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

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surgent arrrsv, If all grades, crew up to a brigadier.' This measure *a*
afterwards approved of by the vice-I.oy himself. Cal!rja soon after re•
ceived from the Cadiz Regency, the grade of mariseal del Campo, and
the viceroy the cross of Charles 111. as remunerations fur this di►tin•
guished service.
" In the action of Zamora, all the prisons rs were also put to the
sward.

" Fe!hi, deputy in the Cortes for Lima, speaking therein on the pm-
posed mediation of England, observes, 'that in t.rder to prove the ty-
ranny with which the inhabitants of Mexico are treated, it wonid suf-
fice to present sonic of the measures, daily taken by the governors in
that country:' Ile adds, '1 will here only inflator& the 2il and 11th ar-
ticles of the proclamation issued by Brigadier llt,ii Jose dt la Cruz, cu
the i3d February, 1811. Article 2, imposes the punishment of death,
on all persons of every class and condition, who within ta enty•lrot.r
hours, da not deliver up all the arms of which they may be vissessed,
including axes and knives. To forbid any one to carry on their per-
sons even a small knife, has been before •een ; but to deprive people of
knives for their domestic use, under the penalty of death, is what even
Murat did not du at Madrid, ur has been before heard of. Article 11,
orders that a tenth of all the inhabitants shall be shot, of whatever town
or city that Lay he known to have given provisions to an insurgent, or
where any intercutirse had been had with them, even betwuei, a father
and Nis son : ' and, 'if thus,' subjoins the deputy, ' a faithful father at•-•
tempts to bring back a wandering son, is he on this account to die ?
Well and gird ; but is it net the extreme of barbarity, that tor this
same reason the tenth of a whole town is to be shot ? '

" This same General Cruz, thirsting as it were for blood and des-
truction, had silently burnt the town of the Trapuarri, iw which the in-
surgents had resisted his attacks, and made a public parade of shout-
ing six priors's ; in short, wherever he went, indiscriminate murder,
fire, and desolation, followed his footsteps. The prisoners who were not
put to the sword, in cold blood, were sent to perish in the dungeons of
Mexico, or in those of St Juan de Ulna.

' Captain Blanco, in July, 1811, announce', that as soon as he
entered Matehuala, and the insurgents saw they were attacked on all
sides, and the havoc made amongst them they fled into the fields, but
his troops eager fur blood (encarnizada) pursued, till they found no
more to pursue.'
" Don Caetano Quintero, 79th August 1811. says, 'that in the at.
tack of Amuledras, w hick laird two hours, nu quarter was given'
" Commandant Villuescuss, 21st December, 1811, observes that
the rebels of San Ignaci headed by an ancient dficer, hoisted a fag
of truce, and their thief Lieutenant Hernandez, having expressed a
desire to parley with Fontatio, Chief of the Opata Indians, a Spanish
soldier named Manuel Ranshez, feigned lie was the person, assuring
'Fernandez, that if he would advance in front of the lines, he would
do the same.' On their meeting, Hernandez was treacherously mur-
dered.

General Cruz, in his letter to Hidalgo, 28th February, 1811, sap
that many thousands of men, taken by the king's troops, were then
groaning, in prisons, waiting their last end.' Yet few were taken in
the field of bat►le, or otherwise apprehended, they Wing, in genera!,
shot or hung on the spot.

" General Calleja, from Zitaquaro, which be had just taken, after a
stout resistance, writes the viceroy, that he sei(i make it disappear fma
the face of the earth ; and in conformity to this resolve, be issued a pro-
clamation, whose articles, in substance, are as follows :
" 1. That all the property, public or private, belonging to the in-
habitants of this town and jurisdiction, shall be confiscated to the crown,
and the Indians deprived of their privileges.

" 2. Likewise the property of all those Spaniards, who have joined is
the insurrection, or were absent when the king's troops entered.
" b. This faithless and criminal town, that three distinct times has
resisted the arms of the king, being to be rowed up, burnt and, des-
troyed, the inhabitants of every age and sea shall leave it withid sic
days.

" 5- All the individuals and families who may leave this town, shall
have a certificate, bearing their name, descent, number of each, and
day of their departure, it being well understood, that whoever way be