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POLITICAL HISTORY OF CHILI. 
ratification of the treaty by Salaverry was followed by his sending a 
minister to Chili, although the ambassador of the former government 
(Orbejoso's) was still there. This was the germ from which grew 
the misunderstanding that occurred on the restoration of Orbejoso's 
government, which was effected through the intervention of the Pre- 
sident of Bolivia, General Santa Cruz, who had been called upon by 
Orbejoso for assistance. This resulted in the defeat of Salaverry, the 
establishment of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, and the naming of 
Santa Cruz as Supreme Protector, for life, by assemblies convoked by 
him, and the appointment of Orbejoso as President of North Peru. 
While these matters, however, were in progress, Orbejoso, who had 
returned to Lima after the battle of Socabaya, immediately on his 
arrival annulled the treaty with Chili, with no other notice to the 
latter government than the public decree, by which she was informed, 
that four months were allowed her to renew it, or not, otherwise it 
would be of no effect. 
Chili took umbrage at this abrupt mode of proceeding, and allowed 
the time to pass, when both governments restored the former retalia- 
tory duties on their respective products. 
Santa Cruz framed a new commercial code for Peru, and among 
its articles was one imposing double duties on all vessels touching at 
any Chilian port, before going to Peru. This measure was odious 
to Chili, and was considered as evincing unfriendly feelings. Whilst 
Chili was in the full tide of prosperity, and attending to her own 
internal regulations, the administration, satisfied that all was quiet at 
home, appears to have been utterly regardless of the course things 
were taking 1 in Peru. President Prieto at this time was re-elected 
for a second term, upon which General Ramon Freyre, the former 
director of Chili, but for some years banished the country, and living 
in Peru, set out with a lew other exiled Chilian officers, on a 
revolutionary adventure to Chili. Embarking in two Peruvian 
government vessels, hired from Orbejoso ostensibly for a trading 
voyage to Central America, he had really the intention of proceeding 
to the south of Chili, and making a descent upon the coast. He 
entertained the expectation of being joined by the old military and 
other dissatisfied persons, and was in hopes of finally establishing 
himself again in power. Some few days subsequent to Freyre's depar- 
ture from Lima, the Chilian consul-general hearing of it, despatched 
a fast-sailing vessel to apprise his government. The vessel had a 
very short passage, and the intelligence took the government entirely 
