The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-11-08

they fcvo';cd, were massacred iii the mot
inhuuan manner
The sanc hatred to al! authority, ard to
all men vested With Office, produced similar
scenes in Estrenoa6ura and the CASTLE. At
Badajoz, the i,surrection broke out on May
So. and was III an instant nlatured Tie ho-
tel ct the governor, count de la Torve del
tremo. was assaulted. These insurgents
demanded arms. and to be enrolled; when
thc governor. with the bishops, appeared at
thc balcony, e:;hortirg the multitude to re-
tire. but in vain; the Infatuated would listen
to no reason, they ove.powered the guard of
tho palace. rushed into the chanrber of the
governor, forced him, and dragged him as
f'r as the palm gate, where with knives and
sticks thcy. murdered him. exhibiting the
naked and bleeding corpse 10 his wife, w;ilse
they rit,el the palace. AT Vai!adoiid. gene
RAJ Don Miguel Cevatlos, commanc;ant OF en- :
gineers, was ola the 5th of June. in conSe-
G1ence Of an order of general Cucs;a. cast
into the prison Carboncro. but the insurgents
drew him CIT, and cut him in pieces III pre-
sence OF his wife and children, carried his
head around on pike, and divided among
themselves the limbs, which were dragged
about the Streets. in token of trophy AT
Ialorera, on the 9Th Of June, the governor
was disposed 10 punish the rioters; hcreur-
on they cried ont for the head, and he owes
ms preservation merely To a NARROW escape
facilitated TO him b. few brave ,nen
Tue Provinces OF Leon and Asturias were
at the same time scenes Of the most tragic
events. At Corunna, Gen. Filang:eri cn,,ca-
'ored &c mitigate by persuasion, TIC ferry OF
the pcasantry he would have been shot,
had pos an Artillery Officer stepped before
him and saved his life the insurgents, ne
verthclcss. on the dav following. penetrated
INFO and seized his Palace, which thcy de-
moiished. lie having sought AN asylum in tie
convent of St. Domingo. At Ferrol, on the
I'D OF July, they pundered the house of the
Lieutenant General Of Marine, Obrejon,
and having discovered hia. in the Manufac-
tory of isquicnda, they incarcerated him
ut st. Antonio.
In the~Kingdom Of Leon, tie peasants
drew up in different towns, burghs and villa
ges, having cut of ths heads of MANY re-
SpectaOic citizens; and it was announced
that the Governor OF Corunna, the Corregi-
dor ct Leon, and Count Castro Fuertc, CO.
'onel OF the militia of Valto, Being placed in
the hands of General Cuesta, should be de
hvercd over to the eXecutioner.
II every direction the men, who by their
worth, virtue and fortune, had excited ami
versal respect, paid with their lives the gal
liant resistance, and the love forther coun-
try which they opposed to dissolution and ri
themselves masters Of the public funds, or
gani2ed themselves, and inspired all the good
and honest with terror.
The ministers, the members Of the iunta
OF Madrid, and of the commission of govern
ment, used every exertion to paciiy but in
vain the multitude could not be reduced TO
obedience, ignorant and deluded men want
ing to grasp at power and plumber.
This transportation was the inevitable con-
sequence of the state of insecurity the suf-
terance and misfortune into which this 60
vernment had preciptated the Spanish ma
ton. She was prepared and awakened
i,y the articles of England, and bv the
disorder of public Nationalities, sprung
from those of parties and of the times 1t
became necessary to recur to arms to bride
the insane and to deter the malevoent
Marshal Restores directed on the outset.
different detachments upon Logronno, Sara
gossa, Segovia, Valladold AID St Andero,
which columns, though not numerous, had
respectively all, success, without suffering
any material injury.
=. The town of Losrohho lad raised the
standard or insurrection, and chosen for its
Chief mason, one of the unwortiiest fell
loss of the district General Verdier was
ordered to march with two battallions, sur
rounded the city, and drove on the 9th OF
iine, the Insurgents to fight, taking from
them SIX cannons, brought the most riotous
to punishment, and replaced in the govern
ment of the town the principal citizens who
mad been cast into prison, returning suisse
quently to Vittoria
General Frere had marched upon Seco
via, where connections had also taken place.
and on the 9TH of June, being arrived with
in a quarter of a mile of the city, he sent
parlcy to the rnagistracy in order to bring
inc insurgents to sense Of their duty-these
hVe thousand men strong with thirty can
mons would not permit the parley to approach,
but hrsd on him with cann@n, which indn-
ced the General to make tie assault without
delay, and the place was taken by force,
great number OF the insurgents having been
crippled, many taken prisoners, and all
aleir cannon taken from them. The CITY ha-
wing been freed of the insurgents and left to
itself, submitted
General Lasalle drew from Gurgos to
iorquemada, where six thousand insurgents
had waited, which OH the 9TH he caused to
be attacked by 600 chssseurs--they were
dispersed, leaving twelve hundred dead on
the spot-the village of Torquemada was
reduced to ashes.
General Lasalle rtiarc'led on the 9th -
Palcncia, which as he was approaching. a
dePntation with the Bishop at their head.
met him, bringing him the submission of the
town. which Immediately returned to its du-
ty accordingly. The oh and the 10th DAYS
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