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IE EDIT(R OF THE STAR.

e month of August last year, altuo;:t all
the Preach journals have represented General Mina as the
• illy person capable of operating a revolution and giving
lil•erty to Spain ; and, in this belief have considered as his
•.‘ (ilk all the labours of the divers emigrant patriots.
this error, common to all those journals, were not pre-
judicial to the cause of liberty, I should continue the silence
e.hich, until now, I have preserved, and should be content to
leave Lhe editors in the same ignorance, or preoccupation, un-
til tune should rectify the misapprehension, and make them
more circumspect for the future. The actual circumstances,
lAm-ever—the first grand attempt at the revolution having
commenced--1 should be culpable if, by an excess of mode-
iation, of modesty, or from considerations attaching to the
mime of General Mina, I longer deferred warning the press
against the conduct pursued by that General ; so that the
truth hying known, the injustice of attributing to him the
services rendered by that valiant patriot, General Torrijos,
and the Chiefs acting under his orders for the liberty and
independence of their country, may be recognized and
al oided.

It is painful to me, especially in a foreign country togive
publicity to certain facts which now, and until the esta-
blishment of liberty in Spain, ought to have remained
covered with the veil of patriotism ; but matters have
reached such a pitch, and the agents of Mina having pub-
lished in London a pamphlet, with the sole object of calum-
niating my conduct respecting the late affairs on the frontiers,
and deceiving the public, I find myself under the necessity
of publishing some extracts relating to the conduct which
he has followed since the year 1827, in the persuasion that
they will disabuse the public with respect to what he has
published in his pamphlet ; and in order that the press,
better instructed, may in future " render unto Caesar that
which is Caesar's"

1. The independence of Spain, which the gold of the Holy
Alliance, and one hundred thousand French bayonets, bad
subjugated, might have been reconquered in 1827 but for
General Mina. Three thousand Spanish patriots were then
in Portugal, ready and all disposed to enter into Spain under
his orders; but they were deceived by himself, incarcerated
and detained by the Portuguese authorities, upon pontoons
in the Tagus. These same patriots, and many of those in
England at the time, are ready to prove these facts.
2. Mina, after having betrayed and deceived the hopes of
the true constitutionalists, declared by circular that he ceas-
t d all labours for the liberation of Spain.
a. On account of the manner in which this General
i;.d abused our confidence, anti having present the before—
at:cntioned circular, General Torrijos undertook, with as
attach eagerness as devotion, to continue the exertions for
giving freedom to our country, and to this end a junta
1)f patriots was nominated under the title of the Liberating
onta.

4. General Torrijos and the Junta continued to corres-
pond with the Constitutional Societies in the interior of
Spain, notwithstanding the disorder in the combination,
and the demoralization caused necessarily by this incompre-
hensible retreat or Mina. They st'cceeded, at length, in re-
:.citing all those who were well disposed, and in fixing the
Foch for operating the grand movement in Spain.
5. This movement was appointed to take place from the
let to the 10th of August. and Gen. Torrijos, the Junta, and
the other patriot Chiefs, fitted out a vessel, on which we were
embarked, and on the point of weighing anchor, when we
were detained, by order of the Ministry of the Duke of
Wellington, on the 27th of July of last year, and our arms
and ammunition were confiscated.

6. In consequence of this act, so arbitrary on the part of
a free Government, being without any resources for our en-
terprise, but always animated with the same resolve, we de-
termined to transport ourselves to France, and from thence
to the frontiers of Spain, to enter forthwith, and proclaim
liberty.
7. General Torrijos, with his Staff, was the first who
traversed France, from w hence he departed immediately
for Gibraltar, where he has continued his labours in the
midst of persecutions from the English authorities, from
the agents of Mina, and the spies of Ferdinand. 1, as
well as other Chiefs, also managed to Aim columns of pa-
triots, to clothe, arm, and pro►ide them with ammunition,
notes itlistanding daily persecutions from the French autho-
rities, and obstacles put in motion by Mina to demoralize
and destroy our labours.
8. If General Mina ceased, in 1827, all endeavours co
render liberty to Spain, for reasons which hereafter will
he known, he never ceased his intrigues in the interior of
Spain and at Bayonne, to embarrass and retard our pro-
ject* of entering, for that end making use of all ima&iu-
able expedients.

9. Litstly, General Mina, forgetting his reputation as a
good soldier, which he enjoys iu foreign countries, and
the sentiments of humanity so natural to a good man, com-
promised my column of patriots, and a portion of his own,
which, filled with honour and enthusiasm, by sentiments of
liberty, took part in the action, whilst the General kept aloof,
a passive spectator, with the remainder of his corps, upon a
height, in presence of the action of Vera.
1 hope, Mr. Editor, that after such facts, which neither
General Mina, nor any other person, will venture to deny,
you will have the goodness to insert this letter in your esti-
',ALA journal, so that for the future the public may estimate
with more equity the services of each and every one embarked
in the cause of liberty, until Spain, free and independent,
shall herself duly award praise and censure.
I have the honour to salute you with the greatest con-
sideration,

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