The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-02-15

INES, ana demanded an interview with the gen.
erai, whose person he seized, after having dis
armed his escort; but one of the officers of Bal
iasteros harangued the troops, who marched
ana rescued their general. Riego then retreat
ed, and on the 18th August was captured by a
division of the corps of Molitor. He was con-
lined at La Carolina, whence he was conveyed
to Madrid, and there tried and executed, by
order OF the Provisional Government, on the
fth November. On the 18th August, Corunna
caPitulated to the French commander. Bourke.
The Duke of Angouleme advanced to Cadiz.
On the 3lst August, the Trocdero was carried,
and a few days afterwards the castle of st. Petri.
heslstance was now hopeless, and the Constitu-
tional Ministers proposed an armistice. with the
view to a Treaty. which the Duke refused.
That proposal was indeed conveyed in the King
own handwriting. The answer of tho Duke
was, that he would only negotiate with Ferdi-
nand himself, when he was restored to liberty.
He added, "that when the King should be free,
he would engage his Majesty to publish gene.
raj amnesty, and to give, or at least promise of
his free will to give, such institutions as he
should judge to be best adapted to the manners
and character of his people,"
On the lst of October, it was agreed that the
Royal family should embark for Port ST. Mary's:
but, before his departure from Cadiz. he was
compelled to issue decree "promising obliv-
ion of the past, retention of rank, personal
security and the recognition of the public debt"
On the day that Ferdinand arrived at Port St.
Mary's, he published a declaration by which be
annulled all the DEGREES of the late Government
and confirmed all the acts of the Madrid Regen
cy. Thus the ancient regime was established
the monasteries restored to their former pos
SCISSORS, and everything placed upon the same
footing as before the La Isla mutiny; and
thus the faithless Ferdinand broke every engage
ment he had made on quitting Cadiz
On the goth May, 1924, an amnesty was
published, dated from Araniuez. It was to
comprehend all political offences from 1920 to
the end of October, 1928, when the revolution
was suppressed; but this amnesty excluded the
following classes, and thus rendered it delu-
sion:
lst. The authors of the military rebellions at
Los Calozas, 1sla de Leon, Corunna, Saragossa,
Oviedo, and Barcelona, when the Constitution
was proclaimed.
I'd. Those ofthe Madrid conspiracy in March,
1920.
Sd. The military chiefs concerned in the
Ocana mutiny, and especially Count de Abes.
bal
4th. The authors of the Provisional Jnnta
mentioned in the decree of 9th March, 1920.
9Th. Those who signed or authorized any
document for taking away the Royal functions
appointing regency, or subjecting any mem
Der of the Royal family to judicial process.
9th. Those who in the secret societies pro-
NOTED any of the above-named objects
18th. The writer's or editors of works tending
to bring the religion of the State into disrepute.
9Th. The authors of the Madrid commotion
of 18th February, 1923, when the palace was
violated, and the King deprived of his preroga-
tive of naming Ministers.
9th. The judges who condemned General
Elio.
10th. The authors of the assassinations of
Archdeacon Vinnesa, the Bishop of Vich and
of those committed in the city of Granada; and
| at Corunaa, on the persons confined in the cas-
tie of st. Anton.
1lth. The members of the Cortes who voted
for the Kings deposition and the formation of
| Regency in the sitting of the 18th July, 1928.
Exemptions so numerous deprived the am
nesty of all its grace; and, although France had
military occupation of the whole country, re-
August, 1924, some emigrants> assembled at
Gibraltar, whence they embarked for Spain,
and landed on the coast Colonel Valdez
| seized Tarifa, but was soon expelled. Iglesias,
by trade a silversmith, landed at Marbela, was
captured and shot. Bazan met similar fate
on the coast of Alicant. In 1925 and 1926, the
liberals attempted to seize Tortosa, and were
defeated on both occasions. They failed also
| at Peniscola. In 1927 instruction broke out
in Catalonia, where Regency was established,
and a Gazette. published, entitled the "Catalo-
MAN Royalist," for, strange to say, it was a
Royalist movement, and "a, 900 men were I'M
der arms. These insurgents complained that the
King was too favorable to the Constitutional
ists They published a proclamation, in which,
after protesting their devoted loyalty to the
throne, they ask What might not be said, on
the infraction of the sovereign DEGREES issued
for the purpose of granting employments to the
| royalists, particularly that of the 9th August,
| 1924, which orders that they shall have the
preference? How many orders has not his
Majesty issued for the execution of those de-
crees, particularly for the punishment of the
revolutonists, and for indemnifying, in prefer
ence to all other things, the towns and villages,
for the damage and loss they sustained in de-
fence of the just cause? All this has been
done in vain; the royalists have been exposed
to dersion, and to the most cruel prosecutions !;
the constitutionalists have been employed, and
the royalists dismissed. Finally, important
offices have been conferred on constitutional
militiamen, while the honorable titles of re-
ligion, fidelity, and loyalism, have become mo-
tives of exclusion. Cataloniansl these are the
reasons which have made US take up arms in
defence of our well-beloved monarch. Hasten,
then, to exterminate impiety, injustice, and all
the men In place who belong to the dark sects
of freemasons, communeros, and other sedition-
ists who govern under the mask of modera-
ton"
The King went to Catalonia, when these roy.
alists at once laid down their arms. 1t was at
this juncture that reports were first spread of
Don Carlos aspiring to the throne by deposing
his brother. The prince, indignant at this
calumny, demanded an inquiry, and was hon.
orably acquitted by the commission appointed
to collect and examine evidence; but Ferdi-
nand still suspected him, and had, indeed, be-
| come jealous of his popularity after they left
| Cadiz, in 1923. Queen Amelia having no
| children, the people naturally looked to Don
Carlos as the future sovereign.
| Local Instructions were fomented by the
emigrants down to 1881. On the 22d of
March, in that wear, decree appeared in the
Gazette, establishing a military commission at