disadvantage. The liberals were routed. Would
that I could throw a veil, not over a Conquest which proves
neither courage nor talent in the conqueror, but over the
horrid cruelties which succeeded the battle. The most furious
savages, the most unprincipled bandits, would have been
ashamed to execute the orders which the rebel army received
from Prieto, and yet which were executed with mournful
fidelity. Tupper--illustrious shade of the bravest of
soldiers, of the most estimable of men; shade of a hero to
whom Greece and Rome would have erected statues--your dreadful
assassination will be avenged. If there be no visible
punishment for your murderer, Divine vengeance will overtake
him. It will demand an account of that infamous sentence
pronounced against all strangers by a man[172] who at that
time was the pupil and the tool of a vagabond stranger,[173]
indebted for his elevation and his bread to the generosity of
Chile."

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 171: From his earliest youth he gave indications of that
fearless and daring spirit which marked his after-life; and when he left
Europe in 1821, he was generally thought to bear a striking resemblance
to his late uncle, Major-General Brock, at the same age. This similarity
extended in some degree even to their deaths, as the Indians of either
continent were employed as auxiliaries in the actions in which they
fell, and both were killed in the months that gave them birth. Like his
uncle also, he swam occasionally to Castle Cornet and back, (see foot
note, page 337,) and he was equally tall, being in height six feet two
inches, while his figure was a perfect model of strength and symmetry.]

[Footnote 172: General Prieto.]

[Footnote 173: Garrido, a Spanish renegade.]

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