Recent accounts from the Pacific describe the English as in
rnauvaise odeur both with the Peruvian and the Chilian Govern- ments. The predominant faction in Peru had confiscated some property belonging to the English merchants, among which was a quantity of specie. This being represented to Captain DUNDAS of the Sapphire, he immediately sailed from Callao in search of the Peruvian frigate Libertado, on board of which was a considerable quantity of silver ; and having fallen in with, he took possession of her without opposition, as an indemnification to the merchants who had been plundered. The immediate consequence was a de- cree, forbidding English men-of-war to enter any Peruvian port, and the departure of the English consuls from Lima and Callao. This dispute is still unsettled. In Chili, the cause of disagree- ment is more legitimate on the part of the South Americans. The Thetis frigate had, contrary to all sound principle, interfered, at the representation of one party, to put down what was termed a mutiny in a Chilian frigate ; in doing which, several shots were fired, and some individuals killed. The mutineers' friends are now lords of the ascendant, and they very naturally "remember with advantages" the wrongs they suffered by this absurd act of in- terference of the captain of the Thetis. It is, however, so much the interest of all parties that they should agree, that an amicable settlement is speedily looked for in both cases.
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