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with such unshaken resolution, as astonished their savage executioners, and 

 excited the pity and tears of their more feeling beholders : they refused to 

 admit the officious assistance of the priests who were appointed to attend 

 them ; and walking arm in arm to the place of execution, they embraced each 

 other most tenderly, recollected their absent brother in a very affecting man- 

 ner, at the same time expressing a thought, that if he still lived he would 

 undoubtedly avenge the wrongs and vindicate the fame of his most unfortunate 

 brothers. Then seating themselves on the bench, and again embracing each 

 other, they requested of the soldiers to despatch them : the soldiers fired, 

 and they fell, clasped in each others arms. Thus died the Carreras, whose 

 only crime was, that they loved their country too well, and were too much 

 beloved by their countrymen ! 



After their death, the form of a trial was drawn up by a lawyer, in which 

 they were found guilty of having left Buenos Ayres without a passport, in 

 order to circulate sedition in Chile. This most ingenious trial was published 

 in Buenos Ayres, Chile, and all parts of the United Provinces, in order to 

 hide the deformity of a most horrid violation of the common rights of indi- 

 viduals, and of mankind in general. This mode of trial, however rare it may 

 have been before, has since that time been but too common in America In- 

 dependiente. It is a most excellent plan"; for the dead speak not, and 

 the evidences are always such as to meet the entire approbation of the 

 executioners. 



A bill of costs was presented, by order of His Excellency General San 

 Martin, to Don Ignacio Carrera, in which he was charged with all the 

 expenses arising to the state from the execution of his sons ; viz. gaolers' 

 fees, plank and nails used in the seat on which they were shot, cordage (with 

 which they were not tied), powder, ball, &c. &c. The aged and unfortunate 

 father, whose property had been already confiscated, except a small allow- 

 ance, discharged this unheard-of species of debt, and expired in a few days 

 after ! 



Colonel Don Manuel Rodriguez, an officer of Carrera, who passed to Chile 

 before the expedition of San Martin, and raised a force in the country, by 

 whose influence and exertions San Martin was enabled to subdue Chile, was 

 still more basely assassinated, because he was a known friend to the liberty of 

 his country. 



General Carrera had brought with him from the United States several print- 

 ing presses ; one of which had by some means escaped the general ruin : he 

 had it in Entre Rios, where he lost no time in publishing manifestos of his 



