EXPEDITION AGAINST PERU. ^3 



should retire behind the limits of the presidency 

 of Chili, as defined in 1810; that the political 

 state of Chili remaining unchanged, should send 

 commissioners with full powers to Madrid, to 

 treat with His Most Catholic Majesty; while 

 hostilities should cease both by sea and land, 

 until three months after the termination of the 

 negotiations : and, finally, that the senior officer 

 of His Britannic Majesty's ships, and the senior 

 officer of the ships of the United States of North 

 America, should guarantee the fulfilment of these 

 stipulations.'' The Viceroy declined the essen- 

 tial parts of this proposal, namely, the evacua- 

 tion of the provinces of Potosi, Chuquizaca, Co- 

 chabamba, and La Paz, as well as the guarantee 

 of the naval Commanders-in-chief ; so that, after 

 a long, but unimportant correspondence between 

 the two parties, the armistice was broken up on the 

 4th of October, and on the 26th, the expedition 

 proceeded to the northward. 



In the meantime, while the Liberating Army 

 under San Martin were removing to Ancon, 

 Lord Cochrane, with part of his squadron, an- 

 chored in the outer Roads of Callao, the sea-port 



