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panions to adhere strictly to what they had commenced. However, by his 

 intercession on our behalf, he obtained from the other three permission to 

 write, in their names, an official letter to the governor of Mendoza ; in which 

 he requested that the lives of the officers whom they had taken' would be 

 held sacred, and that they should be allowed to retire to any of the provinces 

 as destierrados, without suffering other punishment or imprisonment. This 

 letter was answered by Godoy Cruz, the governor, in the affirmative. 



We continued to march towards Mendoza ; and when we were about two 

 leagues from the town, several squadrons came out to receive us. Moya 

 and Arias, who had assumed the command, ordered the soldiers to surrender 

 their arms ; which they did with reluctance. 



We halted at a large country-house, which served as a barrack for the 

 enemy's troops : there the soldiers were placed in a yard, with double guards 

 over them ; and Colonel Garcia, commandant of the barracks, sent to invite 

 us to sup with him, in order to separate us from our soldiers ; whom they still 

 feared, though unarmed. After the Colonel had entertained us about two 

 hours in his quarters, an adjutant came with a strong guard and conducted 

 us to the barrack of San Domingo in Mendoza ; where we were thrown into 

 a large dark room, without any kind of defence against the cold, and obliged 

 to lie on a damp brick floor. After a few days' residence there, we became 

 inmates of the capilla (a room dedicated to persons under sentence of death, 

 and stocked with images, &c. for religious purposes), in the gaol ; when we 

 were loaded with irons, &c. &c. 



The officers who had conducted the revolution were received with much 

 magnificence at the Governor's, and next morning were billeted in the most 

 respectable houses of the friends of Godoy Cruz. A small pension was 

 allowed them for private expenses. 



In the meantime Carrera was lodged in the dungeon with Colonel Bene- 

 vente (who was taken the morning after the revolution), and bound with 

 irons and cords in the most brutal manner : he knew- that he should in a few 

 days suffer the same fate as his brothers, but bore his misfortune with the 

 same serenity of mind for which he was always distinguished. He seemed to 

 have no concern for himself; but spoke of the misfortunes of his wife, and 

 the friends who were partakers of his hardships, with the greatest regret. 



Albin Gutierres, who commanded the force of Mendoza, desisted from his 

 cruelties whilst he supposed that Carrera had escaped ; but when he received 

 the letters of the conspirators relative to the revolution they had made, he 



