SPAIN. 



killed, or dispersed, and he himself killed. 

 Berga was again captured, and the entire gar- 

 rison taken prisoners. The Carlists derived new 

 courage from the arrival upon Spanish soil of 

 the Pretender, Don Carlos, and the transient 

 capture of the town of Igualada. In Guerni- 

 ca Don Carlos took the oatii upon the " fueros," 

 the old privileges of the Basque provinces, on 

 August 3d. Don Carlos and Saballs, the com- 

 manders of the Carlists in Prato de Slusanes, 

 fortified this town, which is situated forty miles 

 northwest of Barcelona. The English steam- 

 yacht Deerhound, which attempted to land 

 for the Carlists 2,000 rifles, 60 cwt. ammu- 

 nition, and 40 horses, was, on August 18th, 

 captured by a Spanish man-of-war. On Au- 

 gust 15th the Cortes adopted a law by which 

 80,000 men were called to arms. The re- 

 publican Government was greatly hindered 

 in its operations against the Carlists by the 

 more threatening attitude which the mem- 

 bers of the Internationals assumed in South- 

 ern and Eastern Spain. The Central Com- 

 mittee of the Internationals had its seat at 

 Alcoy, the most important manufacturing town 

 of the province of Alicante. On July 10th, an 

 insurrectionary movement broke out in the 

 town ; seventy of the most prominent citizens 

 were seized and held as hostages ; tbe town- 

 hall, in which the mayor, several other town 

 officers, gome gensdarmes and policemen had 

 intrenched themselves during one night, was 

 stormed, and the mayor, several gensdarmes 

 and policemen, and about thirty citizens, killed, 

 a part of the town burned down, and a Com- 

 mittee of Public Safety appointed for the gov- 

 ernment of the town. Instead of promptly 

 suppressing this bloody outbreak Captain-Gen- 

 eral Velarda preferred to enter into negotia- 

 tions with the rebels, and to effect a comprom- 

 ise which secured to all the inhabitants who 

 had taken part in the insurrection, impunity, 

 while only the foreigners, who had taken an 

 active part, were to be prosecuted. 



Of much greater significance than this fail- 

 ure of the Internationals, were the movements 

 of the extreme branch of the Federal Repub- 

 licans, the " Intransigentes " (irreconcilables), 

 who, protesting against the suspension of the 

 civil rights, had withdrawn from the Cortes, 

 and proclaimed the immediate independence 

 of the several provinces of Spain, without 

 awaiting the proclamation of the federal re- 

 public by the Cortes. In Cartagena, a mem- 

 ber of the Cortes, Galves, conjointly with his 

 colleague Povedn, assumed the government of 

 the province of Mnrcia, while General Con- 

 cerns, likewise a member of the Cortes and 

 who only a few months ago had been appoint- 

 ed by the republican Government Captain- 

 General of Catalonia, bad assumed the chief 

 command of the armed forces. Felice organ- 

 ized the movement for independence in Va- 

 lencia, Santa Maria in Alicante, Chernsa in 

 Castellon ; General Picrrad prevailed npon the 

 volunteers in Toledo to mutiny; another dep- 



uty placed himself at the head of the insur- 

 gents in Salamanca ; another entered into ne- 

 gotiations with the Internationals of Alcoy in 

 order to excite a regiment to insurrection; 

 many others fomented the revolutionary move- 

 ments in Andalusia, and all remained in cor- 

 respondence with their friends who were in 

 Madrid. In most of the towns in which the 

 Commune had been proclaimed, quiet was 

 soon restored ; but in Cartagena the partisans 

 of state independence maintained themselves 

 against the federal Government. The Minister 

 of the Navy who had hastened thither in 

 order to establish order, could not accomplish 

 any thing, as the sailors and marines refused 

 to obey, and joined the rebels. When even 

 several men-of-war joined the mutineer?, the 

 President of the republic, on July 20th, issued 

 a proclamation which declared the crew of 

 the frigates Almanza, Vittoria, and Mendez 

 Nufiez, as well as the steamer Fernando el 

 Catolica, and any other man-of-war belonging 

 to the insurgents in the department of Car- 

 tagena, as pirates, and authorized the com- 

 manders of war-vessels of friendly nations to 

 stop the vessels, and to treat the men as pi- 

 rates in accordance with the usages of naval 

 law. On July 24th the minister of the Spanish- 

 navy was notified that the German frigate 

 Frederick Charles, under command of Captain 

 Werner, had off Cartagena taken possession 

 of the mutinous steamer Vigilante, because 

 the steamer had drawn up the red flag which 

 was not recognized by any Government. Dep- 

 uty Galvez who was the commander of the 

 Vigilante, was retained as prisoner on board 

 the German frigate. General Contreras who 

 regarded the decree of the Madrid Govern- 

 ment as unlawful, threatened to adopt retalia- 

 tory measures against the German consul in 

 Cartagena, and prevailed upon the commander 

 of the German frigate to enter into an agree- 

 ment according to which the seizure of the 

 Vigilante was declared a justifiable act on the 

 ground that it had not carried a lawful flag, 

 while after the 28th of July the departure of 

 war-vessels obeying the government of Murcia 

 would not be obstructed, provided they could 

 submit to the eventualities which might ensue 

 from any orders the commanders of the for- 

 eign war-vessels might receive from their 

 Governments. The authorities in Cartagena 

 also promised to respect the property and the 

 lives of the foreign residents at Cartagena. 

 Accordingly, on July 29th, the rebel steamers 

 Almanza and Vittoria put to sea without be- 

 ing in any way hindered by the German war- 

 vessel. They sailed under command of Con- 

 treras to Almeria, and demanded from that 

 town a contribution of $100,000. When the 

 demand was refused, Contreras bombarded the 

 town, but his attempt to land troops was re- 

 pulsed. From Almeria Contreras intended to 

 sail to Malaga, but before reaching that port, 

 the frigates Almanza and Vittoria were cap- 

 tured by Captain Werner, because at the bom- 



