474 APPENDIX. 



though the neutrality of the British commanders in the Pacific, may be in 

 obedience to their government, fyc. 8$c. ; yet, 



" To suppose that because a few provinces, legitimately belonging to a 

 monarchy, find themselves independent de facto, that they have a right to 

 nationize (nacionalizer) as if they had arrived at the rank of acknowledged 

 governments, is a frenzy offensive to the moral sense of all society, and a 

 conclusion as equivocal as unjust." 



And then goes on to maintain that the Chilian and Buenos Ayrian ships of 

 war are pirates, 8$c. 



V. 



Lord Cochrane writes his last letter on this subject, on the Y]th March, 1819. 

 In it he returns to the subject of the prisoners, and regrets the rejection of his 

 terms by the Viceroy, no less than the mistaken views which cause the deso- 

 lation of South America ; insists on the real nature of the neutrality of his 

 own country, and tells him that nothing but an act of parliament could legally 

 prevent his countrymen from embracing any cause they pleased to support. 



I had intended to have given literal translations of the greater part of these 

 letters ; but on more mature thought, it appears to me that the above abstract 

 and extracts are sufficient in this place. If, hereafter, a more detailed 

 history of this part of the Great South American struggle should be necessary, 

 the correspondence will then serve as an illustration of the principles and 

 ideas which were entertained by the contending parties, and will account 

 for much that would otherwise appear either improbable or impossible. 



