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without, thought it best to capitulate : — he pledged his word and honour to 
the officers, that if they would permit him to go out, he would pacify the 
tumult in the street, and bury in oblivion their mutual resentment. The 
officers acceded to this proposition. Dupuy went out, and telling the mob 
that he had escaped from the Godos who were in revolution against the town, 
he caused the drums to beat, and trumpets to sound the ‘ General,’”’ which, 
seconded by the cries of “ Down with the Godos,”’ announced to the unfor- 
tunate officers that the fatal hour of their massacre was come. 
The gallant Riberos, who considered himself the cause of that general 
misfortune, exhorted his companions to sell their existence at the dearest rate 
possible, but they saw the inutility of seven officers opposing themselves to 
the rage of an incensed rabble; and expected, by offering no resistance, to 
find mercy amongst their butchers. Riberos finding them unwilling to ac- 
quiesce in his first proposal, insinuated that each Spaniard ought to fall by 
his own hand, but his comrades shrunk from the idea of suicide. The as- 
sassins began to fire, and advanced on the house: Riberos bid farewell to his 
companions, and exclaiming, “« Un Americano indecente jamas quitterd la vida 
de Segundo Riberos,’’ he finished his existence by discharging the contents 
of his pistol in his head: the remaining six threw down their arms, and were 
without resistance despatched by the ruffians, who immediately went all 
through the town assassinating every Spaniard individually in their houses or 
in the streets. 
This scene of barbarity commenced about seven o’clock in the streets on 
the 8th of February, 1817. Only two Spaniards escaped their search, the 
one died insane from the terror of that day, the other still exists in the con- 
vent of San Lorenzo, province of Santa Fé. 
Ordofiez, whose body was covered with wounds received in the French 
war in defence of his country with fifty officers, many of whom were Spanish 
noblemen, perished on that day by the hands of the merciless assassins: the 
number of residents of the town who died, is not known; twenty-seven sol- 
diers, prisoners of the Federal army, were also suffocated in a dungeon the 
same day. 
Thus did Dupuy gain a memorable and signal victory over these brave 
though unresisting officers and soldiers. Prodigies of valour and patriotism 
were performed by his officers on this occasion. An official letter was des- 
patched to Buenos Ayres, stating the imminent danger of the Patria from the 
insurrection of fifty Godos, isolated from all intercourse with their friends 
