Estemeed Gentlemen: history is more complex. But there is something important to keep in mind: England favored separatism until 1808. Then it favored the alliance with mainland Spain against Napoleon and kept its spies to influence American governments so that free trade was guaranteed. This alliance was reinforced by two treaties, one from 1809 and the other from 1814. This explains why the Council of Regency was under British influence and why the command of the Anglo-Hispanic Army that was fighting Napoleon was also in the hands of Perfidious Albion, by choice of the Spanish authorities themselves. And that Englishmen without firm work after Waterloo formed the British Legion with Bolívar and that other Englishmen instead helped the "royalists" to recover territory in Chile, after the defeats at Chacabuco and Maipú. In addition, the lives, ideas, projects and relations with the English of characters such as Miranda, San Martín, Bolivar, Iturbide, Hidalgo, Morelos, Sucre, etc. are different. I have been studying the Independence of the Río de la Plata and Peru for 20 years, and reviewing the documentary sources I can assure you that San Martín was neither an English spy nor a Freemason, and that his Catholic, Monarchical and Hispanic proposal in Punchauca is the one that explains all his actions. Terragno himself, who discovered the Maitland Plan, assures that it is not known if San Martín knew about it and that, whatever it was about that matter, it is clear that he did not work in the service of England, as was the case or had happened with other Americans. like Miranda, Rodríguez Peña, Padilla, etc. And it is not necessary for that to fall into the Pink Legend. In this regard, I recommend reading serious historians such as Vicente Sierra, José Agustín de la Puente Candamo, Vicente Ugarte del Pino, Federico Ibarguren, Carlos Steffens Soler, Roque Raúl Aragón, Héctor Piccinali, Horacio Juan Cuccorese, Bernardo Lozier Almazán, Enrique Díaz Araujo and Antonio Caponnetto. Bolivar's case is different, at least until after 1820-21. And even more different is that of Iturbide, who was a royalist and traditionalist, and who decided for the independence of New Spain when Fernando VII did not accept his proposal to govern the Empire from Mexico (as the Braganzas did from Brazil) and instead joined with the liberal masons or filo-masons of Riego. Carlos IV and Fernando VII were the worst calamity that we Americans had to suffer while we were autonomous Kingdoms incorporated into the Public Domain of the Crown of Castile.