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a stranger should buy and eat of what was too delicious for any 
but an Athenian palate. 
This new reglamento is not the only point on which some state 
ferment seems about to arise. The Director had appointed General 
Cruz to supersede General Freire as governor of Talcahuana and 
chief of the army of the south; but the soldiers have refused to 
receive him, or to permit Freire to leave them, and are become as 
clamorous for their pay as the sailors are. Some politicians here do 
not scruple to attribute ambitious thoughts to Freire, and to accuse 
him of being the instigator of the clamours of the soldiers: but the 
true cause is in the bad faith of the government in refusing to pay 
up their arrears ; in neglecting to provide any compensation for the 
sufferings and losses of the people of Conception, who have under- 
gone more than those of any other province during the war of the 
Revolution ; and in tyrannically attempting to ruin every port in 
Chile but that of Valparaiso, for the sake of monopolising the com- 
merce of the country. 
As to the squadron, the men talk of seizing the ships if they are 
not paid forthwith ; and it is given out that their officers will stand 
by them. But these reports are built rather on the provocations to 
take the law into their own hands, than on any expressions of the 
parties themselves. 
8th. — My. pleasure in receiving the visits of several of my friends 
to-day, has been sadly damped by the increased sufferings of poor 
Glennie. These sufferings have met with sympathy however, if not 
relief, in a quarter from which I scarcely looked for it; namely, from 
La Chavelita, the old lady of the flower-garden, who appeared about 
four o’clock with a bundle of herbs, carried by a little serving boy, 
and stalking into the room with great dignity, her tall figure rendered 
still taller by a high-crowned black hat, she seated herself by the 
bedside, and began to question the patient as to his disease : she then 
turned to me, and told me she had brought some medicines, one of 
which she would administer immediately ; and in order to prepare 
it desired me to procure some warm brandy. This being done, she 
