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CHILI. 



ever since the year 1819 — very much in the 

 manner that the war has been carried on by the 

 Spaniards in all parts of South America. 



" Several times the intendant of Conception, 

 Commander-in-chief of the army of the south, by 

 authority of government, put the law of retalia- 

 tion in force ; but with characteristic moderation, 

 and with the sole view of repressing these viola- 

 tions of the laws of war. At other times this con- 

 duct was changed, and offers of pardon, approved 

 by his Excellency the Supreme Director of the 

 Republic, were made to those who should give 

 themselves up ; and these promises were held sa- 

 cred even with the most atrocious. The command- 

 ers and officers of the Chilian army were restrain- 

 ed from exercising the just resentment inspired 

 by the fall of their companions, so inhumanly 

 murdered ; but nothing could mitigate the insane 

 fury of this monster, and his iniquitous associates, 

 (inicuos satelites.) He took prisoner in an action, 

 on the 23d September 1820, Don Carlos Maria 

 O'Carrol, and ordered him to be shot immediately. 

 On the 26th, on the banks of the river Laja, he 

 attacked three hundred men of the Coquimbo 



