214 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



iag the contest in the peninsula. 

 In La Manclia, several parties 

 liaving assembled, at tiie head of 

 whom was the iiitendant, Heiro, 

 a philosopher and man of letters, 

 well known in Spain, proceeded 

 successively to the elections, at- 

 tacking the Frencli in some towns, 

 in order to make tlie elections 

 afterwards, and in others defend- 

 ing themselves when the elections 

 were going on, and obtaining in 

 all the desired object. The same 

 thing was done in Guadalaxara, 

 and other provincial governments 

 and districts. The number of de- 

 puties, however, when the Cortes 

 commanded their sittings, was far 

 from being completed : tliey came 

 in from time to time afterwards. 



The above regulations for con- 

 voking the Cortes were issued by 

 the Supreme Junta. But on the 

 Hth of February, 1810, theCoun- 

 cil of Regency of Spain and the 

 Indies, in the royal name of Fer- 

 dinand VII, issued a kind of sup- 

 plementary decree. Considering 

 the serious and urgent necessity of 

 the aid of the extraordinary Cortes, 

 the deputies of which wore to be 

 collected from the Spanish domi- 

 nions in Europe, Asia, and Ame- 

 rica, and which legally represented 

 the inhabitants in such congress, 

 on whom depended the restoration 

 and felicity of the whole mon- 

 archy, the Council of Regency 

 decreed as follows: " The subse- 

 quent governments shall partake 

 in the representation of the Cortes: 

 the viceroyalties of New Spain, 

 Peru, Santa Fe, and Buenos Ayres; 

 and the dependencies of Porto 

 Rico, Cuba, St. Domingo, Guate- 

 mala, the interior provinces, Ve- 

 nezuela, Chili, and the Phillippine 

 islands. One deputy shall be no- 

 minated for each capital in these 



different establishments. Theelec- 

 tion shall be made by the assembly 

 of the capitals, whoshall name fust, 

 three persons natives of the pro- 

 vince, men of probity, talents, and 

 information, out of which one 

 shall be choseii by lot as the de- 

 puty to the Cortes. Any difficulty 

 that shall occur in the course of 

 the election, shall be removed by 

 the immediate determination of 

 the viceroy or governor, in con- 

 currence with the public council. 

 As soon as the election is decided, 

 the deputy shall receive his testi- 

 monial from the assembly by 

 which he is elected. From the 

 same he shall receive such instruc- 

 tions as such assembly shall be 

 pleased to give him on genera! or 

 local concerns, so that he may be 

 prepared for his duty in the Cortes. 

 When he has received such powers 

 and instructions, he shall directly 

 proceed to Europe by the quickest 

 conveyance, and he shall land at 

 the island of Majorca, where the 

 representativesfrom America shall 

 be convoked to wait the time of 

 the sessions of the Cortes. The 

 electoral assemblies shall deter- 

 mine the payment proper to be 

 made to the deputies i'or the ex- 

 penses of their voyages and at- 

 tendance. But as nothing contri- 

 butes more to render a represen- 

 tative of the people respectable 

 than temperance and moderation, 

 his subsistence from the time oi 

 his arrival at Majorca to the con- 

 clusion of his duties in the Cortes, 

 shall be limited to six dollars a 

 day, whicli is the sum assigned to 

 the deputies from the provinces of 

 Spain. In the same extraordinary 

 Cortes shall be determined the re- 

 gular means which shall be in 

 future adopted for the election of 

 deputies from tliose dotyinions, 



