Constitution of Peru; in the midst of these conditions, General San Martin gave the reins of government into the hands of the Marquis de Torre-Tagle as Supreme Delegate and went to Guayaquil, in order to meet the great leader of the Ejercito Colombiano, General Simon Bolivar, who had accomplished for the northern provinces of South America that which he himself had done so well in the southern half of the continent,—securing their independence of the Spanish monarchy. The particulars of the conference between General San Martin and General Bolivar in Guayaquil are not known to this day; but when the Protector returned to Lima he resigned the government into the hands of the first constituent congress, which met in Lima in 1822. This assembly conferred on him the title of Founder of the Liberty of Peru; gave him the grade of captain-general; decreed a life pension for him equal to that which Washington received from the United States; ordered that his bust should be placed in the National Library and a statue erected in his honor; and conceded to him in perpetuity the honors due to the chief of government. A short time afterward General San Martin went to Europe where he died in 1850 at seventy-two years of age. His patriotism, the constant and unfailing devotion with which he worked for the realization of the noble ideal to which his life was consecrated, his honorable principles, magnanimous conduct, and sterling character, the intrepidity of his courage as a soldier, the modesty of his deportment as a victorious leader, place him high above most of the great men of history and make him worthy of immortality among the best of them. [Illustration: THE HISTORICAL PALACE OF THE VICEROYS, LIMA.]