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tlier state, to serve a country that no longer 

 sought his protection ; but which, on the con- 

 trary, felt competent to its own defence, and en- 

 titled to an uninfluenced government ; which, in 

 his opinion, it could never possess as long as he 

 was present. It was altogether contrary to his 

 usual practice and feelings to use force in ad- 

 vancing his opinions : — and finding that he had 

 lost his influence, and that the whole country^ 

 and even Buenos Ayres and Chili, accused him 

 of a wish to make himself king — he was resolv- 

 ed to abandon, for the present, a cause he could 

 no longer benefit. 



. Viewing matters then as they now stand, or 

 seem to stand, and reflecting on the character of 

 San Martin, it is quite evident that he is a man 

 not only of great abilities, both as a soldier and 

 a statesman ; but that he possesses, in a remark- 

 able degree, the great and important quality of 

 winning the regard, and commanding the devoted 

 services of other men. To these high attributes he 

 is indebted for the celebrity he acquired by the 

 conquest of Chili, and its solid establishment as a 

 free state : and, whatever may be said of his lat- 



