302 POLITICAL HISTORY OF PERU. 
project of his becoming the successor of the Protector. This great 
difficulty having been given the go-by, the organic law was passed, 
organizing the four remaining provinces under the title of North Peru. 
At the same time, the act that had been passed by the Convention at 
Sicuani, establishing the state of South Peru, was confirmed. At 
this session, Orbejoso was made a grand marshal, the pay of that 
rank was voted to him, and also a clasp for a sword-belt set with 
diamonds, with one hundred thousand dollars in money. A monu- 
ment to Santa Cruz in one of the Alamedas in Lima was provided 
for, with a gold sword inlaid with diamonds, and one hundred 
thousand dollars to his wife as pin-money. This convention was 
only in session three days ! ! It may very well be imagined what the 
people of Lima thought of these acts, by the fact that on the 13th 
August, Orbejoso returned to Lima, without receiving any attentions 
whatever. Orbejoso had previous to this time adopted the novel plan 
of chartering (aumdamiento) the government vessels of war, consider- 
ing they had no longer any use for them ; when General Freyre, 
the former director of Chili, who it has been mentioned was banished 
from that country, and was residing in Lima, engaged the two 
frigates for the purpose of making a descent on Chili. All the 
Chilians who had been banished, united with him, and it is believed 
that Orbejoso favoured and aided the project by money as well as 
advice. A similar belief was entertained in relation to Santa Cruz, 
although he denied it, to suit his purposes. 
Peru and Bolivia thus became one government, under the name of 
the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, and Santa Cruz was declared 
Supreme Protector for life, with almost unlimited authority. This 
was an unpopular measure in Peru, who complained that her inde- 
pendence had been bartered for foreign aid. There was little to 
unite her to Bolivia, no common interest, and but little commercial 
intercourse to cement a union. Bolivia, on the other hand, saw 
herself involved in quarrels in which she had no interest; moreover, 
Chili and Equador became suspicious, and jealous of the ambitious 
projects of the Protector of the new Confederation; while the 
misunderstanding respecting the treaty, and the restrictions that 
were put on her commerce, tended to widen the breach with Chili. 
The Protector, on his arrival in Lima, was received with great 
rejoicings, &c. One of his first acts was to impose a discriminating 
and additional duty on all goods introduced into the ports of the 
Confederation, when imported in vessels having touched at a Chilian 
