eruvian navy will also feel their deceit and
punishment. They have been scratched out of the list of the
Chilian navy, and I only wait your arrival or an official detail
relating to the expedition, to assign lands and premiums to those
who have not abandoned you, and in particular to the honourable
Captains Crosbie, Wilkinson, Delano, Cobbet, and Simpson, whom you
recommend.

Although we live in poverty, and the Exchequer continues in
affliction, yet we have sufficient resignation and courage to make
convenient sacrifices. All my efforts shall be employed in making
the _Rising Star_ one of the vessels of our squadron, and then we
shall be invincible, and by keeping good relations with Sir Thomas
Hardy, and by his means with England, we shall establish fundamental
principles to our glories. I am satisfied of the conferences
and deliberations you had with this gentleman, and I approve the
whole, although the Valparaiso merchants might scream.

I like the precautions you have taken in sending correspondence
directly to me, and not to the ministry. But you must
understand that even before I had read your private and official
letters, much of their contents was known to the public, no doubt
by the private communications of some officers, or by what was
verbally communicated in Valparaiso by the officers of the _Aransasu_.
On my part, I also recommend you all necessary secrecy on the
contents of this letter, so that our reserve may not be frustrated,
and our best measures disappointed.

I shall claim from the Lima Government satisfaction for putting
in prison the First Lieutenant of the _O'Higgins_, and also for
imprisoning him of the same class belonging to the _Valdivia_, as
also for the threat of the Ungrateful Guida, as narrated in your
favour of the 29th of September last. I assure you that I will
never permit the least insult against the flag of this Republic. I
felt the greatest pleasure in the answer you gave to Monteagudo
and Guida in your note of the 28th and 29th.

As you have left Callao there is nothing officially to communicate
upon your conduct there. You have not submitted to Lima neither
directly nor indirectly, and from the moment the independence of
that country was declared under the protectoral Government of San
Martin ceased the provisional control that he had upon the
squadron.

Th