is- visible with a low river. There is a red buo' on the S. E. endl of the Chico. in tlhree fathom, besInb . ps N. by E. I E. from Atalayii Chiurch, and is in lat. 34. di 15. S. about 10 nmles from the land. Atnother buoy was seen from the mast head on the rest end of the Chico, b-. t the weather prevented cur ascertaining its exact position. 2dVYArxSTo1v OP rTArR RIVZER PLATE.