POLITICAL HISTORY OF PERU. 291 



On the 19th, the Assembly approved of the treaty entered into 

 between Orbejoso and Santa Cruz. 



The Assembly of Sicuani was but four days in session; and its 

 whole object seems to have been to confer titles and honours on Santa 

 Cruz, instead of looking into the affairs Gf the state. This must strike 

 airy one as having been a ridiculous farce ; and it cannot be a matter 

 of surprise that the South Americans should rather be retrograding 

 than advancing, when we look upon acts like these. 



On the 3d August, 1836, the Convention of Huara (which had been 

 previously summoned) met. After being organized, it received mes- 

 sages from the provisional President, and the Supreme Protector by 

 his plenipotentiary, who submitted three projects for an organic law 

 for the purpose of uniting Peru and Bolivia under one head. It pro- 

 posed to form them into the three federative states of Bolivia, North 

 and South Peru, each to have a president, and all to be under the 

 Supreme Protector, who was named for life. The chief difficult}^ the 

 Convention had to overcome was, whether a successor to the Pro- 

 tector, in case of his death or infirmity, should be named, and whether 

 Orbejoso should be the party. During the pendency of this question, 

 Orbejoso sent word to the Assembly, through the minister, that they 

 might desist from the considering him as a candidate to succeed the 

 Protector. This great difficulty having been, thus removed, the organic 

 iaw 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 

 monument 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 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 pre- 

 vious to this time adopted the novel plan of chartering (aumdamiento) 

 the government vessels of war, considering they had no longer any use 

 for them ; 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 



