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CHBISHOP OF LIMA--HIS EXPULSION--NEGOCIATION FOR SURRENDER OF THE FORTS--THIS COUNTERACTED--SAN MARTIN'S BOMBASTIC PROCLAMATIONS--HIS REFUSAL TO ENCOUNTER THE ENEMY--THE SPANIARDS RELIEVE CALLAO--DELUSIVE PROCLAMATION--THE UNBLUSHING FALSEHOOD--SPANIARDS CARRY OFF THE TREASURE--DISCONTENT OF THE SQUADRON. Finding that I was indisposed to acknowledge his self-assumed authority, and still less to contribute to measures which would, in effect, have deprived Chili of the Navy, which by her patriotic sacrifices had been created, the Protector issued a proclamation, again _promising_ the payment of arrears to the seamen, and a pension for life to the officers, _acknowledging them as officers of Peru_! No inference can be drawn from this other than a direct intimation to the officers to desert from the Chilian service. The following are extracts from the proclamation, which was published in a Gazette Extraordinary of August 17th, 1821:-- "The Army and Squadron of Chili united, have, at last, completed the oath which they took, to liberate Peru, and have raised it to the rank which justice and the interests of the world demand. Their constancy and heroism will hand them down to posterity with gratitude. I should be deficient in my political duty, did I not manifest the appreciation due to their transcendent deeds, promoting the interests of both hemispheres." "1. The State of Peru acknowledges as a national debt the arrears of the Army and Squadron, as well as the promises made by me to both." "2. All the property of the State, and also twenty per cent, on the revenue, are pledged to the extinction of these debts." "3. All the officers of the Army and Squadron who sailed with the liberating expedition, and now remain in them, _are acknowledged as officers of Peru_." "4. Those comprehended in the preceding articles, and those employed in the said cause, shall receive, during the period of their lives, a pension of half their full pay, awarded on leaving Valparaiso, which pension shall be paid even in the case of their settling in a foreign country." "5. All shall receive a medal," &c, &c. Not a penny of the arrears and the other emoluments promised, was, however, paid to the squadron; nor was any intended to be paid, the object being to get the officers quietly to transfer themselves from the Chilian squadron to the service of the Protector, on
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