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has stood, have bribed the landlord to let it to them.— They are 
English ! 
While I was thus busy, Lord Cochrane called, with Captain Crosbie. 
His Lordship most kindly, most humanely, desired me to remain .at 
Quintero, with my poor invalid, and not to think of removing him or 
myself until more favourable times and circumstances ; and told me 
he would soon go thither, and settle whereabouts I should shelter 
myself and Glennie till he should be well enough finally to remove. 
Tuesday, 26th.—There were five shocks during this day: I must 
now omit many ; because, unless they are very severe, I never awake 
in consequence of them during the night. While I was at my 
own house packing up, I was surprised to see my friend Mr. C. 
ride up: he had just arrived from Conception, a distance of 170 
leagues, which he had ridden by by-ways in five days. He had 
passed through Talca and San Fernando ; at both of which places, as 
well as Conception, the earthquake of the 19th had been felt, but not 
severely. Mr. H., who has just returned from the city, tells me that 
Casa Blanca and Melipilla are both a heap of ruins: Illapel is also 
destroyed, and all the village churches have suffered; nothing but 
the ranchos escape: they are built like hurdles, and though the mud 
shakes from the interstices, they are safe. Mr. C. has indeed, 
however, brought intelligence more important than any thing con- 
nected with the earthquake. The people of Conception, enraged at 
the unjust provisions of the reglamento, and at other oppressive 
measures, have burnt the same reglamento and the constitution 
in the market-place ; have convoked an opposition convention ; and 
have insisted on Freire’s taking the field with the acknowledged 
purpose of turning out Rodriguez and the rest of the iniquitous 
administration. Freire has already marched, but as yet his motions 
cannot be known at Santiago; and of course I am tongue-tied as to 
the intelligence, till it comes from some public quarter: conjecture 
is free, however ; and I cannot hep thinking that the object here has 
been to secure the squadron in Freire’s interest. But that may 
not be: honour forbids it, I think; and the Chilian squadron 
