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 afflicted family to reflect, that he is not lamented by them only, and that his false, perjured, blood- thirsty murderers cannot deprive their unhappy vic- tim of his fair name. But, as a French traveller wrote of him, "N'est-il pas deplorable que de tels homines en soient reduits a se consacrer a une cause etrangere ?"*

Colonel Tupper married, at Santiago, in 1826, Maria Isidora de Zegers,f a native of Madrid, and grand -daughter of Manuel de Zegers, Count de Waserberg, in Flanders. He left two infant daugh- ters, and his young widow, from whom his death was kept concealed for some time, gave birth a few weeks after to a son, who, it is to be hoped, will resemble his father in every thing but his misfortunes. The British and a few of the foreign merchants in Chile, most liberally united to present the unhappy widow with some solid proof of the estimation in which they held the worth and gallantry of her unfortunate husband, and being joined by a small number of the natives, the amount raised was about seven thousand dollars, several of the English contributing five hundred dollars each. — An act of such unusual gene- rosity should not go unrecorded, as, while it redounds so much to the credit of those engaged in it, it speaks volumes in favour of the deceased.

Of the fatality attending some families there are many melancholy proofs on record, but perhaps few instances of modern date will exceed, in the number of victims, the following series, which may not prove uninteresting even to the general reader. It has al- already been mentioned that Colonel Tupper was one

t Her mother was a Monte-negro, of the noble family of that name, in Spain.
 * Vide Appendix C, No. 9.

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