The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-13 00:00:00

THE LATE ADMIRAL PA.RAVA.

We have_r•oeived, with a request for publication,
a letter from Sever Luis ?rade y Pareja respecting the
letter which the Tines published, purporting to have been
written by the late Admiral Pareja, and to expeine that
officer's regret. for having advised war with Chili. ibis
letter Senor Luis Prada y Pared* insists on denuunsing as
apocryphal, and written in the iotereste of Senor Terns,
which he identified with thawed Chili. Elsewhere he de-
clares that it is an artifice of the European ultremon-
tene party in concert with Chilean Janata, The most per-
tinent of the stateeneute of Senor Luis Pre& y Pareja,
who was with the Admiral in the Pacific, are eoetained in
the following colleges of his letter :
From the moment that the late Admiral Panda entered
his Wain, after tskiog leave of the American consul, from
whom be learnt the capture of the Covadonge, till the mo-
ment is which the report of the revolver was heard which
terminated his existeece barely enificieet time elapsed to
write the two limes which be left scribbled on the wall, re-
questing " that his body should not be thrown into Chilian
waters." The captain of the frigate, Don Claudio Alvar-
gonzales y Sanchez, the major, and the admiral's personal
aide-de-camp, rushed to the admirers cabin on besting the
report. They did not find any letter or paper to show the
muse of the suicide, but it might awl ought to be attri-
buted to the lose of the COVS4OIIRIi, judging from the altera-
tion of hie countenance and movements immediately upon
receiving the news, sod by what I shell further demon-
strate. When the admirers papers were esaaiined, to
separate tit, se which were private from his official dew-
agents, neither letter nor writing of any other kind was
found, from whence might be known or even remotely
gnawed what had been the bidden motive for his self-

A La
rs FROK MRS. WINDHLII.—The follow-
tug appears in the Telegraph :—"Sir, —Mil attention has
been drawn to • paragraph which appeared in your piper
to the effect that Genera Windham compelled mete
vent my late ktuabsimi an annuity. As that statement
is not carnal representation el tbe facts, I trust, in
common fairseas, you wilt permit me at
to ste whet dld
actually occur. When I purchased my late husbangs
which I was
life interest In February, 1864,
advised to do by my solicitors and the trustees
to my marriage sattlensest, is ardor to save the per
piety, I immediately settled upon him an annuity of '
5001. • lase to be imitessed to 1,000/. a year in
October. 1869, so that he might have • certain income for
his life. This was as entirely trolnutary set on '
part, sad entered labs without say interrestice, either
direct or indirect of General Wiedluim. I take this
opportuoity of adding, with reference t ohe Sth the latter
bistant part
of General Windluim's letter to you of t,
that if my late huebsod falsely swore that my boy was
net his sea, it was by the advios sad at the iostigstios
of members of the lord protession.-1 have the on
to
be, sir, yours, &a, Ana AWNS Waning, 3a. Upper
Weebairne.terrace, Paddington, Feb. 10.
DRASE. - Yeetardiy. afternoon Mr. W.
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