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CHILI. 



mend them, in expressive silence, to the consider- 

 ation of his Excellency the Supreme Director. 



" I had almost forgotten to mention, that these 

 forts and batteries mount seventy pieces of can- 

 non, and that we have taken in the port the ship 

 Dolores.'' 



(Signed) " Cochrane.'" 



While Lord Cochrane was thus harassing the 

 enemy at every point of the coast where they stiU 

 maintained a footing, and pursuing their ships 

 whenever he could gain intelligence of them, the 

 Government of Chili was not inactive. The re- 

 sources of the country were industriously called 

 forth, troops were embodied and disciplined, and 

 every preparation made for the great expedition 

 against Peru. The executive Government also 

 removed from the capital to Valparaiso, in order 

 to co-operate more effectually with the indefa- 

 tigable San Martin in organizing the army, and 

 Lord Cochrane, as soon as the necessary arrange- 

 ments were made for the new administration of 

 Valdivia, returned to Valparaiso, where he de- 

 voted himself, with unremitting assiduity, to the 



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