Star.
London, England, 1828-12-12 00:00:00

141TEKATURE,

RILMOMS OF GRSERAL ifILLI;R.—Toe vats: eve.
By Joan litusaut.
The name of General Miller will be long gratefully
reetembered in the western provioettinf South America.
Rh disintereved and honourable conduct, the perils
and hardships he underwent, and the signal ignites
he rendered to the tiring cause, during the writ of
iniependence in Chili and Pratt, eminently merited
*e compliment of 11.1olivar, that to South America
silt alsays claim him as one of her most glorious
ions."—After Whig served with the British. army
in the Peninsula' and elsewhere, get subject Qi dente
Memoirs, avetse to a 11% of irmetitity in En hind,
tuned hit attention, to the stets of the struggle for in-
dependence
in Shush Atneeiea, and resolved to follow
the bent of his inclinteion by offering his 'mines.**
one of the Repobhcs. The Rivet Plate, was. considered
the most eligible point, few Englisbnimn hiring taught
milky yrenown in that country ;he accOrdinglyset saik
froalthe Downs in August,lBl7, and arrived at Buena.
Ayres in the month following. Soon after bit arrival be
obtained, according to his desires, an appointment to
die army then serv,ng in Chili, and reaching Stn.
tiago, the capital, on the 2tth January, 1818, bavi,og
eccopied eighteen days in the journey. At this UAW
the intrepid and skilful San Martin had, by the 'Lott ry
et Cincabuco, heed neatly the whole of Chili from the
Spaniards. It weed obviously far exceed our ac-
tmomed limits to attempt a.-y detailed account of
the indefatigable exerti. ns of the patritt Wilds, till
the decisive victory of Aynclinco, in Peru, esta•
Wished the independence of South America. TQ Gen.
Miller's individual labouis it would be iaspossil?le
to do justice in a law Wild. ; =42 NNW therefote con.
tent nutsolues with Waring to the preens history
ell rko may feel an lamest in viewing successive
examples a Int 60 RS by land and sea almost us.
parallefed„, with an habitual contempt of danger,
hod itutepidity if enterpaiso, wroth', the military*
tune of any ar oe etittairy. The mirk is is Amoy
inputs highly istorestiog, net only as as historical'
epitome, amply itinerating the mode of Ref kill by
*Lich the liberty of Smith America was skinner',
ohnonodi bet es the kennel et an observant us-
v!illwr whit dasetilea the aspect of the country and
the Eteracuse of the ialtaisitoots, .os they incident-
eily attracted his attention, in a any Willies' end
Eiethisig mason,. kilt emersion se the coviiiisen of
raitstohias and user she Pimps" and Andes, havo
enatised him to add , mine nsehal information to the
kuleilectre which preceding travellers have af-
forded as relative to chose pests. An interesting
picture is ale i jivers of the condition of the Abo-
liiiiites previously to the anhjegation of their coun-
t?), and their subsequent te•atment. What a eon.
true is thus psesented 1 Taw isaabatities practised
rl' by me Spantsrds upon .their unhappy victims doe-
: tag *brae long cectutie have freee_,6l." 6° last _&bet
regarded with the 1111111001 horror sae wisp* p—shall
U 4 4°l my that they hove at length sat thole cl.w le-
Stet d ? shall we aot.view, in ihadasolminit and enewehr
„ *hick bas seduced Speen to a atom of voter Weise it 41114,
isthe scale of nations, the avenging head of a jest mead