The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-29 00:00:00

11 1, E.

The following Proclamation has been issued
by the Supreme Director, on undertaking the
comnittud of the c.xpeditiowugainst Chiloe

" Tim PEOPLE. OF THE REPUOLIC.
" Fellow.citizens-1 feel myself imperiously called upon to
carry the stentiard of liberty to the Archipelago of Chiloe.
This appears to me the most honourable of those risks which
I sin at all times determined to encounter against the cool.
moo enemy of our independence. The dignity of the Govern.
ment I the necessity of giving integrity and uniformity to the
natural territory of the Republic, the necessity also of confirm-
ing its security and that of the other states of emancipated
America: and, finally, the completion of the nuetsures
tated by the Legislature, urgently call for the execution of
this important enterprise. It' It be difficult to explain the
conduct of my predecessors, whose differences have afforded
the 'oppreesers of our brethren in Chiloe sufficient time for obe
Wining the kind and extent of force Which they may now
oppose to us, and without which they might have been easily
expelled, the mere authority with which the parties accused of
so much indolence and imprudence were clothed, imposes upon
us the duty of repairing the neglect.
" All the different nations which at the expellee of so much
blood have; obtained their independence, view with just feel.
Ings of jetiloeay inui indignation this interesting point, which,
situate at the entrance of the Pacific:, might, with still more
facility than Callen or San Juan do Ulloa, serve as a head-
quarters for the fitting out of new expeditions, 'by: which the
obstinacy of our implacable enemies keep up, if' not 'their ex-
tinguished hope of a certqin triumph, at least their sanguinary
hatred and expectation that the continuance of the horrors at'
war may paralyze the .progressive improvement of good insti.
unions, and w eary out the constancy of a people, who regard
themselves ..e Arcady in possession of the means of tranquilly
consolidating their civil liberty. We should be criminal were
we to shut our ears to the respecteble voice by which this uni.
versul cry is-uttered,
" The reincorporation of this part of the Chilian territory
interests us very closely. It forms the boundary of cur south.
ern provinces. We shall be seriously respOnsible to the present
generation and to posterity, if we leave in foreign bands this
important, key, anti under it that unfortunate portion of our
coaipatrione whose want of the advantages of political regene.
ration deprives us of the reciprocity of their commerce, and
separates hi the social state, those whom nature lids geographi.
cally united.
These considerations induced the Sovereign Congress in
1823 to decree the expedithin for the deliverance at' Chiloe,
which the assemblies of Coquimbo, Santiago, and Conception
had previously sanctioned. Never was it more agreeable to me
to be placed at the head oft the national forces than in obeying
this decree. To-morrow I depart to fulfil it, It' the result
correspond with my wishes, I ehall have the happiness of se.
curing victory, though it should be at the expence of my life,
and I should never share those days of prosperity which the
triumph must give to Chile.
" In fact, when our frontiers are secured by the incorporation
of Chiloe, a small number of veteran troops will he sufficient for
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principles will then find no obstacle toehe extension of their
influence, and the citizen will regard this epoch ait the cool.
mencement of his civil enjoyments. 1 shall concur in accrete.
rating this event, even though the moment of its arrival Should
be the last of .my exietence.
" The Supreme Government is, in the mean time, intrusted
to a body composed of' citizens,, whose distinguished popularity
is well appreciated by public opinion, and whose civic talents
anti virtues jestly merit the judgment pronounced upon them.
These citizens are the &entree Don Jose Miguel Infante, and
the three Ministers of State- to whom I have most particu-
larly recommended the task superintending the preparatory
ineaeure,s for the meeting of a General Congress, which may it
length be effixted with that successful issue which the province
ardently desire, without those dangers anti disagreeable tesults
which attend preceding aesemblies, and which were e.alculated
to render the sacred name of Congress hateful to the people.
" The division of the provinces appears to me to be an ob-
ject of the first consequence in accomplishing this important
purpose. Tide measure will dissipate the jealmteies and fears
of inequality, to which it appears we have chiefly to attribute
the misfortunes and illeeuccess of preceding legislatures. The
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citizens intrusted with the government are especially charged
with this partition of the territory, the happy consequence,
-citizens,
of which, in the aggrandizement of the country, will secure
I should expect to offend that nobleness of nature, and
were I to charge them to keep order during mytle;ewsunitreheea:
Their own sense of' the- national interest will be the sentinel,
to check the slightest symptoms Which might effect the great
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return for his, will be exacted by the citizens who in the re'
of the great convulsions, has been honoured by the whole pee
plo of the republic with the ratification of the title which places
him at their heed, mid which he never will abuse.
" Nov. 27, egeee " RAMON FREIRE."