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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 suchas 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 
