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his palace into the country, to a small 
quinta, or country seat, two leagues from 
the city, where he remained, till, on the 
night of the eighth of November, a deputa- 
tion from the sovereign junta waited on 
him, with proposals for his reinstatement in 
the presidency, to which he acceded. On 
the part of the president the condition was, 
that the members of the junta should retire 
to their: respective homes, and become 
quiet citizens, as before the tenth of Au- 
gust; and on the part of the junta, that 
what Kad passed should be referred to the 
central junta in Spain, and that no prose- 
cution should take place against them until 
the resolution of the representative autho- 
rity of Spain should beknown. These sim- 
ple preliminaries being agreed to, his excel- 
lency the Count Ruis entered Quito on 
the following morning, and was received 
with the most enthusiastic demonstrations 
of joy; the inhabitants and the members of 
the ex-junta presented themselves, and 
made a tender of their several titles, which 
were accepted by the president, and with 
all the acts and other. papers belonging to 
the intrusive government, as it was styled, 
were ordered to be burnt ; but Arrechaga, 
instead of obeying the order given to him, 
képt them with the most depraved inten- 
tion, for the most execrable purposes. 
© Onthe second of December the auxiliary 
troops arrived from Lima and Guayaquil, 
composed of five hundred infantry, and fifty 
artillery-men, under the command of Colo- 
nel Arredonda. The inhabitants of Quito, 
relying on the fulfilment of the conditions 
agreed to- by the Count Ruis, erected 
triumphal arches to receive them, and 
strewed flowers along the streets as they 
passed ; but scarcely had they taken quiet 
possession of the city, and disbanded the 
native troops, than Arrechaga, who had 
been appointed fiscal on the death of 
Yriarte, advised Arredonda to solicit of the 
president an order for the apprehension of 
aH persons who had taken an active part in 
the late revolt, grounding his solicitude on 
the law of power, that good faith ought not 
to be kept with traitors. The count had 
the weakness to accede to the request of 
Arredonda, and an order was immediately 
issued commanding Don Manuel Arre- 
donda, colonel of infantry, and comman- 
dant of the pacifying troops, tropas pacifi- 
cadoras, to arrest all the persons who had 
been concerned in the late rebellion, the 
names of whom were subministered by 
Arrechaga, and on the twelfth of December 
upwards of fifty of the most respectable in- 
habitants of Quito were dragged from their 
_ homes, and immured in cells in the bar- 
racks. Judge Fuertes Amar was again 
appointed to form the proceso criminal. 
Every succeeding day brought new victims 
to the prison, for not only those who had 
taken an active part’in the affair were ap- 
prehended, but many individuals also to 
Southern and Meridional America. 
whom letters had been written by the if 
surgents ; and some because they had not 
declared themselves hostile to the revolu- 
tionary government: however, the Regent, 
Oidores, Fiscals, and other persons who 
had remained neuter, and some Spaniards 
in office who had kept their places “during 
the administration of the junta, were not 
ineluded in the number; but the Bishop, 
being an American, was included in the 
list of insurgents, and accused of having 
connived at the treason of his flock, because 
he did not anathematize them, interdict the 
places of public worship, and sentence to: 
everlasting torments all schismatics to 
royalty and passive obedience. 
“Two hundred more soldiersarrived from 
Santa Fé de Bogota and brought with them 
a greater security to the ministers of despo- 
tism, and the whole of the provinces of 
Quito groaned under their tyranny. Many 
of the most wealthy inhabitants fled to their 
estates in the country, and many, although 
totally unconnected with the affairs of the 
junta, were afraid of being swept away by 
the torrent of persecution. Among those 
who fortunately absconded, and eluded the 
vigilance of the government, was the Mar- 
quis of Selva Alegre: the Marquis of Mira- 
flores died of grief in his own house, and a 
guard of soldiers was placed over him even 
till he was interred. 
“ Not content with imprisoning those per- 
sons who might be termed the ringleaders, 
the soldiers were taken into custody, and 
placed in a separate prison, called the pre- 
sidio. This alarmed the lower classes, 
who began to steal into the country, and 
seek in the mountains and woods an asylum 
against the systematic persecution that now 
pervaded the miserable hut of the labourer 
as well as the residence of his employer— 
the cabin of the indigent as well as the 
mansion of the wealthy. Provisions be- 
came daily more scarce in the city, the sol- 
diery in the same ratio became more in- 
solent, when,.to crown the state of despera- 
tion among all classes of the inhabitants, 
except the natives of Spain who resided 
here, the examination of the prisoners was 
concluded, and the vista fiscal was drawn 
up. This horrible production, worthy of 
its author, Arrechaga, divided the prisoners 
into three classes, but sentenced them all 
to death: their number was eighty-four, 
including the prisoners and the absent, who 
were outlawed; even the Bishop was not 
excluded, although, according to the laws of 
Spain, he could only be tried by the council 
of Castile. Distress, affliction, and grief 
now reigned triumphant: mothers, wives} 
and daughters filled the air with their cries 
for mercy on their sons, their husbands, 
and their brothers, who had been torn 
from them and immured in» dungeons, 
where they were not allowed to visit them ; 
and who lay under sentence of an ignomi- 
nious death—no hopes being left, except 
that 
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