Fénix 10, 203-234

206 FENIX ring the day. 1 am far from being well and get thinner and thinner upon it daily. In fact this climate will not agree with me and perhaps the sooner 1 am out of it the better. Pray be so good as to forward al1 my letters that may have arrived at Head Quarters. If Martinez 8 has any for me and you can conveniently send for them pray do, for 1 am almost raving with anxiety to get some En- glish news. Of course a line or two from Chile will not be unacceptable. 1 enclose you a packet with this for Blanco 9. When you see Lady Cochrane be so good as to mention me to her. Be so good also to make my respects to Las Heras, 10 Borgoyne 11 and Cas- tillo 12, and believe me, My dear Paroissien, Yours ever sincerely, Wm. Miller. If you can let me have the Chile gazette with Lord C-'S official dis- patch of the taking of this friqate 13. 1 should be very much obliged to you. MZLEER TO PAROZSSZEN O n board fhe Valdivia. 13 March, 10 a.m. N6y dear Paroissien, We are now getting under weigh aiid it is unlikely that. 1 shall have the pleasu~eof seeing you on board before we are off, which 1 regret much. 1 wish to say severa1 little things to you, but P am so busy and al1 is such hurry and confusion here that 1 cannot for my life commit them to paper. If any thing unfortunate should occur to me 1 shaEl direct my bagga- ge, papers, etc. to your care, and 1 rely upon your friendship to cornply with the private insfructions. 1 shall write for your perusal the moment we are clear of the shore and out at sea. 1 send you 20 dollars by Charles, 14 which you were good enough to lend mse,and ten more to purchase six bottles of cognac at the coffee house in Huacho, which 1 wish you would commission sorne one to do for me, and - Colonel (later General) Enriqus Martínez, of the 8th Battalion of Artillery. Manuel Blanco Encalada, with whom Miller had served in Chile. General Juan Gregorio de las Heras, Chief of Staff. I suspect that Miller refers to José Manuel Borgoño, of the Chilean Battalion of ArtilIery. Possibly Colonel Juan Paz del Castillo, then attached to the General Staff. The Valdivia was the formes Spanish frigate Esmeralda, captured by Cochrane in November, 1820. Probably Claud Charles, who joined the Chilean navy in 1819. Fénix: Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú. N.10, 1954