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The officer begged my permission to take 

 me on board the brig^ that I might there 

 give an account of the state of things at Lima. 

 The interest excited by an arrival from thence 

 was prodigious, and I could hardly satisfy their 

 craving appetite for news. They had heard 

 nothing for several weeks of the progress of the 

 revolution, and had then no intention of join- 

 ing Salaverry, the usurper. No vessel of war, 

 in the service of the president, had yet declared 

 for the new order of things, and the navy have 

 determined to remain faithful to their former 

 allegiance, in the hope of Obrigozo^s return to 

 power.^ 



* These vessels of war afterwards joined the revolution- 

 ary party, in spite of their previous boast of loyalty to the 

 legitimate president, and signalised their new principles 

 by an act of combined treachery and cruelty. They went 

 to Arica, and sent a message to the authorities on shore^ 

 to express the willingness of the squadron to submit to 



