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of sa,atzocious a system,,.whichavasiiae- 
cordingly agreed to.?hs igs roi 
Again ; 
voffel neven suffered @ surprise, < Once,:on 
the 284 Aprils 1812, at break of day, having 
been sold bythe: Partizan: Malcarado,swho 
had:previcusly made his arrangements! with 
General -Panetier; and had avithdrawn, the 
advanced gnard from before Robres, I saw 
myself surrounded in the’ town by 1,000 
infantry and 200-cavalry,.and was attacked 
by; five hussars at the very door of the 
house where I lodged; I defended myself 
from these latter with the bar of the door, 
the only weapon I had at hand, while my 
attendant, Louis*Gaston, was saddling my 
horse: and mounting immediately, with 
his assistance, I. sallied forth, charged 
them, followed them up! the street, cut off 
an arm of one of them at. one blow, imme- 
diately collected some, of my men, charged 
the enemy, several times, rescued many of 
my soldiers and officers who had been made 
prisoners, and continued the contes for 
more than three-quarters of an hour, in 
order ‘that the ‘remainder might escape. 
This Louis Gaston I always retain about 
my person: asa friends The next day I 
caused Malearado and. his attendant to be 
shot; while, three Alcaldes and a parish 
priest, likewise concerned in the plot, were 
hanging. 
«A price was set upon my head by the 
enemy from the, end of 1811 till the con- 
clusion of the war.” 
At the beginning of 1813, the govern- 
ment added to his military command 
the office of Political Chief; and for the 
services performed in his respective 
civil and military capacities, peace being 
concluded, King Ferdinand, who had 
entered Madrid, invited him to court 
in July 1814—where, however, his pa- 
triotic sentiments and advice appear to 
have rendered him an object of jealousy 
and intrigue; one of the machinations, 
connected with which, occasioned the 
desertion of 2,500 men from the regi- 
ments of the division of Navarre; and 
furnished the pretence for a RoyalOrder, 
commanding his immediate presence 
there to bring the deserters to trial. A 
simple proclamation, however, as soon 
as he reached Navarre, brought them 
back to their colours. The General thus 
oceeds : 
**T still continued to command the divi- 
sion, until my attempt upon Pampeluna on 
the night of the 25th of September—with 
the object, whieh Iwill now disclose for 
the :first ‘time, ‘of proclaiming the Consti- 
tution and the Cortes. (as. the Government 
confessed, in its, statement; of, my, seryices) 
—rendering it impossible for me,to remain 
any, longer in. Spain, I crossed. oyer,into 
France on the 4th .of October, of. the said 
year, 1814. . Unhappy moment which. se- 
A, Short) Extract foram the Life 6f General Minas \\ 
pavated me from my nativeblandp muh from 
my, braye;, companions, in armsy:;Wwheohad 
enabled, .me,-to | give, it so{ marydays, of 
glory... Eternal praise be to, their mames,}!” 
Towhich:wesay, Amemdihd ort diiv ° 
From October, 4502844,> tb ebruary 
22,1820, her temainéed «any exiléiiin 
France’ and: otherccountriesijo! oly bar” 
In March 1815; Napoleon, leaving the 
Island of Elba; entered Franeé; I imme- 
diately demanded my passport: foroSwitzer- 
land, which. was, denied ;me, three, several 
times. Napoleon. wished,,,to.. draw ;,me 
oyer to his service ;. his agents, made, me 
proposals sufficiently, enticing —— so . en- 
ticing that they might have induced a man 
to waver. But Napoleon had beén. an 
enemy to my country: I could not’ come 
to terms with him: I Jefé! Bar-sur. Aube, 
without a passport, at break of day on'the 
29th of May, and the same night an .ofticer 
sent by him, arrived there to:conduct!me 
to his presence. My escape; wasiso pre- 
cipitate, that I lost even my baggage, and 
set foot on the Swiss territory just asthe 
Gendarmes, who were in. pursuit,of, me, 
had come within pxstol-shot.”’ 
The exploits of this’ venerated icham-~ 
pion of a holy cause, during the war of 
liberty, are more fresh ‘in’ general “re- 
membrance. Relative to these, how- 
ever, we will extract the brief particu- 
lars he has supplied us with relative to 
the siege of Seo de Urgel: ., j... - suv 
‘* In this blockade, whieh lasted '74-days, 
against a numerous, fanatical,: and resolute 
garrison, whose proyisions/and, ammunition 
were immense ; Wwithout.one single cannon 
to oppose to 46, mounted pieces.ofartillery.s 
in a miserable and barren countzy.;,ini the 
sharpest and. most, rigorous »season ;.-.my 
men. almost, naked, and. sometimes evem 
without a due supply of, food, caused. by. 
the difficulty of . communication 5), having 
to cover an extremely. rugged, and,Jong - 
line, for doing which six times the number 
of men would searcely.,be, sufficient; and, 
lastly, presenting to. the world the, extra 
ordinary example of, the -besiegers being) 
of the same number as the -besieged, ; still 
in the end constancy and heroism were: \vie- 
torious, and 600, profligates | andi,robbers ~ 
taken out of the prisons,..;who;foxmed: the) 
greater part of the faction of. the ringleader, 
Romagosa, the defender ofthe fortresses: 
of Urgel, expiated, their. crimes;,on./the, 
morning of the evacuation,’ by their, death) 
upon the field.” m1. doidw uwebsbd 
Briefly and simply'as the facts of’his' 
situation at Barcelona, the final'séene" 
of his patriotic:exertions, are described 
in) ps 93, theyoare such asocannot> fail) 
deeply itovaffect thezegenerous heart. 
Deprived) of -manyo.of shis\sbrave .comx) - 
panions in arms,: who were either killed: 
or. made prisoners; stretched,on theibed 
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