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perty, on the individual's purchasing letters of citizenship. * Lord 

 Cochrane's proposals were therefore rejected, and his hopes of 

 obtaining thereby a sufficient sum for the payment of the seamen, 

 and the repair and refitting of his ships, were frustrated, f He 

 therefore resolved on a bold measure, but one which in the relative 

 circumstances of all parties appears to me to be perfectly just. It 

 must be remembered, as I have stated before, that the squadron had 

 been twelve months at sea in constant activity ; the men had received 

 neither pay nor clothing ; they had had no supplies of provisions but 

 what they had captured, either on shore or at sea ; some of the ships 

 were leaky, and all were in want of stores of every kind ; and, above 

 all, the crews, who were at least half English, complained of the want 

 of grog. The army, on the contrary, had been supplied with waste- 

 ful profusion, and all the honours and all the advantages of the cam- 

 paign had been bestowed on its soldiers ; its general had thrown off 

 his allegiance to the country to which both army and navy had 

 sworn to be faithful, and now wished to buy that fleet of its officers, 

 which was, in the first place, not theirs to dispose of, and which 

 they were bound to maintain for the Chilian government. San Mar- 

 tin had promised not only to pay but to reward the fleet ; but he had 

 failed to do either, and now denied his engagement to that purpose. 

 He had also claimed for his own use several of the prizes made by 

 the squadron. 



Alarmed by the advance of Canterac's troops, San Martin had sent 

 all the money and bullion from the mint and treasury at Lima to 

 Ancon, and shipped it on board the transports, by way of safety. 



* San Martin, after having gotten the old Spaniards into his power, exacted from them 

 one-half of their property as a means of securing the rest; when they attempted to remove 

 or transport the remainder, it was seized, and the persons of the Spaniards were, with few 

 exceptions, imprisoned or murdered. 



f A great number of Spanish fugitives, with their property, having taken refuge in the 

 vessels, Lord Lynedoch and St. Patrick, which were detained on that account, Lord 

 Cochrane permitted them to ransom themselves, applying the money to the supply of the 

 squadron. One or two, who preferred trusting to San Martin, were afterwards cruelly 

 treated, and deprived of all their property. 



