qui a ete fait prisonnier a la tete de son regiment; et qui, apres avoir ete tenu, pendant une heure, dans l’incertitude sur son sort, fut cruellement mis a mort par les ennemis.  Le Colonel Tupper etait un homme d’une grande bravoure et d’un esprit eclaire; ses formes etaient athletiques, et l’expression de sa physionomie pleine de franchise.  II se serait distingue partout ou il aurait ete employe, et dans quelque situation qu’il eut ete place.  N’est-il pas deplorable que de tels hommes en soient reduits a se consacrer a une cause etrangere?

   “J’espere que le temps n’est pas eloigne ou l’on saura apprecier
   au Chili le patriotisme et l’energie, dont le Colonel Tupper a
   donne l’exemple.”

And in a pamphlet published at Lima, in, 1831, by General Freire, in exposition of his conduct during the civil war in Chile, 1829-30, is the following extract translated from the Spanish: 

“It does not enter into my plan to justify the strategic movements which preceded the battle of Lircay.  The disproportion between the contending forces was excessive.  Neither tactics nor prodigies of valour could avail against this immense disadvantage.  The liberals were routed.  Would that I could throw a veil, not over a Conquest which proves neither courage nor talent in the conqueror, but over the horrid cruelties which succeeded the battle.  The most furious savages, the most unprincipled bandits, would have been ashamed to execute the orders which the rebel army received from Prieto, and yet which were executed with mournful fidelity.  Tupper—­illustrious shade of the bravest of soldiers, of the most estimable of men; shade of a hero to whom Greece and Rome would have erected statues—­your dreadful assassination will be avenged.  If there be no visible punishment for your murderer, Divine vengeance will overtake him.  It will demand an account of that infamous sentence pronounced against all strangers by a man[172] who at that time was the pupil and the tool of a vagabond stranger,[173] indebted for his elevation and his bread to the generosity of Chile.”

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 171:  From his earliest youth he gave indications of that fearless and daring spirit which marked his after-life; and when he left Europe in 1821, he was generally thought to bear a striking resemblance to his late uncle, Major-General Brock, at the same age.  This similarity extended in some degree even to their deaths, as the Indians of either continent were employed as auxiliaries in the actions in which they fell, and both were killed in the months that gave them birth.  Like his uncle also, he swam occasionally to Castle Cornet and back, (see foot note, page 337,) and he was equally tall, being in height six feet two inches, while his figure was a perfect model of strength and symmetry.]

[Footnote 172:  General Prieto.]

[Footnote 173:  Garrido, a Spanish renegade.]