1828. 
shaken in his prejudices against the Irish. 
He was, however, on the point of quitting 
Treland, when, in the company of a Mr. 
Gore, a man in office, an acquaintance, who 
had in London borrowed money of him, in 
a very Irish off-handed manner, he meets 
with a lady—a daughter, indeed, of Mr. 
Gore’s—who looks very like the Pére la 
Chaise lady ; and is, for some time, by 
little artifices of hers, a good deal perplexed 
—she is, and is not the lady, and the 
reader himself can make little or nothing of 
the matter. His admiration of her keeps 
him in Ireland, but the society of Gore and 
his friends, thoroughly disgusts him with 
the Orange party, and he is led, step by 
step, to wish to see himself the real Irish. 
His sister is now residing on her own pro- 
perty, in the very neighbourhood of the 
family estates, and of the Keightleys, 
against whom, it has been seen, Blount was 
exceedingly prejudiced, chiefly as being 
Trish, and, as he believes, low Irish. To 
visit this sister he is finally determined, by 
the impulses of the ambiguous lady, who, 
at length, frankly confesses she is not the 
lady, and assures him he will find her at his 
sister’s. 
In the coach, which conveyed him to the 
south, he meets with an elderly gentleman, 
and entering into a long and serious discus- 
sion of Irish affairs with him, is argued out 
of some more of his prejudices; and, on 
_taking leave, has reason to believe his con- 
‘vincer was his old guardian, Mr. Keightley. 
Proceeding now to his sister’s residence, he 
falls into the hands of the Rockites, and is, 
‘for some time, kept in durance ; but luckily, 
by his sister’s popularity, and the influence 
of the Captain Rock of the neighbourhood, 
his old acquaintance, the coachman, who 
had overturned him, he is conducted to his 
_sister’s, where he is reconciled to the 
 “Keightleys—introduced to the eldest son, 
who is on the point of marrying his sister, 
and proves to be the person he believed he 
had killed in the duel—and, finally, to the 
Pere la Chaise \ady—the original Miss 
Keightley, the beautiful seraph whom he 
had first seen in Devonshire. Intimations 
are given of his future marriage with this 
lady—the death of his brother, by which 
he becomes Lord Clangores—and his final 
and entire conversion on a full knowledge 
of the Irish character. 
With a very considerable knowledge of 
life and manners, instances of ignorance, 
or, perhaps, forgetfulness, occur, which were 
little to be looked for. Mr. Blount talks 
of his delightful rambles at Cambridge, in 
August—Captain Blount, at Paris, parades, 
in his habitual dress, the uniform of the 
10th Hussars—and, in the year 1814, we 
hear of a purse of sovereigns, &c. 
Memoirs of General Miller, of the 
Peruvian Service, 2 vols, 8vo. 1828.—The 
subject of these memoirs was born about the 
end of the year 1795, and, at fifteen, en- 
a Se 
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tered the British service, in which he was 
uninterruptedly engaged till the peace of 
1815 ; having been present at the sieges of 
Cuidad Rodrigo, Badajos, and San Sebas- 
tian, at the battle of Vittoria, and the in- 
vestment of Bayonne—witnessed the fall of 
General Ross, at Baltimore, and accompa- 
nied the troops destined to act against New 
Orleans. The two following years were 
spent on the continent, partly in a French 
mercantile house ; but, disliking the em- 
ployment, and yet unwilling to be idle, and 
the necessity of doing something, probably, 
pressing upon him, he bent his steps to- 
wards South America; and, as his good 
luck would have it, preferred Buenos Ayres, 
where few, it appears, had gone, to Co- 
lombia, which was overrun with English 
adventurers. Fortunately, he got a favour- 
able introduction to Puyrredon, the supreme 
director, and, within a month, was pre- 
sented with a captain’s commission, and 
directed to join the army, then encamped 
near Val Paraiso, and preparing to assist 
the Peruvians, under the command of San 
Martin. This was in January 1818; and, 
through the whole war, to the battle of 
Ayacucho, which, in December 1824, finally 
secured the independence of Peru, was 
Miller actively employed, by sea and by 
land, under Cochrane, San Martin, and 
Bolivar—several times severely wounded, 
and rising, successively, through the grada- 
tions of major, lieut.-colonel, colonel, and 
general of brigade. At the conclusion of 
the war, he was appointed, first, governor of 
Puno, and then of Potosi, in which latter 
office he continued till October 1825, when 
his health failing, and compelling him to 
return to Europe, he was presented with 
20,000 dollars—leave of absence for two 
years, and a testimonial of service, couched 
in the most honourable terms, by Bolivar. 
The memoir is written by a brother of 
the general (the swelling title has something 
unduly ostentatious about it), the details 
of which are collected from his private 
papers, journals, and recollections: the 
writer himself has visited a considerable 
part of the scenes he describes—and contain 
a pretty full account of the war of indepen- 
dence, in the provinces of Rio de la Plata, 
Chili, and Peru—the whole interspersed 
with descriptions of the country, and man- 
ners of the people, and, particularly, with 
accounts and anecdotes of all the leading 
personages of South America. Though 
little can be said for the skill with which 
the book is constructed, it is a very useful 
one ; for we scarcely know where the de- 
tails of these wars can be gathered with any 
completeness. Though things are exhibited 
not in the clearest manner, nevertheless, 
with a little patience and perseverance, a 
fair and distinct account may be extracted, 
for the book is not deficient in fulness. 
The author, too, sticks to his business ; 
and, whatever he writes, the reader may be 
certain it is all about South America: and 
