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betrayed his allegiance to his King, and gone 

 over to the Patriots, had been taken prisoner, and 

 shot as a traitor. This also belonged to the 

 times. 



On the same day a lady applied to me for a 

 passage to Chili, where her husband then was, a 

 prisoner of war : she had succeeded, she said, af- 

 ter much trouble, in obtaining permission from 

 the Government to leave Lima ; for such were the 

 suspicions of every one, that even a wife's motives 

 for joining her husband in prison were looked 

 upon with distrust, and made matter of long der- 

 bate in council. So little accustomed of late was 

 the poor woman to being treated with any confi- 

 dence or consideration, that when I frankly pro- 

 mised her a passage, she could scarcely believe it 

 possible, and burst into tears. 



Very different tears, I suspect, were shed by 

 another lady whom we called upon immediately 

 afterwards. News had just arrived of her hus- 

 band, the Marquis of Torre Tagle, (afterwards a 

 leading public character,) having gone over from 

 the Royalist cause to that of the Patriots, while 

 she, good lady, remained in the power of the 



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