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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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