Blaquiere's Spain and Spanish Revolution. 
the first ebullitions of joy and self-con- 
gratulation were followed by a solemn 
thanksgiving, and chaunting Te Deum 
in full choir, after which ceremony a ser- 
mon was preached on the inevitable 
damazation attendant on rebellion! 
Conducted to Corunna in chains under 
a strong escort on the 25th, and shut up 
in the common receptacle for malefactors, 
no time was lost in commencing the trial 
of the patriot officers. Although every 
rule of justice required that a special 
commission should be named on this oc- 
casion, the persons who had been em- 
ployed for the prosecution of the liberales 
received orders from St. Mara to prepare 
the act of accusation. An order to the 
same effect reached Corunna two days 
after from the court. This directed that 
Porlier, and those of superior rank who 
had acted with him, should be tried, and 
their sentence put into execution within 
the time prescribed by martial law. As 
to the subalterns and others, their trial 
was also to proceed, but the sentences 
were not to be carried into effect, until 
the royal pleasure was known, 
The judgment of the court merely 
stated that the charges of treason and re- 
bellion having been fully proved, the 
prisoner was liable to the pains and penal- 
ties awarded in such cases; he was there- 
fore sentenced to be publicly degraded, 
and suffer death by hanging.—There be- 
ing no appeal from this sentence, it was 
carried into effect on the following day at 
half-past eleven o'clock. The last and 
only act of indulgence solicited by the 
unfortunate general, was a remission of 
that part of the judgment which related 
to his being degraded, so that the victim 
was suffered to ascend the scaffold in 
plain clothes. Having bequeathed what- 
ever he had to leave to his wife, Dona 
Josefa Queipo de Llano, daughter of the 
house of Toreno, and named several in- 
dividuals to whom he was desirous of 
being affectionately. remembered, he ad- 
dressed the notary in the following words: 
“T also enjoin, that, when circumstances 
permit, my ashes may be removed from 
the spot'they are laid when I am dead, 
to one more agreeable to my wife, and 
being deposited in a plain cenotaph, she 
will cause the following inscription to be 
wed on it, together with my age 
and day of my death. “ Within are 
contained the remains of Juan Diaz 
Porsmr, formerly a general in the 
armies of Spaiu. He was always success. 
ful in whatever he undertook against the 
external enemies of his country, and died 
a victim to civil dissensions:—~men alive 
587 
to glory ! respect the ashes of an unfor- 
tunate patriot!” This act performed, he 
signed with an untrembling hand, and 
directed that the attested copy, and the 
key of the coffin containing his body, 
should: be presented to his wife as scon 
after the fatal hour as her frame of mind 
would bear such an offering. 
Impatient to reach the place of execu- 
tion, Porlier walked much quicker than is 
usual on such solemn occasions, and was 
observed to mount the scaffolding erected 
under the gallows with great alacrity ; 
when the final prayer ended, and just 
before the rope was affixed round his 
neck, he drew a white handkerchief from 
his breast, and holding it up to his face 
as if to absorb a last tear, he consigned it 
to the priest, with a request that it might 
be given to his widow ! 
The final bequests of Porlier were ful- 
filled towards the end of August. A 
cenotaph being prepared, all the autho- 
tities of Corunna, civil and military, re- 
paired to the spot where his remains had’ 
been laid; disinterred and placed in their 
new receptacle, the gallant Espinosa, 
who has been so highly distinguished 
during the recent events in Galicia, pro- 
nounced an eloquent and energetic pane- 
gyric on the virtues and talents of the 
fallen hero: pointing him out as a fit 
model for those who preferred the liberty 
of their country to tyranny and oppres- 
sion. From this the procession proceeded 
to the principal church, followed by the 
whole population; here the service closed. 
with a requiem composed for the occa~ 
sion, after which the cavalcade, preceded 
by the cenotaph, borne on a funeral car, _ 
was conducted in mournful triumph 
through all the streets in which the hero 
had proclaimed the constitution five years 
before. On reaching that part of the 
Campo Santo, on which a more con- 
spicuous spot was chosen for depositing 
the urn, a second service and funeral 
oration was delivered by the officiating 
chaplain of the garrison, after which the 
ceremony ended, 
LACY. / 
Had it not been for that fatality which 
seemed. to attend every new attempt of 
the patriots to regain their freedom, 
it would be impossible to name one 
amongst them, who, from his talents or 
popularity, had a better chance of success, 
than Don Luis Lacy. This celebrated 
chief, to whose gallantry and military 
skill Catalonia was indebted for its libera- 
tion from the French army in 1812, had 
excited the jealousy of the servile faction 
on Ferdinand’s return, and was even 
doomed 
