against them. Indeed the greatest danger appre- hended throughout was from the season, the gales of wind on that coast being very violent during the winter.
" In horrid climes, where Chiloe's tempests sweep, Tumultuous murmurs o'er the troubled deep."
A newspaper, published in English at Buenos Ay res, observed in reference to the departure of this small expedition, which left Valparaiso in the Achilles and Resolution on the 25th June : #
" Colonel Aldunate is an officer of honor, and if he has been surprised once, he will, for this reason, know how to take better precautions hereafter. Besides, he is accompanied by Major Tupper, whose character is well known, and whose valour cannot be better estimated than in the words of our correspondent : 'four hundred brave soldiers, and Tupper at their head, are sufficient to annihilate all the royalists there may be in Chiloe.' "
The above extract reached England in October, 1826, and about the same time the Bailiff, f or chief magistrate of Guernsey, received the following letter from a British officer]: of high rank and reputation, who had previously been lieutenant-governor of the island : —
" Though I always like to converse with you,
yet I do not know that I should have sat
down to write to you exactly at this time, but that I have had a long conversation with Mr. Miller, who is brother to a celebrated general of that name in
- On this day his brother, Lieutenant Tupper, mortally wounded, was in
the last agonies of death on board H. M. S. Sybille, at Malta.
t Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., succeeded the late Sir Peter De Havilland as Bailiff, in 1821.
t The late General Sir John Doyle, Bart, G.C.B., &c.
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