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mentioned before, that Salaverry was sent to 

 quell a mutiny at the fort by the president, 

 before he revolted himself. This mutiny was 

 attended with a melancholy circumstance. The 

 mutineers expected Lafuente, a general in the 

 Peruvian service, to espouse their cause, instead 

 of which he sought refuge on board the Brandy- 

 wine. The troops imagined that the ships of war 

 had put him under restraint, and with this feeling, 

 founded in error, they attacked the officers and 

 crew of a boat of the English sloop of war Sa- 

 tellite, then at Callao, as it was proceeding to the 

 vessel, with an English lady who was of the 

 party. They fired upon them without provo- 

 cation, and wounded Lieutenant Drummond in 

 the leg so badly, that he was obliged to submit 

 to an amputation of which he died. He was 

 the son of Sir Gordon Drummond. Soon after 

 this happened, Salaverry, who shot eighteen of 



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