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clergy and some of the inmates of the pa- 
lace. Nevertheless, El Empecinadog in 
one movement, destroyed the whole of his 
forces, and their leader was compelled, for 
upwards of a year, to wander from hiding- 
place to hiding place to save his life. When 
the ministry, headed by Felice, wished to 
counteract the revolution, El Empecinado 
was one of the victims. Stripped of his 
command in Zamora, he withdrew to his 
farm ; but, in the following year, the revolt 
of the guards on the 7th of July in Madrid, 
again called him to arms. He proceeded 
to the capital with the column marching up 
from Valladolid in defence of Spanish free- 
dom. He subsequently moved on Siguen- 
za, where another conspiracy had brolcen 
out, and in a few days restored order. In 
January .1823, a division of the army 
called “ of the faith,’ commanded by Bes- 
sieres, marched up from Arragon to New 
Castile, and placed the Government in a 
perilous state. A small body of troops left 
the capital, under the orders of General 
O’Daly, who sent half his forces to El 
Pmpecinado. The part commanded by 
O'Daly was completely defeated in Bri- 
buega, with the loss of all its artillery ; whilst 
Empecinado beat the royalists’ army under 
Royo Capape, and, in compliance with the 
orders he had received, took possession of 
Caspuenas. The defeat of the other divi- 
sions intended to co-operate with him 
~ placed El Ernpecinado in an awkward pre- 
dicament, from which he extricated himself 
by his presence of mind and knowledge of 
the ground ; and, a few days afterwards, he 
-sursued the remnant of the royalists, being 
im command of the vanguard of the army 
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under Abisbal. When the French army 
crossed the Pyrennees, El Empecinado, 
notwithstanding the critical situation of af- 
fairs, and his rank entitling him to the 
command of a division, collected a new 
guerilla party, with which he kept the field 
till the dissolution of the Government in 
Cadiz, and the dispersion of the constitu- 
tional armies. General Placencia, who 
commanded in Estremadura, included him 
in his capitulation with the royalist chiefs, 
in consequence of which the local autho- 
rities provided him with passports to return 
home. Haying signalized himself on all 
occasions in the constitutional cause, and 
braved the anger of the king, whose vin- 
dictive disposition was well known, he was 
advised to fly; but he spurned at the idea, 
and relied on the integrity of his conduct. 
Scarcely had he joined his family, when the 
royalist volunteers surrounded his dwelling, 
tore him from the bosom of all that was 
dear to him, and carried him a prisoner to 
Roa. There every indignity that malice 
and envy could invent, was heaped upon 
him, till atlength his enemies dragged him 
to a scaffold. 
El Empecinado was of the middle sta- 
ture ; he had rather a frowning look, and 
dark colour; his features were strongly 
marked, and his person somewhat lusty ; 
his constitution was unimpaired by the most 
severe hardships, and he was remarkable 
for the quantity of hair with which his body 
was covered. In his disposition he was 
frank, true to his word, indefatigable in the 
object he was pursuing ; and, in short, he 
possessed all the essential requisites for a 
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INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, anv DEATHS, 1n anp NEAR LONDON. 
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CHRONOLOGY OF THE MONTH. 
yee meeting was held at the 
HornTavern, Doctor’s Commons, on 
the 14th ult., in order to take into considera- 
tion a plan of improvements proposed by 
James Elmes, esq., architect, in order 
to render St. Paul’s church-yard regular 
throughout its whole extent; to form a 
new street from New Bridge-street, Black- 
friars, in a direct line to the west grand 
front of the cathedral, and two lateral 
‘streets, to open full views of the north and 
south porticoes of this magnificent build- 
ing. 
The Chairman, Mr. Slade, said he was 
in possession of the original plan of that 
great architect Sim®C. Wren, which was 
to make a street from St. Dunstan’s church 
‘to Whitechapel, by which they might see 
St. Paul’s and Whitechapel, and the quays 
from London Bridge upwards. These, 
however, had been frustrated by petty and 
‘partial jealousies. He trusted that would 
‘not be the case with the present project. 
Letters were read from the Archbishop of 
Canterbury, the Earl of Liverpool, the 
Dukes of Devonshire and Bedford, the 
Chancellor of the Exchequer, &c. &c., 
some consenting to become Vice-Presi- 
dents, and others declining, but all ap- 
proving of the plan. Mr. Elmes explained 
his designs from a plan before him. He 
proposed a square about the size of Chat- 
ham-place, at the west front of St. Paul’s, 
in the centre of which the committee for 
erecting the statue of the late King 
had consented the statue should be 
placed. A series of resolutions were then 
agreed to, declaring that it was desira- 
ble to throw open the view of St Paul’s 
cathedral; and that a Joint Stock Com- 
pany, with a capital of one million sterling, 
be established, by deposits of £3 per 
share, and increased by £5 deposits, of 
each of which thirty days’ notice to be 
given. It was also proposed to open a 
direct communication from the Old Bailey 
to Apothecaries’-ball, leading straight from 
Smithfield to Blackfriars Bridge. 
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