Excellent Sir,

I have informed the Supreme Director of the note
which you addressed to me on the 7th of October, accompanying the
accounts of the monies supplied to the payment of the officers and
seamen of the squadron, and to the other objects of the naval
service; as well as the accounts of money and bars of silver returned
at Ancon to their respective owners.

His Excellency approves of all that you have done in these matters
and orders me in reply to convey his approbation, which I have the
honour now to do.

Accept the assurance of my high consideration,

(Signed) JOAQUIM DE ECHEVERRIA,
Ministry of Marine, Santiago de Chili.

To LORD COCHRANE,
Vice-Adm. & Comm.-in-Chief. Nov. 13, 1821.

On the same date, the following was received relative to the officers
who had deserted from the squadron, for the purpose of entering the
service of the Protector:--

Santiago de Chili, Nov. 13, 1821.
Most Excellent Sir,

His Excellency the Supreme Director has received
with the greatest dissatisfaction a list of the naval officers who have
deserted from the squadron. These will not fail to be noted in
order to be tried by a court-martial, in case they should again tread
the soil of Chili. It is fortunate that your Excellency has altered
the private signals, lest Capt. Esmonde should divulge those which
were in use.

(Signed) JOAQUIM DE ECHEVERRIA.
Vice-Adm. Lord Cochrane.

Immediately after my arrival, an intimation was forwarded to me by the
Supreme Director of his wish to confer with me privately on the subject
of my letter of May 2nd, in which had been pointed out the danger
arising in Peru, from the tyranny exercised by the Protectoral
Government.

Santiago, June 4th, 1822.
My Distinguished Friend Lord Cochrane,

I do not wish to delay a moment in expressing
my satisfaction at your arrival, of which you have informed me in
your letter of the 2nd inst. As in that letter you acquaint me
that you will speedily be in this Capital, with a view to communicate
matters which would be better conveyed in a verbal conference,
shall anxiously await the day to express to you all the consideration
with which I am

Your sincere friend,

BERNARDO O'HIGGINS.

Having as yet received no official acknowledgment of the accounts of the
squadron, beyond the previously mentioned general expression of entire
satisfactio