able to enforce his authority. What he would not do,
however, was accomplished by Lord Cochrane. Weary of the long delay he
offered in the following March to capture Lima if two thousand soldiers
were assigned to him. This offer was refused, but after some time he
obtained a force of six hundred. With these he effected a landing at port
after port along the coast, and so harassed the Spaniards that, on the 6th
of July, Lima capitulated and Peru was free. San Martin at once proclaimed
himself protector of Peru, and appointed two of his creatures as chief
ministers. Lord Cochrane in vain attempted to obtain from him payment for
the sailors of the fleet, who had been very many months without receiving
a penny.

San Martin insolently replied that he would pay nothing whatever to Chili,
but that he would make Lord Cochrane a Peruvian admiral if he would leave
the service of Chili for that of Peru. Lord Cochrane knew that Chili would
decline to pay for work that had been done to make Peru, like itself, free
and independent, since it was now as prostrate at the feet of San Martin
as it had been at those of the Spaniards. The army it had raised had
betrayed it and taken service under San Martin, as had the two mutinous
scoundrels, Captains Guise and Spry. Lord Cochrane, therefore, determined
to take by force the money due to the fleet. At Ancon there was a large
amount of treasure seized from the Spaniards. It had been deposited by San
Martin there, and in the middle of September the admiral landed, and took
possession of it without opposition. Of the two hundred and eighty-five
thousand dollars found there, he paid a year's arrears to every officer
and man in the fleet, taking nothing, however, for himself, and reserving
the small surplus for the pressing wants and equipments of the fleet.

In June, 1822, Lord Cochrane returned to Valparaiso, from which he had
been absent twenty months. He was received with a popular ovation; but his
enemies were still at work, and struck at him in the matter upon which he
was most sensitive, by refusing any payment whatever to his officers and
men, many of whom almost died of starvation.

In October a revolution broke out in Chili, and such indignities were
heaped upon the admiral himself that upon the 12th of the month he
formally resigned his commission, and in January, 1823, quitted Valparaiso
in a vessel chartered by himself, taking with him several European
officers and gentlemen, who,