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upon your present actions. Will you confirm the suspicions which have 

 arisen against you during the last nine years ? If the world sees that you 

 know how to profit by this happy moment, your revolution will be as im- 

 portant to it as the united force of the whole continent. Value it, for the 

 sake of the millions of generations which may come after you. When the 

 rights of man, so long lost sight of in Peru, shall be re-established, I shall 

 congratulate myself on the power of belonging to institutions which may con- 

 secrate them : I shall have satisfied the dearest wish of my heart, and have 

 achieved the noblest work of my life. 



" Jose de San Martin. 



" Head-quarters, Santiago de Chile, 

 Nov. 13. 1818." 



No. III. 



" The Supreme Director of Chile to the Inhabitants of Peru. 



" Liberty, the daughter of Heaven, is about to descend on your beautiful 

 country ; and under her shadoxv you will take that high ?-a?ik among tfie nations 

 of the earth to which your opulence entitles you. The Chilian squadron, which 

 is in sight of your ports, is only the precursor of the expedition which is to 

 secure your independence. The moment wished for by all generous hearts is 

 approaching. The territory of Chile, and its adjacent isles, now breathe 

 freely, delivered from the yoke of the oppressor. Our naval forces are able 

 to contend with those of all Spain, as well as against her commerce ; and in 

 them you will find a firm support. 



" It will be an inscrutable enigma to posterity, that the enlightened Lima, 

 far from favouring the progress of Columbian independence, has endeavoured 

 to paralyse the noble and generous efforts of her brethren, and to deprive them 

 of the enjoyment of their imprescriptible rights. But it is time to wash out 

 this stain, and to avenge the innumerable outrages that you have received 

 from despotism as the reward of your blindness. Cast your eyes on the ruin 

 that has been spread by the tyrants over your delicious land : you will see it 

 engraven in indelible characters, in the depopulation, the want of industry, 

 the monopolies, the hard oppression, and the contempt under which you have 

 so long groaned. Run to your arms; and overturning, in your just indig- 

 nation, the colossus of despotism which weighs you down, you may arrive at 

 the height of prosperity. 



