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played the guitar, and sung the ^^Tristes del 

 Peru/' favourite airs of some celebrity. We did 

 not allude to politics ; but it is said that Senora 

 Salaverry is very uneasy about the prospects of 

 the revolution. It is impossible that the 

 struggle can terminate in any other way than by 

 the return of the lawful president, unless the 

 army should desert General Miller, who com- 

 mands at a distance from the capital. The 

 illegal exactions which have been repeatedly 

 levied by Salaverry, to pay his recruits, and the 

 savage character he is known to possess, have 

 inspired the natives with nothing but fear and 

 hatred ; though he has issued edicts for lower- 

 ing the duties on foreign commerce, and has 

 thereby partly succeeded in gaining, from the 

 body of foreign merchants, a favourable opinion 

 of his cause, and they have too readily listened to 

 his appeal to their temporary interests. I have 



