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upon your present actions. Will you confirm the suspicions which have 
arisen against you during the last nine years? If the world sees that you 
know how to profit by this happy moment, your revolution will be as im- 
portant to it as the united force of the whole continent. Value it, for the 
sake of the millions of generations which may come after you. When the 
rights of man, so long lost sight of in Peru, shall be re-established, I shall 
congratulate myself on the power of belonging to institutions which may con- 
secrate them: I shall have satisfied the dearest wish of my heart, and have 
achieved the noblest work of my life. 
“ Jose pE San Martin. 
sc Head-quarters, Santiago de Chile, 
Nov. 13. 1818.°” 
No. III. 
«« The Supreme Director of Chile to the Inhabitants of Peru. 
“ Lizerty, the daughter of Heaven, is about to descend on your beautiful 
country ; and under her shadow you will take that high rank among the nations 
of the earth to which your opulence entitles you. ‘The Chilian squadron, which 
is in sight of your ports, is only the precursor of the expedition which is to 
secure your independence. The moment wished for by all generous hearts is 
approaching. ‘The territory of Chile, and its adjacent isles, now breathe 
freely, delivered from the yoke of the oppressor. Our naval forces are able 
to contend with those of all Spain, as well as against her commerce; and in 
them you will find a firm support. 
“« It will be an inscrutable enigma to posterity, that the enlightened Lima, 
far from favouring the progress of Columbian independence, has endeavoured 
to paralyse the noble and generous efforts of her brethren, and to deprive them 
of the enjoyment of their imprescriptible rights. But it is time to wash out 
this stain, and to avenge the innumerable outrages that you have received 
from despotism as the reward of your blindness. Cast your eyes on the ruin 
that has been spread by the tyrants over your delicious land: you will see it 
engraven in indelible characters, in the depopulation, the want of industry, 
the monopolies, the hard oppression, and the contempt under which you have 
so long groaned. Run to your arms; and overturning, in your just indig- 
nation, the colossus of despotism which weighs you down, you may arrive at 
the height of prosperity. 
