Madrid Gazette.
The Times, 1824-12-09T00:00:00

The King our Sovereign being informed of the result of the pro. ceedings commenced by the Intendant of the Police of La Alancha, and the Q^onmissioner Don Pedro Silva in consequenceof the in- fonnation given to the former by the Alcalde of Alcubelias relative to the conspiracy supposed to be carrying on in the province, his Majesty has been pleased to iesalye, thot the innocence of all the persons implicated in these proceedings, who have been imprisoned and pro3ccuted so entirely without reaSoi, be published in the Ga. zette, that the said proceedirgs nIay not at any tiine injure theirgood character and reputation.-4 Pcre bllowis a list of the individuals in questien, about 40 in number, inhabitants of different towns in La ~Danchai] All honourable men, and those who have any feelings of huma- nity, behold with the greatest horror and just indnation, the atro- cious and scandalous conduct of the Constitutionalists of Corunna, tbe cowardly assassins of 61 of their brethren, of whom 43 at least were guilty of no otber crime than of having remnained fithful to their King and the laws of their country, anl of having attempted, like true 5paniards, to defend these valuable objects, anld the reli- gion of their father8, which they saw despised and persocuted by thease who, in their destructive constitution, ha4 swor to presprre and protect iL Now that the proceedings are terminated whicWwere commenced in comsequencc of that lamentable event which illed aU Europe witb indignation, we insert an extract from them, which cannotfail to excie interest,and torenewvtheegrieffor the fateof the victims, and indignation towards the asg nas:_ The Governor of the place Don Pedro ?lendez Vigo, gave orders to his agents on the 16th loth, and 20th of July, 1823, to convey from the royal prixon to the fort of St- Antony, a considerable num- ber of prisoners; this was done; and by his farther orders, they were 'removed from the fort, and put on board a vessel of Sevslle, called Snrto Cfrtlto de Zof J fligidos, between 11 and 12 o'clock in the rnight of the 2Sd of July. t Here follow the names ofthe individuaLs; 43 are stated to be for political oplnions and attachment to the Royal Government; among them are several officers, and some priests. The other eight for or. dInaR c&ic. Affthp reponers were escorted by some of the national militia, some ofthe sacred battalion, who were also accompanied by Com- missioners ofthe Governmuent, who were infornsed of the tragical fate prepared for the unhappy prisoners, who were immediately strippea of thelr gar,nents, efeets, and nmoney, bound, a'l4 put under tbe hatches. The vessel set sail in the night, but in the morning ancbored apin, and quitted the bay about one in the afternoon of the 23d, at which time thee came on board a reinforcement of no. tional troops from thiscity and from Ferrol, who had beeR fetcled by oneof tbeCommissioners. When at three leagues' distance from thisi port, the principal Commissioner gave orders for the prisoners to come on dek,as he called over their names from a list which he redL This being done he desired them to sit down on the sides of thevessel, ofreringthembread and wine, which every body declined; he informed them that he was going to r emove them into a vessel that -was in right. He ordered them to be bound again, andtogounderthe tcies.n after he ordered 20 of them on deck, and one of them, aeeing that every thing was ready to throw them into the sea, made alintotl to rusp on the pringipa Commisiaoner: then both those of the escort, and ofiter the subaltern agests, drewv the daggers which they bat tready, begana by stabbing them, and in this state threnv them into the sca. The remainder were taken out one by one. The said' Commissioner, wbo was dose to the batebes, ceizing them by the neck ordered them to go forward, and as they psased along the aide of die vessel knoeked them overboard. One or the priests be- gan In a loud veice to sing the Miserere, and the other vnctims rtraggled with the wavea and with death while the escort sung pa- triotic congs. Such was the cruelty of the assagsins, that fearing one of them who kept above water would save himself, they put two sai.. 20rs on board a boat, who beat him on the lead with their oars, and killed hti. Not content with this, they gave the las! nnd most hor- rible proof of inhurnanity. They cooly divided the garmnents, money, &c., which they had taken, and having consummated this uonheard.of crime, returned to the city on the 24th of July in the The qegency of the kingdom gave orders on the 24th of 8eptemn. ber, IM!, toa maglstrate of the Royal Tribunal of Galicia to pro. peed att the autlhor atd accomplices of so ciel a cxime. All the prote iugs:h3rmfi Xe'e'h earried oul in the regular forn, of law,7 Cntence fas pro noinced orlithe 24th of July Lat. By tNi sentence si~of thc accu.ed.were ordered tobe loanged, 'nnd the renmainder to VaTiOus t?flas of knprisoumfent in difibrent prelidiosj tOpsyme)lt cf c*Vst, and.to fines, d te property of the criminals to' be apphe~d to the benehtiwf the faiitiieiof the victims. The aentenecheing referred by his 1l[ajestv to thle Supreme Council folk examln&tion, wac approved by his .Majcsty: when it was an1nouuu 'tofhlc-crminala, most of -hem heard it with indifference, and Joseph Lizarb, a shoemaker pf Ferrol sang the Tsagala. The endeavour. of the secular and regu- Lnr ecciesiasrs to indulce them to receive the consolations of religion were in vain. The peoplc are stated 'to have behaved with the,utmdst decorum at Witnessing the execution of this juFt though wt ,eim-senscnce. The shoemaker kired himase'by opebing somelveins with a small knife. Two others poisoncdl-themselves Iy tahing cpiurri. 'The three deid bodies were suspended from the gallows, and six others of the condemned were hanged. I MADRID GAZETTR. AlAnftl) Nnv. 24