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San Martin, - 60 
Chacabuco, - - 24 
This little force had completely blockaded the port of Callao, whose 
batteries are tremendous, and where there were lying the 
| Venganza, - 42 guns 
| Esmeralda, - - 44 
| Sebastiana, - 28 
|| § Resolution, - - 36 
| § Cleopatra - - 28 
§ La Focha, - 20 
| Brig Maypu, - 18 
|| Pezuela, - - 22 
| Potrillo, - - i8 
| Name unknown, - 18 
| Schooner, 1 long 24 pounder, 20 culverins 
§ Ship Guarmey, - 18 
§ San Fernando - 26 
§ San Antonio, - 18* 
besides 28 gun vessels. Two hundred thousand dollars belonging to 
the Philippine company had been taken, besides smaller prizes, and 
many towns on the coast freed from the Spanish yoke. 
Thus the viceroy found himself in the most humiliating situation, 
deprived of the provisions which were absolutely necessary to the 
country, and shut up in his capital by a force of not one quarter the 
strength of his own, but which, with an activity unexampled in these 
seas, went from port to port, put down all opposition, arrested his 
convoys both by sea and land, and attacked his forts and vessels even 
in their strongest hold. 
On the return of the squadron to Chile, among other compliments 
paid to Lord Cochrane, a public panegyric on His Lordship was pro- 
nounced at the national institute of Santiago, of which I have only 
* The vessels marked thus § are merchant ships, but hired and armed for the king’s 
service; those marked thus {| are ready for sea. 
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