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he was venerated. But the stratagem caused no alteration in Carrera ; he 

 showed neither terror nor anxiety at meeting death. He heartily despised 

 all friars ; however they thronged round him in his last moments, in order to 

 re-convert him, that he might die a good Christian. Passing through the 

 plaza, they employed all their logic in proving the existence of hell, and the 

 torments of the damned. He reprimanded them for their insolence in offer- 

 ing and imposing their unasked advice ; and continued steadfastly to view 

 the troops, and make his observations on the strength of the town to the 

 officer who guarded him. 



Coming up to the seat on which he was to be shot, and hearing his name 

 softly pronounced, he raised his eyes, and saw on the house-top some ladies 

 who had come to see him and were about to retire : supposing that some of 

 them knew him, he saluted them ; they returned his bow, and retired much 

 affected. 



Carrera, still unchanged, stood by his seat on the same ground on which 

 his brothers had bravely died. The padres renewed their suit for the safety 

 of his soul, which he told them was his care, not theirs. Finding all their 

 remonstrances useless, they requested he would forgive the town for the in- 

 juries which himself and family had received in it; and also to ask forgive- 

 ness for the injuries which he had caused it. He replied, that if his forgive- 

 ness could mitigate the wrongs, or make less glaring the injustices, which his 

 family had sustained, he freely granted it ; but that he, conscious of the 

 rectitude and honour of his actions through life, could never think of solicit- 

 ing the forgiveness of any of his most ungenerous enemies, of whom he 

 considered the Mendocinos the most barbarous and illiberal. 



He then took off' a valuable poncho, which he delivered, with his watch, to 

 be deposited by the father confessor of Madame Fuentacilla in her hands, 

 to be delivered as the only legacy and remembrancer of the unfortunate 

 father to his son. He then sat down on the seat ; and when the executioner 

 came to tie his arms, he stood up rather indignantly, and ordered him to 

 retire ; asking the officer who stood by to have him shot, when he had seen 

 an honourable officer tied by a ruffian ? He also refused to have his eyes 

 covered ; and sitting down calmly, he placed his right-hand on his breast, and 

 requested the soldiers to despatch him. They fired, — he received two balls 

 in the forehead, — two passed through his hand and entered his heart: he fell, 

 and expired almost without a pang ; and, after decapitating him and cutting 

 off* his right arm, his body was given to his mother-in-law, and interred in the 



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