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gust, and on the 11th of September the 

 whole army had disembarked at Pisco, 

 about one hundred miles south of Lima. 

 The Viceroy, Don Joaquim Pezuela, having 

 decided to concentrate his force near Lima, 

 the liberating army at first met with no re- 

 sistance. On the 26th, an armistice for eight 

 days having been agreed upon, a conference 

 was held between commissioners nominated 

 by both parties, at Miraflores, a village be- 

 tween two and three leagues south of Lima. 

 Propositions were made on both sides ; but 

 the parties could not agree, and the armis- 

 tice was declared to be at an end on the 4th 

 of October. San Martin marched to Ancon ; 

 and Lord Cochrane, with part of his squa- 

 dron, anchored in the outer roads of Callao, 

 the seaport of Lima. Here his lordship 

 undertook what appeared to be a desperate 

 enterprize, the cutting out the Spanish ship 

 Esmeralda, a large forty-gun frigate, which 

 was moored, with two sloops of war, under 



