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San Martin, - 60 

 Chacabuco, 24 



This little force had completely blockaded the port of Callao, whose 

 batteries are tremendous, and where there were lying the 



Venganza, - 42 guns 



Esmeralda, - - 44 

 Sebastiana, - 28 



I § Resolution, - 36 



II § Cleopatra - 28 

 § La Focha, - 20 



|| BrigMaypu, - 18 



|| Pezuela, - - 22 



|| Potrillo, - - 18 



Name unknown, - 18 

 Schooner, 1 long 24 pounder, 20 culverins 

 § Ship Guarmey, - 18 

 § San Fernando - 26 

 § San Antonio, - 18* 

 besides 28 gun vessels. Two hundred thousand dollars belonging to 

 the Philippine company had been taken, besides smaller prizes, and 

 many towns on the coast freed from the Spanish yoke. 



Thus the viceroy found himself in the most humiliating situation, 

 deprived of the provisions which were absolutely necessary to the 

 country, and shut up in his capital by a force of not one quarter the 

 strength of his own, but which, with an activity unexampled in these 

 seas, went from port to port, put down all opposition, arrested his 

 convoys both by sea and land, and attacked his forts and vessels even 

 in their strongest hold. 



On the return of the squadrpn to Chile, among other compliments 

 paid to Lord Cochrane, a public panegyric on His Lordship was pro- 

 nounced at the national institute of Santiago, of which I have only 



* The vessels marked thus § are merchant ships, but hired and armed for the king's 

 service ; those marked thus || are ready for sea. 



