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Lima, in the place of that of Bolivar ; salute^s were fired, and 

 bells pealed joyously on convent and church ; the city was illu- 

 minated ; balls were given, and entertainments were got up at 

 the theatre, and in the bull-ring. 



About the beginning of 1828, affairs pending between Co- 

 lombia and Peru, assumed such an aspect as to lead to the de- 

 claration of war between the neighboring republics. Peru 

 drained her exhausted treasury in equipping her army and navy; 

 loans were consequently exacted from the people, and gave 

 rise to disaffection towards La Mar's administration. 



The armies had marched to the respective frontiers of the 

 contending nations, and in September, the President of Peru 

 took command of the forces, and established his head quarters 

 at Loxa, where the division of the army in the south, and the 

 southern recruits, were ordered to join him. Early in 1829, 

 Bolivar was at Quito; the Colombian army's head quarters were 

 at Cuenca, and the Peruvians had possession of Guayaquil. 



On the 24th of May, General La Fuente arrived at Callao 

 from Arica, with 1500 men, well equipped, bringing with him 

 equipments for a thousand more, and a large sum of money, 

 coined and in bullion. When the vice-president ordered him 

 to deliver up these funds, he refused, saying that they were 

 intended for the pay and subsistence of his officers and men I 

 which excited suspicions as to his honesty. 



On the night of the day of his arrival, he quartered his 

 troops in Castle Independence. So soon as within the walls, he 

 ordered the troops to load their arms ; and the governor, fear- 

 ing that the general had designs upon the fortress, trained se- 

 veral field pieces on the doors of the barracks in which the 

 men were quartered, and doubled the sentinels at all the posts I 

 The next day, La Fuente seized every horse he could lay 

 hands upon, mounted four hundred men, and established him- 

 self at Magdalena, a short league to the southward and west- 

 ward of Lima. On the 6th of June 1829, having matured his 

 plans, he ejected the vice-president and all his official adherents, 

 and assumed the administration of affairs in the name of Gene- 

 ral Gamarra ! No blood was shed on this occasion. The usual 

 number of proclamations were issued, setting forth the reasons 



