GENERAL HISTORY. 



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adopted at the moment when, by 

 the particular favour of Provi- 

 dence, I had the first news of the 

 conspiracy, have defeated the vain 

 projects of the seditious. Pur- 

 sued on all sides, the greater part 

 of those whom public notoriety 

 had marked as guilty, have been 

 arrested. The most active search 

 will soon discover their accom- 

 plices. Those who have fled to 

 the mountains, and have found 

 there a temporary asylum, have 

 been traced with so speedy a step 

 that they must be overtaken. In 

 the midst of the painful sentiments 

 which have afflicted my mind dur- 

 ing these days of trouble, 1 have 

 had the consolation to see the in- 

 habitants of Barcelona, and those 

 of the rest of the province, not 

 only renounce all alliance with the 

 traitors, but testify a just indig 

 nation against them, and enter 

 with zeal into the execution of 

 those orders which have been is- 

 sued 10 appreliend and puuisli the 

 guilty. The conduct of the troops 

 and of their officers has been 

 equally praiseworthy. The dis- 

 cipline of all the corps has shown 

 itself to be deserving of the high- 

 est credit. Two companies only 

 of the battalion of the light infan- 

 try of Tarragona have been deceived 

 and seduced by the second in com- 

 mand, Don Joseph Quer. No 

 other officer has taken part in the 

 disaffection, which lasted only for 

 a few hours. 



" Such was the foundation of the 

 foolish hopes of those wretched per- 

 sons, who, in spite of all their efforts, 

 have not succeeded in interrupting 

 foramoment the public tranquillity. 



" There is no longer any subject 

 for alarm. All the first autho- 

 rities of the province have pressed 



forward to co-operate with the ar- 

 rangements made by me to assure 

 the good order of the state, and to 

 fulfil the good wishes of the King. 

 I announce with satisfaction to the 

 whole province and to the army, 

 that the conspiracy having been 

 discovered, and the principal actors 

 in it having been ari'ested or pur- 

 sued, there no longer remains any 

 cause of alarm : and the conspi- 

 rators only await the punishment 

 which the laws shall award to such 

 criminals, after the result of legal 

 proceedings, which have been al- 

 leady commenced, and which will 

 not be of long duration. 



" Xavier Castanos. 

 "■ Barcelona, April 12, 1817." 



General Lacy, with his principal 

 accomplices, was capitally con- 

 demned by a court martial assem- 

 bled near the end of April at Bar- 

 celona. Gen. Milans had not yet 

 been apprehended. The project 

 of an insurrection seems to have 

 been more extensive than at first 

 appeared} and it is asserted that 

 three hundred officers were ar- 

 rested at the same time with Lacy 

 as participators in his designs. 



Lacy, after his capture, Avas 

 takeu over to Majorca, probably 

 to prevent any designs in his fa- 

 vour. On arriving there, it was 

 uncertain whether he would have 

 undergone the punishment of 

 death, or have been indulged with 

 a commutation ; but finding him- 

 self upon the beach with only his 

 escort, he attempted to make his 

 escape by flight. The soldiers pm- 

 sued him, and in striving to de- 

 fend himself, he was killed. 



PAPAL BULL. 



A bull published by the Pope in 

 the month of .^pril, which respects 

 the property of the church in Spain, 



affords 



