eing able to approve of the spirit of the whole of the writings
of the deceased, censured them, it is said, in most unbecoming language,
to the indignation of the numerous friends present.

The Italian poet LUIGI CARRER, died at Venice on the twenty-third of
December.

GENERAL DON JOSE DE SAN MARTIN, formerly the "Protector of Peru," and
one of the most deservedly eminent of the public men of the Spanish
American States, died in August, 1850, at Bologna, in the seventy-second
year of his age. His death has but recently been announced, and we
receive the information now, not from Europe or from South America, but
by way of the Sandwich Islands. The Honolulu _Polynesian_ of December
fourteenth, translating from the _Panameno_, gives us the following
particulars of his life. General San Martin was a native of one of the
Provinces of Buenos Ayres, but previous to the war of independence,
passed over to Spain, where he entered into the army, and distinguished
himself at the battle of Baylen. In the Spanish army, he rose to the
rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After his native country, Buenos Ayres, had
declared itself independent of the mother country, he returned from
Spain, and fought with great bravery, against Artigas, and in other
military contests. He thereby gained so much reputation with his
countrymen, that when an expedition to liberate Chile was determined
upon, he was the chief chosen to organize and command it. He fulfilled
that trust, in an admirable manner, at Mendoza--carried his small army
successfully across the Andes, through an able piece of strategy,
confided to a brave young Chilian, Don Manuel Rodriguez, at a point
where the Spanish forces did not expect the invading army, and signally
defeated them, on the plains of _Chacabuco_, near the Capital of Chile.
The defeated Spaniards had to retire and concentrate themselves in the
South. San Martin occupied the whole country and shut them up in
_Talcachuano_. Expecting that the Spaniards would be soon reinforced
from Peru, San Martin, with the aid of several foreign officers, French
and English, recruited his forces in Chile, and raised his army to about
9000 men. A strong reinforcement having arrived from Peru, at
Talcahuano, under the command of General Ossioro, the Spaniards regained
possession of the Province of Concepcion, took the offensive, and
advanced towards the Capital. San Martin, with forces numerically
superior, advanced to drive them back. Th