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to escape joining it, hurried out of church, and took a stand to see it 
at some distance. As I saw the mean little train appear,—for mean 
it was, though composed of all the municipal and military dignitaries 
that could be collected, — I could not help thinking of the splendid 
show which three years ago I saw on the day of the Corpus Domini 
in Rome, and thinking how, in both cases, the “ form of godliness 
denied the power thereof,” and as I knelt to the symbols of religion, 
how widely different was that faith which worships God in spirit and 
in truth. 
There was a pretty part of the show, however, on the water: about 
150 little boats and canoes, dressed with the national colours, and 
firing rockets every now and then, rowed round the bay, and stopped 
at every church, and before every fishing cove, to sing a hymn, or 
chaunt. After accompanying them for some time, I went into 
Mr. Hoseason’s house, and there I found Lord Cochrane. I should 
say he looks better than when I last saw him in England, although 
his life of exertion and anxiety has not been such as is in general 
favourable to the looks. — How my heart yearned to think that 
when our own country lost his service, England, 
‘* Like a base Ethiope, threw a pearl away 
Richer than all his kind.” 
But he is doing honour to his native land, by supporting that cause 
which used to be hers; and in after-ages his name will be among 
those of the household gods of the Chilenos. 
On Lord Cochrane’s arrival here from Lima, every body was of 
course anxious to hear what he, and the officers of the squadron in 
general, think and feel concerning the protectorate of Peru. His 
Lordship, however, does not say any thing concerning the conduct 
of San Martin ; but the officers are not so discreet : they universally 
represent the present government of Peru as most despotic and 
tyrannical, now and then stained by cruelties more like the frenetic 
acts of the Czar Paul than the inflictions of even the greatest military 
tyrants. I have a letter from an officer of the Doris, saying that an 
elderly respectable woman in Lima, having imprudently spoken too 
