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 satisfaction on the part of the Government, I applied to the Minister of Marine for a more minute investigation into their contents, as from the charges made against me by San Martin, I was desirous that the most rigid inquiry should be instituted forthwith, and indeed expressed my surprise—­from the time which had elapsed since they were forwarded—­that this had not been done.  On the 14th of June, the Minister replied as follows:—­

   MOST EXCELLENT SIR,

The accounts of monies applied by your Excellency in the necessary requirements of the vessels of war under your command, which you conveyed to me in your two notes of the 25th of May last, have been passed to the office of the Accountant-General, for the purpose indicated by your Excellency.

   JOAQUIM DE ECHEVERRIA.

Knowing the dilatory habits of the departments of State, I did not deem this satisfactory, and being engaged in preparing a refutation of San Martin’s charges, I again urged on the Minister to investigate the accounts without further delay, when, on the 19th of June, he acknowledged—­in a letter too long for insertion—­the specific items; at the same time declaring his “high consideration for the manner in which I had made the flag of Chili respected in the Pacific.”