e that tranquil asylum which, after the
anxieties I had suffered, I felt needful to my repose. My inclinations,
too, were decidedly in favor of a residence in Chili, from
a feeling of the congeniality which subsisted between my own
habits and the manners and customs of the people, those few only
excepted who were corrupted by contiguity with the Court, or
debased in their minds and practices by that species of Spanish
Colonial education which inculcates duplicity as the chief qualification
of statesmen in all their dealings, both with individuals
and the public.

I now speak more particularly of the persons late in power--
excepting, however, the late Supreme Director--who I believe
to have been the dupe of their deceit; and I do assure you
that nothing would afford me greater pleasure, for the sake of
the ingenuous Chilian people, than to find that with a change
of Ministers, a change of measures has also taken place, and that
the errors of your predecessors, and their consequent fate, shall
operate as an effectual caution against a course so destructive.

Point out to me one engagement that has been honourably
fulfilled--one military enterprise of which the professed object
has not been perverted--or one solemn pledge that has not been
forfeited; but my opinions on this want of faith, at various periods
of the contest, when everything was fresh in my recollection,
are recorded in my correspondence with the Minister of Marine,
and more particularly in my private letters to His Excellency, the
late Supreme Director, whom I unavailingly warned of all that
has happened. My letter also to San Martin, in answer to his
accusations--a copy of which was officially transmitted to your
predecessor in office--contains a brief abstract of the errors and
follies committed in Peru; as my public letters and those documents
are, of course, in your possession, I shall abstain from trespassing
on your attention with a repetition of facts with which you are
acquainted.

Look to my representations on the necessities of the navy,
and see how they were relieved! Look to my memorial, proposing
to establish a nursery for seamen by encouraging the coasting
trade, and compare its principles with the code of Rodriguez, which
annihilated both. You will see in this, as in all other cases, that
whatever I recommended in regard to th