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near Islay. Sliortly afterwards Santa Cruz established the Peru-Bolivian 

 Confederation, and (iencral Miller was sent as Minister Plenipotentiary to 

 Ecuador, where he signed a treaty of joeace and amity between that Republic 

 and the Confederation. In August 1837 he became Governor of Callao, 

 when all customs duties were reduced one half, smuggling ceased, and the 

 receipts were soon quadrupled. He organized an efficient police ; made a 

 subterraneous aqueduct 3 feet wide, 34 deep, and 280 yards long, for 

 supplying Callao with water ; commenced the erection of a college ; and 

 formed a tramway for the conveyance of goods from the mole to the 

 custom-house. The people of Callao still look back with satisfaction and 

 gratitude to the period when General Miller was their Governor. 



In Febitiary 1839, on the overthrow of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, 

 General Miller was banished with many other able and distinguished men, 

 whose names were taken off the army list by a decree dated in the follow- 

 ing Marcli. This unjust and illegal act was cancelled by a law of Congress 

 dated October 1847. 



After leaving Peru in 1839, General Miller was appointed in 1843 

 H. M. Commissioner and Consul-General for the Islands in the Pacific. In 

 1859 he revisited Chile and Peru, partly for his health, and jsartly to 

 obtain the payment of his large arrears from the Government. When he 

 arrived in Peru the Vice-President Mar, while the President, General 

 Castilla, was absent at Guayaquil in 1859, reinstated him on the army list 

 of Peru, by a decree dated December 9th, the anniversary of the battle of 

 Ayacucho, and granted him his current pay as a Grand Marshal of Peru, 

 and he continued to reside at Lima until his death on the 31st of October 

 18r)l. It is satisfactory to be able to record, for the honour of the Peruvian 

 nation, that the whole of his claims were acknowledged in Congress in a 

 most handsome way, and without a dissentient voice. But unfortunately the 

 executive in Peru is still able to set the laws passed by the representatives 

 of the people at defiance ; delays and evasions were resorted to by Castilla, 

 and the last days of one from whom Peru had perhaps received as valuable 

 services as from any of her own sons, were embittered by the treatment 

 which he experienced from the President of the Republic. 



General Miller was a man of whom England may well be proud. He 

 was one of those characters who combine great ability and extraordinary 

 daring, almost amounting to rashness, with modesty and diffidence. If 

 there was any fault to be found in any part of General Miller's former 

 career, in the camp or in the cabinet, it would be from himself that it 

 would first be heard. To his bravery and prowess, his body riddled 

 with bullets, and the history of South American independence, bear testi- 

 mony ; to his administrative abihty the gratitude of the people of Callao 

 and Cuzco is the witness ; his pure standard of honour, his scrupulous 

 integrity, his warmth of heart, and single-mindedness are known to a 

 wide circle of sorrowing friends ; but of his numerous acts of self-denial 

 and charity few can tell, for he was one who let not his left hand know 

 what his right hand did. 



