The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-02-06
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
IFrou the . PoIyne.ian'' Of Feb. 1, Is6.I

lFroG the q PoIynesian" Of Feb. /, Is6.I
General william Miller, H.. II. VS. late
Commissioned and ConsuI-GeneraI for
this Kindom.
The following is an extract from Il des-
patch, from Thomas X. Eldredge, Esq, the
Kings Charge d. Affaires and Consul-Gener
al for Peru, dated Lima, Nov. s 1861, ad-
dressed TO the Minister Of Foreign Affairs,
and by him received on the 18th January:
"SR Since the date Of my UfieiaI letter No.
., OF the 18th ult-, and my private cOmmunica-
ton Of the 18th same month, ] addressed your
Excellency another private letter, Of which did
not retain a copy, announcing the very severe
illness under which Gen. Miller was labOring ut
that time All Of these went by the Russian
~gunboat Norge, direct for Honolulu
Cen. Miller was attacked ut his hotel IN Lima,
but before becoming very weak, caused himself
70 be removed on board III. II. MaJesty's stOresbip
Nai1d, at anchor in CallaO, where he was very
comfortably lodged and had every possible care
taken OF him Notwithstanding which he only
survived until the 3lst ult.. ON which day, ut liz
O'Clock p. NJ, he expired, without having suf-
fered much during his illness.
I visited him at his hotel 50 soon as was in
forraed Of his Illness, and was Immediately con-
WINGED Of his danger, although he did not appear
TO think himself very Ill. again visited him
the day after he went On board OF the Naiad, but
finding him asleep, would not permit him 10 be
disturbed. Future visits would have been useless,
AZ he became insensible and unable to speak.
The government and subaltern authorities of
Peru at last exhibited deep sympathy for Gen.
Miller. The President sent an Aid de Camp
twice 70 the ship, requesting him to come to
Lima, where q house should BE- prepared for his
special use, and the Project Of Lima made a sim
liar offer. After his deceIse, the Presidents
physicians were sent ON board to embalm the body,
during which operation, two musket balls were
extracted thereirom, and the marks Of twenty
two wounds were discovered thereon-a large
portion of the liver was decayed.
On the Sd inst, the body was brought on
shore, accompanied with many Peruvian barges
and some English boats (there were no French or
United States ships of war in port.) At the
mole, IL was received by the local authorities,
many foreign and native residents, and a regi-
ment Of infantry, and conducted to the Arsenal,
where is lay in state, protected by four sentinels,
until the next day, when il was carried TO Bella
Vista and buried in the English Cemetery. 1t
was followed to the grave by a full division of
troops consisting of two battalions of infantry
one regiment of cavalry, and n battery of four
6eld pieces There were also a great number of
the high military of Peru, an immense cOncourse
of private individuals, the entire Diplomatic
corps, and a considerable portion of the Consular
corps.
The public were, in some measure, pre-
pared for this sad news, by the reports
brought by Captain Crown, of FL. X. 4. Ma
iesty's steamboat Norge. Still the Generals
friends chung to the hope that he might recoy-
er, as be had often done before, from g~rievous
wounds and dangerous fevers during his
arduous but highly distinguished military
career in Peru. 1t was honorable to the Gov
ernment Of that Republic to show such marked
honors to the remains Of a brave and patri-
otto officer, who, in the wars TO establish its in
dependence, had received twenty-five wounds,
and had permanently lost his health. There
was perhaps a propriety that the soil that he
had eminently contributed to free should at
last cover his mortal remains. u
The following brief account of the late
British COMMISSIONS and Consult eneral,
is taken from the Foreign Last, OF London,
for 1861:
/" Miller, William, served in the Field train Of
the Royal Artillery from january LIST, 1911, an
ill the peace of 1915 was present in several Of
the sieges and actions in the PenInsular war and
also in North America. Entered the Buenos
Ayres Artillery in 1917: served in Chile and
Peru against the Royalist forces was raised to
the rank of General of Division April 8, 1923
during 1891 and 1925 was under the NINA
Of Gen. Bolivar was appointed Consul General
in the Sandwich and other islands in the Pacific
August Is, 1914 and Commissioner and Con-
suIGen.ral in the Sandwich Islands and their
Dependencies December i, 1855"
The preceding condensed statement omits
the Generals services in the navy of Chile,
I'm command of the Marines, while the Chill
can feet was under the command of the
chivalrous Lord Cochrane, and the Generals
highest rank in Peru, that Of Gran Marescal
de Ayachuo, to which he was elevated, In re-
ward to his gallant conduct in that memora-
able battle and in that of Jupin.
The Consul-General arrived here in III. B.
Majesty's ship Hazard, on the Sd of Februa-
cry, 1914 and left, broken down in health, in
H. B. Majesty's ship Harana on the 9th
September, 1853, destined, as Providence
has ordained, never to return.
Among his chief official acts in this king
dom, in whose independence ne ever took a
deep interest, were the treaties of 10Th Feb
ruary, 1851, all of which were negotiated by
him as British Plenipotentiary.
The deceased William Miller was born on
the I'd of December. l795, at Wingham, in
the county Of Kent, England, and consequent
ly was nearly &c years old when he died.
Whaling.