avengers of any violation of the compact, engages to aid you--setting
death and toil at defiance. You shall be free and independent.
You shall choose your own government and laws, by the
spontaneous will of your representatives. No military or civil
influence, direct or indirect, shall your brethren use to influence
your social dispositions. You shall dismiss the armed force sent to
your assistance the moment you judge proper, without regard to
our opinion of your danger or security. Never shall any military
division occupy the soil of a free people, unless called for by your
lawful magistrate. Neither by ourselves, nor by our aid, shall
party opinions which may have preceded your liberty be punished.
Ready to overthrow any armed force which may resist your rights,
we beseech you to forget all grievances antecedent to the day of
your glory, so as to reserve the most severe justice to obstinacy
and oppression."

Such, were the inducements held out to the Peruvian people, and such
was their first experience with regard to their liberators.

Yet even amidst inaction the fruits of demonstration early became
manifest, a vessel arriving on the 4th of October, from Guayaquil, with
the intelligence that on receiving news of the sailing of the
expedition, that province had declared itself independent. Upon the
arrival of this welcome news, I again begged of General San Martin to
reimbark the troops and move on Lima, and at length succeeded in
inducing him to make a move.

Previous to our departure, General San Martin issued the following
proclamation, here given to shew how promises solemnly entered into
could afterwards be broken.