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the kingdom of Leon, the peasants drew up
in different towns, burghs, and »taws, having
eat off the heads of many rewectalsle citizeus ; and
It WAS anne.uuced that the Governor r>i Gorman,
'The C,rregidor of Leon, and Count Castro Forties
Colonel of the %lair' of Valtu, 6eing place& in
the hands of General Comte, should be delivered
over to the executiorier.
In every direction the men who, their worth,
virtue, and fortune, had exciter-II univercit respect,
paid with their lives the gallant resistance. a.id the
lore for their country, which they opposed to die-
aniution :red riot; whilst countiattees of iagurrec-
tiou wade thernsvlres masters of the public funds,
organised theunrelver, and insiiirml all the good and
honest with terror.
The Ministers, the Members of the Juntt of Ma-
drid, and of the Cotnenission of Government, used
every exertion to pacify, but in vaiii ; the multitude
could not be reduced to obedience, ignorant arid
deluded men wanting to grasp at power and plun-
der.

of the state of insecurity. the sofferaace
tone into which this Governristat precipst -
the Spanish nation. She vs.', prer:,,i, and
avotkened by the artifices of Em:,!:iticl. and the
disorder fit* public oationalitei., sprung frem these
of parties and of the times. It baritone neeesonry
to recur to arms to bridle the insane and to deter
the malevolent.

Marshal Bessieres directed, on the outset, dif-
ferent detachments upon Logronuo, Saragossa, Se-
govia. Valladolid, and St. Madero, which column.,
though not numerous, had respectively all success,
Without suffering any material injury.
The town of Logronno bad raised the standard
of insurrectiou,rmil chosen for its Chief n usason,
one of 1.13 e noworthiest fellows of the district. G.
nerd! Verdier viasordered to march with two butts-
liana, surrounded the city, and drove, on the 6th of
June, the insurgents to flight, taking from them
six cammus, bought the moat riotous to punisti-
went., and replaced in the Goternment of the it.
town the principal citizens, alto had been cast into
prison, returning subsequently to Vittoria.
General Frere had matched upon Segovia, where
commotions had also taken place, and on the 7th
of Jii.io, being arrived within a quarter of a mule
of the city, he sent a parley to the Ilagistracy, in
order to bring the insurgents to a pease of their ).
duty ; these, 5000 men btrong, with 30 ,
cannons,
would not permit the parley to approach, hut tired
on him with cannon, which induced the General to
wake the **souk without 41. lay, and the place was
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taken by force, a great number of the insurgents
having been crippled, many taken prisoners. suul,
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all their cannon taken from them. The city haw- - •
in.; been freed of the insurgents, and left to itself,
submitted.

General Lasalle drew from Burgos to Totem.,
:nada. where Won insurgents had waited, which on
the 7th he caused to be attacked by 50U chitaseurs;
they were dispersed, leaving l'lnn dead on the spot;
the village of Torquemada was reduced to asht..
General Lasalle marched on the 9th to Palencia.
which as he was approaching, a I)eputation, with
the Bishop nt their head, met him, bringing him
the suhmis•ion of the town, which immediately re-
turned to its ditty accordingly. Tile 9th and the
loth days were consumed in disarming the town
and proi ince of Palencia. •
On the 1-2 th, he advanced to Duentias, where he
formed a junction with General Merle, and from
whence he continued his march to Valladolid.—.
Here the mania had been strongly developed, and
General Cuesta, Captain General, hid put hinion:lf
at the head of the malecontents, and taken post at
Cabeson, with 7000 insurgents, and six pieces of
artillery. After haring reconnoitred the position
of the insurgents, General Sabrithier was ordered
to force them in it, whilst General Merle was di-
rected to cot off his retreat to Valladcilid. The
firing lasted but one half hour, and the insurgei is
were completely beaten, scattered in retry direetioa
on the field of battle, leaving their artillery. 496.6
muskets, and about won killed, behind.
The Bishops of i allaJolid, pith the principal
Clergy of the City, came to sweet Gen. la Sail.,
siippbcating forgiveness to the City and its inhabit-
ants. The French division drew into the city,
amidst a multitude that had merited mitre cisstigir

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ok thu op- . Velour, w• - the Hisitopr, appeared at the badcour . if '.
this state eahorung to aitiltattite to retire, but In vain ; the • 1
Ind power- i•nfu'ilated would &tell to no reason, they owes.
It dolt even powered the go .r 4 of the P.. Le.•, rushed toto the
ion of the -ellainhcr of the tirobornor, -.died him, and dragged
ertieularly Ititti as fur a. the Viloi (inn-, where with attires tied .
;,I,te tnid, stiel.. they trueidated hint, exiithitin; the tioltid
seconded, and bleeding corps* to bit wife, whilst they Willed • '',:i i'
la lishing the the Pace. At Valladolid Getters( Don Miguel /.
re, to form Cevallus, Commandant of Euginels, was, ow the .-
,islo htt had u sth of June, in eos.-ipienee of an miler of General
tujuez and Cuesta. cit,t' Into the prison Carbonero, but tl:e In-
surge-ids drew him out, aid cut biui in pirers in
eited indi- presentre of his wife and children, tarried his heed ( '
,I,dny awl around oil a pike-, and divided auicing themselves
4.41 aith• a the limbs, whieli were drmieed about the 4trerts in . •
se inquisi.. token olitrophy. At Tolovers, on tile Sth of June.
numerous' the Governor was diipoited to ptudsit the rioter; .. -
lit, availed hereupon they Eriesi nut for his head, and he owes
city of the his preservation merely to it narrow escape facilitate!
31 by false to him by is few brine men.
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the needi The t;rotieeot of Low 9oek duties were at the ••• ,
onneeenna tame m t.me scenes of the bogie event+. At . A
i arrange- ' Cul-timer, General Filangieri endeavoured tu nti-
!coed, and tigitte, hy peisuasom, the fury of the peasantry ; '
g, and its he would hove been shot, had not en Artllery Of-
ficer slept before him, and saved his life; the in.
ern!, &c. surgents neer.-iiieless, on the day following, petit:.
e juggliu,g I trated into and seized his Palate, alsieh they de.
the Conti- molislted, hellaving sought un asylum in the Con. - , -
derision, vent of St. I)oiningo. At Ferrol, on the 41d of , .'.
iards their Julie, they plundered the house of the LieertewAnt•
rout party, General of Mariner, Obrefon, and having discovered • , •
shich WAS him in the manufactory of flquiendo, they incite- • -
%laud, in cerated.linn at St. Ankmio.
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the people Intim kingdom of Leon, the flestsants drew un