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though the neutrality of the British commanders in the Pacific, may be in 
obedience to their government, &c. &c. ; yet, 
“To suppose that because a few provinces, legitimately belonging to a 
monarchy, find themselves independent de facto, that they have a right to 
nationize (nacionalizer) as if they had arrived at the rank of acknowledged 
governments, is a frenzy offensive to the moral sense of all society, and a 
conclusion as equivocal as unjust.” 
And then goes on to maintain that the Chilian and Buenos Ayrian ships of 
war are pirates, &c. 
V. 
Lord Cochrane writes his last letter on this subject, on the 17th March, 1819. 
Init he returns to the subject of the prisoners, and regrets the rejection of his 
terms by the Viceroy, no less than the mistaken views which cause the deso- 
lation of South America ; insists on the real nature of the neutrality of his 
own country, and tells him that nothing but an act of parliament could legally 
prevent his countrymen frum embracing any cause they pleased to support. 
I had intended to have given literal translations of the greater part of these 
letters; but on more mature thought, it appears to me that the above abstract 
and extracts are sufficient in this place. If, hereafter, a more detailed 
history of this part of the Great South American struggle should be necessary, 
the correspondence will then serve as an illustration of the principles and 
ideas which were entertained by the contending parties, and will account 
for much that would otherwise appear either improbable or impossible. 
