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be an eternal monument of his liberality, and of his zeal in the 

 cause of the unfortunate, the count of Lemos appeared more 

 glorious than when he entered the capital in triumph, at the 

 head of his vi6torious army*. 



During his beneficent administration, the protegees, twenty 

 of whom were in the first instance assembled, augmented con- 

 siderably in their number, which was not limited. They de- 

 pended chiefly on the generosity of the count, by the efFe6t of 

 whose bounties the institution made a rapid progress. The 

 countess daily sent them food from the palace, and, in con- 

 cert with her husband, solicited alms throughout the kingdom, 

 in addition to those that were collected at Lima. These were 

 their only sources of subsistence until 1670, when two thousand 

 ducats were paid into the fund of the charity, by virtue of an 

 order from Madrid. 



The death of the viceroy, which occurred two years after, 

 threw the burthen of the support of the establishment almost 

 exclusively on the charitable priests to whom its spiritual di- 

 reiSlion was confided. A representation of its very destitute 

 state having been made to the court of Madrid, another royal 

 donation, of four thousand piastres, was made in 1679. ^7 

 a very economical system of management, and a rigid obser- 

 vance of the statutes, so successful a progress was made, that 

 in 1790, the viceroy, count Monclova, added to the original 

 institution a new one, for public women who led a scandalous 

 life. They were to live separately from the others, but to be 

 subject to the same diredtress, whose duty it was to corre61: 



* He had just returned from quelling the 

 and inhabitants of Puno. 



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alarming insurredlion of the military 



their 



