Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-11-08

COurageOentS ntiu out 10 tncm ny tue
insurgents, Joined the party, and the first
evidence that ihey gave of their force was
the murder OF count AquiIla, one of the
most respectable characters of Seville,
whist captain of smugglers was nominal
ted chief of the insurgents, consis ing Of
monks, deser;ers, and smugglers, drew
out in arms to beset The passage through
Cordova.
AT Cadiz the people rose on the
76th of May, against the lieutenant
general Solano, marquis del Socorro,
the captain general of the province,
and governor of the city, a man hi
therto universally rrvrrcd. The in
surEents then drew arms from the bar
racks, and cannon from the bulwarks,
fell upon the hotel of the governor,
seized his person, and murdered him
In the most atrocious manner. AT Ca
roiina, they decapitatcd the governor,
who had presumed to oppose the dis
orders. No less horrible were the ex-
cesses committed in Navarro, ARA
gon, and Catalonia. At Saragossa,
the peasants shot the colonel of the
kings regiment of Dragons and thir-
ty-three cficers Of the same party, a.
gainSt whom they revoited, were mas
sacred in the most inhuman manner.
The same hatred tt all authority,
and TO all men vested with Office pro-
duced similar scenes in Es;remadura
and the CASTLES. At 8adaioz the in
surrection broke out on Nav 80, and
was In an instant matnred. The hotel
OF the governor, count dc IN Fore del
Fremo, was assaulted. These iusur-
gents demanded arms, aud 90 be en-
rolled: when the governor with the
bishops appeared at the balcony exhor-
ting the multitude 10 retire, but in
vain the infuriated would listen t. n6
reason, they overpowered the guard o
the palace, rushed into the chamber
OF the governor, seized him, and drag
ged him, as far as the palm gate, where
with knives and sticks they murdered
him, exhibiting the naked and blee-
ding corpse to his wife, while they ri
flrd the palace. AT Valladolid gene
raj Don Miguel Cevallos commandan;
Of engineers, was on the 5th OF June,
in Conscience Of IN order of general
Cneza, cast into the prison Carbone-
TO, but the insurgents drew him out
and cut him in pieces in the presence
ofhis wife apd chrildrcn, carried his
had around on pike, DIVIDED among
themselves the limos, which wers
dragged about the streets in token o.
trophy. At Talovcra, on the 5th of
June, thu governor was disposed to
punish the rioters hereupon they cri~
ed out for his head, and he owes his
preservation merely TO a narrow es-
cape facilitated to him by few brave
men.
The provinces of Leon and Asturi-
as were al The same tinle scenes Of the
most tragic events. At Corunna, gen.
Fiiangier; eudeavored to mitigate, by
persuasion, the fury OK the peasantry ;
he would have been shot, had not an
artillery officer slept before him and
saved his FIFE; the insurgents, never
theless, on the day following penstra-
ted into ard seized his p.dace, which
they demolished, he having sought an
asylum in the Convent Of s.. Domin-
g. 1t Ferrol, on the % Of June,
thy pundered the hous OF the leutc
nant general of mac,ne, Obrejou, and
having discovered him in the mann
factory of Isquiendo, they incarcera-
ted him at ST. Antonio.
In the kingdom Of Leon, the pea
SAINTS drew up in different towns,
5urghs, and villages, having cut OF
the heads OF many respt ctable cin
zens and it was announced TINT the
goveror Of Corunna, the corregidor of
Leon, and count Castro Fuerte, colo
mel Of the militia Of Yalto, being pla-
ccd in the hands of general Cuesta
should &c delivered over to the exeeu-
toner.
In every direction the men who by
their worth, virtue and fortune, had
excited universal respect, paid with
their lives the gallant resistance, and
tie love Tor their country, which they
opposed to dissolution and riot whilst
committees Of instruction made them
selves masters ofthc public funds, o.
ganized themselves, and inspired ali
the good and honest with terror.