The "Audiencia" continued to function after the establishment of the First Government Junta of the Kingdom of Chile on September 18, 1810, until the Figueroa mutiny of April 1, 1811. In fact, its Regent, Fernando Márquez de la Plata, was elected as one of the junta's members. The Figueroa uprising provided a reason to dissolve the "Audiencia", seen by many as a bastion of royalism, and it was replaced by a "Tribunal de Apelaciones" or Appeals Court.