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department, which, in these turbulent times, 

 is a duty of no small responsibility, and re- 

 quiring great personal exertion. 



My next call was on General Urdineta, 

 the President of the Senate, a handsome, 

 agreeable, well-informed man, more resem- 

 bling an European officer than any other I 

 have met with in the country. He has suffer- 

 ed much in his health from the severity of 

 the service he has undergone, which has pre- 

 vented his paying regular attention to his 

 senatorial duties ; but when his health would 

 permit, he is said to have performed them 

 with great credit and talent. He is in high 

 favour with the public, and stands a fair 

 chance of being some day elected President. 

 He is married to a most agreeable woman, 

 daughter to one of the first families of the 

 place, named Paris, and never have I seen in 

 England more kind and affectionate attention 

 towards an invalid husband, than that dis- 



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