EXPEDITION AGAINST PERU. 7^ 



this sense, in preference to any more exact, but 

 less generally received apellation. The language, 

 it may be mentioned, spoken all over the country, 

 is Spanish, more or less corrupted by local idiom 

 and pronunciation. 



The expedition set sail for Peru on the 20th of 

 August, and reached Pisco, a port about 100 

 miles south of Lima, on the 7th of September, 

 where, by the 11th, the whole army was disem- 

 barked. The Spanish troops, stationed in that 

 neighbourhood, had previously fallen back upon 

 Lima, where the Viceroy resolved to collect his 

 whole force. At first, therefore, the Liberating 

 Army encountered no resistance, and on the 26th, 

 an armistice of eight days being agreed to, at the 

 request of the Viceroy Don Joaquim Pezuela; 

 the commissioners of both parties held a confer- 

 ence at Miraflores, a village two or three leagues 

 south of Lima. It was first proposed, on the 

 part of the Viceroy, " That the Government and 

 people of Chili and the army should swear to 

 the constitution of the Spanish Monarchy, and 

 should send deputies to the Sovereign Congress 

 of Spain, for the purpose of availing themselves 



