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From the neglect to repair the ships which were left in the same wretched condition as when they returned from Peru and Mexico the Independencia was alone seaworthy; and was sent to sea by Zenteno without even the formality of transmitting the requisite orders through me. But a crisis was now at hand.
The attorney-like cunning of Zenteno prevented its conveyance by any more formal document than the decree conferring it. "My Lord," "A Decree of this date has been issued by His Excellency the Supreme Director, of which the annexed is a copy: "
I would not have done this but from a feeling of attachment to the Supreme Director, General O'Higgins, whose amiable disposition too easy to contend with the machinations of those around him, was a sufficient assurance that he was neither an actor in, nor even privy to the system of annoyance pursued towards me by a clique of whom Zenteno was the agent.
Notwithstanding the envious dissatisfaction of Zenteno, the government was compelled, in deference to the popular voice, to award medals to the captors, the decree for this stating that "the capture of Valdivia was the happy result of the devising of an admirably arranged plan, and of the most daring and valorous execution."
Graham, the first historian of the Republic, as to the estimation in which he was generally held: "Zenteno has read more than usual among his countrymen, and thinks that little much.
Other annoyances, which need not here be detailed, were offered to Lord Cochrane, and thus six months were wasted by Zenteno and his associates in the Chilian senate. "The senate," said Lord Cochrane, "was an anomaly in state government.
From the preceding letter it will be observed that my old opponent, Zenteno, was no longer at the head of the Department of Marine, but was appointed Governor of Valparaiso, where he exercised the office of Port-Admiral, a position in which, with all his former enmity, he contrived, notwithstanding the complete satisfaction of the Government with my services, to give me great annoyance.
Of these the most unscrupulous was Zenteno, who, previous to the revolution, had been an attorney at Conception, and was a protégé of General San Martin carrying with him into State Administration the practical cunning of his profession, with more than its usual proportion of chicanery.
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