The light company was at the attack and carrying of the enemy’s advance field-work on the 2d of July; on the 5th of that month the right wing of the THIRTY-SIXTH, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Robert Burne, and the left wing by Captain William Cross, stormed and established themselves in Buenos Ayres. Upon this severe service Captains Alexander, Williamson, and Henry Cole Johnson, with Lieutenant Robert Whittell, two serjeants, one drummer, and forty-one rank and file, were killed; Captains William Wright Swain and Henry Vernon, Lieutenants William Wingfield, William Cotton, John Chaloner, and John White, seven serjeants, and thirty-six rank and file, were wounded. Notwithstanding the intrepidity displayed by the advancing troops, upon whom a destructive fire was poured from the tops of houses and every other advantageous position, the enterprise failed. On the following morning the Governor-General Liniers sent a letter to Lieut.-General Whitelocke, offering to restore the prisoners taken in this action, and also those made with Brigadier-General Beresford, on condition that the whole of the British forces should be withdrawn from South America, which proposals were accepted. The Lieut.-General’s conduct subsequently became the subject of inquiry by a Court-martial, and he was cashiered. The first battalion of the regiment re-embarked at Buenos Ayres, and descended the River Plate to _Monte-Video_, whence it embarked on the 9th of September for Europe, and arrived at Cork on the 17th of December following. [Sidenote: 1808.] The battalion occupied the barracks at Cork until February 1808, when it proceeded to Fermoy, where it remained until the 5th of July, when it marched to Cork for embarkation, having been selected to form part of a force, under the command of Lieut.-General the Honorable Sir Arthur Wellesley, destined to proceed to the Peninsula to aid the Spanish and Portuguese patriots in their efforts against Napoleon, who had placed his brother Joseph on the throne of Spain, and was endeavouring to reduce the Peninsula under his domination. In May 1808 the second battalion proceeded to Jersey, but returned to England in July following.