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lator of all military laws, he had forfeited every 

 claim to be considered as a prisoner of war — as a 

 pirate, and a barbarous destroyer of whole towns, 

 it became necessary to put him to death in such 

 a manner as might satisfy outraged humanity, 

 and terrify others who should dare to imitate him. 

 In pursuance of the sentence passed on the 21st 

 of this month, he was this day dragged from the 

 prison, in a pannier tied to the tail of a mule, and 

 was hanged in the great square. His head and 

 hands were afterwards cut off, in order to their 

 being placed on high poles, to point out the places 

 of his horrid crimes, Santa Juana, Tarpellanca, 

 and Arauco 



" By the sentence of the 21st, it had been di- 

 rected that he should be executed on the 23d, thus 

 expressly allowing him three days to avail himself 

 of that religious consolation which this faithful 

 vassal of his Most Catholic Majesty denied to Ge- 

 neral Alcazar, Don Gaspar Ruiz, Captain O'Car- 

 rol, to all the officers of the Coquimbo battalion, 

 and to many others. 



The generosity of free states is never to be 

 found in the corrupted hearts of those who serve 

 tyrants ! 



