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230 FENIX as can be. Claro (Cruz's yierno) 132 took 600 ounzes out of his Boggage on his embarcation in Callao and which Claro forgot to hand over to Government. This left him almost pennyless. They begin to find out here that his talents could enable them to go on more smoothly. Torre Tagle you will hear from by the Blossom. He appears to be very much pleased with his preserit situation, and protects his old acquaintan- ces as formerly. The Marchioness is as amiable as ever. Da. Anita and Che- pita visit as usual. The daughter of the latter promises to be a beauty. Guido 133 is laying on his oars. The idle and illnatured say that he has two or three pulperias. He is amusing himself in fitting out the Quinta, and superintenaing the flower garden of Magdalena and in promenading to Miraflores where Da. ( ] y Mercedita reside. Rufino 134 is as steady as time and as regular as clockwork. He is still Adyudt. del Govierno and every fifth or sixth day he is to be seen a t his post in the President's house. His wife is as amiable as ever and dances as elegantly rather inclined to be "gay". Alvarado (with Pinto) sailed from Pisco back again t o Puertos Inter- medios to take the command, but the destination being since altered, they are dayly expected here. Unanue is, as usual, an exceeding good man, very highly gifted, but an indifferent Chancellor of Exchequer. Lopez Aldano 135 goes on smoothly at the house of his father in law. His wife is a t present unwell. La Mar is here, not very busy. 1 suppose you know that he is married to a guayaquileña. Arenales 136 went to Chile or. Riva Aguero7s accession. He has done the state great services, and is a good old gentleman. The Necocheas 137 are gone to Chile also. 1 believe Mariano is not a successful merchant. His only defect, perhaps, idleness, may be the cause of it. 1 consider him one of the best of the porteños. Had he, Martinez 138, and many other oí our friends been brought up in the British service, they would have turned out shining characters. Their little blemishes arise out of their military education, in a service were vice is suffered to obtain its full growth. Eugenio is married to Carmen Godoy. Juan Lavalle 139 has retired, and is gone to Mendoza, they say to get married to his old flame. The Iceñas accuse him of having taken from them the means of íiving splendidly the rest of his days. O'Higgins with the old lady and Rosita 140 are here living in Sn. Mar- 132. Vicente Claro, aide-de-camp and son-in law to Luis de la Cruz, General in Chief of the Army of Chile in Peru. Claro was stationed i r Callao at the time of Mon- teagudo's forced embarkation in July, 1822. 133. Tomás Guido. 134. Rufino Guido. 135. Fernando López Aldana. 136. Juan Antonio Alvarez de Arenales. 137. Mariano and Eugenio Necochea. 138. Enrique Martínez. 139. Coronel (later General) Juan Lavalle. 140. Bernardo O'Higgins, his mother, and his half-sister. Fénix: Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú. N.10, 1954