APPENDIX V. 



It is always a melancholy task to record ingratitude ; but the consequences 

 of that shown both by the Protector of Peru, and the Director of Chile, have 

 been so fatal to their own power, that it may serve as a warning to the future 

 governors of those new countries. Happily the good cause must survive and 

 flourish 'spite of those hindrances caused by the base passions of individuals. 

 The good and heroic who suffer will, as much as is in human nature, dis- 

 regard their own personal disgusts ; reflecting, that scarcely in any case has 

 the founder of a great general good enjoyed the benefit of his own labours ; 

 but posterity profits by them, and that secondary immortality, fame on earth, 

 will pursue their steps. 



I venture, therefore, to print the following address to the government of 

 Chile from the officers of the squadron ; convinced that while it states their 

 services and grievances, endured at the hands of individuals, the ill will not 

 be attributed to the sacred cause in which it was suffered, but to the unfor- 

 tunate circumstances that placed such a man as San Martin in a situation to 

 curb the generous efforts of our countrymen in the cause of South America, 

 and to over-rule the timid but well-meaning rulers of Chile. The opinions 

 entertained by Peru and Chile are sufficiently proved in the address from 

 the government of Lima to Lord Cochrane, and by the notice of the squa- 

 dron in the Chilian state paper given in the Postscript to the Journal. 



" Memorial presented to the Chile Government, October, 1822. 



" We, the captains of the Chilian navy, beg leave to lay most respectfully 

 before the government a brief statement of our services, privations, and suffer- 

 ings ; not with the view of enhancing our merits, but that justice may be 

 done, and that the pay and stipulated emoluments to which we are entitled 

 may no longer be withheld, and that our minds may be tranquillized as to 



