atuity he had promised."

On arriving at the flag-ship, I found the following official
communication, requesting me to fire a salute in honour of San Martin's
self-elevation to the protectorship:--

Lima, 4th Aug. 1821.
MY LORD,

His Excellency the Protector of Peru commands
me to transmit to you the annexed organic decree, announcing his
exaltation to the Supreme Authority; in order that the squadron
may be informed of this momentous event, and that the new
Government may be acknowledged by the naval department under
your command, belonging to the Republic of Chili.

I hope, that duly estimating this high act, you will cause it to be
celebrated with all the dignity which is compatible with the martial
usage of the naval service.

(Signed) MONTEAGUDO.
Attested by the _Rubrica_ of the Protector.

Though this was a request to acknowledge General San Martin as invested
with the attributes of a Sovereign Prince, I complied with it in the
hope that quiet remonstrance might recal him to a sense of duty to the
Chilian Government, no less than to his own true interests. On the 7th
of August, I addressed to him the following letter:--

Callao Roads, 7th Aug. 1821.
MY DEAR GENERAL,

I address you for the last time under your late designation,
being aware that the liberty I may take as a friend might
not be deemed decorous to you under the title of "Protector," for I
shall not with a gentleman of your understanding take into account,
as a motive for abstaining to speak truth, any chance of your
resentment. Nay, were I certain that such would be the effect of this
letter, I would nevertheless perform such an act of friendship, in
repayment of the support you gave me at a time when the basest
plots and plans were laid for my dismissal from the Chilian Service,
for no other reason than that certain influential persons of shallow
understanding and petty expedients hate those who despise mean
acts accomplished by low cunning.

Permit me, my dear General, to give you the experience of
eleven years during which I sat in the first senate in the world,
and to say what I anticipate on the one hand, and what I fear
on the other, nay, what I foresee; for that which is to come, in
regard to the acts of Governments and Nations, may as certainly
be predicted from history, as the revolutions of the solar system.
You have it in you