The National Register.
London, England, 1815-01-08 00:00:00

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were groan-
ing. On this subject they exhibited, most evidently, the
most profound ignorance, the utmost ferocity, and as will
• be seen, the grossest perfidy.

But before we go into the proofs, we would also call the
recollection of the reader to the retributive justice that has
reached the Ayuntamicnto or Municipal Council of Cadiz,
for being upon the spot, and possessing in fact the only
monied influence then existing in Spain, it was 4he great
point d'appui for the servile party in the Cortcs. " Verily
they have their reward."

The fac►s and df tails which follow are extracted from an
•' Expose of the Dissensions of Spanish America," written
by Mr. Walton, and are of such a nature, as, were they not
well authenticated, appears to be incredible.
" The feeling and impartial mind," says Mr. Walton, 0 re•

volts at the masses of coarse and scurrilous invective that
have issued from the Cadiz press ;" and is at the same " time
astonished at the numerous. foul, and corrupt engines set to
work to influence the dastard passions of the multitude and
prevent the fair and unbiassed discussion of the most import-
ant question ever agitated in the Cortes of Spain."
One of the first acts of the Cortes was to send Venegas to

Mexico. Of the character of this man sent, it is to be rc.rol-
lected by tlie Cortes, and never recalled, an estimate may be
formed by the following proclamation :

" Ist. All rebels who have resisted the king's troops, are criminals,
and subject to a military jurisdiction.

" 6th. All insurgent chiefs, in whatever number they may be, are to
be shot, without allowing them more time than to prepare for death in
a christian manner.

" lOth. Ecele!iactics taken with arms in their bands, to be executed
in the same manner.

Article 2, authorises the division or detachment malting prisoners,
to execute these orders. The scenes which this and similar orders have
given rise to, in such a country as the one to which I allude, ate such
as would ei.grace the annals of a Tiberias,
Don Ignacio Garcia Revolts's, in his eispatch to the viceroy, dated
Querttaro, November 25, 1811, recommends Serjeant Francisco
Mentes, 'as deserving the grade of an officer, fur amongst other gal.
lout acti,o,, be killed one qf his own nephews, who making himsey'known
so him received for answer that he ham no nephew among insurgents."
" cl minntotant Bustatnente, in his dispatch to the viceroy, dated
Zits-pares, October 23, 1811, recommends Mariano Ochoa, a dragoon,
r Ito in pursuing the iasurgents, had a brcthei• haat to him to Igg his
l fit, which he took with his own hand.'
" When two such acts as these become the blast of a dispatch to a
viceroy. T leave my reader to judge of the other atrocities. Of these,
history hiss no parallel.

" General Truxillo, in a similar dispatch, boasts, that he admitted a
flag of truce from Hidalgo, composed of various persons, in front of his
line that was drawn up, and having received from them a banner of the
Virgin Mary, he ordered his soldicrs to fire on the beam;,, by which
means he expected not to he troubled any more with them.' The person,
composing the flag of truce, were thus all murdered. Even the Cadiz
papers cried out against this atrocity.
" General Calrja, informs the viceroy, that in the affair of Aculco
he had one man killed and two wounded ; but that he put to the sword,
5000 seduced Indians, and that their total, loss amounted to 10,000.
The most of these were Indians, kneeling for mercy ! The same General
entered Goanasoatu, with fire and sword, where 14,000 old tutu, wo-
men, and children, perished, and this, because the insurgent army
had taken up its quarters there, and by a timely retreat, had escaped
his fury. In his dispatch, he adds, f 7'o-ntorrow and the followirw den's,
I intend to shoot is quantity oldie criminals who bare been tacit of the In-

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