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march to return to Buenos Ayres. Alvear requested of Carrera to impede 

 their retreat ; but he repeated his determination not to compromise him- 

 self for the affairs of another, and Alvear's corps retired unmolested. 



Alvear, seven colonels, and forty-seven officers, including lieutenant-colo- 

 nels and majors, followed our regiment, with their servants, and a few sol- 

 diers, who would not return to Buenos Ayres. 



Ramirez continued his march to the Entre Rios, as we did ours to Santa 

 Fe. Nothing in the march occurred worthy of notice. We encamped in 

 the Rincon de Gorondona, an angle of land formed by the confluence of the 

 Carcaraiia and Parrana, covered with wood, and affording good pasture for 

 our horses and cattle. Alvear's officers, who were under our protection, 

 formed their encampment about a league below ours, on the bank of the 

 Parrana. Ramirez passed over to the Bajada, where he was received with 

 every demonstration of joy by his countrymen. 



In our encampment we remained two months ; during which our soldiers 

 were trained to the cavalry exercise, charge, and manoeuvres. Two gun- 

 brigs, with some gun-boats, came up the river, conveying arms, ammunition, 

 clothing, and money, to Carrera, for our regiment : the arms, ammunition, 

 and clothing, which were remaining, together with the gun-brigs and boats, 

 were presented by Carrera to Ramirez, the officers and men still continuing 

 in them to serve Ramirez in the river. 



About this time a captain came to our encampment with letters from Co- 

 lonel Dorego in Buenos Ayres, informing Carrera, that by a revolution of 

 Soler, Saratea had been deposed, and the inhabitants reduced to a more 

 miserable state than ever. Soler had declared himself captain-general of the 

 province, marched to Luxan, with his new-organised troops, formed an en- 

 campment about one mile distant from that town, where he disciplined his 

 corps, and obliged the Cabildo in Buenos Ayres to lay a weekly contribution 

 on the people for the regular payment and support of his military establish- 

 ment. A French officer also arrived with correspondences from Chile, soli- 

 citing the speedy assistance of Carrera in co-operation with his country, in 

 order to sustain a revolution which had been set on foot immediately on 

 hearing that he was at the head of a force. As it was too far advanced in 

 the season to cross the Andes, the revolutionists were obliged to desist, and 

 a distant relation of Carrera gave information of the plan to O'Higgins ; in 

 consequence of which several persons of the highest respectability were sent 

 into exile in different places, and forty of the principal officers concerned were 



