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quarrel the government had nothing to do. He had 

 rendered himself odious to the people of Buenos 

 Ayres, by his conduct on his arrival, which happened 

 to be during the moment of anxious solicitude for the 

 success of San Martin^ who had then crossed the 

 mountains; Carrera every where declared that his at- 

 tempt was madness and folly, and that he would cer- 

 tainly be cut oflP and destroyed; but when news had 

 arrived of his success, his rage and disappointment 

 knew no bounds; he called San Martin a scoundrel, 

 and talked of his ambitious designs on the liberties 

 of Chili. His conduct afterwards, was such, that 

 the government was induced to order him out of the 

 country. His two brothers, however, and the rest 

 of his family, with a number of other Chilians, 

 who had received protection from Buenos Ayres, 

 after the conquest of their country by the Spa- 

 niards, were permitted to remain, but that they 

 had taken advantage of the circumstance to under- 

 inine the government, as well as to plot insurrections 

 in Chili; that they were internal enemies, more to be 

 dreaded than the old Spaniards. He said that the 

 two brothers of Carrera, had been imprisoned for is- 

 suing commissions to persons in Chili, as well as on 

 various other charges. He thought, also, that the 

 Carreras very much overrated their own consequence j 

 there, that they had, no doubt, a considerable party ) 

 in their favor, but that by fkr the most numerous and f 

 virtuous portion of the community, were unfriendly | 

 to them. I state this conversation, chiefly, on ac- f 

 count of having heard the same things, and many ij 

 others, at Buenos Ayres, from persons who possessed f 

 better information, and more intelligence; from which, j| 

 I was induced to believe this a current opinion, and li 



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