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their numbers ; whilst the inhabitants of 

 Santiago not only subscribed money, but 

 gave up all their plate and jewels, to fur- 

 nish the requisite supplies. San Martin 

 was thus enabled to bring the army again 

 into the field with astonishing rapidity — a 

 rapidity which seems to have had the effect 

 of disconcerting his opponents ; for, on the 

 5tb of April 1818, only seventeen days after 

 his late defeat, he gave the royalists battle 

 on the plains of Maypo, and, after a hard- 

 fought contest, obtained a complete victory. 

 Some of the remaining royalist troops en- 

 deavoured afterwards to make a stand at 

 Concepcion, but they were soon driven out ; 

 and Chili was left, and has hitherto re- 

 mained, in the undisturbed possession of 

 its natives. / 

 After taking some time to arrange the in- 

 ternal affairs of the country, the Chilian go- 

 vernment, in concert with that of Buenos- 

 Ayres, (a treaty having been concluded be- 

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